Shifra Wolf about her husband Meir (1914 Lublin – 5/1995 Ra'anana)
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An English resume of an interview in Hebrew that took place in Israel, as a part of the Polish Roots in Israel Project. Interviewee name: Meir Wolf
Meir Wolf was born in 1914 in Lublin, Poland. (died- 5/1995)
His father, Yoseph Wolf was born in Sosnowiec, Galicia (~ 1888).
His mother, Rosa (nee Rosenburg) was born in (~ 1890) in Puławy near Kazimierz Dolny, near Lublin in Congress Poland. Her parents were mother Michle and father Kopel.
Meir had two brothers:
Eliezer (1917-2008). Eliezer was married to Sara Danenberg. They had two sons, David and Noam.
Shimshon (1930-1983). Shimshon was married to Galila. They had four children, three in the USA and one in Israel.
Meir's parents married in Lublin.
Yoseph, Meir's father, was a yeshiva student (a Jewish institution for Torah study and the study of Talmud. Yeshivot are usually Orthodox Jewish institutions, and generally cater to boys or men. A roughly equivalent women's institution is the midrasha although the term yeshiva can be used for a mixed or women's institution as well) and earned his livelihood as a watchmaker.
Rosa was a housewife. She came from a very distinguished family. They were descendants of Yehudah Hachasid. (Judah Ben Samuel of Regensburg (12th - 13th century), also called He-Hasid or 'the Pious' in Hebrew. He was the initiator of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany. This movement was considered different from kabbalistic mysticism because it emphasized specific prayer and moral conduct. Judah settled in Regensburg in 1195. He wrote Sefer Hasidim (Book of the Pious) and Sefer Hakavod (Book of Glory), the latter has been lost and is only known by quotations from it by other authors. His most prominent students were Elazar Rokeach and Moses Ben Jacob of Coucy.
After their second son Eliezer was born, Yoseph left home and went to South Africa. He was there for a number of years and then went to Palestine in 1922-3 and joined his brother Meir who had immigrated to Palestine years before.
Once in Palestine (in 1925-6), Yoseph sent his wife divorce papers, after which he married Rivka, a rich divorcee. They bought a house in Tel-Aviv and had their son Shimshon.
Uncle Meir sent for his two nephews, Meir and Eliezer to come to Palestine.
Meanwhile, there was severe famine in Palestine in 1929 and Uncle Meir left for Paris. Meir and his brother Eliezer moved in with their father in Tel Aviv.
When Meir was 21 years old, he applied for an immigration certificate for his mother. Rosa came to Palestine in 1935 and lived in Ra'anana. She married one of the Americans that established Ra'anana, but later divorced him. She lived in Ra'anana until she died in 1963.
Meir studied in Alliance high school in Tel-Aviv for two years. Then he moved to Jerusalem and worked with Dr. Kaplan, a dentist.
Meir joined the Hagana ( a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces) , served as a guard and left after he started suffering with arthritis.
Meir went to Vienna to study dentistry until WWII broke out. He then traveled with his British Passport to Switzerland and came back to Palestine in 1935.
Meir mastered several languages. He knew Polish from home. He studied French, German and English at Alliance high school. In Israel, he spoke Hebrew.
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