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Julius Harry Bloom

Julius Harry Bloom was born into a Jewish family in the Russian Empire (current day Poland) on November 19th, 1891. It was perhaps due to resurgent waves of antisemitism and violent pogroms that led his father to immigrate to the United States in about 1904 and soon begin working in South Carolina. The other members of the Bloom family followed him to America a few years afterward and later settled in Greenville, SC.

Julius became a naturalized American citizen in the subsequent years and completed a high school education. He was working in his father's mercantile store in 1910 and listed an occupation as a merchant on the 1917 draft registration. Julius also listed his parents as personal dependents during the draft and claimed a deferment from military service due to his father being "sick and deaf." He was later inducted into the US Army on October 9th, 1917, and completed basic training at Camp Sevier. He was then assigned as a Private with Company "A" of the 118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, and sailed overseas aboard the SS Canada on May 11th, 1918

Harry Bloom

Harry Saul Bloom (1913-1981) was an advocate, journalist, novelist, dramatist and lecturer.

Usually referred to simply as Harry Bloom in sources.

Biography

Harry Saul Bloom Birth: January 01, 1913 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Death: July 28, 1981 Canterbury, Kent, Engeland, United Kingdom

Born Harry Saul Bloom in Johannesburg on 1 January, 1913, he was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and subsequently became an advocate in Johannesburg. He married Beryl Gordon in 1940 and worked as a war correspondent in England during the Second World War. Involved in the struggle in the 1950s, he counted Guy Routh and Bram Fischer among his friends. During the state of emergency that followed the Sharpville massacre in 1960, he was detained and in 1963 went into exile in England. In 1967, he became lecturer in law at the University of Kent and married a second time to Sonia Copeland. He died of a stroke in 1981 at the age of 68. Best known for the novel Transvaal Episode (1959), dealing with township life and unrest in the 1950s. Also wrote Whittaker'

Harry Bloom

South African writer and activist (1913–1981)

Harry Bloom

BornSolomon Harris Bloom
(1913-01-01)1 January 1913
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Died28 July 1981(1981-07-28) (aged 68)
Canterbury, Kent, England
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • novelist
  • political activist
NationalitySouth African
Notable works
  • Transvaal Episode
  • Whittaker's Wife
Spouse

Beryl Gordon

(m. 1940; div. 1963)​

Sonia Copeland

(m. 1967)​
Children3

Harry Saul Bloom (born Solomon Harris Bloom; 1 January 1913 – 28 July 1981) was a South African journalist, novelist, activist and lecturer.[1][2]

Early life and career

Solomon Harris Bloom was born into a Jewish South African family. He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, obtaining his law degree in 1937. He subsequently became an advocate in Johannesburg. In 1940, he married Beryl Cynthia Gordon, after knowing her three weeks, and they moved to London

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