Friends of Hastings Cemetery
Jaakoff Prelooker continued
Postcard: Photo by T. A. M. Mann,
2 Havelock Rd, Hastings, sent to Jaakoff Prelooker’s sister in Entre Rios, Argentina.
To my beloved sister Betty Halperin
Jacob Priluker
taken on March 22, 1928
for 70th birthday anniversary
(Thanks to Francisco Razzari Tolkachier, great, great grandson of Betty Halperin.)
As ‘Jackoff Prelooker’, he presented a Russian samovar at the Musical Festival in a new class, Slavonic music. The winner, in 1930, was Miss Muriel Prelooker. The Jakob Prelooker Challenge Trophy continues to this day.
Hastings, Sussex, England, Oct. 25 (Jewish News Archive) –
Jaakoff Prelooker, noted poet and author who was excommunicated by the Jewish Assembly in Odessa as a heretic, died here yesterday at the age of 75.
A writer in English, Yiddish, French and German, Mr. Prelooker lived here since 1891. [in the UK] In 1882 the Jewish Assembly pronounced him a heretic after a bitter dispute.
He was the founder of the New Israel Movement in Russia.
Entry in Who Was Who, 1929 -
Obituary -
Born in 1905
Teacher at Hastings Secondary School for Girls 1931
RAF photo inscribed on back “With every good wish from Miriam Prelooker (the singer) Hastings 6.7.1931”
Won gold medal for ladies singing at 1932 Hastings Musical Festival
A Miriam Prelooker is referred to as Theatrical Agent for Ferris in an autobiography called “A Quest of Love” by Jennet Robins
Prelooker Papers, the papers of Jaakoff Prelooker. The property of his daughter, Miss Miriam March, St. Leonards, Hastings, Sussex.
His daughter, Miriam, (also known
as Linda Match) warrants some mentions: