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LINK: Gordin Family Stories, Biographies and Documents
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.

Gordin, Jacob Mikhailovich

1853 - 1909, American writer of Yiddish plays, b. Russia. He was for some years a teacher and a newspaper writer in St. Petersburg, Odessa, and elsewhere. In 1880 he founded the Bible Brotherhood, a reform movement of Judaism. After the movement was suppressed, he left Russia in 1891 for the United States. In New York City he found the Yiddish stage in need of good plays, and for the rest of his life he wrote (more than 70), translated, and adapted plays in the vernacular. Among the best of these were Siberia; God, Man, and the Devil; The Jewish King Lear; The Jewish Sappho; and The Kreutzer Sonata (an English translation was produced in 1907). His collected plays were published (1910) in Yiddish in New York.
This excerpt from Beth Kaplan's manuscript is from the fall 2004 'Pakn Treger,'
the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Centre. http://yiddishbookcenter.org/pdf/pt/46/PT46_kaplan.pdf
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#gin-13:Leader of Etzel; David Raziel and his father ; Avraham Mordechai Rosenson/ Raziel (Volozhin Yeshiva student) Born on December 19, 1910 in Smorgon at his grandfather; Rabbi Yehuda-Leib
Gordin home. When he was three, his family immigrated to Eretz Israel and his father became a Hebrew teacher at a Tel Aviv elementary school. When the 1929 Arab riots broke out, he joined the Haganah in Jerusalem, where he was studying philosophy and mathematics at the Hebrew University. When the Irgun was established, he was one of its first members, and displayed outstanding military skills. In 1937 he was appointed Commander of Jerusalem District and a year later Commander in Chief of the Irgun. On May17, 1941 he was sent, with three of his comrades, to Iraq on behalf of the British army. The next day a bomb from a German aircraft killed him.
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#gin-15:Abba (and Zeev) Gordin sons of Rabbi Yehuda- Leib. Born in Michailizuk near Vilna. writers and anarchists.
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Dmitry Gordin was born in 1975 in Moscow, where he attended the Moscow Conservatory High School of Music. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1999, where his teachers were Profs. E.Schlegova, D.Nemirovsky, and V.Krainev. Gordin has toured to Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Cyprus, Germany, and the US. His repertoire includes works of Scarlatti, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Shumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Barber, and Shostakovitch.
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#gin-21: Ari gordin and friends 2003, Gordin house, Buckhead Atlanta.
#gin-22: Ari Gordin's Junior Prom, April, 2003

#gin-23: Misha Gordin
www.ablemuse.com/ v3/mgordin.htm
I was born in 1946, the first year after World War II. My parents just survived hardships of evacuation and returned back home to Riga, now under Soviet occupation. I grew up among the Russian speaking population of Latvia, and Russian culture become my root culture. I graduated from the technical college as aviation engineer but never worked as such; instead I joined Riga Motion Studios as a designer of equipment for special effects. I was in my early twenties and mostly ignorant about art. At this time social realism was an official culture of the country and I did not care about it too much. Information about modern western art was hardly available and my knowledge of it was highly limited. I started to photograph when I was nineteen, driven by desire to create my own personal style and vision. I was involved in portraiture and did some documentary shots, but soon realized the results did not satisfy me..........
In 1972 I created my first, and most important image — Confession. I instantly recognized the potential possibilities of conceptual approach, and the knowledge acquired from this image become a backbone of the work I produced over the next twenty five years. In 1974, after years of disgust with communist authorities, I left my country and arrived in USA.
#gin-24:Zachary Gordin - Internationally acclaimed countertenor. Opera and concert singer - Baroque, Bel Canto and New Music.
For more details go to;
http://www.geocities.com/sopranist/
#gin-25: Wanda Siemaszko's ensemble in the production of "Mirele Efros" by Jakob Gordin. Wanda Siemaszko in the leading role. Nowy Sacz, 1929 or 1930.
#gin-26:Ofer Gordin in Israel , 1969
picture by brother; Eyal Gordin
   
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#gin-31:Rachel (nee Gurevitz) and Salee Gordin
Tel Aviv, 1947 LINK
#gin-32:David Sanders is the Great Great grandson of Jacob Gordin
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She is the grandaughter of the playwright Jacob Gordin,
a picture of him is on the wall in their hallway
Im 21 and living in greenwhich
conneticut..."

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The lost (to us) family of Shlomo Gordin ( his siblings and their
children?) in Riga.
Please let us know if you recognize them- Eilat, Tzafi gordin, Anat
Gefen and Eran Gordin eilat.gordinlevitan@gmail.com
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Do you recognize the people ( Gordins of Riga)?
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In the back of the picture in Russian "To grandfather from your
granddaughter"

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In the back of the picture in Russian; "To my dear
brother Solomon (Gordin) from your brother ; Lova "( born c 1905)
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Lova Gordin with grand child? (on the right)
A girl with a Russian book on the left- Do you recognize them?

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The picture of the boy on boat was taken in 1957 (written in Russian)
Anat Gefen anatgefen@gmail.com
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Back of 2 previous pictures Lova & grandfather from 1962?
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From the album of Shlomo Gordin of Tel Aviv. Pictures taken during one of Shlomos' visits to Riga and Leningrad during the 1960s' (prior to 1967)

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Mendel Gordin and wife were married in Riga; January 31, 1959

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Son; Isaac was born November 29, 1959, and passed away in 1996

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Sigal and Vered (Twins) were born in 1965
The family came from Riga to Israel in 1967 and lived in Petah Tikva
until 1982.

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Beth Kaplan, Great granddaughter of Jacob Gordin (the Yiddish playwright), with daughter Anna.
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Below (#gin-63 - #gin-67): Eran gordin, Anat Gefen and Rachel Gordin meet Zila and her daughter Irina for the first time. Zila ( in other picture on the site with a hat)  is the daughter of Rosa nee Gordin the sister of Anat and Erans' grandfather; Shlomo Gordin.
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Elianna Gordin ( of San Francisco) is the daughter of Sasha (Alexander) Gordin (born in Riga c 1957). Sasha is the youngest son of Lova Gordin born in Riga in 1904. Lova was the son of Zalman and Frieda . The first family of Lova Gordin perished in the holocaust (his first wife and two children). With second wife (S. Markova) Lova had 2 sons ; Gerik ( see his pictures from Riga) and Sasha.

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Our first meeting with the Gordins of Riga; Talia Levitan, Eilat
Gordin Levitan, Gerik Gordin and Anat Gefen, Riga, summer of 2005

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Gerik Gordin and Lara ? ; Riga, summer of 2005
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Carmel and Talia Levitan, daughters of Eilat Gordin and Daniel Levitan

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Carmel and Josh

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Carmel and Josh in China

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Carmel Levitan

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Carmel and Josh

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Do you recognize the man on the left? he must be GORDIN (or GORDON ).
The photo was taken while he was visiting his relatives in Minsk and
Mocow in the sixties or early seventies. Next to him is his Cousin Lev
Engels (my Grandfather) and on the right is his Cousin Sara Engels.

Gregory Engels

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Carmel, Talia and their mother; Eilat Gordin Levitan with Tandra

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Carmel, Talia and Eilat Gordin Levitan with Josh Fisher and his
family, at the home of Tandra

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Rachel nee Gurevitz Gordin with her grandson; Alon, his friends;
Mike and Loui and rachels' mate; Barak Nachsholi.

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Rachel nee Gurevitz Gordin with her grandson Alon Levitan.

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Eran Gordin with his step sister; Chagit and her husband.

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Alon and his grandmother Rachel with relatives.

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Rachel Gordin nee Gurevitz with her granddaughter; Leead

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Rachel (nee Gurevitz) Gordin with Barak Nachsholi and Rebbecca (Alon Levitans' friend)

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Rachel (nee Gurevitz) Gordin with grandchildren; Alon, Oren and Talia Levitan.

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Rachel (nee Gurevitz) Gordin with grandchild Talia Levitan and the
dog; Aya.

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Rachel (nee Gurevitz) Gordin with her oldest granddaughter; Carmel
Levitan PhD.

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Rachel (nee Gurevitz) Gordin with her oldest granddaughter; Carmel
Levitan PhD.

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Rachel (nee Gurevitz) Gordin with grandson; Ari Gordin

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Rachel (nee Gurevitz) Gordin with grandson; Ari Gordin and daughter
in law Kathleen Burk ( Gordin)

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Rachel (nee Gurevitz) Gordin with granddaughter; Talia Levitan.

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Rachel (nee Gurevitz) Gordin with oldest grandson; Alon Levitan.

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Carmel Levitan PhD

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Alon with friends 2007

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Alon with friends 2007

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Alon with friends 2007

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Kathleen ( nee Burk) Gordin, her sister Connie and Connie's husband;
Jerry in Mexico. January, 2007

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Tzafy Gordin with his wife; Dr. Kathleen Nee Burk in Mexico, 2007

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Carmel awarded her PhD

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Carmel awarded her PhD

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Carmel and Gerry in Bosnia.
for more pictures go to; http://josh.yosh.org/travel/

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Drs. Joshua B. Fisher and Carmel Levitan in Dubrovnik. http://josh.yosh.org/travel/

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Anat Geffen and her partner Yuda with first cousin

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Alon Levitan and his aunt Anat Geffen

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Eran Gordin and Alon Levitan

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Eran Gordin and Alon Levitan

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Chile, 2008 Ari Gordin ( in a pink shirt) and friends.

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Chile, 2008 Ari Gordin ( second from left) and friends.

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Rachel Gordin, Barak Nachsholi, Daniel Levitan, Eilat Gordin Levitan

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Sitting: Daniel Levitan, Eilat Gordin Levitan Standing: Tzafrir Gordin ( Tzafy)

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From left: Barak Nachsholi, Daniel Levitan, Rachel Gordin, Carmel Levitan, Kathleen Burk ( Gordin)

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Eran Gordin and Carmel Levitan

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Ari Gordin ( middle) with friends (June, 2008).

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Ari Gordin with girl friend; Pauli and Chilean friend: Flaco  (June, 2008)

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Ari with Chilean friends  (June, 2008)
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Michael Drits (drits@optonline.net)

Message: Searched for history of my family and found several references
of
Gordin and Dritz (Drits) on:

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pages/gordin_stories_docs.html

My Grandfather - Drits (Dritz) Ruvim was from Dvinsk (Daugavpils) and
my
Grandmother - Gordina Rosa (Roza) (died about 1922) was from Rezekne.
I wonder
if our families are somehow related.

I want to share with you a story of my search for ancestors.
I always been interested in the history of our family, and
loved to listen to my grandpas stories about his childhood.
But I never took notes or did some serious genealogical
research.

My Grandparents died now twenty years ago and since then I
grow up in the belief, that we were very small family and had
not much relatives. And, there were a big mystery about my
grand grandfather, who left his Wife and his 7 Children
right at the beginning of the WWI and disappeared (there are
several different versions, what was happened - the most
realistic is, that he left for another woman)

Then, last year my daughter was born and I took this for a
reason to draw an ancestor chart for her. But, being a
perfectionist as I am, I very soon ended up hooked to this
thrilling task.

I interviewed my oldest living relative, which is a brother
of my grandfather, and after some phone calls he told me, that
his mother, my gg mother had 11 Sisters and one brother who
emigrated to America. Now, that was really big news for
everyone in the family - in the USSR it was dangerous to
have relatives abroad, so nobody spoke about it. And my
grand uncle could not remember a single name, besides that
they where called GORDIN and in America some or all must
have changed it to GORDON.

And then, to my surprise I have found one of the sisters
of my grand grand mother - Malke GORDIN in the Ellis island
database (Passenger ID 101458020010), it is very clear
that she is one of them, because in the cell "closest relative
of the country of origin" she put in my grand grand grand father.
And she was picked up by her sister - Feige BALBIRER, who
lived then (1910) in Brooklyn, 668 Rockaway Av.

And there was also a petition for naturalization number written
on it - 2-262136 10-4-39, but to my disappointment that was it -
I could not go any further.

I am visiting USA now on a business trip for the very first time,
since I have no subscription to Ancestry.com, I went to the
local Library here in Cambridge, MA and worked on their
computer with the ancestry.com data. Thanks to the
www.stevenmorse.org I knew where to look - this whole idea
of ED, WD and AD don't come easy to me. So I found the
BALBIRER Family in the 1910 census and discovered, that
Feigas husband's first name was Joseph, and that he had
a brother Abraham and a sister Sarah living with them as
well as Joseph's father Moishe.

In the 1920 Census I found the family has moved around the
Block to the 560 Stone Av, Brooklyn. They also adopted
American first names calling themselves Joe and Fanny, and
they actually owned the house, but were still on mortgage.
But more important - they had three children - two daughters,
Florence and Sophie and a son named Harry. And, there were
Fanny's brother, Issie GORDON living with them!

This was the first time I have saw his first name, it sounds
strange to me, but what do I know?

I found also some information on Joe's brother Abraham -
I found his Ellis Island manifest (he was born in Slawnoje,
only 5 miles away from where all the sisters were born,
from Slaweni - Senno/Tolochin uezd in Mohilew gubernia)
and found some other sources for him - including a WWI
draft card and a death index - he died 1966 in Detroit, MI.

No trace of Joe and Fanny BALBIRER in the 1930 Census.

How to take it from here?

How to obtain a Naturalization certificate, if I only know
the number of the petition, but not the name of my aunt?

What would be alternatives for the name Issie?

Have anyone ringing a bell?

Now, this is not a really success story yet - but at least,
I don't have an illusion of living in a very small family
anymore - I have now more than 300 persons in my tree, and I
am still at the very beginning.

Gregory Engels, Frankfurt a.M., Germany,
right now in Cambridge, MA +1-617-494-8479 till the July, 1st.

Researching: ENGELS, ENGELSGELB, ZELIKOV, GORDIN, BALBIRER
Hello! I am looking for any information about the GORDIN family.
This is what is known:
Morduch (Mark) GORDIN - the head of the family
Esther GORDIN (nee SCHEPSCHELEVITCH) - his wife. Children:
1. Nikolai (b. 1888) probably in Liepaja, Latvia, killed by Nazis in 1941
in Tallinn, Estonia
2. Anna (b. 1892) probably in Liepaja, Latvia, lived in Tallinn, Estonia.
Probably killed by nazis in 1941/2
3. Leopold (b. 1893) probably in Liepaja, Latvia, lived in Estonia and in
UK
4. Dora (b. probably 1895 in Liepaja, d. 1991 in London) - the famous
sculptor
Would appreciate any additional information.
Mark Rybak, Israel
http://eja.pri.ee/
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Dora Gordine: self-taught sculptor, designer, collector and society figure, provides a worthy foil to Epstein. Beginning her career in Paris, where she was encouraged by Maillol, she travelled widely, concentrating from the outset on models of non-European origin. Her bronze bust, The Chinese Philosopher (1926, Dorich House), won her instant acclaim when exhibited in Paris in 1926, and was followed by The Mongolian Head (1927), now in the Tate collection. Her first solo exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London in 1928, included heads of Indian, Chinese, Cingalese [sic], Javanese, Malay, Iranian and Greek models, and was a complete sell out. Between 1929-35 she lived and worked in the Far East, carrying out a commission from the city of Singapore in 1930 to sculpt six heads representing its constituent races. Dorich House, Kingston Vale, the home she designed in 1936 with her husband Richard Hare, an aristocratic academic, shows her awareness of European Modernsim, but her work, unlike Epstein's, remains classically-inspired.

The exhibition will explore the sculptors shared contacts and interests: both regular exhibitors at the Leicester Galleries, London, and founder-members of the Society of Portrait Sculptors, they also both attracted patronage from the prominent collector Michael Sadler.

 

Loans will be drawn from the Ben Uri permanent collection and both private and public sources, including the Tate. Particular support has come from the Garman Ryan Collection at the New Art Gallery, Walsall, and from Dorich House, now part of Kingston University, and home to the Gordine/Hare collection of Russian art and the Gordine archive. Many of Gordine's works have remained unseen for more than fifty years.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated, colour catalogue with contributions from scholars including Dr. Jonathan Black and Brenda Martin of Kingston University.

Curators: Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson
The Hon Richard Hare (1907-1966) and Dora Gordine (1895-1991)

Dora Gordine at Exhibition in 1949

Richard Hare
Dora Gordine at Exhibition Richard Hare

The newly married Hon Richard Hare and his Latvian born wife, the sculptor Dora Gordine, moved in to Dorich House when it was barely finished in November 1936. The couple designed it themselves and built it with the help of a surveyor/builder, Henry Ivor Cole. It is listed Grade II. The studios, gallery and living spaces they created were unique, providing the perfect environment for a lifestyle devoted to making and collecting art. Achieving a First at Baillol College,Oxford, Richard Hare started a career as a diplomat, but in the mid 1940s he embarked on an ambitious project to built a collection of the then unfashionable art from old Imperial Russia for public ownership. Encouraged by Dora, the collection and study of Russian art and culture became a lifelong passion as he turned to academia, lecturing for the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at the University of London and writing five books and numerous articles on the subject.


Head of a Chinaman (1926)

Trained in Paris in the 1920s, Dora Gordine achieved overnight fame with a Head of a Chinaman exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries in 1926. The cultures of China and South East Asia were she worked from 1930 – 1935 were constant inspirations for Dora Gordine, influencing both the decoration of her home and her work. Her studies of the human form and portraits in bronze subsequently gained her international fame. She was made a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1949 and has four heads in the Tate Gallery collection. Following Gordine's death in 1991, Dorich House has become a showcase for Dora Gordine's work and their collection of Russian Imperial Art.
Dora Gordine, was a noted Russian-British sculptress, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (she was never prepared to reveal her year of birth).
She came to Paris to study music and art. Then, surrounded by galleries and salons, she "instinctively felt a correlation between the rhythms of music and sculpture" and developed her sculptural vision.
In 1925 Gordine worked as a painter on a mural for the British Pavilion at the Decorative Arts Exhibition. It provided the means to cast a bronze for exhibition at the Beaux Arts Society. The following year she was invited to exhibit at the Salon des Tuileries where a Torso and head of a Chinese Philosopher received enthusiastic reviews; The Straits Times in 1932 wrote that: - "Like Byron, one morning Dora Gordine woke up famous".
The Leicester Galleries in London presented Gordine's sculpture in a solo show in 1928. It was a huge success and all her work was sold, amongst which Javanese Head was bought by Samuel Courtauld for the Tate Gallery collection.
She married Richard Gilbert Hare (5 September 1907 - 1966), son of Richard Granville Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel and Freda Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone on 21 November 1936. They lived at Dorich House, London. Her husband introduced her to London society figures, many of whom sat for her, Dame Edith Evans, Dame Beryl Grey, Dorothy Tutin, Sian Phillips, Emlyn Williams, Sir Kenneth Clark, John Pope-Hennessy and Professor F. Brown, Head of the Slade School of Art. Each portrait head had its own patina according to Gordine's vision of her sitter. The sculptor commented when interviewed by the BBC in 1972 (Gordine commented that "[w]hen you do portrait busts of somebody you do their noses and mouth - but it is nothing. You have to imagine what they are like inside and bring out their inner feeling and then put it in a form").
During the 40's and 50's Gordine's work was exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Society of Portrait Sculptors and elsewhere. Bronzes from this time have ironic or humorous titles, relating to the pose, such as Great Expectations or Mischief and, of an RAF Officer, Above Cloud. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1949. She occasionally did exotic or "adult" pieces (e.g. for Elizabeth Choy).
In 1960 Esso commissioned a 7' x 5' bas-relief - Power - for their new Milford Haven Refinery, which was unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh. Gordine's last public commission, the 8' long Mother and Child was made for the entrance hall of the Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey, in 1963.
Richard Hare's sudden death in 1966 from a heart attack left Gordine to live out her life alone in Dorich House. They had had no children. She never fully recovered emotionally and her career ended in the 1970s. She died in Dorich House in December 1991.
[1] Ben Uri Gallery
Nationality and
Naturalisation
HO 144/12019 1930 Nationality and Naturalisation:
Gordin, Leopold, from Latvia.
Resident in London. Certificate
19025 issued 25 November 1930
EMBRACING THE EXOTIC: JACOB EPSTEIN & DORA GORDINE. Ben Uri Gallery, London Jewish Museum of Art, 2006. Published in association with Papadakis Publisher, London. Distributed in the U.S.A. by Antique Collectors' Club, Easthampton. 80 pp. with 83 ills. (56 col.). 30 x 22 cm. ISBN 1901092631. In English.
Artist(s): Epstein, Jacob; Gordine, Dora
Indexing: _Western_ _Europe_ _Great Britain_ _1900-1945_ _Sculpture_ _Drawing/Watercolor_ _Women Artists_
Plans: 73 75
Worldwide Number 067523
As Dora Gordine and Richard Hare died without an heir,the executors of their estate entrusted the house and its contents to Kingston University to provide a permanent home for the sculpture of Dora Gordine and the Russian art collection of Richard Hare.
From Yad Vashem all "Gordins" from "Estonia":
Gordin Yaakov
Yaakov Gordin was born in Kuldiga in 1930 to Jeschajahu and Jetty. Prior to WWII he lived in Tallin, Estonia. During the war he was in Tallin, Estonia. Yaakov perished in 1941 in Tallinn, Estonia. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 12-Sep-1999 by his cousin
Gordin Yetty
Yetty Gordin nee Lemchen was born in Kuldiga to Baruch and Raina. She was a housewife and married to Jesajahu. Prior to WWII she lived in Tallin, Estonia. During the war she was in Tallin, Estonia. Yetty perished in 1941 in the Shoah at the age of 32. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted on 13-Sep-1999 by her relative, a Shoah survivor who lives in Berlin;
Submitter's Last Name RAGOLSKY
Submitter's First Name BETTY
Gordin Sheva
Sheva Gordin nee Goldberg was born in Parnu, Estonia in 1893 to Zusman and Rokhl. She was a housewife and married to Iakov. Prior to WWII she lived in Parnu, Estonia. During the war she was in Novosibirsk, Russia (USSR). Sheva perished in 1944 in Novosibirsk, Russia (USSR) at the age of 51. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her daughter Chaia GORDINA
Results of search for victims whose family name (including synonyms) is 'Gordin' , and whose location (including synonyms) is 'Latvia' :
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Place of Residence
Name Town District Region Country Birth Date Source
Gordin Aharon DAGDE DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1870 Page of Testimony
Gordin Mikhael RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1918 Page of Testimony
Gordin Zeev RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1894 Page of Testimony
Gordon Keila DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1935 Page of Testimony
Gordin Zalman DAUGAVPILS DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1915 Page of Testimony
Gordin Nadja RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1911 Page of Testimony
Gordin Rakhel RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1895 Page of Testimony
Gordin Khana RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1877 Page of Testimony
Gordin Ester DAGDA DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1880 List of Persecuted
Gordin Raiza DAGDA DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1902 List of Persecuted
Gordins Elle RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA List of Persecuted
Gordins Rakhile RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1884 List of Persecuted
Gordins Khayme RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1888 List of Persecuted
Gordins Zara RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1912 List of Persecuted
Gordins Yudits RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1926 List of Persecuted

Shlyakhter Yudif REZEKNE REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Bunia RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1926 Page of Testimony
Gordin Dina RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1910 Page of Testimony
Gordin Zeev RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Sonya RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1938 Page of Testimony
Janowski Roza RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Hirsh DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1934 Page of Testimony
Gordin Zelda DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Yudel RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1913 Page of Testimony
Gordin Yaakov RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1879 Page of Testimony
Gordin Gershon DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1900 Page of Testimony
Gordin Yaakov TALLIN HARJUMAA ESTONIA 1930 Page of Testimony
Gordin Yetty KULDIGA KULDIGAS KURZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Aron DAGDA DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1881 List of Persecuted
Gordin Solomon RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1909 Page of Testimony
Gordin Tzera REZEKNE REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Wolf RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1888 Page of Testimony
Gordin Bertha RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1881 Page of Testimony
Gordin Ela DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Gershon DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Jacob RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1879 Page of Testimony
Gordin Sara RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1910 Page of Testimony
Gordin RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Khaia DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Esther DAGDE DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1870 Page of Testimony
Gordin Judith RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1925 Page of Testimony
Gordin Matl RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Shmuel DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Chajim DVINSK DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Tzila KRASLAVA DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1929 Page of Testimony
Gordin Yaakov RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1871 Page of Testimony
Rich Rakhel RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1912 Page of Testimony
Gordin Genadia RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1910 Page of Testimony
Gordin Khaia KRASLAVA DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1902 Page of Testimony
Gordin Sara VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1902 Page of Testimony
Blekhman Sara RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1878 Page of Testimony
Gordin Ela DAUGAVPILS DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1903 Page of Testimony
Gordin Ida DAUGAVPILS DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1920 Page of Testimony
Gordin Nissel RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1881 Page of Testimony
Gordin Golda VILANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Monja LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin Penekh KRASLAVA DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1932 Page of Testimony
Gepshtein Slava REZEKNE REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1907 Page of Testimony
Gordin Pesia VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1926 Page of Testimony
Gordin Sara VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1896 Page of Testimony
Gordin Kopel VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1930 Page of Testimony
Gordin Kopel VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1930 Page of Testimony
Gordin Moshe VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1901 Page of Testimony
Gordin Moshe VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1896 Page of Testimony
Gordin Shimen KRASLAVA DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1926 Page of Testimony
Gordin Hessa VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1928 Page of Testimony
Gordin Rakhmiel LATVIA 1918 Page of Testimony
Gordin Zevulun KRASLAVA DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1936 Page of Testimony
Aronowicz Henia RIGA RIGAS VIDZEME LATVIA 1870 Page of Testimony
Gordin David LENINGRAD LENINGRAD LENINGRAD RUSSIA (USSR) 1887 Page of Testimony by daughter; Submitter's Name; GORDIN DINA
Gordin Hesa VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1928 Page of Testimony
Gordin Motl KRASLAVA DAUGAVPILS LATGALE LATVIA 1900 Page of Testimony
Gordin Pesia VARAKLANI REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA 1926 Page of Testimony
Gordin Tzalel REZEKNE REZEKNES LATGALE LATVIA Page of Testimony
Gordin, Gilel'
Jewish Survivor
Question Answer
Name of Interviewee Gilel' Gordin
Gilel' Gordin (release name)
Hilel Gordon (other name)
Gilel' Itskhak Gordin (other name)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 8/22/1923
City of Birth Riga (Latvia)
Country of Birth Latvia
Religious Identity (Prewar) observant/practicing
Religious Identity (Postwar)
Religious Identity (Time Period Unknown)
Ghetto(s) Riga (Latvia : Ghetto)
Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia : Ghetto)
Camp(s) Riga-Kaiserwald (Latvia : Concentration Camp)
Dachau (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Buchenwald (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Stutthof (Danzig (FC) : Concentration Camp)
Bochum (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Went into Hiding
Member of Underground, Resistance or Partisan Group(s) Yes
Hiding or living under false identity (Location) Buchenwald (Germany : Concentration Camp)
Type of hiding place buildings
Resistance Group(s)
Liberated by armed forces, Soviet
Location of liberation Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia : Ghetto)
Fled from Nazi controlled territory No
Forced (death) Marches Yes
Aid Giver, Liberator, or War Crimes Trials Participant
Other Experiences forced labor: body removal and disposal
evasion of roundups
concealment of Jewish identity
State of Interview Central
Country of Interview Israel
Language(s) of Interview Russian
Length of Interview 1:50
Interview Code 6416

--Gordin, Leika
Jewish Survivor
Question Answer
Name of Interviewee Leika Gordin
Leika Mordkovna Gordin (release name)
Gordin (current name)
Leika Mordkovna Ialanetskaia (name at birth)
Ilanetskaia (last name during war)
Ilanetskaia (maiden name)
Liza (other name)
Ialanetskaia (release maiden name)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 6/16/1929
City of Birth Velikaia Kosnitsa (Ukraine, USSR)
Country of Birth USSR
Religious Identity (Prewar) Judaism
Religious Identity (Postwar) Judaism
Religious Identity (Time Period Unknown)
Ghetto(s)
Camp(s)
Went into Hiding No
Member of Underground, Resistance or Partisan Group(s) No
Hiding or living under false identity (Location)
Type of hiding place
Resistance Group(s)
Liberated by armed forces, Soviet
Location of liberation Velikaia Kosnitsa (Ukraine, USSR)
Fled from Nazi controlled territory No
Forced (death) Marches No
Aid Giver, Liberator, or War Crimes Trials Participant
Other Experiences Romanian colony
State of Interview
Country of Interview Ukraine
Language(s) of Interview Russian
Length of Interview 0:00
Interview Code 49613
Gordin, Mikhail
Jewish Survivor
Question Answer
Name of Interviewee Mikhail Gordin
Mikhail Isakovich Gordin (release name)
Gordin (current name)
Mikhail Itskovich Gordin (name at birth)
Gordin (last name during war)
Meer (Yiddish name)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 5/15/1936
City of Birth Floresti (Soroca, Bessarabia, Romania)
Country of Birth USSR
Religious Identity (Prewar) Judaism
Religious Identity (Postwar) Judaism
Religious Identity (Time Period Unknown)
Ghetto(s) Miastkovka (Ukraine, USSR : Ghetto)
Camp(s)
Went into Hiding No
Member of Underground, Resistance or Partisan Group(s) No
Hiding or living under false identity (Location)
Type of hiding place
Resistance Group(s)
Liberated by resistance fighters, Soviet
Location of liberation Miastkovka (Ukraine, USSR)
Fled from Nazi controlled territory No
Forced (death) Marches No
Aid Giver, Liberator, or War Crimes Trials Participant
Other Experiences
State of Interview
Country of Interview Moldova
Language(s) of Interview Russian
Length of Interview 1:00
Interview Code 30005
Gorodinskaia, Raisa
Jewish Survivor
Question Answer
Name of Interviewee Raisa Gorodinskaia
Raisa Abramovna Gorodinskaia (release name)
Gorodinskaia (current name)
Resha Beshkina (name at birth)
Beshkina (last name during war)
Raisa Gordinski (other name)
Beshkina (release maiden name)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 10/13/1925
City of Birth Dereczyn (Nowogródek, Poland)
Country of Birth Poland
Religious Identity (Prewar) traditional Judaism
Religious Identity (Postwar) traditional Judaism
Religious Identity (Time Period Unknown)
Ghetto(s) Dereczyn (Poland : Ghetto)
Camp(s)
Went into Hiding Yes
Member of Underground, Resistance or Partisan Group(s) Yes
Hiding or living under false identity (Location) Lipiczany Forest (Poland)
Dereczyn (Nowogródek, Poland)
Type of hiding place attics
forests
Resistance Group(s) Otriad Pobeda
Atlas Otriad
Liberated by armed forces, Soviet
Location of liberation Nowogródek (Poland : Voivodship)
Fled from Nazi controlled territory No
Forced (death) Marches No
Aid Giver, Liberator, or War Crimes Trials Participant
Other Experiences evasion of roundups
escapes from the ghettos
State of Interview Southern
Country of Interview Israel
Language(s) of Interview Russian
Length of Interview 2:30
Interview Code 33000
46897 Gorodinskaia, Dina Russian