Born in Holesov, now in the Czech Republic, son
of a distinguished rabbi and scholar, he studied law and became a magistrate in
Koenigsberg and a judge in Braunsberg, then both in Germany, until the Nazis
came to power when he moved to Palestine. For a time he worked for an insurance
company but then taught law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1947 he
headed a committee considering laws of personal status in the upcoming State of
Israel. He was killed by Arabs in a convoy going up to Mount Scopus in Jerusalem
during the Israel's War of Independence. Freimann wrote on medieval rabbinic
including a study on changes in marriage laws after the Talmudic era.
Bibliography:
FREIMANN, Abraham Hayim. Ha-Rosh Rabenu Asher b.R.
Yehi'el ve-tse'etsa'av : hayehem u-fo`olam / me-et Avraham Hayim Fraiman; [tirgem
mi-Germanit Menahem Eldar.]. Pp. 222 p. Yerushalayim: Mosad ha-Rav Kuk, c1986.
