Solomon (Sholom-Shloma) Abramovich Viglin

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Patriarch of Viglin's clan. Family legend depicts him as kind, wise, loving, hilarious person. Shloma was strictly observing Hassidic Jew, owner and reader of such sourses, as Babylonic Talmud, More Nevuchim by RAMBAM (Maimonides), and Jewish History by Graetz. ( His library disappeared in Kharkov when his son Israel and family were evacuated from nazis ) . He served as "gabbai" in local synagogue.

Shloma's devotion to tradition was at times really burdensome for his children and led to open conflicts. That was the case when Osher left home to study music in Petersburg, when Roza fled with an actor or Riva and later Hesia married "goim". But finally he always was wize enough to reconcile himself with the reality. After all, he knew that it is necessary to adopt the changes. When he was young in Sukhorabovka village near Poltava, he learned Russian from the local priest, and spoke Russian, and not Yiddish, with his younger daughters Roza and Hesia.

Shloma had his own house in the high street of the town and earned enough to support his nine children, his old beloved mother Sheina and his younger childless brother Mendel, who also lived with him. For some period of time he was running a small factory producing ropes and cables, with 7 workers. After the revolution, he earned his living as a taxator, a sort of attorney or negotiator between railway companies and cargo recipients.

Shloma had good health, liked to sing and to dance, and even used to stand on his head! But after 1930 he got older and had to leave Kremenchug. He settled in Kharkov with his most respectful son, Israel, and died there in 1937.