is buried near my parents at the Brookhaven cemetery outside of Chester. Boruch started the trend that changed the family name from Chumot to Emmett. Emmett is a similar sound- ing name to Chumot with a vast difference in meaning. I was told by his grandson that Chumot means, ‘The leather that is attached to the bit on a horse’s bridle,’ but in Yiddish, I found that Khomets means, Leavened Bread. Perhaps they were bakers? Some stories will never be answered. Mean- while, Emmett means, The Truth, in Hebrew. By chang- ing his name, like many of the immigrants, he had visions of a chance to live a life and achieve spiritual fulfillment starting anew in America. Dora and Baruch’s step-sister, Riva, became a mail-order bride. Desperate to leave the small town, she yearned for a new life Palestine. Prior to Israel becoming a State
Benjamin Emmett - Sadar Table - Dora Front Center
it was managed by The British mandate. The mandate designed to keep the region stable and would not allow more Jews into the region. The Jewish colonists desper- ate, to establish a life needed brides. An arrangement was designed to allow mail-order brides to immigrate. Many of these arranged marriages resulted in divorce after one year. In her case, she fell in love with Nehemiah Schectman, and remained married for 70 years. Their daughter, Deborah, lives in Haifa, with her husband mana Menachim Swartz. The other half-sister, Mehuma Chumot married Abraham [unknown last name], and they live in Assul, Israel.
Dora’s half-brother, Issac, also survived with his wife, Rose, and their kids, Luba and Michael. The Shooster family sponsored them to come to America. Luba married and became Laura Oberlander. Her husband, Alex Oberlander, died of colon cancer in 1987. Years later she married Ernest Pal, another survivor. Ernest died in 2016. Her brother, Michael was born in a displacement camp after the war. He became a doctor. He is now on the staff of the Baylor University Hospital in Dallas as a nota- ble nephrologist. During the early years of his study, he published a seminal paper describ- ing the ion gap in the chemistry of kidneys. This is a critical measurement of the health of a kidney and something still taught world- wide in schools today.
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