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Which was just about everyone in the small villages/shetls according to
my aunt. No one had money.
Kat
Deri James wrote:
> On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 10:24 pm, you wrote:
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>>Interesting, because my father's family were shop-owners, not very
>>religious from what I've seen. My grandfather's grave down in Svannah
>>doesn't even have the traditional 'Ben - ' meaning 'Son of -' on his
>>gravestone. My dad and his brothers never had Bar Mitzvahs, but they
>>were circumstised. Neither my dad or either of his two brothers were
>>ever pro-union and my family has always been anti-union as well as quite
>>conservative in politics.
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>>My grandmother whose family was from the Ukraine, near Kiev, were
>>wealthy by their standards, yet they came to America around 1898 for a
>>better life. Which goes to show just how bad things were for the Jews
>>there.
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>>Kat
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> It wasn't too good for anyone who was poor
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