THE TRAGIC LIFE STORY OF ABRAM NAIM AND RIVKA (NISSIM) MAVASHEVS
On his father’s death he formed the John Lewis Partnership and began distributing profits among its employees in 1929. He transferred control of the company to the employees in 1950 and resigned as chairman in 1955.
Memories of siblings.
Our parents’ lives were tragic, as were many people born at the beginning of the of the last century. We always liked our parents’ biography, their Jewish branch on our genealogical tree of our genealogical tree. Our mother, Rivka Nissim, was a Spanish Jewess – a native of Eretz Israel. Daddy Abram Chaim Mavashev’s family is from Central Asia.
The founder of the Mavashev (Mahvash) family lineage is Yitzhak Mavashev. This is our great-grandfather (see. Diagram) – had 5 children. The eldest of them Shlomo was our grandfather.
Shlomo Mavashev was born in the first half of the 19th century and was married to Ona Davidova – Daughter of David Fatah Davidov, nicknamed “Oshpaz”.
Her parents had 7 children: One Malka, Abo, Suleiman, Nathaniel, Sara, and Mazal. From the stories of those who were closely acquainted with Shlomo Mavashev we learned that he was a kind, honest and decent man. He was was very wealthy. There was an expression among Bukhara Jews, which has survived to this day: “The bullets of Shlomo Mavashev’s bullets”.
to this day: Shlomo Mahvash, the bullet bullet bullet. It was usually used to refer to people who spent
Family tree of great-grandfather Itzhak Mavash
Family tree of grandfather and grandmother: Shlomo and One Mavashev.
money “out of pocket,” or in the form of a question of indignation, “Did you have Shlomo Mahvash appeared?”.
Unlike grandfather, our grandmother – One Mavasheva (Davydova) was a powerful woman. Strength and power manifested itself where the interests of the family were affected personal life. Grandmother One Davydova was from a noble and rich family.
We know that almost all her brothers and sisters left Central Asia with their families during the revolutionary upheaval in Russia. from Central Asia left with their families for Eretz Israel. This happened after the total
confiscation of private property by the revolutionary associates of the new Soviet government in the early 20th century at the beginning of the twentieth century
Our father, Abram Mavashev Chaim, was the third child in the family of Shlomo and Onya Mavashev.
Mavashevs. Brothers Isaac Chaim and Abram Chaim were the first helpers to our father. Their good education allowed him to continue his activities – to become merchants entrepreneurs. They were directly intermediaries in the trade of manufactures
between Bukhara, Moscow and Orekhovo Zuevo.
