Husband: Harry SVERDLOVE #657 Census name Harry Swerdlove (1930) 1 (see note 1) age: 93
Born: ? Mar-1912 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 1,2
Emigrated: abt 1921 to Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Emigrated: from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Immigrated: abt 1922 to
Emigrated: abt 1925 to Los Angeles County, California, USA
Emigrated: abt 1927 to New York
Census: 1-Apr-1930 in Manhattan, New York, New York 3 (see note 2)
Resided: 1-Apr-1930 at 41 Gouverneur Street, New York, NY 1
Occupation: est 1934 - 1977 High School French Teacher in Brooklyn 4
Resided: 1940 at 300 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 5
Resided: 1993 at N322 Camden P., W Palm Beach, FL 33417
Resided: est 1950 at 2825 Lakeview Rd, Lake Luzerne, NY 12846 6,7
Resided: est 1960 - 1994 at 1354 E 15th St., Brooklyn, NY 11230; Telephone: 718-336-3415 6
Event: excellent dancers, they danced (as a hobby) all over the world 8
Retirement: 1995 to West Palm Beach, FL 4
Resided: 2005 at 110 Wellington E, West Palm Beach, FL 33417-2550 Tel: 561.683.7764 9
Medical condition: diabetic since age 21 4
Father: Selig "Samuel" SVERDLOVE #1844
Mother: Eva (Yeva) YELLEN #396
Notes
Wife: Frieda UGER #1843 Other name Feida, Freda age: 89
Married: abt 1938 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada 4
Born: 1916 in New York City 10
Event: 16-Jun-1992 in Correspondence 11
Event: 1959 certified dance instructor 12
Resided: 1993 in N322 Camden P., W Palm Beach, FL 33417 11
Resided: 2005 in 110 Wellington E, West Palm Beach, FL 33417-2550 Tel: 561.683.7764 9
Event: 1955 - 2005 in Scottish Country Dance Groups, West Palm Beach 13,10
Event: Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Orlando Beach
Occupation: special ed teacher in the NYC school system 10
Father: Samuel UGER #4295
Mother: Sonia (Sarah) KLIGER #4304
Notes
F Child 1: Laurie Evelyn SVERDLOVE 14 #3193 age: 60
Born: 12 Nov 1944 in Brooklyn? 14
Resided: in NY
Resided: in CA
Occupation: bef 1997 executive director of Strybing Arboretum Society 15
Occupation: 2005 Director of Planning and Analysis, U.C. Berkely 16
Occupation: artist 17
Event: 1998 in Los Angeles art show , Zolita Sverdlove, heard about Laurie
Resided: 2000 - 2004 in Berkeley, Berkeley County, California
Spouse: Robert Philip GOLDMAN #3194 b. about 1944
Married: 1965 in 14
Divorced: 1984 in 14
M Child 2: Ronald SVERDLOVE, Ph.D. #659 age: 56 Born: 06-Dec-1948 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY 18 Graduated: 1969 from Princeton University 19 Education: Stanford University. Ph.D. in mathematics 20 Event: 1990 coauther "Applications of Neural Networks in Video Signal Processing" 21 (see note 3) Resided: 1993 in 52 Harley Ave, Princeton, NJ 08540 Occupation: 1993 Rider University. acting assistant professor - management sciences 22 Resided: 2000 in 2 Lakeview Drive, Lake Luzerne, NY 12846 Tel: 518.696.2657 23 Occupation: 2005 Rutgers University. Student, Faculty. Dissertation. 24 Occupation: Sarnoff Corporation Occupation: RCA Lab at Princeton 25 Event: Citations 26 Spouse: Melissa UNKNOWN #3033
Sources: (1) Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census: Manhattan, New York County, New York ([database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000). (2) BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Leon, Volunteers of America - Greater New York, http://www.voa-gny.org/AboutUs/article.asp?id=37, Vintage Volunteer 5/12/2004 Jim Fitzgerald This feature article appeared on Newsday.com on May 12, 2004. VINTAGE VOLUNTEER Throughout his long, left-leaning life, Leon Sverdlove has been guided by one idealistic principle _ "the idea that by helping our fellow man, we can have a better world." The age of 93 is no time to give it up, he says. "I'm never going to abandon the idea," Sverdlove said in an interview before serving lunch to the homeless at the Yorktown Country Residence, a shelter in northern Westchester County. After spending a couple of hours there, he drove to the Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt, where he checks on former patients by phone. It's his regular Monday-to-Friday routine, nearly 20 hours a week. Andrew Martin, a spokesman for the Volunteers of America, says Sverdlove is probably the oldest volunteer in the state doing that much work. "You know how it is these days," Sverdlove jokes. "You need two jobs to get by." At the lunch, Sverdlove dons a white apron and clear plastic gloves and dishes out hot dogs, sauerkraut, tangerines, fruit juice and the occasional wisecrack to the clients, some of them addicts or mentally troubled. One woman flirts with him, saying, "Aren't you my sweetheart?" "Definitely," he says. Andrea Jarrett, the program director, said, "Leon is wonderful. He's so respectful of the clients. When he tells us he's going on vacation, we say, "What are we going to do without you?" Suzanne Scott, director of volunteers at the hospital, says Sverdlove calls 800 former patients a month for "satisfaction surveys" and gets fan letters from patients he's contacted. "We're like his second family and to us he's like our grandfather," she says. Sverdlove looks and acts about 70 years old. Besides driving, he does his own shopping and cooking. He has his own rooms in a house in Yorktown Heights he shares with his daughter's family of four. He says his diet in unremarkable, except that his favorite dish is filet mignon and "I'm overeating it, never mind the price." He generally has a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and meat or fish for dinner. Sverdlove, born in Philadelphia in 1910 to Russian immigrants and raised in Montreal, Los Angeles and Manhattan's Lower East Side, said he and his younger brother and sister were orphaned as teens and relied on other relatives as hard times descended. Sverdlove left school after ninth grade. "The Depression made me a socialist," Sverdlove says. "I became socially conscious." He remembers "when we didn't have anyplace to go, when we didn't have enough to eat." When he talks to schoolchildren about his experiences, "They always ask me, `Why didn't you go on welfare?' and I have to tell them there was no welfare then. We had to go to the police station for some bread or rice." When he was 15 or 16, Sverdlove became an apprentice stone setter in the jewelry district, then centered on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. He quickly began militating for a union _ "it cost me a job now and then," he says _ and helped found the International Jewelry Workers Union, which won its first contract in 1936. From 1941 on, he was employed by the union and eventually became international president, the position he held when the union was merged with the Service Employees International Union. He then served on the SEIU's executive board. Meanwhile, he got married in 1936 and served during World War II in the Army Air Force, repairing the gun turrets on B-26 bombers in England and France, he said. "Sometimes they came back (from bombing missions) pretty shot up," he said. "The worst was when they didn't come back at all." He was older than most of the airmen _ 34 when the war ended _ but even then didn't look his age, he said. In his time with the jewelers, he said, he heard a lot of, "We can't have a kid running the union." Sverdlove admits to a youthful flirtation with radicals _ the dance at which he met his wife-to-be "was organized by some left-wing group, maybe the Communists." He lost faith in the Soviet Union in the 1950s but holds fast to many of the tenets of socialism. "I marched in every demonstration," he said. "I was always interested in making things better for the poor. The right to organize, civil rights. I think being interested in people, in how people are doing, helped me live this long. I want to see how things turn out." He speaks with pride of some landmark gatherings _ he went to the Paul Robeson concert-turned-riot in Peekskill in 1949 and heard Martin Luther King in Washington in 1963, he said. "I bought 500 Paul Robeson stamps when they came out," he says. "Everybody I write to gets a Paul Robeson stamp." He demanded to see his FBI file and received "about 35 or 40 pages, two-thirds of it blacked out," he says. "What I could read was mostly innocuous, `Sverdlove opposed the Rosenberg executions' or `Sverdlove signed this petition.' They didn't really have anything on me." He does not try to hide his dismay over the war in Iraq. "This was a pre-emptive kind of war," he said. "That's not what we should be doing. I was opposed from Day One. Vietnam, too." Sverdlove travels widely, and expects to attend the SEIU convention in San Francisco next month. He takes cruises with his daughter's family and recently surprised his 92-year-old brother with a visit to his Florida home. "He doesn't get around as well as I do," Sverdlove says. His sister is also still alive, at 88. After he retired in 1980, Sverdlove remained available to the union for such troubleshooting chores as becoming trustee of a troubled upstate local, he said. But it wasn't enough. His wife, Sema, died in 1982, and "I realized it wasn't enough just doing chores, taking care of the trees and the flowers. You can read The New York Times every day, but then what do you do?" Six years ago, he pounced on an ad for the Volunteers of America and has been happily engaged ever since in what he finds to be a logical extension of his career. "All those years in the union, I fought for things like Social Security, pensions, all the things people needed. Now I'm helping to feed the hungry and help the sick.", Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005. (3) Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census: Manhattan, New York County, New York ([database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000), 18 year-old Harry Sverdlove is living with 75 year-old Morris Swerdlove and his wife Mary, who was born Sverdlov according to my notes although I don't have a source. 19 year-old Brother Leo [sic] is working as a Setter - Jewelry. They are called "relative" which means it could be either Morris or Mary. They are listed as born in Pennsylvania. RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 3-Sep-2004; 1930 Census Source Documentation. (4) BIOGRAPHY: Interview, Leon Sverdlove conversation with Andrew Ira Sverdlove, 11-Mar-2005. (5) RESIDENCE: tel dir, Brooklyn Telephone Directory, 1940 (Aug 1940), call *ZAN-G60 reel 12; pg 630; NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M. Sverdlove, Harry 300 Ocn Pkwy WIndsr 6-6924. RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 05-Oct-1995; Source Documentation. (6) RESIDENCE: Ancestry.com, Phone and Address Directory, [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003., Original data: 1994 White Pages. Little Rock, AR: Acxiom Corporation, 19--. (7) CORRESPONDENCE: Marc Sverdlove, email to Andrew I. Sverdlove, 27-Mar-2005. (8) CORRESPONDENCE: Barry Eisenberg, Email to Andrew I. Sverdlove, 04-Jan-2005, Hi Andrew -- I don't know much about my Uncle Harry Sverdlove's family. I am related to him by marriage. My grandfather was Charles Uger. One of his sisters, Freda (my aunt), married Harry Sverdlove. They live in Florida now and are in their late 80s. They lived in New York most of their life together and were excellent dancers - - they danced (as a hobby) all over the world. Laurie Goldman is their daughter. I think I have heard that Harry's ancestors came from the Siberia area of Russia. If you have any specific questions, I could try to ask Harry for you. Cheers, Barry Eisenberg Rockville, MD. (9) Switchboard.com, Phone and Address Directory, 2005, [database online] (10) CORRESPONDENCE: Laurie Sverdlove Goldman, Email Correspondence to Andrew I. Sverdlove, 17-Mar-2005, Dear Andrew: Thanks so much for your e-mail with photos and the links to your website. A few corrections - My mother's name is Frieda Sverdlove and she was born in 1916 in NYC. Her profession was a that of a special ed teacher in the NYC school system, but she has been a scottish country dance teacher and choreographer for 50 years. Her age is 89. The photo you have next to her name on the site is not her, but rather my Aunt Sema, Leon's wife. I'll check more later. Thanks again, Laurie. (11) CORRESPONDENCE: Sverdlove, Freda (Freddy) Unger, Personal Correspondence, 16-Jun-1992, Dear Mr. Sverdlove: During last winter, while residing in West Palm Beach, Fla, I had the good fortune to meet and work with Mrs. Zela Reinblatt. When Zela heard my name, she immediately, thought that our family must be part of the family tree that you have developed. My husband is Harry Sverdlove and his father was Zelig Sverdlove. Leon Sverdlove is Harry's brother and my sister-in-law is Lilly Sverdlove. My husband, Harry and his family came to the United States from Montreal, but we do not know any of the Sverdloves from Montreal. We are interested in knowing more about the family tree. We would appreciate hearing from you. Sincerely, Mrs. Freddy Sverdlove, letter to Andrew I. Sverdlove in his possession. (12) OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, Freddy, Teachers' Association (Canada). Seniors Class., [Online: http://tac-rscds.org/Resource/index.php?RS=TRPdatatable.php&SPC=8], Freddy was fully certified in 1959 when Miss Milligan made her Teaching Tour in the U.S. She has taught in the New York, Brooklyn, and West Palm Beach, Fla. She currently has two seniors classes in Florida who enjoy the dance and love the music. Freddy was one of the founders of the New York City Branch., Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005. (13) OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, Freddy, Florida Scottish Country Dance Groups, [Online: http://www.scottishdancefl.org/map.html], Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005. (14) CORRESPONDENCE: Laurie Sverdlove Goldman, Email Correspondence to Andrew I. Sverdlove, 16-Mar-2005, This sounds great Andrew! Leon is the salt of the earth. Here's some info for me. Laurie Evelyn Goldman ( I use Sverdlove now in place of Evelyn) Born Nov. 12, 1944. Married Robert P. Goldman 1965, divorced, 1984. Children: Jesse Matthew Goldman born April 25, 1973 & Seth Rafael Goldman born October 9, 1978. I am going to see my parents in Florida in two weeks and will ask them about being interviewed. Best, Laurie At 06:38 AM 3/16/2005, you wrote: I had a wonderful day interviewing your uncle Leon last Friday. We spend seven hours together. I have not listened to the hours of .wav files I made but have corrected and updated your Zayde’s family tree to include all five children, all their grandchildren and most of the great-grand-children. I scanned photos of Leon, Sema, their children, his daughters children, your parents when you were an infant, etc. I would like to be more complete with your family. I don’t have your husbands’ name; both your birthdates; your children. I have Seth but not his brother. I am making a preliminary genealogy and would love to have more photos, I found the “lost” descendants of Leon and Harry’s Uncle Milton. Regards, Andrew Laurie Sverdlove Goldman Director of Planning & Analysis Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research 119 California Hall #1500 Berkeley, CA 94720-1500 TEL: 510/642-6671 FAX: 510/643-5620. (15) OCCUPATION: Goldman, Laurie Sverdlove, University Of California Botanical Garden Newsletter Volume 22, Number 2 Spring 1997, [Online: http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/garden/onlinespring.pdf], The Berkeley Natural History Museums Consortium, under the auspices of Vice-Chancellor for Research Joseph Cerny, hired a full-time development officer a two-year position to assist each of the five museums. The Garden is especially pleased to welcome Laurie Sverdlove Goldman (former executive director of Strybing Arboretum Society) to this position. The consortium also launched its annual lecture series., Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005. (16) OCCUPATION: Goldman, Laurie Sverdlove, Staff Contact Information, University of California, Berkeley , [Online: http://research.chance.berkeley.edu/page.cfm?id=23], Laurie Sverdlove Goldman. Director of Planning and Analysis. University/Industry Relations; Research Communications; Research Compliance; Strategic Planning; Museums and Field Stations; Development., Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005. (17) OCCUPATION: Goldman, Laurie Sverdlove, East Bay Open Studios, 2000, [Online: http://www.proartsgallery.org/ebos/archive/ebos2000 0/artists/LaurieSverdlove.html], For the last decade I have painted the American landscape. Grasslands, wasteland, and land altered by human intervention attract me. While my paintings are representational, they are not strictly so, nor is my concern to make a faithful replica of what my eye and my camera see. Rather, I am interested in the idea of landscape as a human construct - how people mediate the distance between the human and non-human, how the landscape expands our frame of reference and permits contemplation of the human condition., Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005 (18) BIRTH: Index;1898-1975; NY City Health Dept Births Reported in Brooklyn 1948; Swerdlove Ronald 12 6 8 K 55589; microfiche call *XMG-1108, fiche 623, NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M. K55589. (19) OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, Ronald, Princeton University Senior Theses Catalog Brief Display, 1969, [Online: http://libweb5.princeton.edu/theses/thesesvw.asp?], Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005. (20) BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Ronald, New Faculty Joins Rider University Community, 9-Sep-2003 , http://www.rider.edu/news/newswire/fall2003/faculty.htm, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005. (21) CITATION: John C. Pearson, Clay Spence, Ronald Sverdlove, Applications of Neural Networks in Video Signal Processing. NIPS 1990: 289-295 (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tr ree/s/Sverdlove:Ronald.html) (22) BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Ronald, New Faculty Joins Rider University Community, 9-Sep-2003 , http://www.rider.edu/news/newswire/fall2003/faculty.htm, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005, Dr. Ronald Sverdlove, acting assistant professor I – management sciences. Dr. Sverdlove has taught a myriad of courses, including engineering calculus, finite mathematics and mathematical bioeconomics. His primary research areas are credit risk modeling and option pricing. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University. (23) RESIDENCE: Ancestry.com, Phone and Address Directory, [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003., Original data: 2000 White Pages. Little Rock, AR: Acxiom Corporation, 19--. Name: RONALD & MELISSA SVERDLOVE Address: 2 LAKEVIEW DR City: LAKE LUZERNE State: NY Zip: 12846 Phone Number: (518) 696-2657, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 8-Feb-2005; Source Documentation; Verifies wife is Melissa. (24) OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, Ronald, Rutgers University, Teaching Assistant, [Online: http://www.acs.rutgers.edu/pls/pdb_p/Pdb_Display.search_results], Ronald Sverdlove email address mathmus@alumni.princeton.edu, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005. (25) BIOGRAPHY: Interview, Leon Sverdlove conversation with Andrew Ira Sverdlove, 11-Mar-2005. (26) Ancestry.com, Biography & Genealogy Master Index, [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003., Gale Research Company. Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 2003. -American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences. 15th edition. Seven volumes. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1982. (AmMWSc 15) -American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences. 16th edition. Eight volumes. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1986. (AmMWSc 16) -American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences. 17th edition. Eight volumes. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1989. (AmMWSc 17) -American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 18th edition, 1992-1993. Eight volumes. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 1992. (AmMWSc 18) -American Men & Women of Science(TM) (Bowker(R)). A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 19th edition. Eight volumes. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 1994. (AmMWSc 19) -American Men & Women of Science(TM) (Bowker(R)). A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 20th edition. Eight volumes. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 1998. (AmMWSc 20) -American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 21st edition. Eight volumes. Detroit: Gale Group, 2003. (AmMWSc 21), Accession Number: 4276465. Notes Note (1) listed as "relative" living with 75 year-old Morris Swerdlove and his wife Mary Note (2) Living with 75 year-old Morris Swerdlove and his wife Mary Note (3) informatik.uni-trier.de please updated information, write stories, and furnish scanned photos etc. Andrew Ira Sverdlove asverdlove@!nyc.rr.com (delete the !) 145 Central Park West, Suite 1A cell tele: 917-863-4559 New York, NY 10023-2004 fax (night only) 212-877-3566 Name Index