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Grodno
BELARUS

 

THE KOBRIN FAMILY
Grodno, Belarus
1904

The Lipunski family is to the viewer’s right of the patriarch with the book. He is Ya’akov Bar Kobrin (the roite zaide for his red beard). His daughter Sarah Devorah (the woman with the embroidery on here black blouse with her hand on her father’s left shoulder), married Chaim Velvel Lipunski, the gentleman with the youngest girl, Tzivia (b. 1900) in front of him. Between Chaim Velvel Lipunski and Ya’akov Bar Kobrin is Yoshua Lipunski (b. 1895), probably eight or nine years old in this picture.  The two girls on the end are: Libby (b. 1894) who is standing and the oldest, probably nine or ten in this picture. Seated is Fanny (b.1897). A child named Bunya (1898 – 1904) had already passed away.

The matriarch is seated and her name is Frume. Behind her are her children, one of whom is named Zelda, the one behind her father with the red beard and the book. She left Grodno with her daughter Charlotte, unhappy in a pre-arranged marriage, thus voyaging to America. Here she lived in the commune with Emma Goldman, where her best friend broke her heart by stealing her lover. Zelda left and moved to Los Angeles, was active in the founding of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ union, and took up the balalaika at age sixty.

 


TZIVIA AND FRIEND
date unknown


TZIVIA
cir 1918



 


 


 

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