Novogrudok Archives

I am a grandson of Abraham Gabrilowitz (1870-1949), whose wife,
Rachel, and children (my mother among them) immigrated to the United
States in 1908. Two of my relatives are working on a Gabrilowitz
genealogy. The most famous family member was Ossip Solomonovich
Gabrilowitsch (1878-1936), pianist, composer and conductor of the
Detroit Symphony. He was married to Mark Twain's daughter, the singer
Clara Clemens .
Unlike the majority of his relatives, who came from
Novogrudok in Belarus, Ossip was born in St. Petersburg. Another noted
Gabrilowitz was Zeidl Gabrilowitz -or Gabrylowicz- (1905-1999) who
emigrated first to Cuba, where he adopted the surname D'Gabriel, and
later to Florida.
I learned recently that Zeidl had a sister, whose Yiddish name was
Sore Peshe. Zeidl and Sore Peshe were children of Kalman Leib and Leah
Gabrilowitz and were born in Novogrudok. She married Shlomo Szupak,
possibly in Israel, and had sons named Itzkhak and Ari.
Any information on descendants of Sore Peshe and Shlomo Szupak would
be gratefully received.
Lester Chafetz
Researching GABRILOWITZ, GABRILOWITSCH, GABRYLEWICZ, GABRILOVICH,
D'GABRIEL, Novogrudok (Navahrudak), Belarus:
CHAFETZ or variants of KHEIFETS, Chereya, Senno Gubernia, Belarus;
SZUPAK, ? KLAPPER, Rumania