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NameBeola
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Birth year1940
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Finkelstein Abram Itsikovich (1902)

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SurnameFinkelstein
NameAbram
PatronymItsikovich
Birth year1902
Birth month8
Birth day1
birth_placeKreslavka
SexM

Finkelstein Abram Itsikovich (1 August 1902, Kreslavka, Vitebsk Governorate — ?) — teacher.

Abram Finkelstein was born into a family of a teacher. In 1910, he entered the four-year higher primary school in Kreslavka, which he completed in 1914. At the same time, he studied at a Jewish religious school.

During World War I, he was evacuated with his parents to Kremenchug (Ukraine), where in 1918 he graduated from a gymnasium. There he also studied in a yeshiva. He spent one year studying in Kharkiv at the Jewish Pedagogical Institute.

From 1920, he lived in Latvia. He began his teaching career in 1921 in Saldus at the city Jewish primary school, where he worked until the summer of 1926. In 1922, he attended Jewish summer teacher training courses.

From 1 August 1926, in Liepaja he taught Hebrew language and Biblical history at the primary school of the Jewish Cultural Society, the 2nd city Jewish primary school, and the Liepaja Jewish primary and secondary school.

His file includes recommendations from the Chief Rabbi of Riga, M. M. Zak, and the Liepaja spiritual rabbi I. Polonsky.

From autumn 1940, Abram Finkelstein lived in Kuldiga, where he taught general subjects at the city Jewish primary school.

His wife was Zara (born 1905), and his son Zhvulun-Moisey (born 1929).