SĀRŪM, ABRAHAM

SĀRŪM, ABRAHAM
SĀRŪM, ABRAHAM (1878–1942), communal worker in Jerusalem. Born in yemen , Sārūm emigrated to Palestine in 1893 and became head of the Yemenite community in Jerusalem. After the Yemenites left the Sephardi community in Jerusalem in 1907, he became secretary of the congregation's committee. From then until his death he devoted himself to the members of his community. In 1919 he was elected chairman of the community's committee in Jerusalem. He joined the mizrachi movement and was elected member of its central committee in 1919. He was a delegate to the first and second Asefat ha-Nivḥarim and a member of the Va'ad Le'ummi for many years. During the riots on Passover 1921, he was an active member of the Haganah. He was one of the initiators and heads of the Association of Yemenites in Palestine, established in 1924. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Zikkaron le-Avraham Sarum (1945); M.D. Gaon, Yehudei ha-Mizraḥ be-Ereẓ Yirael, 2 (1932), 583. (Yehuda Ratzaby)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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