Sabina (Shifra) Bick (Rapp)

Sabina was an attractive woman and very musical. She took piano lessons as a child until her parents could no longer afford them. She continued to play the second-hand piano they had bought her, and, with her first paycheck (for working at her parents' dry-goods store, which she began to do at age 18) she bought a phonograph.

Her marriage was set up by a matchmaker, and she fell for the handsome Pinchas as soon as she met him. She named their daughter Tosca after the heroine of her favorite opera. Their marriage began to deteriorate after Tosca was born.