Hyman Appelman
Hyman Jedidiah Appelman (sometimes credited as Hyman C. Appleman, the changes between Appleman and Appelman at times occur in the same internet site) (1902â1983) was a prominent Jewish convert ot Christianity who served as a Christian evangelist who aimed his efforts at bringing other Jews to believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
Appelman was born in Mogilev, than a part of Russia, and moved to the United States at age twelve. He studied at Northwestern University and DePaul University Law School. He became a Christian in 1925 being baptized in the Central Christian Church in Denver. He then joined the US military and was sationed at Walter Reed Medical Center where he also became involved with the YMCA and the Washington Gospel Mission. It was through these connections he met Verna Cook, who he later married. He was later transferred by the military to Oklahoma, where he was bpatized again, this time with the Southern Baptist Church. Appelman then left the military and went to study at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He studied there from 1930-1933.
He later worked with the Southern Baptists Convention of Texas. Hyman was later involved in revivival preaching in such cities and Philadelphia and Detroit and supervised baptist missionary activity in such countries as Asutralia.
Appelman wrote the books Seeds for Sermons; Ye Must Be Born Again and Other Sermons: Ten Revivial Messages and Mercy and Truth.