Tag #148703 - Interview #78264 (nina polubelova)

My father's family lived in Riga. There was a Jewish pale of settlement [2] in tsarist Russia, and Jews with the exception of doctors, lawyers and merchants weren't permitted to settle in big Latvian cities. My paternal grandfather, Zalman Levin, dealt with timbering. He evidently got a permit to reside in Riga.