Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,007

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,007

This is the grave of Leon Kobrin. Born in 1873 in Vitebsk, in what is today Belarus, Kobrin grew up in the Jewish community of that time, which meant a lot of people were leaving. Kobrin would join those people escaping the poverty and anti-Semitism of that time by going to the United States in 1892. Now, at this time, he wasn’t any kind of artist, but for reasons that I am not sure of, he became interested in Yiddish literature and theater shor…