Tiraspol Tomonof Letter, 2 of 4 (See notes.)

"Zalmen melamed" as Mahryam's father was known in Toumanov, moved to Tiraspol sometime in 1912 where he improved his livelihood. In Toumanov he and his family suffered grinding poverty because the town bahlabatim were as poor as the proverbial church mouse and could scarcely pay their skahr-limud (teacher's bill).

Mahryam visited us in Bender when we moved to that city in 1913 and left this picture with us. She became a good seamstress.

From accounts I heard many years ago, Zalman and Faigi Rukhel's only so, a brilliant student at a university in Kiev met an untimely