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Lewis, Chaim, 1910 - 2009, poet
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Dates of existence
1910 - 2009
History
Chaim Lewis was a writer, poet and a teacher. He was born in Soho in 1910, the child of Russian immigrant parents. In 1935 he married Ada Malka Ferber, daughter of Zvi Hirsch Ferber, the rabbi of Dean Street shul, Soho’s most famous synagogue.
From Soho to Jerusalem is a poetry collection published in 2000.