В 1906 году Гриша Тафипольский (Grisha Tafipolsky), 26 лет от роду, вместе с женой Ольгой прибыл в Мельбурн в поисках лучшей жизни.
CYCLING ACCIDENT.; YOUNG RUSSIAN KILLED.
Issac Tafipolski (1892-1912), a young Russian, of about 20 years of age, was riding a bicycle along Swanston-street, Melbourne, on Thursday last in the heavy traffic of the early afternoon. He swerved in beside a horse attached to a lorry, and the horse kicked him ' on the head. He was picked up in an unconscious condition, and taken to the Melbourne Hospital, where he was admitted for treatment at about half-past 1 o'clock, but his skull was so badly fractured that he died a few hours i later. The coroner has been informed of the death, and an inquest will, be held.
CYCLING ACCIDENT. (1912, March 20). Huon Times (Franklin, Tas. : 1910 - 1933), p. 4 (Edition 2). Retrieved May 6, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135822718
Henry Taft was born Grisha Tafypolsky in 1879 in Russia. He emigrated to Australia in 1906 where he founded a stationery business in Collins Street and specialized as a fountain pen retailer and repairer. Taft was joined in partnership by his brother, Misha, who arrived in Australia from the United States three years later and eventually assisted the rest of his family of seventeen to come to Australia. The Taft family also established Merino Knitting Mills and Hillcrest Trading Co.
Family documents and certificates 1887-1981; correspondence 1878- 1960; essays; photographs; miscellaneous papers, including acthe rescue in 1921-22 of sixteen members of the family who emigrated as a group to Melbourne after surviving eight years of dreadful hardships and life-threatening events in Ukraine, comprising the World War, epidemics, famine, pogroms, the Communist revolution and the subsequent civil war and anarchycounts, share registers and balance sheets, of H. Taft Co. Pty. Ltd. and the other associated companies Hillcrest Trading Co. Pty. Ltd. and Merino Knitting Mills Pty. Ltd. 1947-1973. Also correspondence, plans and prospectus for home in Canterbury; private accounts; cheque butts. More Taft (H.), Company business records are held at the Jewish Museum Australia, in St Kilda, Melbourne.
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the rescue in 1921-22 of sixteen members of the family who emigrated as a group to Melbourne after surviving eight years of dreadful hardships and life-threatening events in Ukraine, comprising the World War, epidemics, famine, pogroms, the Communist revolution and the subsequent civil war and anarchy/
BACKGROUND OF THE TAFIPOLSKY FAMILY
The Tafipolsky Family lived for several generations in Southern Ukraine in various communities in the area between the Sea of Azov and the city of Ekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). Family members had been in business - small retailing or manufacturing - since the 1870s.
The Tafipolskys were staunch Jews of Haskalah ("Enlightenment") orientation, were Russian speakers by preference - as opposed to Yiddish - and all were well educated, particularly the females. Prior to the emigration of the family to Melbourne in 1922, three Taft brothers, the two oldest of nine surviving children, Grisha and Misha, and a younger brother, Isaac, had settled in Melbourne.
Within a few months Grisha changed his name to Harry Taft and established a business in Elizabeth Street as a stationer, specialising in post-cards. Subsequently the shop was moved to the comer of Collins Street and Centreway Arcade where its scope was expanded and it became a leading centre for the sale and servicing of fountain pens.
Misha (known formally in Australia as Morris Taft) was trained as a pharmacist in USA and subsequently immigrated to Australia in 1909, when he was aged 28. He was employed at Cunningham's pharmacy in Nicholson Street, Footscray, and also had a partnership in the fountain pen business. Grisha was married to Olga Mushatsky, from Melitopol in Ukraine, and Misha to Rosie Wittner, who was born in Melbourne and was the daughter of Arnold Wittner. Several of their aunts, uncles and cousins had emigrated to USA, like most of the Jewish emigrants from the Czarist empire, but the two adventurers, Grisha and Misha, preferred to strike out independently by going to a country which was almost completely unknown to Jewish residents of Ukraine.
Their success in quickly seizing the opportunities offered by Australia to immigrants enabled them to sponsor and rescue the remainder of their family, as we shall see below.
It is now necessary to give a brief report about the status prior to emigration of each of the Tafipolskys who were brought from Ukraine to Australia in 1922. The immigrants consisted of Grisha and Misha Taft's parents and their seven siblings' families, a party of thirteen adults and three children in all. These represented all of the immediate family who were not then living in Australia. The individual members of this large group were Sara, aged 39 and Sasha, 28 (Alexander Boulatoff, later Bulate); Frieda, 37 and Samoile, 37 (Samuel Poznansky, later Posenan) and theirdaughters Olya, aged 11 and Raya, 10; Borya, 35 (Boris Taft) and Ettel, 35, nee Zeigermacher; Raya, 32 and Borya Kasanik, 28 (Ber/Bemard Casan) and Misha, aged 2; Yasha, 28 (Jacob Taft) and Sima, 23, nee Morochovsky; Clara (Taft, later Smith), 24; Abram Tafipolsky, 74 (Abram Taft) and Sarah, 53, Abram's second wife, the mother of Yasha and Clara, nee Lazareff.
......The rest of the party arrived at Station Pier, Port Melbourne on 7 June 1922 to the loving greetings of Grisha and his wife, Olya, and a warmly welcoming group of other relatives and friends. Their saga was already widely known in the Melbourne Jewish community.
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