Caricaturist Boris Efimov celebrated his 107th birthday this week at the Beis Menachem Shul in Moscow. Efimov, who etched political caricatures until the early 1980s, received Soviet State Prizes twice and was People’s Painter of the USSR in 1967.
Born Boris Fridland, his father wanted him to have a Jewish education. That never came to fruition, though.
“It took a 100 for that to come true recently when I started to learn about Judaism and even put on tefillin,” he related in Yiddish, a holdover from his pre-Revolution childhood.
Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar (Chabad), many other community leaders, friends and families also joined in the celebration.
Efimov is believed to be the oldest living Jew in the world.
(Source:Chabad)
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happy birthday
With g-ds help let him make it to 120 years….good story!
how can someone say “he is the oldest Jew in the world”? is it based on any data?
Is he for sure alive, or just believed to be alive? I think the title should read “Man believed to be oldest Jew alive”
they just wrote about him in the mishpacha
In Lugano Switzerland we have a jewish lady by the name of Rosa Rhein she is 109 years old.
We convinced her to leave a will that after 120
she wants a jewish Kwirah .So she did.
To Mr. Efimov – may your days be filled with health and joy.
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