- Jacques Abramoff
Infobox Person
name = Jacques Jacha Abramoff
birth_date = August 17, 1927
birth_place = Tashkent, Former USSR
death_date = June 01, 1997, Monaco
occupation = Food business, plastics, shoe polish; inventor
spouse = Lucienne Abramoff
children = 3Jacques Abramoff (1927-1997) businessman, philanthropist, and inventor, was born in
Tashkent (Uzbekistan ).After the Communist Revolution, the
Bukharan Jew ish Abramoff family moved to Paris, France and, starting from the ground up with five grocery stores in 1932, quickly built their own wholesale company, specializing in the importing of dried fruit, vegetables, cheese, rice, cereals, olives, spices and tea from all over the world.Jacques Abramoff was a
Monaco businessman with wide-ranging interests, including the shoe polish industry,plastic and chemical products, knitted clothes, and natural foods.He was also a supporter of the French
Chabad organisation, and President of the Monaco Jewish community.External links
* [http://www.abramoffgroup.com/ Company web site]
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Abramoff French Wikipedia version]
* [http://www.abramoffgroup.com/yadvashem.htm See also "Rescue of Jews of Bukhara in Occupied France", offprint from Yad Vashem Studies]ee also
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Bukharan Jews
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