Samuel Solow - Part 2

My co-grandfather Howard Stein just sent me some interesting historical documents regarding his great grandfather Samuel Solow.  Lots of new details about his emigration from New York to what was then Palestine.  Below is Samuel's passport photo from his US passport application in March, 1921 (age 72).  Samuel moved (alone) to Palestine on May 5, 1925 and became a naturalized citizen of Palestine in 1935.  He lived in Tel Aviv until his death in 1939 (age 90).   Note: from 1922 to 1948 Palestine was administered by Great Britain.  The United Nations partitioned Palestine into Jewish and Arab states in 1947.

Samuel Solow Passport Photo (Age 72)
New York, NY, March 30, 1921

Here is Samuel's relationship to the Stein Family.

Family Tree showing Samuel Solow and his first wife Cecilia.
From MyHeritage website

Howard explained it to me as follows.

"I don't remember whether I sent this on to you last year.  But this is documentation (in the attachment) of Samuel Solow's time in Israel and some of his history.  It shows he went there in the mid 1920's;  I had thought 1930s. It gives two of his addresses in Tel Aviv and various and sundry other information.  I don't understand it all, especially the cross-outs; it may be that in applying for citizenship the form assumes the applicant intends to include his wife and children, but in Samuel's case that was not accurate."

"Note that my middle name is Samuel.  The family had very mixed feelings about Samuel, loving but very unhappy about his leaving (but not abandoning) his family to move to Israel."

Many of the documents are in Hebrew.  Here is one of the English immigration documents, dated 25 January, 1935.

Some interesting items:

He states that his [second] wife Ida Stein was born in Grodno, Russia, in  1873.  

(The 1900 US Census says Ida was born in February 1865).  

Samuel's address was given c/o S. Kelrich, Rothschild Bld 2 .

Place of birth: Bielsk, Poland, April, 1850

Marital status: Married, separated

Occupation:  Retired manufacturer of shirts.  

He lists five children, all from his first wife, Cecilia.  His second wife Ida had 6 children with her first husband Harris Lieberman.

Leon Solow      m.  1877  K--- illegible.

Sara (Sophia) Epstein  f.   1881   Riga (Latvia)

Alex Solow   m.    1883   Riga (Latvia)

Maurice Solow  m.  1885   Moscow (Russia)

David Solow     m.    1886   Moscow (Russia)

I noticed that these birth dates do not agree with census data, so they must be approximate, probably from memory.

A photo was attached, unfortunately the copy quality is pretty bad.

Samuel Solow, 1935
(Age 86)

Samuel Solow's US Passport Application, Page 2

March 30, 2021

Page 1 of Samuel's passport application is here in my previous blog.

Here is Samuel's obituary in the New York Times.