pure oil perfume: Bloch Dancewear

Monday, 23 July 2012

Bloch Dancewear

Jacob Simon (Jack) Bloch (1898-1961), shoemaker, was born on 14 May 1898 at Plunge, Telsas Apsketes, Lithuania (then part of Russia), and named Yaacov Shimon (known in Lithuanian as Simonas Jankelis), son of Lozer Blochas, painter and cobbler, and his wife Chaja. Apprenticed to a shoemaker at the age of 11, the youngster also studied dance until he was 15, when he moved to Varniai, to work as a cobbler. There in 1919 he married Zise Sandler, a bootmaker's daughter.The couple's social life revolved around local theatre and folk dancing, at which Yaacov excelled. They had five children, including a son and a daughter who died in childhood.