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Schwartz Family |
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The Schwartz family has a very short history
and a long one as well. Before she died, Steve' grandmother provided
some hints about our history .. at least on the paternal side. She
knew that the family was called Negri in Spain and then in Italy,
That history can be traced back to
Valencia and the 1492 expulsion from
Spain. Based on what is known about that period and other hints from Bubbie Perlmutter,
 the family probably migrates to Leghorn (Livorno) Italy and then to the south of Italy where a colony survived protected by an Italian Duke interested in the Avranel family. From there the family likely migrated to the environ of Milan and to Milan itself.
The Jews of Livorno (Leghorn)
celebrated the thirty-eighth birthday of Emperor Napoleon I with a service
of worship, for which a special liturgy was prepared and published in
Hebrew and Italian. Here we see the prayer for: His Imperial Majesty,
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, King of Italy and Protector of the
Confederation of the Rhme. Based on searches on the web, Steve has found evidence that the Negri family in Milan split into three branches. One, a light skinned branch, named itself after Valencia (e.g. Balascio) and migrated to South America (Brazil and Mexico) while a second migrated to the Eastern Mediterranean and kept variants of the Negri name, including Swade .. black in Arabic.
When in 1452 Pope Nicholas V approved the Jewish right of residence in the duchy, he specifically authorized the construction of a synagogue in Milan. In 1489, under Ludovico il Moro, the Jews were expelled from the entire Duchy. They were soon readmitted, except to Milan itself where a Jews could only stay for three days. In 1714, when Lombardy came under Austrian rule, Jews began to return to Milan, and by the middle of the 19th century the numbered approximately 500; a synagogue was built in 1840. In 1848 some were active in the rising against Austrian rule. In 1859 Milan became a part of the new Italian kingdom and the Jews received full rights.
Events in Milan are not at all known, however there is very famous
scientist-family named for
Mario Negri.
Efforts to get a family history form the Negri Institute have led only to unanswered letters. |
From Milan, the family
migrated to Galicia in Austrio-Hungary, probably in the late 1800s.
There we were known as Schwartz and intermarried with the Adlers.
Zadie Schwartz and Bubbie came to the US in the early twentieth century. He was a rabbi but as a socialist felt he should also work. They had three sons: Morrie, Bob, and Solomon.
Zadie Schwartz fell of the roof or English High School while working as a roofer. Bubbie, in depression, worked on her own .. eventually opening a grocery store in Cambridge (still there! Today it is called the Atomic Market). Later she married Sam Perlmutter, a carpenter, He was the Zadie Perlmutter I knew!
Zadie Perlmutter with Bubbi and Steve and his cousin Stanley (to right). On Porch in Dorchester. Bob married Mildred Lerner, my mother. Zaydie Lerner was from Russia and was a kosher butcher. His Butcher shop (called Alter's Butcher Shop) today is a kosher Korean deli! Bob graduated from medical school and and Bob and Millie chose to live in Hyde Park, a poor Irish-Italian neighborhood ..an unusual decision for a Jewish family in 1941!
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Bob and Millie had three children Steve (me),
Steph, and Hugh.
Steph married Bill Quick, an endocrinologist. She and Bill share an interest in diabetes. Click on her mage for a link to their website. My real education began as a "sixie" (seventh grader) at the Boston
Latin School. BLS was founded in 1635 and is probably the oldest
public school in the
Amongst the worst experiences of my life, my mother died about 20 years ago of small cell carcinoma. Saying more here .. well not now. My Dad remarried, something Millie wanted him to do, Bettie Frutkoff.
Hugh married
Janet Linn, an attorney working in patent law.
Click on Elena's picture to go directly to the Haggadah. As for us, well that needs some development. I married Barbara Osheroff, the daughter of Sol and Nora,
Havivah and Hillel but for now we have two Dalmatians and a cat. And then there is our boat, the Aquila. The Aquila is a 34 foot tricabin, a classic Northwest boat built by Tollycraft.
Among my most important interests have been
photography, politics, and Jewish history.
This page will also need to be expanded to discuss Steve's career as a scientist. Here is a hint:
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