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INDEX & CONTENTS.

The “Tanach” Book – INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………… Pages 3 -7
The “Tanach” Book – Pictures of Pages and Explanation………………………………………………….. Pages 8 – 23
From Lithuania & Latvia to Israel (via South Africa)…………………………………………………………..
AVRAHAM ZALMAN KAUFMAN (Kraufmann) ---ZEIDA……………………………………………………… Page 24
Page 25
 Zeida’s Diary – Tages Buch……………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 26 – 64
 Zeida’s Sisters……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 65
 The Solden Family – Liverpool, Manchester & Leeds……………………………………………... Pages 66 – 68
 The Solden Family in the U.S.A……………………………………………………………………………… Pages 69 – 70
 The History of the Maitland Hebrew Congregation & Talmud Torah: 1903 – 1954... Pages 71 – 76
 Illuminated Address – Cape Western Board of Shechita……………………………………….. Page 77
 Bnei BRAK 1960 – with Adolph Schauder and Rav Kehaneman…………………………… Page 78
 Zeidai Ramat Gn 1963………………………………………………………………………………………….. Pages 79 – 83
KAUFMAN Family 1923/24…………………………………………………………………………………………….. Pages 84 – 87
TILLIE RAY OWSIANICK (Boner) ---GRANNY……………………………………………………………………….. Pages 88 -97
OUPA – Isidore Elkin Owsianick…………………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 98 – 102
OWSIANICK Family……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 103 - 105
Klerksdorp – MOM & DAD………………………………………………………………………………………………… Pages 106 - 129
Cape Town 1976 – 1968…………………………………………………………………………………………………… Pages 130 - 133
The Journey of Yankel David Fleishman……………………………………………………………………………. Page 134
YANKEL DAVID FLEISHMAN – Pa………………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 135 - 143
 David Fleishman’s Sisters……………………………………………………………………………………… Pages 144 -146
 A New Life in Cape Town……………………………………………………………………………………… Pages 146 - 153
FANNY FLEISHMAN (Javen) – Ma…………………………………………………………………………………….. Pages 154 - 157
ANCESTORS…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 158
OWSIANICK/KAUFMAN Family……………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 159
Cyril & Norma…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 160
 Cyril & Norma Aliyah 1974…………………………………………………………………………………… Pages 161 - 162
 Aaron & Sara……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 163
 David…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 164
 Mom & Dad Aliyah – 1977/8……………………………………………………………………………….. Page 164
 The House in Migdal Street…………………………………………………………………………………. Page 165
 San Francisco 1980/1981…………………………………………………………………………………….. Pages 166 - 167
 David goes to School…………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 167
 Aaron Bar Mitzvah………………………………………………………………………………………………. Page 168

 Sara Bat Mitzvah………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 169
 Aaron Army……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 170
 Sara Army………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 170
 David Bar Mitzvah……………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 171
 David Army………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 171
BASIL & SHARON…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 172
 Basil & Sharon Johannesburg…………………………………………………………………………….. Page 174
 Basil & Sharon Aliyah – May 1978….…………………………………………………………………… Pages 175 - 176
 Alon, Yael and Lior Army……………………………………………………………………………………. Page 177
PESACH 1995 at MOM & DAD in Netanya & ROSH HASHANAH in Tivon – 1997…………. Page 178
BEN BEZALEL Bar Mitzvah – 2013………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 179
ROY KAUFMAN Bar Mitzvah – 2015………………………………………………………………………………. Page 179
FAMILY – 8th Candle CHANUKAH – 31st December 2016………………………………………………... Pages 180 - 184
NORMA…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 185 - 186
OWSIANICK/SCHAUDER FAMILY…………………………………………………..………………….……………. Pages 187 - 197
ADOLPH (Pop) SCHAUDER……………………………………………………………………………………………… Pages 198 - 200
OWSIANICK/LEWIN FAMILY…………………………………………………………………………………………… Pages 201 - 209
HAROLD & EDIE KAUFMAN……………………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 210 - 212
ISAAC KARPAS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 213 - 215
PHILLIP & MARGALIT KAUFMAN…………………………………………………………………………………… Pages 216 - 219
SHEILA GILINSKY (KAUFMAN)……………………………………………………………………………………….. Pages 220 - 223
SIMMY & RENEE KAUFMAN………………………………………………………………………………………….. Pages 224 -228
ZILLA – JANE GOODMAN………………………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 228 -229
GITA STERN (KAUFMAN)………………………………………………………………………………………………. Pages 230 - 232
SAVILLE KAUFMAN……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Pages 233 - 234
BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES & WHEREABOUTS………………………………………………………….... Pages 235 - 243

THIS PROJECT IS FOR MY WIFE

NORMA

A WONDERFUL AND DEVOTED MOTHER
AN AMAZING GRAND MOTHER

A PROOF READER PAR EXCELLENCE
THE BEST GOLF PARTNER I HAVE EVER HAD

AND

WHO IS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME.

“THE TANACH BOOK” - INTRODUCTION

A few months ago, my brother Basil asked me if I had been updating
Zeida’s “Tanach” Book.

My immediate reply was “no not really”.

That same evening when I returned home, I took the “Tanach Book” off
the shelf and opened it so I could see what was written inside and what I
needed to do in order to begin the updating.

Basil and I received this family “heirloom” from Mom after Dad passed
away in 2004 and we decided that that the book should stay with me for
safekeeping.

Mom told us that it was Dad’s book and that it had originally belonged
to Zeida and the pictures alongside show what the book looks like today
and this is exactly how it looked when we received it.

Many were the times that I saw this book on the bookshelf in Dad’s
study in the apartment at 19 David Hamelech Street, Netanya.
It always looked like an old tattered version of some religious book of
which there were so many on that shelf and so I never really bothered to
ask any questions and simply assumed that Dad used it for reference.

So now, what follows, is what I found when I first opened this book and
how this has inspired me to use the details and to put to print the
memories and history of our Parents, our Grandparents and our
respective families from 1878 to the present.

This photograph was taken in the lounge of Mom and Dad’s apartment in Klerksdorp in July

1972 when Norma and I and Aaron and Sara visited Mom and Dad and Aaron was 2 years

and 5 months old.

When preparing this project I noticed for the first time that there is a bookshelf on the
bottom right corner behind the arm chair and on the bottom shelf, right side, is the “Tanach
Book”. (I have circled it in blue)

This book of the ‫ תנ"ך‬was printed in Berlin, Germany in 1910 and sometime after
that it became the property of my paternal grandfather (Zeida)
‫ –אברהם זלמן ב"ר יהושוע פישל‬AVRAHAM ZALMAN KROPMAN
Zeida was born to the family KROPMAN - ‫קראפמאנן‬
In Laizuva, Lithuania on 6th February 1878 – ‫ג׳ ַּב ֲא ָדר א׳ תרל״ח‬
This family name is written in Zeida’s own handwriting

at age 15 in the year ‫( תרנ"ג‬1893) in his “TAGES=BUCH” (Diary)
‫ זכרונות נעורי‬-- “Memories of my Youth”

Avraham Zalman married
ZVIAH GITTEL JOFFE (Bobba) – ‫צביה גיטל בת יצחק ופייגל יופה‬
ca 1900- 1901 and their first born, Isaac, was born in Lithuania on 20/11/1901.
The second son, Charles, was also born in Lithuania on 30/5/1903.
After the birth of the first two boys, Zeida made his way to Cape Town, and he
arrived there in 1903 and sometime around 1906/7 Bobba, Isaac and Charles

made their way from Lithuania to South Africa.
The third child, my father, Morris Louis was born on 26 January 1908.

It is somewhat of a mystery but sometime between when Zeida wrote this diary in
1893 until the birth of Morris Louis (Dad) in 1908, the surname KROPMAN
changed to KAUFMAN and this can be seen as it is registered
on Dad’s birth certificate (seen below)

From then Zeida wrote his name in Hebrew ‫ קופמן‬which is how it is engraved on
his tombstone in the Zichron Meir Cemetery in Bnei Brak, Israel.
‫בית החיים "שומרי שבת" זכרון מאיר‬

After Dad five more children were born.
Jane, the twins Tobias (Toby) & Meyer (Mike), Rachel (Raie) and Ben,

all born in MAITLAND, Cape Town.

Bobba died on 8 July 1946 – ‫ט' בתמוז תש"ו‬
Zeida died on 16 January 1964 - ‫י״ג ִּב ְׁש ָבט תשכ״ד‬

The book then became the property
of my beloved Father

MORRIS LOUIS KAUFMAN – ‫משה לייב בן אברהם זלמן‬
and he continued to update most of the family events until he passed away

on 6th January 2004 –‫י״ב ְׁב ֵט ֵבת תשס״ד‬

When I opened the book for the first time I saw that the last event recorded
in the book was that of Dad’s Yarzheit

which is recorded in the handwriting of by my beloved mother
SYLVIA ROSALIN KAUFMAN - ‫שרה רבקה בת יצחק אלחנן‬

who passed away on 13 April 2011 – ‫ט׳ ְׁב ִּני ָסן תשע״א‬

Mom and Dad are buried in the New Cemetery - Raanana