Graenum Berger [SEP] date of birth
Graenum Berger
Graenum Berger (1908–1999) was an American Communal administrator, institutional and communal planner, educator, world traveler, and the founding President of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews.
Born in Gloversville, New York of Jewish immigrant parents, in 1955, Graenum Berger met a group of Ethiopian Jewish students in Israel. He had known there was a Jewish tribe in Ethiopia, but knew little about them. He began reading, and writing letters, and in ten years accumulated a vast file of information. In
" (1966); "Black Jews in America" (1978); "The Turbulent Decades, vol. I and II" (1981); an autobiography, "Graenum" (1987); a biography about his brother, Ambassador Samuel D. Berger, "A Not So Silent Envoy" in 1992, and a memoir, "Rescue the Ethiopian Jews!" (1996), the story of his quest. Yeshiva University awarded Graenum the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1973. In 1989,