anniversary in 1959
Born Luba Alte Toiba Lepkivker in Voznesensk, Ukraine, on Dec. 27, 1913 ñ the Shabbat of Chanukah that year ñ she was the eldest of nine children. Lipskier's father, Azriel Shalom Chaim Baruch, a follower of Boyan Chasidism, was a traveling ritual circumciser, who was also trained as a ritual slaughterer and led synagogue services as a cantor.
Taibel Lipskier, Soviet Survivor Who Cared for the Neglected
anniversary in 1959
BROOKLYN, NY — Taibel Lipskier, who witnessed some of the worst of Soviet persecution and made her way to Brooklyn, N.Y., from where she catered to society’s neediest, passed away Jan. 31 at the age of 94. Remembered as a woman of exceptional kindness, self-sacrifice and piety, Lipskier was a devoted Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid whose husband served as the caretaker of the central Lubavitch synagogue until his passing in 1985.
Born Luba Alte Toiba Lepkivker in Voznesensk, Ukraine, on Dec. 27, 1913 ñ the Shabbat of Chanukah that year ñ she was the eldest of nine children. Lipskier’s father, Azriel Shalom Chaim Baruch, a follower of Boyan Chasidism, was a traveling ritual circumciser, who was also trained as a ritual slaughterer and led synagogue services as a cantor.
Lipskier’s childhood was one of continuous hardship and self-sacrifice as her family struggled to maintain a Jewish household during the times of Soviet religious persecution.
Her parents refused to send their children to the local municipal school on Shabbat, leading villagers to derisively call them the Shabbatziveh, Russian for the “one who keeps Shabbat.”
Lipskier once relayed to a great-granddaughter the consequences of her family’s religious devotion.
