Benjamin Abrams
{{short description|American businessman}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Benjamin Abrams
| birth_date = August 18, 1893
| birth_place = Dorohoi, Romania
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1967|06|23|1893|08|18}}
| family = Nelson Peltz (son-in-law)
| spouse = Elizabeth Kramer
}}
Benjamin Abrams (August 18, 1893 – June 23, 1967)[http://www.hbs.edu/leadership/database/leaders/benjamin_abrams.html Biography] at hbs.edu was an American businessman and a founder of Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation after his purchase of Emerson Records in 1922.{{Cite news|date=1964-03-27|title=Emerson Radio Shifts Its Management Team (Published 1964)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/03/27/archives/emerson-radio-shifts-its-management-team.html|access-date=2021-03-11|issn=0362-4331}} Along with his brothers he invented a number of devices that are commonplace today, among them midget transistor radios, self-powered radios, and clock radios.[http://www.ce.org/Events/Awards/441.htm Biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105174830/http://www.ce.org/Events/Awards/441.htm |date=January 5, 2010 }} at Consumer Electronics Association website
Biography
He was born in Dorohoi, Romania and emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was 12.Marjorie Dent Candee, Current Biography yearbook, Volume 15, Page 3 (H. W. Wilson Company), 1954
He was a prominent donor to Jewish cause.{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= Benjamin Abrams, Prominent Jewish Philanthropist. Dies Suddenly: Was 74 |newspaper=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|date=June 26, 1967 |url=https://www.jta.org/archive/benjamin-abrams-prominent-jewish-philanthropist-dies-suddenly-was-74 |via=}} He was a founder of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, a founder of the Greater New York Committee for Israel Bonds, and a founder and board member of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Greater New York. He served as a member of the board of directors of the United Jewish Appeal, the Weizmann Institute, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel, and the American Friends of the Hebrew University. In 1954, he funded the electronic laboratory at the Weizmann Institute at Rehovot which was named in his honor.
Abrams was a Freemason. He was a member of Farragut Lodge No 976 in New York.Denslow, William R. 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Vol. I, A-D.
He was married to Elizabeth Kramer.{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= Elizabeth Kramer, 86, Crusader Who Raised Millions for Israel |newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 8, 1994 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/08/obituaries/elizabeth-kramer-86-crusader-who-raised-millions-for-israel.html |via=}} In 1964, his daughter Cynthia Abrams married businessman Nelson Peltz;{{Cite news|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= Nuptials at the Plaza For Cynthia Abrams |newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 11, 1964 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/11/archives/nuptials-at-the-plaza-for-cynthia-abrams.html |via=}} they divorced in 1981.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hm7nTXfisXcC&dq=%22Nelson+Peltz%22+divorced&pg=PT446|first=Michael|last=Gross|authorlink=|title=740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building|pages= |publisher=Crown|date=October 10, 2006|isbn=9780767917445}}
==References==
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100105174830/http://www.ce.org/Events/Awards/441.htm Benjamin Abrams profile on Consumer Electronics Association]
- [http://www.atouchofbusiness.com/business-topics/success-stories/BenjaminAbrams-0148.html How Benjamin Abrams took Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation to the corporate top] Info at A Touch of Business.com
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090409164118/http://www.consolidatedscrap.com/history.htm Chronological info] at consolidatedscrap.com
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Category:20th-century American businesspeople
Category:Romanian emigrants to the United States
Category:20th-century Romanian Jews
Category:20th-century American engineers
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