MOSCOW, Russia — Caricaturist Boris Efimov celebrated his 107th birthday this week at the Beit Menachem Chabad-Lubavitch Marinah Roshtza synagogue 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.
Oldest Living Jew Celebrates 107 in Moscow
MOSCOW, Russia — Caricaturist Boris Efimov celebrated his 107th birthday this week at the Beit Menachem Chabad-Lubavitch Marinah Roshtza synagogue 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, said Efimov, who through Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Moscow has started to learn about his Jewish roots.
“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, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Russia, personally congratulated the elder and wished him, as is done in optimistic Jewish tradition, to live to the age of 120. Many other community leaders, friends and families also joined in the celebration.
Efimov is believed to be the oldest living Jew in the world.
SDB
FYI..The oldest living jew is a woman by the name of fannie greenberg and she is KAH
112 years old!!! living in New york
ALte K.
Thats right, its supposed to say,oldest jew living in russia. See here: http://www.fjc.ru/news/news…
BigBen
OH yeah!!! Go Fannie, biz 180!!!
boruch ben tzvi hakohaine hoffinger
B"H
Very interesting and amazing!
Love to see his work.
reader
i know someone who is 105 and in perfect helth
ME
Someone asked her how she is able to live such a long life she replied "no peer pressure"
fighting fit
My aunt passed away @ 103. My mother explained this longevity by saying my aunt didn’t have any children.
Gee, thanks!! LOL
reader
this person that is 105 tells me her seceret is no drugs and no drinking
ME
Fighting fit,
Without children their is noone to blame things on.
Robert
Fannie died Oct 5 2007, but there’s still 111-year-old Berta Rosenberg also in NYC…