Dr. Henry Abramson | Author at Aish.com (original) (raw)
Dr. Henry Abramson serves as a Dean of Touro University in Brooklyn, New York. A popular online lecturer, he is currently working on a three-volume history of the Jewish people for Koren Publishers (Jerusalem).
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