Baruch Bendersky, Argentine Jewish writer, who was known here as the “Argentine Jewish Rudyard Kipling,” died today at the age of 73. Mr. Bendersky died at the Dominguez Colony of the Jewish Colonization Association where he was first settled when he came to Argentina from Bessarabia in 1894.
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