Abraham Resnick (1867–1942,
Rochester, New York
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) was an American
rabbi
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, writer, and
publisher
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.
Resnick studied under Rabbi
Abraham Zadok Bagin in
Druya
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,
Russian Empire
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. He served as rabbi in
Ashkhabad
Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشقآباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies ...
(on the
Caspian Sea
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),
Kokand
Kokand ( uz, Qo‘qon/Қўқон/قوقان, ; russian: Кока́нд; fa, خوقند, Xuqand; Chagatai: خوقند, ''Xuqand''; ky, Кокон, Kokon; tg, Хӯқанд, Xöqand) is a city in Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan, at the sou ...
in
Turkestan
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Overview
Known as Turan to the Persians, western Turke ...
, and
Moscow
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.
In 1924, Resnick emigrated to the United States. He served as rabbi in
Quincy, Massachusetts
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,
Lowell, Massachusetts
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, and
Rochester, New York
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. Resnick contributed to many European
Hebrew
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periodicals, and published a book of his own articles.
References
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Goldman, Yosef Yosef Goldman (1942 – August 4, 2015) was a scholar of American Jewish history and the co-author of the two-volume reference work, '' Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography'' (2006). This work is usually cited b ...
. ''
'' (YGBooks 2006). .
American Jewish Archives
1867 births
1942 deaths
Jews from the Russian Empire
Jewish American writers
Soviet emigrants to the United States
20th-century American rabbis
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