Pearl Abraham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pearl Abraham

Novelist, essayist, short writer

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1960

Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel

Profession: writer, author, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Pearl Abraham (born 1960 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer.
She was the third of nine children in a Hasidic family.
Her father was a rabbi.
At age five, the family moved to New York City and two years later returned to Israel.
Following several moves back and forth between New York and Israel, the family settled in New York when she was 12.
She studied first in Yiddish, then in English and then again in Yiddish.