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]]> https://chaionlifemag.com/sara-yoheved-rigler-learning-through-life-living-your-dreams/#comment-107 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 05:44:56 +0000 https://chaionlifemag.com/?p=2792#comment-107 Dear Sara,
My married name is Phyllis Turk and my maiden name is: Phyllis Kremer.
I’ve been wondering how I can get in touch with you. I finally found a way. I am the niece of Yaakov Moshe Kramer. My grandparents Chaya Kramer and R’Shmuel Zanvill Kramer appear on page 61 in your book Holy Woman. My father Avraham Mendel (mentioned on page 125) was the oldest of their 14 children. Yaakov Moshe was the youngest. My sister Esther and I once met you when you were promoting your book Holy Woman to a group of women in Brooklyn New York in Boro- Park. The reason I spelled my maiden name Kremer with an “e” instead of Kramer with an “a” is because in the Hungarian alphabet there is no “a” The e with an accent over the `e is pronounced like an “a”. This is the way my father spelled my name with an “e”. The reason for my note to you is because my father’s life is a very interesting story and I always talk about his life to friends and have been asked several times that I must write a book about him. I write poetry but have never written a book the way you write. I was wondering whether you would be willing to write a book about my father if I tell you all the details about him. It’s too
long to write his whole story here but I can give you a short synopsis and if you are interested, I can give you all the details. My father was born in 1890 and came to America in 1905 at the age of 15 to avoid being drafted into the army because in Hungary there was a lot of antisemitism and when a Jewish Hasidic went into the army he was usually killed. Because my father stowed away on a boat to come to America, he was not brought to Ellis Island but dropped off in the middle of New York City. He was homeless until he found a job in a Tie Factory on the lower East side of Manhattan. He got married at the age of 19 to another immigrant Hungarian young woman named Eva. (not my mother). Because of his situation, having to work on the Sabbath, etc. He left his Hasidic, orthodox life behind and became Americanized. He had 5 children. His family Lived on a Farm in Brooklyn. His youngest child was killed by a Nanny when he was 9 months old. She went to prison. There are articles in the New York Times, Brooklyn Eagle and other Newspapers. My father and Eva were divorced in 1929, probably because his wife hired the nanny who killed their baby. My father, now an American citizen, traveled back to Hungary at the age of 40 to see his family & relatives. While visiting an uncle he saw my mother who was single at the age of 27 because her fiance’ at the age of 19 went into the army and never came out. She vowed never to get married to anyone else. When my father asked her father if he can marry his daughter Elena, she refused to marry him because he was no longer religious. They were 3rd cousins & 3rd cousins were permitted to marry. But Elena said if he becomes religious again, she would agree to marry him. Before my father came to America at the age of 15, he was very educated in Torah because his father hired a private tutor to teach all his sons, plus other Jewish boys in the town and paid for their lessons. His parents lived in a Baron’s house so they were well to do. The Hungarian town where they lived had no Yeshiva or Hebrew school and not many Jews lived in this town. My father agreed to become religious again. My mother wore a Sheitel. My father’s 2nd marriage with my mother and family were very Orthodox. That’s how I and my siblings grew up……very Orthodox. My father went to Palestine and my sister was born in Tel Aviv and I was born in Hadera. My birth certificate has my Israeli name: Tzipora. My father came back to America in 1936. I was 10 months old and my sister Zelda was 2 1/2. Now begins the story of my father with his 2nd family in America with 4 children with my mother. My brother Eddie who you met was born here in New York and my youngest sister Esther was also born here. We met our American half Siblings who were at least 20 and more years older than me and my siblings. My father’s story was quite interesting here in America. If you are interested in writing the story about Yaakov Moshe’s oldest brother, I can give you more details about my father in America with his 2nd family. Let me know. Thank you. Incidentally, my daughter Jodi has been traveling to Israel, a few times a year. She loves Israel. She would love to make contact with you. I believe she will be going to Israeli shortly.

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