Savta Tova is our family’s only direct ancestor to be buried in Israel, and I felt a strange urge to visit her grave.,
My hopes rose — we were so close! But the sun was getting hotter and as Doda Aliza tried to stand we both realized it was too much for her.
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avta Tova had been an enticing intriguing enigma for years. In her white robes and headscarf with a heavy medallion around her neck she gazes down at us from the sepia photograph on our dining room wall a gentle smile on her dark-skinned face.
My husband’s grandmother Tova was born inIsfahanIran in the early 20th century. As she grew older she and her husband moved into the home of her only son — my husband’s father — inTehran. Just before the Revolution the family moved toIsrael.
For some unknown reason Savta Tova was buried on Har Hamenuchos. She is our family’s only direct ancestor to be buried inIsrael and I felt a strange urge to visit her grave. Not only to give my children a sense of tradition and family a link with their history but also because my first daughter was named after her.
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