Jack Natan Primo, the internationally known Jewish historian and economist, died here recently at the age of 72. A political activist, he was several times imprisoned and sent to concentration camps for his fight against Nazism. Mr. Primo founded and for a long time headed the department of political economy at the Karl Marx Institute in Sofia. For many years he was president of the Central Consistory of Bulgarian Israelites as well as president of the Cultural Organization of Bulgarian Jews.
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