More emails between Gale and Alex

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the information...or lack thereof...about the distance between the brothers.  It will remain a mystery I guess.

My grandparents lived in a Jewish "old age home" In NYC from the time they were about 60.  It was on 2nd Ave. and 12th street as I recall.  Neither one of them spoke English so even though my mother took us to see them weekly we could never really communicate.  Grandpa Feller seemed to be a kind person and by all accounts he was.  He was very religious, I guess you would say orthodox.  It was a great honor to be buried with Jewish bibles which he was.  Grandma supposedly was more matter of fact and perhaps not as religious as he was.  I don't remember feeling any warm fuzzies with either one but I didn't expect to and had no reaction of disappointment.

Celia's son Virgil learned Yiddish at home and so could talk to them when he came to town from Santa Monica.  Grandma really liked that and chastised me for not doing the same....in Yiddish.  Actually, I could understand my parents when they spoke Yiddish and they sent me to a Yiddish speaking camp one summer so I learned quickly because I had to.

So who is in your family tree coming down from David, my great uncle?Would you like to share some of your pictures?

Gale

 

In a message dated 2/14/2011 10:24:24 A.M. Central Standard Time, aefeller@gmail.com writes:

Gale,

I forgot to reply to your question about contact between David and Isidore.

I do not know why or if David and Isidore did not talk to each other.

Or perhaps it was the children who did not keep in touch with their first cousins.

I really do not know.

I can only tell you that contact with my own first and second Feller cousins is difficult.

Requests for pictures and information has been difficult and I only have contact info for very few descendants of David Feller.

I just dont think they got along.  I know my father had very little connection with much of the Feller cousins.

In other families, I have heard that differences in religious Jewish beliefs have split up families.  Not sure that is the case here.

Best Regards,

Alex