Klara Samuels says “Uncle Adek was another important adult in my life. I loved his wife Zina, my father’s sister, who was also my mother’s closest friend. Zina was soft, plump and cuddly.” (“God Does Play Dice,” p. 30)
I remember Zina as a sweet, nervous woman, often scurrying about trying to please Adek, which was not always easy. Her maiden name, Salamon, I was told, may have indicated Italian, or simply Sephardic Jewish, heritage. I remember Adek mentioning once, with great relish, the time when he was “chasing Zina around Warsaw.”
She died of cancer at age 62, in Billings Hospital, in Chicago. Her obituary from the Chicago Hyde Park Herald of February 22, 1956 (edited OCR version, so may contain errors):
“Mrs. Abraham Hurwicz (Mrs. Sophie Hurwicz), 62, of 5112 Dorchester Ave., died in Billings hospital. Mrs. Hurwicz’s husband, Abraham, is professor of Slovenic languages and culture at Roosevelt University in the University of Chicago. Also surviving are two sons: Leonid, economics professor at the University of Minnesota, and Henry of Stratford Conn.; six grandchildren, and a brother in Israel.”
The brother in Israel would be Moses. (See family tree below.)
A similar notice appeared in the Chicago Tribune on February 12, 1956.
- June 12, 1893 - Birth - ; Stawiski, Poland
- February, 1956 - Death - Billings Hospital; Chicago, Illinois
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PARENT (M) Schlomo Lazar Salamon | |||
Birth | 1848 | Stawiski | |
Death | 1-2-1914 | Łomża, Poland | |
Marriage | to Kejla Kacanowska | ||
Father | Moshe (Moszk) Salamon | ||
Mother | ? | ||
PARENT (F) Kejla Kacanowska | |||
Birth | |||
Death | |||
Marriage | to Schlomo Lazar Salamon | ||
Father | Nachman Kacanowski | ||
Mother | Yetka Navinskaya | ||
CHILDREN | |||
M | Moses Salamon | ||
Birth | 1889 | Stawiski, Poland | |
Death | 1972 | Israel | |
Marriage | to Roza Salman | ||
F | Sophie Zina Salamon | ||
Birth | June 12, 1893 | Stawiski, Poland | |
Death | February, 1956 | Chicago, Illinois | |
Marriage | to Adolf Abraham (Adek) Hurwicz |
PARENT (M) Adolf Abraham (Adek) Hurwicz | |||
Birth | 10 DEC 1889 | Warsaw | |
Death | 4 AUG 1981 | Minneapolis, MN | |
Marriage | to Sophie Zina Salamon | ||
Father | Maks Mojzesz Hurwicz | ||
Mother | Sara Lea Frydland | ||
PARENT (F) Sophie Zina Salamon | |||
Birth | June 12, 1893 | Stawiski, Poland | |
Death | February, 1956 | Chicago, Illinois | |
Marriage | to Adolf Abraham (Adek) Hurwicz | ||
Father | Schlomo Lazar Salamon | ||
Mother | Kejla Kacanowska | ||
CHILDREN | |||
M | Henry Hurwicz | ||
Birth | 1922 | ||
Death | 2010 | ||
Marriage | to ? | ||
Marriage | to Lois (Kohout) Hurwicz | ||
M | Leo Leonid Hurwicz | ||
Birth | 21 AUG 1917 | Moscow, Russia | |
Death | 24 JUN 2008 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | |
Marriage | to Evelyn Jensen |