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Abraham Horodisch

Horodisch was a bookseller, publisher, author and also a business associate of Johannes Kleiman.

Person

  • Abraham Horodisch
  • Born on: Feb. 3, 1898
  • Born in: Lodz, Polen
  • Died on: Nov. 7, 1987
  • Died in: Amstelveen, Nederland

Abraham Horodisch was a publisher and author. He came from a banking family and studied economics in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. He was a collector of books, with a particular interest in tyopgraphy. In 1920, he founded a bibliophilic publishing house in Berlin.[1]

Between 1924 and 1932, a Horodisch office was established in Amsterdam. For the first three months, Johannes Kleiman was its proxy-holder, with postal and banking authority.[2]

When Horodisch settled in the Netherlands in 1933, he founded 'Erasmus Antiquariaat en Boekhandel'. In July '42 he fled to Switzerland and stayed in a refugee camp until the end of '45. When he returned to Amsterdam he breathed new life into his business.[1]

Horodian was also active as an author, and wrote, among other things, De legende van rabbi Elia den Eenvoudige ('The Legend of Rabbi Elijah the Simple'). In 1949, he became a naturalised Dutchman.[3] In 1985 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam.[1]

Source personal data.[4] Addresses: Roompotstraat 15 II, Amsterdam (1933-1942); Rijnstraat 98 ('55-'87).[4]

Footnotes

  1. a, b, c Zie: Wikipedia: Abraham Horodisch.
  2. ^ Noord-Hollands Archief, Haarlem, Handelsregister Amsterdam, Kamer van Koophandel & Fabrieken, toegang 448, inv. nr. niet bekend, dossiernr. 21838.
  3. ^ Verslag der Handelingen van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal, 1948-1949, p. 1331.
  4. a, b Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Dienst Bevolkingsregister, Archiefkaarten (toegangsnummer 30238): Archiefkaart A. Horodisch.