Tag #125097 - Interview #97653 (Rebeka Evgin)

Israel was going through the birth pains of a country newly established.  My mother was a well-liked woman.  Her sons-in-law treated her with a lot of respect.  There were shortages and poverty in Israel during those years.  A country is getting established on one hand, it is growing economically on the other hand, and the people live concentrating on their own problems.  It saddened her that she did not receive from her daughters-in-law the close attention she had from her sons-in-law, that she could not find the relationships with her neighbors and family that she was used to in Istanbul, and that she could not speak Hebrew as much as she needed.  My mother settled in a house that the Israeli government provided for her as a result of my older brothers’ efforts and died in her own home in 1958.