My grandfather Cantor Zev Margouliss (also Volf Morgoulis/Woulf Margoulis) left the Soviet Union in 1923. Born in 1896 in Melitopol, Emigrated to NYC in 1926. Cantor at many synagogues in NYC area from 1926 to 1954, especially Montifiore Hebrew Congregation in the Bronx. Family history says that his father Simon Margouliss was Rabbi at the Synagogue of Simferopol, Crimea.
