Lovi (Lowi) Sholum (Scholum) Naumovich (31 October 1931, Kārsava, Latvia) — labourer.

Sholum Lovi was born into the family of Lovi Naum Israilevich (1906, Dvinsk — now Daugavpils — fell on the WWII front in 1942) and Lovi Ida Moiseevna (1902, Rēzekne).

He was evacuated to Gorky Region (1941–1946). After returning to Riga, he obtained incomplete secondary education and worked as:

– labourer at the VEF factory (1949–1950);

– milling-machine operator at the Central Repair–Tractor Plant (1950–1951);

– loader at the Za Rodinu newspaper printing house (1951–1953);

– loader at the “Elektra” factory (1954–1955);

– worker at Factory No. 145 (1956);

– labourer at the “Rigastroi” trust (1957);

– worker at the packaging base (1957–1958);

– turner at the Riga Diesel Engineering Plant (1958–1960);

– loader at the warehouse of the firm Latvijas Papīrs (1960–1964);

– stamper in the household refrigerator shop at the Riga Carriage-Building Plant (1964).

In his marriage to Klara Khaimovna Lovi (1933, Moscow) were born daughters Noemi Sholumovna Lovi (1966, Riga) and Viktoria Sholumovna Lovi (1968, Riga). The marriage was dissolved in 1971.

In 1971 Sholum Lovi received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his first cousins Prus Barukh (1922) and Garber Miryam lived.

In 1973 he petitioned for the restoration of his Soviet citizenship and permission to return to Latvia, but was refused.

Family

Naum Israilevich Lovi (1906–1942) — father
Ida Moiseyevna Lovi (1902) — mother
Klara Khaimovna Lovi (1933) — former wife
Noemi Sholumovna Lovi (1966) — daughter
Viktoria Sholumovna Lovi (1968) — daughter
Barukh Prus (1922) — cousin
Miryam Garber — cousin