Background
Abram Joseph Abeloff was born on March 19, 1900, in New York, United States. He was the son of Samuel and Rebecca Esther (Rogow) Abeloff.
Abram Joseph Abeloff was born on March 19, 1900, in New York, United States. He was the son of Samuel and Rebecca Esther (Rogow) Abeloff.
Dr. Abeloff was a Manhattan native and received his medical degree from Columbia College (Bachelor of Arts, 1922; Doctor of Medicine, 1926).
Abram Joseph Abeloff joined the Lenox Hill staff in 1930. He served in World War II, rising to colonel in the Army Medical Corps.
He was a surgeon for more than 50 years and an associate clinical professor of surgery at New York University.
Abram Joseph Abeloff was an honorary board member of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and former chairman of its medical advisory board.
Abram Joseph Abeloff died on August 15 at the hospital. He was 97 and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.