Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Leon Feinberg of the Bronx, a Yiddish journalist, novelist and poet and one-time city editor of The Day–now the Day-Morning Journal–who dies here yesterday at the age of 71. Services will be conducted at the Garlick Memorial Chapel in The Bron.
He was a native of the Ukraine, graduated from the University of Moscow, and came to the United States in 1921. During his long career, Mr. Feinberg published 15 novels and volumes of poetry and served as president of the Yiddish Pen Club. He was also a former vice president and secretary of the Yiddish Writers Union and national committeeman of the National Committee for Jewish Culture. Mr. Feinberg’s writing appeared in the anthologies, “The Golden Peacock,” published in 1940, and “America in Yiddish Poetry,” published in 1967. He served as city editor of The Day, a Yiddish daily, from 1945 to 1955 and later wrote a column on political affairs.
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