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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
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
Information about Moshe and Rachel ( nee Persky) Madbetzki of Novogrodok- they owned a textile factory.
Amit Yarkoni- Evon writes ; My grandmother Leag Dagonee nee Kagan came to Israel from Novogorodok in 1937 to join two of her brothers. the rest of the family perished other then a relative by the name Henia Yarmovski who sent the family letters after the war. She had a grandaughter named Tali and the family is trying to find her....
