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- An athlete, died before his father
“Before he married my mother, my father's children protested against the courtship, on the grounds that it would lower their prestige by his marrying my mother, since her first husband had been an ordinary shoemaker, a very low profession at that time among Jews. Two married sons of my father's first wife summoned him to the Rabbi of the town, and they warned him that, if he persisted in marrying my mother, they would not say "kaddish" at his death. My father, narrating the story, said that he replied: "How do you know that I will die first and that it will be necessary for you to say "kaddish" after me? Maybe it will be vice versa, and I will have to say "kaddish" for you?" And as fate would have it, it happened that the elder son named Abraham died earlier, and my father said "kaddish" after him.” [3]
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Our Family History
1830 - 
d. 1881 (Age 81 years)