Rabinowitz/Zadikowitz Family

	This photo, taken in Newark, N.J., c. 1953, is of Shlomo Aharon Bedil (known as Sam Rabinowitz), born in Kupishok in 1873, son of Avraham Ze'ev (Wolf) Bedil and Etta Sora Baron (1840-1930).
The family left Kupishok in 1881 after Wolf Bedil was killed. Samuel's sister, Chaia-Pese Bedil, married Mordechai-Yehuda Choritz, who brought them to South Africa, where he started an ostrich feather business, first in Oudtshoorn, SA, then a general dealers shop called Choritz and Jaffe in the tiny dorp (village) of Bot River, SA which he owned until his death in 1937.	Mordechai-Yehuda and Chaia-Pese Choritz
Mordechai-Yehuda Choritz and Samuel Jaffe and family	Partners with him was Samuel Jaffe, son of Nahum Jaffe and , who was a relation to both the Bedil and Choritz families. They were surrounded by a cohensive Jewish community of approximately seven or eight families, many of whom were from Kupishok.

Choritz and Jaffe, General Dealers, Bot River, SA, (as it looked in 1997)

Sam and his brother, whose name is not known, came to New York in 1893 and lived on the Lower East Side where many other Kupishokers lived, including his future wife. He met Hienna Musha (known as Anna) Zadikowitz, born 1880, daughter of Shloime Dovid Zadikowitz and Fanny Meyerowitz, when he was a tenant in her parent's home. They married in 1905. They then went to Plainfield, New Jersey, where other Kupishok relatives such as the Bedell, Meyerowitz, Mintz, Sachar and Toll families lived. The couple had three children, two sons, Shmuel Velvel (known as William Samuel) (1908-1988) and Mottel (known as Milton) Rabinowitz (1910-1990), and a daughter who died at birth, with her mother, in 1913.

Following the death of Anna Zadikowitz Rabinowitz, her husband was introduced by his Sachar landsleit, Kaspar Sachar, to his sister-in-law, the widow, Ida Morril (or Morrel) Levine, whom he subsequently married in 1915. She was the daughter of Israel Morril (or Morrel) and Helen Sachar and also a Kupishoker. They had no children.

The photo of William Samuel (Shmuel Velvel) Rabinowitz, age 5, and his brother Milton (Motel) Rabinowitz, age 3, was taken in Plainfield, NJ, in 1913, shortly after the death of their mother Anna Zadikowitz Rabinowitz. William Samuel Rabinowitz is the father of Ann Rabinowitz.

Photo of William Samuel Rabinowitz, taken in 1925-6, for his graduation from Plainfield, N.J. High School.

This photo was taken in the 1940's in Miami Beach, Florida, of Rose Zadikowitz and her husband Samuel Simon, son of Abraham Simon and Jane Katz. Rose was born in Kupishok in 1888 and was the daughter of Shloime Dovid Zadikowitz and Fanny Meyerowitz. She was one of five sisters: Anna, Sheine (Jenny), Asna Leah (Lena), and Mary, who came with their mother to meet their father in New York in 1903.

Afterwards, the family moved to Paterson, NJ, where there was a substantial Kupishok population including Shloime Dovid's sister Rose Zadikowitz Pear and relatives such as the Hillman family.

Rose had two sons: Sidney and Harold.

Left to Right: Sam Jaffe, Adele Hillman Jaffe, Marie Simon, Max (Menachem-Mendel) Hillman, Lena Zadikowitz Hillman, and Rose Zadikowitz Simon.

This photo was taken in Bridgeport, CT, in the 1950's and depicts the Zadikowitz / Hillman family.

Lena and Rose are the daughters of Shloime Dovid Zadikowitz and Fanny Meyerowitz and were born in Kupishok.

Max Hillman was born in Bauska, Latvia, and was the inspiration for the genealogy studies of Ann Rabinowitz.

(Photos are contributed by Ann Rabinowitz in memory of her father, grandparents and great grandparents.)

The following are paintings of Abba-Leib ben Moshe Zadikowitz and his wife Rachel, the great grandparents of Arnold Rosenberg and his sister Lorraine Rosenberg Shimberg (their branch of the Zadikowitz family used the name Rosenberg in America and the children of this family were born in Kupiskis and Gelesiai) and the grandparents of David, Julius, Joseph, Nathan, and Helen Segel (their branch went to South Africa and the children of the family were born in Vabalninkas, Kupiskis and Geleziai, and were related to the Jaffe and Melamed families).

One of the family, Sari R. Dunn, has written a book about the extended Zadikowitz and Salny families entitled Delving Into The Past, A Family Tree and Memories .

On the left, Abba-Leib Zadikowitz, a wealthy tanner whose father, Moshe Zadikowitz, was the Rabbi of Vabalninkas. Abba-Leib's tombstone still exists in Vabalninkas, where he died in 1905 (this information thanks to member Ellen Stepak's research in the Vabalninkas cemetery).

On the right, Rachel Zadikowitz, wife of Abba-Leib. She had eight plus children, many of whom went to South Africa, while a few went to America.

(Photos donated by David Segel, in memory of his mother and her family, and Arnold Rosenberg and Lorraine Rosenberg Shimberg, in memory of their father and his family.)

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