Zalmon and Tsippe Newmark Family

1930 photo: Tsippe, all 9 of her children!, plus their spouses and children in Chicago

The Family and descendants of Zalmon Newmark and Sylvia Chavkin

Zalmon Mordecai Newmark (1872-1927)

AKA: Zalman,

Attended Yeshiva. Chose not to be a rabbi because salary would not feed his 9 children.

"He was a handsome, pious, and good-hearted person. He would give his last ruble to the needy. In business, he never asked if you had money. If the customer paid, it was alright; if not, it was alright, too." (From Lillian Newmark)

Tsippe Chavkin Newmark (1874-1947)

AKA: Tillie, Syliva Havkin, Zipa Chafkin, Tzipi

Born in 1874 in Zhilonkevitch, Belarus (TBD: Find other spelling. According to Mark Newmark, Zhilonkevich was next to Samotevich.)

Her father was Ephraim Meyer Chavkin (who was a Rabbi and her mother was Yente Rochl.

She had a sister Dobe who married David Simon and one other sibling listed as private on Geni.com(TBD). Dobe and David lived in Surazh.

"Zipa Chafkin, was a very beautiful woman. She was 5' 3" tall and had an oval face, big brown eyes, and long black hair." (From Lillian Newmark) She can be seen in 1930 in the second row of the photo above.

Zalmon and Tsippe and Life in Samotevich

Married c 1880 (TBD: This seems clearly wrong given birth dates:. Max was born in 1893, so perhaps wedding was 1890 and mistyped along the way?)

Lived in Samotevich until immigrating with their children to the U.S. in 1925. Zalmon died of cancer in 1927. Falling sick the day after daughter Lillian's wedding to Sam Fogel.

The family business included leasing seven acres of land from rich land owners and cultivating and planting all kinds of vegetables: cabbage, potatoes, cucumbers, beans and carrots. Then selling the vegetables to the peasants and to the people from the shtetl. Planting/harvesting was done by gentile girls from the village paid 25 kopeks a day, plus herring at lunch. (They brought their own bread).

According to Lillian, Zalmon did not want to come to the U.S., afraid that he and his children would have to work on Shabbos and that America would mean a weakening of his faith.

Children

Max and Sam immigrated to the U.S. in 1913. The rest of the family came in 1925.