Tag #145686 - Interview #78185 (Osip Hotinskiy)

My grandfather's name was Isaac [Hotinskiy], but I don't know my grandmother's name. I don't know where and when they were born. They lived in Kiev, though during the tsarist regime Jewish families weren't allowed to reside in Kiev, which was beyond the Jewish Pale of Settlement [1]. This ban didn't refer to doctors, lawyers, merchants of Guild I and II [2] and highly skilled craftsmen. Craftsmen were allowed to settle down in Podol [3], a by-river district in Kiev. My grandfather was a tailor and he must have been a skilled master, considering that my father told me that he provided well for his family. My grandmother was a housewife, which was quite common with Jewish women.