Abraham Aaron Rubashkin (Yiddish: אברהם אהרן רובאַשקין[citation needed]; 1927 or 1928 – April 2, 2020) was an American businessman and butcher.
An adherent of the Lubavitcher Hasidic movement, Rubashkin was born in the late-1920s in the town of Nevel, Russian SFSR of the former Soviet Union.
[3] After the war, the Rubashkin family left the Soviet Union via Lemberg (Lviv, Ukraine) and spent time in Austria, before they settled in Paris in 1947.
[4] In 1953, the family moved to New York City, where he and his partner opened Lieberman & Rubashkin Glatt Kosher Butchers on 14th Avenue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn.
Crown Deli, on 13th Avenue in Brooklyn, a restaurant run by Rubashkin's wife, Rivka, since the 1960s, was described by some as more of a soup kitchen than a business.
Founded in 1987, the slaughterhouse and meat-packaging factory Agriprocessors, based in Postville, Iowa, was owned by Rubashkin and managed by two of his sons and a son-in-law.
[14] In September 2008, he, his son Sholom Rubashkin, as well as the company's human resources manager and two office employees, were charged for state child labor violations.