Sunday 13 December 2015

BERNARD ABRAHAMS

BERNARD ABRAHAMS (December 1, 1880-March 24, 1957)
            He was born Avrom-Ber Shmulovits in Krozh (Kraziai), Lithuania.  He studied in religious elementary school and in Lithuanian yeshivas.  After spending two years in London, in 1901 he departed for South Africa, and in 1903 he settled in Johannesburg.  Among his books: Mayne zibetsik yor, oytobyografye (My seventy years, autobiography) (Johannesburg: Kayor, 1953), 202 pp.

Source: A. Hapolit (D. Volpe), in Dorem-afrike (April 1957).

Dovid Volpe

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