High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. The most celebrated of the Jewish athletes in Britain, Abrahams was thoroughly Anglicized; the film distorts his relationship to his Jewish heritage. In reality his cultural integration went hand-in-hand with his sporting achievements. Abrahams became a hero to the British Jewish community. However, Abrahams quests to enter upper class British society increasingly dominated his career, as his Jewishness meant less and less to him and his associates. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной тематики, данная компиляция построена по принципу подбора близких...