Hirsch Nissan Golomb, oldest Hebrew and Yiddish writer in Wilno, is dead at the age of 81.
For sixty years Golomb was active as teacher and writer. Much of his work was printed in the Hebrew newspapers of his day, the rest appeared in book form.
Golomb suffered poverty all his life and died in a Wilno home for the aged.
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