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My grandfather on my mother's side Isai Rabinovich. The photo was taken in Odessa in the 1900s.
My grandfather was born in Odessa in the 1860s. I don't know what kind of education he got, but I am sure that he finished a grammar school. Before the revolution of 1917 my grandfather supplied leather to the Odessa leather factory. He purchased leather in Nizhniy Novgorod, Leipzig and Dresden. My grandfather could speak foreign languages. He wore business suits and was very elegant. He had a beard and moustache. My grandfather died in 1929 when I was 5. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Odessa. In 1948 I found his gravestone - a flat marble slab heightened at the head.
