Monday 1 September 2014

YANKEV-YEHUDE AKERMAN (JACOB JUDAH ACKERMAN)

YANKEV-YEHUDE AKERMAN (JACOB JUDAH ACKERMAN)

He was the son-in-law of Rabbi David Ginzburg.  He served as head of the rabbinical court of Rochester, New York and Willes Barre, Pennsylvania.  He authored a book entitled Biblishe un moderne poemen un lider (Biblical and modern poems and songs) (New York [New Bedford, MA?], 1922), 223 pp.—primitive poems on biblical topics, a cycle that the author dubbed modern songs, two Hanukkah plays for children which were separately printed in a small volume, a number of Hebrew verses, and one in English.  Akerman was a clergyman in Portland, Maine, and in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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