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Dr. Alexander Joseph Oraham (1898-?)
Alexander Joseph Oraham was born on February 1898 in the village of Armood Aghade in the Urmia district in Iran. He received his primary education in the village school at the age of 13, he was admitted to the St. Vincent Academy, the highest Catholic institution of learning in Iran. In 1913, at 15 years of age, he immigrated to the United States of America and settled in Chicago. Two years later, in 1915, he attended the Jenner Medical College in Chicago where he continued his medical studies unit 1917.
In 1924, he entered the Physicians and Surgeons College of Microbiology and graduated the following year with a Doctorate of Microbiology degree. In 1928 he established an X-Ray Laboratory in Chicago and continued his operation well into the mid 1940's. In 1941 he established what was known as the greatest Syriac printing establishment in the world, this was known as "The Consolidated Press". Alexander Oraham and his wife, Almas Oraham, personally set the English and Syriac type for the printing of his "Oraham's Dictionary" in 1943.
The dictionary can be purchased at:
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http://www.assyrianmarket.com/orahams-dictionary.html
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Al-Itekal Bookstore
6307 N. Pulaski Road
Chicago, Illinois 60646 USA
Telephone: 773-463-4135
The Assyrian Dictionary by
Alexander Joseph
Oraham MD, published in 1943.
Words: 21,000. Price: $30 (Sample page below)
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