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{{Short description|Polish-American chemist and writer (1903-2014)}}
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| name = Alexander Imich
| name = Alexander Imich
| image =
| image = File:Alexander_Imich.jpg
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| caption = Imich in 2008
| birth_name = Alexander Herbert Imich
| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|2|4}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|2|4}}
| birth_place = [[Częstochowa]], [[Congress Poland]], [[Russian Empire]]
| birth_place = [[Częstochowa]], [[Congress Poland]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date = {{death date|2014|6|8}}<br>(aged {{age in years and days|1903|2|4|2014|6|8|}})
| death_date = {{death date|2014|6|8}}<br />(aged {{age in years and days|1903|2|4|2014|6|8|}})
| death_place = [[Manhattan, New York]], [[United States]]
| death_place = New York City, US
| occupation = {{hlist|[[Parapsychologist]]|[[zoologist]]|[[writer]]|[[chemist]]}}
| occupation = {{hlist|[[Parapsychologist]]|[[zoologist]]|[[writer]]|[[chemist]]}}
| known_for = World's oldest verified living man (24 April 2014 - 8 June 2014)
| known_for = World's oldest verified living man (24 April 2014 - 8 June 2014)
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'''Alexander Imich''' (February 4, 1903 – June 8, 2014) was a Polish-American [[chemist]], [[parapsychologist]], [[zoologist]] and [[writer]] who was the president of the [[Anomaly (natural sciences)|Anomalous Phenomena]] Research Center in New York City. He was born in 1903 in [[Częstochowa]], Poland (then part of the [[Russian Empire]]) to a [[Jews|Jewish]] family.


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Imich, a [[supercentenarian]], also became the oldest living man at age 111 after the death of almost 112-year-old Arturo Licata, of Italy, on April 24, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title=Meeting Alexander Imich 111-years-old|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/meeting-alexander-imich-111-years-old/2014/02/28/|work=[[The Jewish Press]]|date=February 28, 2014|access-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Oldest">{{cite news|title=Rabbi Meets Oldest Man in America, Resulting in a Flurry of Good Deeds|url=http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/2537447/jewish/Rabbi-Meets-Oldest-Man-in-America-Resulting-in-a-Flurry-of-Good-Deeds.htm|work=[[chabad.org]]|date=March 26, 2014|access-date=April 23, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Umanitoba">{{cite web|url=http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/collections/complete_holdings/ead/html/Imich_2012-2013.shtml|work=University of Manitoba Archives|title=University of Manitoba Libraries: Alexander Imich profile|accessdate=June 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823064716/http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/collections/complete_holdings/ead/html/Imich_2012-2013.shtml|archive-date=August 23, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Until his own death a little more than a month later, aged 111 years and 124 days, Imich was certified by ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' as the world's oldest living man.
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'''Dr. Alexander Herbert Imich'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr Alexander Herbert Imich (1903-2014) - Find a... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131097738/alexander-herbert-imich |access-date=2022-05-18 |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}}</ref> (February 4, 1903 – June 8, 2014) was a Polish-American [[chemist]], [[parapsychologist]], [[zoologist]] and [[writer]] who was the president of the [[Anomaly (natural sciences)|Anomalous Phenomena]] Research Center in [[New York City]]. He was born in 1903 in [[Częstochowa]], Poland (then part of the [[Russian Empire]]) to a [[Jews|Jewish]] family.

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Imich, a [[supercentenarian]], also became the oldest living man at age 111 after the death of almost 112-year-old Arturo Licata, of Italy, on April 24, 2014.<ref>{{cite news|title=Meeting Alexander Imich 111-years-old|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/meeting-alexander-imich-111-years-old/2014/02/28/|work=[[The Jewish Press]]|date=February 28, 2014|accessdate=March 5, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Oldest">{{cite news|title=Rabbi Meets Oldest Man in America, Resulting in a Flurry of Good Deeds|url=http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/2537447/jewish/Rabbi-Meets-Oldest-Man-in-America-Resulting-in-a-Flurry-of-Good-Deeds.htm|work=[[chabad.org]]|date=March 26, 2014|accessdate=April 23, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Umanitoba">{{cite web|url=http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/collections/complete_holdings/ead/html/Imich_2012-2013.shtml|work=University of Manitoba Archives|title=University of Manitoba Libraries: Alexander Imich profile|accessdate=June 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140823064716/http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/collections/complete_holdings/ead/html/Imich_2012-2013.shtml|archive-date=August 23, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Until his own death a little more than a month later, at the age of 111 years and 124 days, Imich was certified by ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' as the world's oldest living man.


Imich was also the last surviving veteran of the [[Polish-Soviet War]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fox4kc.com/news/new-yorker-officially-deemed-oldest-living-man-on-earth/|title=New Yorker officially deemed oldest living man on earth|date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>
Imich was also the last surviving veteran of the [[Polish-Soviet War]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fox4kc.com/news/new-yorker-officially-deemed-oldest-living-man-on-earth/|title=New Yorker officially deemed oldest living man on earth|date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>
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He earned a PhD in [[zoology]] at the [[Jagiellonian University]] in [[Kraków]] in 1929,<ref name=Halper/> but as he could not find an academic position in zoology, he switched to chemistry. During the 1920s and 1930s he did some research on a medium, Matylda, for the [[Society for Psychical Research#Other societies|Polish Society for Psychical Research]]. He published a report in 1932 in a German journal called ''Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie'', but all of the unpublished notes and photos from the research were lost during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Imich, Alexander|year=1995|title=Incredible Tales of the Paranormal: Documented Accounts of Poltergeist, Levitations, Phantoms, and the Phenomena|publisher=Bramble Books|isbn= 978-1883647032}}</ref>
He earned a PhD in [[zoology]] at the [[Jagiellonian University]] in [[Kraków]] in 1929,<ref name=Halper/> but as he could not find an academic position in zoology, he switched to chemistry. During the 1920s and 1930s he did some research on a medium, Matylda, for the [[Society for Psychical Research#Other societies|Polish Society for Psychical Research]]. He published a report in 1932 in a German journal called ''Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie'', but all of the unpublished notes and photos from the research were lost during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Imich, Alexander|year=1995|title=Incredible Tales of the Paranormal: Documented Accounts of Poltergeist, Levitations, Phantoms, and the Phenomena|publisher=Bramble Books|isbn= 978-1883647032}}</ref>


Alexander Imich was already mentioned in a couple of [[English-language]] [[psychist]] [[books]] and [[Academic journal|journals]] as early as 1933 and 1934.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Leaves_from_a_Psychist_s_Case_book/G4YFAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22alexander+imich%22&dq=%22alexander+imich%22&printsec=frontcover|title = Leaves from a Psychist's Case-book|year = 1933|publisher = V. Gollancz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal_of_the_Society_for_Psychical_Res/Ac4VAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22alexander+imich%22&dq=%22alexander+imich%22&printsec=frontcover|title = Journal of the Society for Psychical Research|year = 1933|publisher = Society for Psychical Research.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Journal_of_the_American_Society_for/e5PNAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22alexander+imich%22&dq=%22alexander+imich%22&printsec=frontcover|title = The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research|year = 1934|publisher = American Society for Psychical Research}}</ref>
Alexander Imich was already mentioned in a couple of [[psychist]] English-language [[books]] and [[Academic journal|journals]] as early as 1933 and 1934.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G4YFAQAAIAAJ|title = Leaves from a Psychist's Case-book|year = 1933|publisher = V. Gollancz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ac4VAAAAIAAJ |title = Journal of the Society for Psychical Research|year = 1933|publisher = Society for Psychical Research}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e5PNAAAAMAAJ|title = The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research|year = 1934|publisher = American Society for Psychical Research}}</ref>


==World War II==
==World War II==
During [[World War II]], Imich and his wife Wela (pronounced Vela) fled to Soviet-occupied [[Białystok]], where he was employed as a chemist.<ref name=New>{{cite news|author=Winter Miller|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/nyregion/27neediest.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 27, 2007|title=Still Pursuing a Lifetime's Worth of Interests at 104|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> The couple were later interned in a labor camp for the duration of the war due to their refusal to accept Soviet citizenship. They were eventually freed and chose to emigrate to the U.S. in 1951, as almost all of their Polish relatives and friends were murdered in [[the Holocaust]].{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}
During [[World War II]], Imich and his wife Wela (pronounced Vela) fled to Soviet-occupied [[Białystok]], where he was employed as a chemist.<ref name=New>{{cite news|author=Winter Miller|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/nyregion/27neediest.html|work=[[The New York Times]]
|date=November 27, 2007|title=Still Pursuing a Lifetime's Worth of Interests at 104|access-date=June 9, 2014}}</ref> The couple were later interned in a [[Special settlements in the Soviet Union|special settlement]] due to their refusal to accept Soviet citizenship. They were released under the [[amnesty for Polish citizens in the Soviet Union]] in September 1941.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ru.openlist.wiki/%D0%98%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_(1903)|language = ru|title= Имих Александр Иосифович (1903)|access-date=July 21, 2024}}</ref> They eventually freed and chose to emigrate to the U.S. in 1951, as almost all of their Polish relatives and friends were murdered in [[the Holocaust]].{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}


==Life in the United States==
==Life in the United States==
In 1952, Imich and Wela (who died in 1986) emigrated to the United States, first to [[Pennsylvania]] and then to [[New York (state)|New York]], dividing their time between both places. To make a living, Imich initially took up chemistry, but once Wela made a career for herself as a psychologist in 1965, he turned to parapsychology.<ref name="Umanitoba"/> After becoming a widower, he continued his lifelong interest in [[parapsychology]], giving out the Imich prize for parapsychology research for several years until he began experiencing financial problems.<ref name=New/>
In 1952, Imich and Wela (who died in 1986) emigrated to the United States, first to [[Pennsylvania]] and then to [[New York (state)|New York]], dividing their time between both places. To make a living, Imich initially took up chemistry, but once Wela made a career for herself as a psychologist in 1965, he turned to parapsychology.<ref name="Umanitoba"/> After becoming a widower, he continued his lifelong interest in [[parapsychology]], giving out the {{ visible anchor | Imich prize }} for parapsychology research for several years until he began experiencing financial problems.<ref name=New/>


Imich wrote numerous papers for journals in the field and edited a book, ''Incredible Tales of the Paranormal'', which was published by Bramble Books in 1995. He formed the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in 1999, trying to find a way to produce "The Crucial Demonstration", the goal of which is to demonstrate the reality of paranormal phenomena to mainstream scientists and the general public.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://0201.nccdn.net/4_2/000/000/053/0e8/Who-Will-Create-the-New-Nobel-Prize.pdf|work=The Mindshift Institute|title=Who Will Create the New Nobel Prize?|last=Imich|first=Alexander|date=2002|accessdate=September 12, 2019}}</ref> In 2012, he began to transfer the records of his research into the paranormal to the [[University of Manitoba]] Department of Archives and Special Collections.<ref name="Umanitoba"/>
Imich wrote numerous papers for journals in the field and edited a book, ''Incredible Tales of the Paranormal'', which was published by Bramble Books in 1995. He formed the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in 1999, trying to find a way to produce "The Crucial Demonstration", the goal of which is to demonstrate the reality of paranormal phenomena to mainstream scientists and the general public.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://0201.nccdn.net/4_2/000/000/053/0e8/Who-Will-Create-the-New-Nobel-Prize.pdf|work=The Mindshift Institute|title=Who Will Create the New Nobel Prize?|last=Imich|first=Alexander|date=2002|accessdate=September 12, 2019}}</ref> In 2012, he began to transfer the records of his research into the paranormal to the [[University of Manitoba]] Department of Archives and Special Collections.<ref name="Umanitoba"/>


Imich suffered a fall either on<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/nyregion/111-year-journey-of-the-worlds-oldest-man.html|title=An Ever-Curious Spirit, Unbeaten After 111 Years - The New York Times|work=The New York Times|date=5 May 2014|accessdate=20 May 2019}}</ref> or shortly before his 111th birthday—with him spending his 111th birthday in the New York City's [[Roosevelt Hospital]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Sarafraz|first=Beth|url=https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2014/04/04/features/meet-alexander-imich-oldest-man-in-america/2474.html|title=Meet Alexander Imich, oldest man in America - Heritage Florida Jewish News|publisher=Heritagefl.com|date=April 4, 2014|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref> After his release from Roosevelt Hospital, Imich belatedly celebrated his 111th birthday either in late April or early May 2014.<ref name="nytimes"/> In April 2014, Imich's home attendant told [[Rabbi]] Pinny Marozov that, in his opinion, Alexander Imich could live for another couple of years, indicating that Imich was still in good health during this time.<ref>[https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/2608816/jewish/Alexander-Imich-Worlds-Oldest-Man-Passes-Away-at-111.htm]</ref>
Imich suffered a fall either on<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/nyregion/111-year-journey-of-the-worlds-oldest-man.html|title=An Ever-Curious Spirit, Unbeaten After 111 Years - The New York Times|work=The New York Times|date=5 May 2014|accessdate=20 May 2019}}</ref> or shortly before his 111th birthday—with him spending his 111th birthday in the New York City's [[Roosevelt Hospital]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Sarafraz|first=Beth|url=https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2014/04/04/features/meet-alexander-imich-oldest-man-in-america/2474.html|title=Meet Alexander Imich, oldest man in America - Heritage Florida Jewish News|publisher=Heritagefl.com|date=April 4, 2014|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref> After his release from Roosevelt Hospital, Imich belatedly celebrated his 111th birthday either in late April or early May 2014.<ref name="nytimes"/> In April 2014, Imich's home attendant told [[Rabbi]] Pinny Marozov that, in his opinion, Alexander Imich could live for another couple of years, indicating that Imich was still in good health during this time.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alexander Imich, World's Oldest Man, Passes Away at 111 |url=https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/2608816/jewish/Alexander-Imich-Worlds-Oldest-Man-Passes-Away-at-111.htm |access-date=December 20, 2022 |work=Chabad |date=June 9, 2014}}</ref>


After being the world's oldest living man for around 1.5 months, Alexander Imich died on June 8, 2014, at 9:03 AM from [[natural causes]] at the age of 111.<ref name="bordonaro">{{cite news|title=Oldest Man in the World Dies in New York at 111|author=Lori Bordonaro|date=June 9, 2014|publisher=[[NBC New York]]|url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Oldest-Man-in-the-World-Dies-at-111-262316451.html|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> He was succeeded as the world's oldest man by Sakari Momoi of Japan (who was born on February 5, 1903, just one day after Imich).<ref name="bordonaro"/> Imich attributed his long life to good genetics, decent nutrition and exercise, and not having children.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-06-10|title=The secrets of living to a ripe old age|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/the-secrets-of-living-to-a-ripe-old-age|access-date=2022-01-03|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
After being the world's oldest living man for around 1.5 months, Alexander Imich died on June 8, 2014, at 9:03 AM from [[natural causes]] aged 111.<ref name="bordonaro">{{cite news|title=Oldest Man in the World Dies in New York at 111|author=Lori Bordonaro|date=June 9, 2014|publisher=[[NBC New York]]|url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Oldest-Man-in-the-World-Dies-at-111-262316451.html|accessdate=June 9, 2014}}</ref> He was succeeded as the world's oldest man by Sakari Momoi of Japan (who was born on February 5, 1903, just one day after Imich).<ref name="bordonaro"/> Imich attributed his long life to good genetics, decent nutrition and exercise, and not having children.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-06-10|title=The secrets of living to a ripe old age|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/the-secrets-of-living-to-a-ripe-old-age|access-date=2022-01-03|website=the Guardian}}</ref> Imich donated his body to [[Mount Sinai Medical Center]] for medical research.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blumenthal |first=Ralph |date=2014-06-09 |title=World’s Oldest Man, Though Only Briefly, Dies at 111 in New York |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/nyregion/worlds-oldest-man-though-only-briefly-dies-at-111-in-new-york.html |access-date=2024-01-11 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 21:27, 22 December 2024

Alexander Imich
Imich in 2008
Born(1903-02-04)February 4, 1903
Częstochowa, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died(2014-06-08)June 8, 2014
(aged 111 years, 124 days)
New York City, US
Occupations
Known forWorld's oldest verified living man (24 April 2014 - 8 June 2014)

Alexander Imich (February 4, 1903 – June 8, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York City. He was born in 1903 in Częstochowa, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) to a Jewish family.

Imich, a supercentenarian, also became the oldest living man at age 111 after the death of almost 112-year-old Arturo Licata, of Italy, on April 24, 2014.[1][2][3] Until his own death a little more than a month later, aged 111 years and 124 days, Imich was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living man.

Imich was also the last surviving veteran of the Polish-Soviet War.[4]

Early war service

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Imich stated that, at age 15, he and the rest of his class joined the Polish forces to fight the Bolsheviks in 1918.[5] His older brother reportedly served as an instructor in the automobile division, so Imich learned to drive trucks for the army until the Bolshevik forces were pushed back and Imich returned to school.[6]

Academic career

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He earned a PhD in zoology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1929,[6] but as he could not find an academic position in zoology, he switched to chemistry. During the 1920s and 1930s he did some research on a medium, Matylda, for the Polish Society for Psychical Research. He published a report in 1932 in a German journal called Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie, but all of the unpublished notes and photos from the research were lost during World War II.[7]

Alexander Imich was already mentioned in a couple of psychist English-language books and journals as early as 1933 and 1934.[8][9][10]

World War II

[edit]

During World War II, Imich and his wife Wela (pronounced Vela) fled to Soviet-occupied Białystok, where he was employed as a chemist.[11] The couple were later interned in a special settlement due to their refusal to accept Soviet citizenship. They were released under the amnesty for Polish citizens in the Soviet Union in September 1941.[12] They eventually freed and chose to emigrate to the U.S. in 1951, as almost all of their Polish relatives and friends were murdered in the Holocaust.[citation needed]

Life in the United States

[edit]

In 1952, Imich and Wela (who died in 1986) emigrated to the United States, first to Pennsylvania and then to New York, dividing their time between both places. To make a living, Imich initially took up chemistry, but once Wela made a career for herself as a psychologist in 1965, he turned to parapsychology.[3] After becoming a widower, he continued his lifelong interest in parapsychology, giving out the Imich prize for parapsychology research for several years until he began experiencing financial problems.[11]

Imich wrote numerous papers for journals in the field and edited a book, Incredible Tales of the Paranormal, which was published by Bramble Books in 1995. He formed the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in 1999, trying to find a way to produce "The Crucial Demonstration", the goal of which is to demonstrate the reality of paranormal phenomena to mainstream scientists and the general public.[13] In 2012, he began to transfer the records of his research into the paranormal to the University of Manitoba Department of Archives and Special Collections.[3]

Imich suffered a fall either on[14] or shortly before his 111th birthday—with him spending his 111th birthday in the New York City's Roosevelt Hospital.[15] After his release from Roosevelt Hospital, Imich belatedly celebrated his 111th birthday either in late April or early May 2014.[14] In April 2014, Imich's home attendant told Rabbi Pinny Marozov that, in his opinion, Alexander Imich could live for another couple of years, indicating that Imich was still in good health during this time.[16]

After being the world's oldest living man for around 1.5 months, Alexander Imich died on June 8, 2014, at 9:03 AM from natural causes aged 111.[17] He was succeeded as the world's oldest man by Sakari Momoi of Japan (who was born on February 5, 1903, just one day after Imich).[17] Imich attributed his long life to good genetics, decent nutrition and exercise, and not having children.[18] Imich donated his body to Mount Sinai Medical Center for medical research.[19]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Meeting Alexander Imich 111-years-old". The Jewish Press. February 28, 2014. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
  2. ^ "Rabbi Meets Oldest Man in America, Resulting in a Flurry of Good Deeds". chabad.org. March 26, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c "University of Manitoba Libraries: Alexander Imich profile". University of Manitoba Archives. Archived from the original on August 23, 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  4. ^ "New Yorker officially deemed oldest living man on earth". May 5, 2014.
  5. ^ "Alexander Imich, Czar's Last Bar Mitzvah Boy". The Forward. June 10, 2014.
  6. ^ a b Halper, Lyn (2002). Mystic Souls: Nineteen Remarkable People Tell Their Stories. IUniverse. pp. 129–130. ISBN 0595228917.
  7. ^ Imich, Alexander (1995). Incredible Tales of the Paranormal: Documented Accounts of Poltergeist, Levitations, Phantoms, and the Phenomena. Bramble Books. ISBN 978-1883647032.
  8. ^ Leaves from a Psychist's Case-book. V. Gollancz. 1933.
  9. ^ Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Society for Psychical Research. 1933.
  10. ^ The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. American Society for Psychical Research. 1934.
  11. ^ a b Winter Miller (November 27, 2007). "Still Pursuing a Lifetime's Worth of Interests at 104". The New York Times. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  12. ^ "Имих Александр Иосифович (1903)" (in Russian). Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  13. ^ Imich, Alexander (2002). "Who Will Create the New Nobel Prize?" (PDF). The Mindshift Institute. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
  14. ^ a b "An Ever-Curious Spirit, Unbeaten After 111 Years - The New York Times". The New York Times. May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  15. ^ Sarafraz, Beth (April 4, 2014). "Meet Alexander Imich, oldest man in America - Heritage Florida Jewish News". Heritagefl.com. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
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