Tag #132894 - Interview #78166 (Ida Goldshmidt)

Poor Jewish people mainly settled down in Moscowskiy forstadt [6], a suburb of Riga. Most streets were named after Russian writers and poets such as Turgenev [7], Pushkin [8], Gogol [9], etc. They had been named so during the Russian Empire, and their names were not changed afterward. There were also Moskovskaya, Kievskaya and Katolicheskaya [Catholic] streets. Even Katolicheskaya Street was mostly populated by poor Jewish people. My parents rented an apartment on the 2nd floor of a two-storeyed wooden house. It was owned by a Jewish man, and its tenants were also Jews. They were poor Jewish families, and couldn't afford to pay higher fees, and the owner wasn't much wealthier than the tenants. Other houses in this street were as shabby as ours.