Shits Abram was born on 4 December 1910 in Libau (Liepāja); in 1929 he graduated from the Liepāja State Jewish School, in 1932 from the Riga yeshiva, and in 1935 from the Jewish pedagogical institute “Torah Vaderech Eretz,” and was ordained by the chief rabbi of Riga, M. Zak. He taught Torah at the Liepāja Jewish primary school. Rabbi in Vaiņode, Pāvilosta, and Skrunda from 1931.