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January 16, 2001
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Murray Aronoff, a crew member of the Exodus ship that unsuccessfully tried to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine in 1947, died Dec. 30 at 75. Aronoff was a deckhand on the ship, which the British turned back to Europe as part of their policy limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine.

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