74:. He supported himself during that time with music lessons and playing the violin in an orchestra. He graduated from New York University in 1921, although he never practiced law. He began studying Yiddish, which was virtually a foreign language to him before coming to America, and in 1921 he became a Yiddish teacher in Philadelphia. In 1922, he was a teacher in a New York City school. He also gave music lessons for Jewish schools in
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