Zhitomirsky family explained

The Zhitomirsky family (Yiddish: זשיטאָמירסקי) is a Jewish family originating from present-day Ukraine. The earliest known members of the family lived in Bakhmut and Mariupol. Their descendants moved to Taganrog, now part of Russia, where they became known as a "dynasty of academics" as many of them engaged in research.^[1]

Tree of notable family members

Hirsch Tzvi Zhitomirsky (1813–1874), Hebrew poet^[2]
- Konstantin Israel Zhitomirsky (1863–1918), Yiddish scholar and pedagogue (son of Hirsch Tzvi)^[3]
  - Grigory Zhitomirsky (1888–1935), lawyer (son of Konstantin Israel)
    - Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975), Polish poet (son of Grigory)
  - (1891–1942), mathematician (son of Konstantin Israel)
  - Viktor Zhitomirsky (1894–1954), Soviet-Tajikistani epidemiologist (son of Konstantin Israel)
    - Zinaida Zhitomirskaya (1918–1980), bibliographer and translator (daughter of Viktor)
      - Konstantin Erastov (1939–1996), linguist and translator (son of Zinaida)
- Gitel Sinaiskaya (daughter of Hirsch Tzvi)
  - (1893–1968), Soviet sculptor (son of Gitel)

Other notable relatives

Viktor Zhitomirsky's wife, Emilia Minukhina, was a niece of the Russian-Siwss Hebrew bibliographer Menahem Mendel Slatkine.

Viktor Zhitomirsky's grandson, Alexander Borun, is married to the Russian linguist Anna Dybo.^[4]

Konstantin Erastov's first wife, Tatiana Tankhilevich, was a daughter of the Soviet historian .^[4]

Notes and References

Web site: Житомирские. Семья таганрогских ученых [Zhitomirsky. A family of researchers from Taganrog]]. Таганрогская Правда. 2021-04-08. ru.
Book: Татаринов. С.. Федотов. С.. Штетл Бахмут — феномен еврейского народа в Донбассе [Bakhmut as a shtetl. The Jews of the Donbass]]. Cлово. Харьков. 2013. ru.
Web site: Konstantin Zhitomirsky. Yiddish Leksikon. 2016-09-11. 2023-07-05.
Book: Файн. Виктор. Вершинин. Сергей. Таганрогские Сабсовичи и их потомки. Опыт генеалогического исследования [The Sabsovich family of Taganrog. A genealogical study]. 2013. Триумф. Москва. ru.