Samuel S. Bloom (Hebrew: שמואל (סם) שמעון בלום) (December 25, 1860 - October 10, 1941) was a U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and industrialist and innovator in the field of dentures.
Biography Bloom was born in Vilkomir, Russian Empire (nowadays Ukmergė, Lithuania), into a religious Jewish family. In 1882, he immigrated to United States of America. He established a plant manufacturing dentures in Philadelphia , jta ,15,01,1931 and was a member of the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress and attended the World Zionist Congress.
In 1926, he immigrated to Palestine. In 1929, Bloom financed Ohel Shem in Tel Aviv, designed by architect Moshe Czerner, as a permanent home for the Oneg Shabbat society, in the cultural center of Tel Aviv, for the benefit of his friend, the poet Hayim Nahman Bialik, particularly for the dissemination of knowledge of Judaism in all its branches.Founders' descendants fight to keep city from converting former Tel Aviv religious center, haaretz,10,27,2010
Bloom died on September 10, 1941, and was buried in the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv.
The singer Danny Maseng the poet Amichai Chasson, and Josh Kaplan are his great-grandsons.
Further reading Samuel S. Bloom, Samuel S. Bloom - My Memories, Published by Palestine Publishing Company, Tel-Aviv, 1938 David De Vries, From Porcelain to Plastic: politics and Business in a Relocated False Teeth Company, 1880s-1950s, Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History, 14, 1, 2013, 144-181.
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