Funeral services were held for Lazar Dinsky, a Yiddish poet who died Friday at the age of 85. Many of his works reflected the struggles of the labor movement in the late 1920s and early 1930s when he wan an organizer of fur workers in New York. His books in Yiddish include “in the Meantime” and “Days in Shop.”
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