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Livshits Tamara Semyonovna (1937)

Personal data
SurnameLivshits
NameTamara
PatronymSemyonovna
Birth year1937
Birth month6
Birth day22
Birth placeMoscow
SexF

Livshits (Livschitz) (Feigina) Tamara Semyonovna (22 June 1937, Moscow) – singing teacher.

Tamara Livshits was born into the family of the employee Semyon Solomonovich Feigin (1910, Chernigov Oblast – 1973, Riga) and the musician Polina Iosifovna Feigina (Dovbinshtayn) (1916, Vinnytsia).

She was evacuated to Bashkiria (1941–1943). Upon returning to Moscow, she began studying at secondary school.

After the war, due to family circumstances, she moved to Riga, where she completed 9 classes of general school and later graduated from the Jāzeps Mediņš Riga Music College (1962).

She worked as a singing teacher in Schools Nos. 39, 13, 21, 33, and 10 (1962–1969).

She was a solfeggio consultant at the “Rīgas Ekspresis” plant (1969–1970) and a music teacher at the “Draudzība” club (1970–1974).

In her marriage to Mendel Abramovich Bodnya (1937), there were no children; the marriage lasted two months.

In her marriage to Khona Abramovich Livshits (1936, Varakļāni), a daughter was born:

Rina Khonovna Livshits (1963, Riga).

In 1974 Tamara Livshits received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1972 her husband’s parents had been living – Abram Vulfovich Lifshits (1903) and Khaya Abramovna Lifshits (Sandler) (1905).

Family

Semyon Solomonovich Feigin (1910–1973) – father
Polina Iosifovna Feigina (Dovbinshtayn) (1916) – mother
Madilda Semyonovna Betsis (Feigina) (1935) – sister
Mendel Abramovich Bodnya (1937) – first husband
Khona Abramovich Livshits (1936) – second husband
Rina Khonovna Livshits (1963) – daughter