Abraham Rabinovitch
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Abraham Isaac Rabinovitch (1889–1964) was an Australian-Russian property developer and well-respected pioneer of the Sydney Modern Orthodox Jewish community; in particular as a founder and philanthropist of Sydney's full-time Jewish educational institutions.
Biography
Rabinovitch was born in Tiraspol, Russian Empire, on 5 November 1889. He married his first cousin, Chaya Gitman, in about 1910; immigrated via Harbin to Australia in about 1915;[1] and after initially trying to make a living in Brisbane, Queensland, they moved to Sydney in 1921 and became naturalised Australians. Rabinovitch and his wife remained childless despite several miscarriages.[2]
Rabinovitch was a real estate investor who successfully developed properties in the Sydney central business district and the suburbs of Template:NSWcity and Bondi Junction.[2] He was supportive of the Sydney Jewish community, founding two large educational institutions, the Yeshiva Centre and Moriah College.[3] He also built New South Wales' first mikvah at 117 Glenayr Avenue in Bondi.
He died in his Template:NSWcity home on 26 July 1964 and was buried in Rookwood Cemetery. His portrait by Joseph Wolinski is held by Moriah College.[2]
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- 1889 births
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- Australian Orthodox Jews
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- Australian people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Moldovan Orthodox Jews
- People from Tiraspol
- People from Kherson Governorate
- Bessarabian Jews
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Australia
- Jews from the Russian Empire
- Russian Orthodox Jews
- Modern Orthodox Jews