Tuesday, 25 November 2014

HYMAN BARRAS

HYMAN J. BARRAS (KHAYIM YOYSEF BARAS) (ca. 1900-May 1977)
     He served as a rabbi in France, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Ogden, Utah, and South Ozone Park, New York.  He was the author of a religious text in Yiddish, with a parallel translation into English (by Simon Mowshowits): Ha-tsadik ve-derekh ha-tov / Der tsadek un der guter veg (The righteous man and the just path) (New York, 1939).  The Yiddish text ran 126 pp., the English text 102 pp.  When this volume appeared, he was rabbi in the Bronx, New York.  He died in New York.

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