The Belaya Tserkov Barber and His Righteous Wife

The Belaya Tserkov Barber and His Righteous WifeHeinach Goloborodko (Henry Golb) was a Jewish barber healer born in Czarist Russia (now Ukraine) around 1862. Henry, known as philosophical and agnostic, married Esther Schmulevitz (from present day Lithuania) and they immigrated to Chicago with their children in 1905. There Esther was known for her righteous work for those Jews even less fortunate than her family. This book traces Henrys family back to its likely roots in 1700 in Pyatyhory. It tells

Heinach Goloborodko (Henry Golb) was a Jewish barber-healer born in Czarist Russia (now Ukraine) around 1862. Henry, known as philosophical and agnostic, married Esther Schmulevitz (from present-day Lithuania) and they immigrated to Chicago with their children in 1905. There Esther was known for her righteous work for those Jews even less fortunate than her family. This book traces HenryÕs family back to its likely roots in 1700 in PÕyatyhory. It tells how our ancestors struggled in Russia and how they built new lives starting out in the ÒJewish ghettoÓ of ChicagoÕs Maxwell Street. We follow the lives of their descendants, as well as those of EstherÕs two sisters, to the current time. The book also weaves in the experiences of five of Henry and EstherÕs descendants on a 2018 trip to their ancestral towns.