Abraham Rabinovitch

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.

He married his first cousin, Chaya Gitman, in about 1910; immigrated via Harbin to Australia in about 1915;[2] and after initially trying to make a living in Brisbane, Queensland, they moved to Sydney in 1921 and became naturalised Australians.

[1] He was supportive of the Sydney Jewish community, founding two large educational institutions, the Yeshiva Centre and Moriah College.

He died in his Bellevue Hill home on 26 July 1964 and was buried in Rookwood Cemetery.

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