CHAIM-YEKHIEL (HYMAN I.) OSHRY (March 1870-December 30,
1924)
Born in the town of Kelm (Kelmė), Kovno district, Lithuania.
He was the son of the rabbi of Kelm, Yitskhok-Mordechai. He was living in the United States from
1895. In 1898 he became the rabbi and religious
orator in Baltimore. Author of such books
and booklets as: Shomer emunim (Guarders of the faith) (Baltimore,
1896), 48 pp.; Magid Mishnah (Mishnah preacher) (New York, 1920); Ha-chaim
ve-ha-shalom (Life and peace) (Baltimore, 1923), 70 pp.; and other
collections of Yiddish sermons and religious writings about Jews and Judaism,
as well as polemics with Zionists and socialists concerning Jewish education.
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