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Great Artists: David
Pinski, Yiddish Playwright
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The Early Years: The Pinski Family
During
the summer of 1909, David Pinski, his wife Adele (nee
Koiffmann), and their two sons Henry and Gabriel (not
pictured here), left New York City for a trip to Europe,
here making a stop in Halensee, Berlin, Germany.
Their younger son Gabriel ("Gabri") was six months
old at the time this photograph was taken. Sadly, Gabri passed away from polio in 1916
at the age of seven and one-half in Long Branch,
New Jersey. It was in Long Branch that the Pinskis spent
many of their summers.
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The Pinski
Family in Europe
Halensee, Germany
June 1909 |
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The photograph was part
of a postcard sent to Mordechai Spektor, who at the time was in "Warschau,
Russian Poland," i.e. what we know today as Warszawa, Poland.
Mordechai Spektor was David Pinski's
editor during Pinski's time in Warszawa. Hodel (Adele), the sister
of Spektor's wife, became Pinski's wife in 1897. For a few years
before emigrating to New York, in December 1899, the Pinskis lived
in Berlin where their first son Henry (who was given the name
Heinrich Heine) was born in 1898.
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