Abraham Shulman

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Abraham Shulman, 1967 or 1968. The Parachute Jump tower can be seen in the background .
Book cover from Der himl iz noch altz far di geter. Notitzn fun reizes (Yiddish in Hebrew script ) by Abraham Shulman, 1960

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
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