Tag #133372 - Interview #83203 (Irina Golbreich )

Yakov Rozenblit, my maternal grandfather, came from Odessa [4], southern Ukraine. He had graduated from Odessa University before getting married. He was a chemical engineer. He must have been very intelligent, if he managed to get a higher education in Russia, being Jewish. There was a quota for maximum five percent Jewish admission [5]. My grandfather must have had many merits to have overcome this barrier.