Fligelman, Herman, 1860s-1932

Abstract Herman Fligelman (original name Yossel Burt) was born in Russia during the 1860s (exact date unknown) and fled to Berlad, Romania when he was five or six years old to escape conscription in the Czar's army. His parents presumably purchased a foreigner's passport for young Yossel, and he had to assume the passport holder's name, Herman Fligelman. When he was about seventeen (1882?), Herman left for America. He slowly brought his siblings to America, where they settled in Minneapolis,...