AVROM-YOYSEF (AVRAHAM-YOSEF) GOTESMAN
He was a rabbi in Brooklyn, New
York, and before that in Brăila and Bucharest,
Romania. He was the son of R. Meyer
Halevi, rabbi of Jassy (Iași). He was
the author of a volume of sermons entitled Emuna shelema (Complete
religious faith) (Brooklyn, NY, Lag Baomer, 1924), 58 pp.—later translated by
the author and published in Yiddish with the title Emune shleyme af yidish
(Complete religious faith in Yiddish), “an explanation of the thirteen credos
of our blessed teacher, Rambam” (Brooklyn, 1945), 136 pp.; a new edition
appeared in 1975 in Brooklyn as well. Other
biographical details remain unknown.
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 125.]
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