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Dr. Abraham B. Hurwitz, 91, Baltimore internist Dr. Abraham B. Hurwitz, a retired internist who practiced medicine in Baltimore for nearly 50 years, died Monday of a heart attack at his Pikesville home. He was 91. Dr. Hurwitz, whose office was on Liberty Road, began practicing medicine in 1938 and retired in 1987. The son of Russian immigrants, he was born in Baltimore and raised on Eutaw Place. His father, Samuel Hurwitz, was rabbi of the Poppleton Street Synagogue in Southwest Baltimore. A City College graduate, Dr. Hurwitz earned his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and, in 1938, his medical degree from the university’s School of Medicine. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Sinai Hospital and a pediatric residency at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital in New York. Dr. Hurwitz’s philanthropic interests included the Talmudical Academy, the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore and the United Way. He was a member of Chizuk Amuno Synagogue and an associate member of Hadassah. “His hobby was medicine,” said his wife of 50 years, the former Saralee Jed. Services were held Wednesday. Other survivors include a daughter, Shelley Hurwitz of Brookline, Mass.; a brother, Rabbi Jack Hurwitz of Binghamton, N.Y.; and a sister, Sylvia Gimbel of Baltimore.

HURWITZ, Dr. Abraham B. on January 21, 2002, DR. ABRAHAM B., beloved husband of Saralee Hurwitz (nee Jed), beloved father of Dr. Shelley Hurwitz of Brookline, MA, devoted brother of Sylvia Gimbel of Baltimore, MD and Rabbi Jacob Hurwitz of Binghamton, NY and the the late Joseph and David Hurwitz, Bertha Papier, Leah Friedman. Services and Interment will be held at Shaarei Tfiloh Congregation Cemetery, 5800 Windsor Mill Rd on Wednesday, January 23 at 12:15P.M. Please omit flowers. Contributions in his memory may be directed to Mandy Edelstein Memorial Endowment Fund, c/o Johns Hopkins Hospital Oncology Dept., 600 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD (21205). In mourning at 3409 Terrapin Rd (21208). Arrangements by Sol Levinson & Bros.