Tag #153297 - Interview #78562 (Roza Levenberg)

His parents – grandfather Tsale and grandmother Gitl – lived in Kiev, where they owned a café. It was mainly my grandmother who worked there. Grandfather wasn’t very fond of working. He was a very interesting man, he liked to walk around and he took good care of himself. He came from a family with many children – he had seven brothers and sisters, but I didn’t know them.  My grandmother also came from a family with many children. They said she was a distant relative of [the famous Yiddish writer] Sholom Aleichem.  Grandfather Tsale and his brothers were very religious. They celebrated all the Jewish holidays and went to the synagogue. They had all the religious accessories – tfilin, tallises.