Studio portrait of four students from the Tarnopol Yeshiva with religious texts.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 23155

Date: Circa 1930 - 1935
Variant Locale: Ternopol
Ukraine
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Religious Life/Weddings
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sheindel Trebitz Scharf Sussman

Biography: Yitzchok Scharf was born in Tarnopol, Poland in 1918. He had three sisters and four brothers. The Soviets deported Yitzchok and his brother Moshe to Siberia. They are the only members of their family who survived. After the war Yitzchok Scharf came to an Italian displaced persons' camp where he met and married Sheindel Trebitz from Subotica Yugoslavia. On January 7, 1950 they immigrated to the United States and Yitzchok, now Rabbi Scharf, served as a congregational rabbi for 25 years. He passed away in 1979.
Keyword: GROUP PORTRAITS
JEWS (POLISH)
JEWS (RELIGIOUS)
RELIGIOUS STUDY
STUDIO PORTRAITS
YESHIVA/CHEDER/BEIT MIDRASH
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Sheindel Trebitz Scharf Sussman
: Record last modified: 2006-08-31 00:00:00
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