Abraham Shulman
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Abraham Shulman , also Avrom Shulman (born June 1913 in Warsaw , † November 1, 1999 in Seagate, Coney Island ) was a Polish-American journalist and author.
After graduating from high school in Warsaw, Shulman studied at the local journalism school.
His studies were interrupted by the war and he and his wife managed to flee to Australia via Vladivostok and Kobe / Japan in 1939 . He worked as a journalist in Melbourne for ten years and then moved to France, where he lived with his family for another ten years (a son and daughter were born in Paris).
From 1961 he lived and worked in New York, where he was employed by the newspaper "The Jewish Daily Forward" and wrote a satirical column. Shulman was the author of several books (in English and Yiddish ) and plays.
Books
- Gelekhter in der nakht: humoreskes un felyetonen (Yiddish), Paris, 1953
- Tsvishn shvarts un vays: eseyen un felyetonen (Yiddish), Paris, 1955
- The himl iz still altz far di geter. Notitzn fun reizes (Yiddish), Schipper, Paris, 1960
Three books with photos from the archive of the Jewish Daily Forwards :
- The old country, The Lost World of East European Jews , Scribner, 1974
- The new country, Jewish Immigrants in America , Scribner, 1976
- Coming home to Zion, A Pictorial History of Pre-Israel Palestine (The promised land) , Doubleday, 1979
- The Anthropologist and the Girl , Opera Mundi, Paris, 1980 (novel about a Nazi "anthropologist")
- Adventures of a Yiddish lecturer , Pilgrim Press, 1980 (with an introduction by Isaac Bashevis Singer )
- The case of Hotel Polski , Holocaust Library, Schocken Books, 1982
- The prophet Jeremiah is alive and prosperous in New York , Astra Press, 1990
Plays (selection)
- A bintel letter (Yiddish)
- The wise men of Chelm (e.g. 2008 in Montreal)
literature
- Dovid Katz : Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish , Basic Books, 2004, pp. 353/354
- Obituary in Mendele: Yiddish literature and language , 1999
- Transcript of an interview (1978) with Abraham Shulman, 64 pages, Oral History Project Box 237 No. 2, New York Public Library
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Shulman, Abraham |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shulman, Avrom |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-American journalist and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 1913 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1999 |
Place of death | Seagate, Coney Island |