Baruch Spergel - February 4, 2008
Meeting Spouses
How did you meet your husband?
ZF: My husband? He comes from the same town that we were.
Regensburg?
ZF: Reichenberg, yes, yes. And um, his, his parents had a shop full of uh, what do you call it? Materials for kind of-for sewing-things for sewing.
BS: We knew the family...
ZF: We knew the family from Reichenberg.
BS: ...and uh, ??? religious ??? and...
ZF: My mother would-she loved to sew. She made all our clothes for us and ??? would take me there so I knew the kids here. Him and his brother would, you know, like to meet them once or twice.
And what about you?
BS: Hmm?
You, you met-how did you meet your wife? Did you meet her in England?
BS: What is it?
Did you meet your wife in England?
BS: No...
ZF: Oh, no, no.
BS: ...I met my wife here. I was her English teacher. That's how we met.
And you have children.
ZF: Yes, yes. He has children and I have children.
How many children?
ZF: Three, a boy and twin daughters.
And grandchildren?
ZF: And grandchildren, too.
How many grandchildren?
ZF: Uh, 3 grandchildren as well.
BS: I've got 14.
Fourteen?
BS: Fourteen grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
ZF: Yes.
Mazel tov.
BS: Because they're religious.
ZF: Because his, his, his two boys became religious and...
BS: My two ???
ZF: ???, you know what this is.
BS: My one son-middle of my sons they live over in Tzfat. You know, you know Tzfat? You been there?
No.
BS: Well uh, one of this son ???...
ZF: ???
BS: ...yeshiva and the other one, the other one paints. He a painter, an artist and uh, painted...
ZF: They're both very religious.
BS: ??? He sells pictures. He lives in a Paris, Paris now and he, he uh, wants to go to New York-he was in New York already once. He wants to go again and uh, he sort of so now he's, he's quite outgoing. He's uh, he's quite-fairly successful.
Let me ask each of you...
ZF: These are my parents with, with us three children and I mean let's say this about twenty five years ago. It's just, you know, twenty five years ago. My chil...our parents are no longer alive.
This is here?
ZF: Yes, everything is here, here in Israel.
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