Abraham Jacob Hirschfeld was an American real estate investor, Broadway producer and political candidate from New York City.
14 Facts About Abraham Hirschfeld
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Abraham Hirschfeld was the owner of several buildings in Manhattan.
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Abraham Hirschfeld served as treasurer for the New York State Democratic Committee in the 1960s and as city commissioner of Miami Beach, Florida, in 1989.
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Abraham Jacob Hirschfeld was born on December 20,1919, in Tarnow, Poland.
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Abraham Hirschfeld immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in the early 1930s.
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Abraham Hirschfeld said most of his extended family remained behind and were murdered in the Holocaust.
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In March 1993, Abraham Hirschfeld was the court-appointed manager of New York Post for two weeks after the paper filed for bankruptcy.
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Abraham Hirschfeld served as treasurer for the New York State Democratic Committee in the 1960s and was elected to the City Commission of Miami Beach in 1989.
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In 1990, the Miami Beach City Commission censured its colleague Abraham Hirschfeld for spitting twice on a Miami Herald reporter, and censured him again in 1991 for telling an ethnic joke at a commission meeting.
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In September 1987, Abraham Hirschfeld launched an unsuccessful campaign in Miami Beach to draft New York developer Donald Trump for president.
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In 1999, Abraham Hirschfeld was cleared of charges he owed US$3.3 million in taxes.
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In 2000, Abraham Hirschfeld was indicted of criminal solicitation for trying to hire a hit man to kill his former business partner Stanley Stahl, with whom he had a "survivor take all" business partnership.
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Abraham Hirschfeld was sentenced to three years in prison, of which he served two.
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Abraham Hirschfeld died at age 85 on August 9,2005, at the St Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx, of cardiac arrest stemming from complications of a battle with terminal cancer.