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Mother Julia (nee Getz)
Weber with her children Israel (on her right) and Max (on her left.)
Max's father Morris,
his sister Lilly, and his mother Julia
cir 1915 |
Max's grandfather
Judel Krivyatizky
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Isaac Blumenthal,
Morris' brother, perhaps taken in the United States |
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Julia Weber and her Sons
Bialystok, Russia
1890
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Max
Weber was born in Bialystok (now a part of Poland),
a major textile center, to Orthodox Jewish parents Morris and Julia
Weber.
In 1891 when he was ten years old, Weber immigrated to the United
States with his mother and elder brother Israel. In New York they were
reunited with his father, a tailor. The Webers settled in the
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, which was at the time, a haven for Eastern
European Jewish immigrants.
Although drawing was not allowed in his Orthodox Jewish home, young
Max persisted in his love of drawing.
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