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Moshe Yassur
was born in 1934 as Marcel Simon Stuermer in Iasi, a university town
and
capital of the northeastern Romanian province of Moldavia, close to the
border
with Ukraine. His father, of German-Jewish origin, was a sales
representative
for the Singer Company and traveled a great deal. Since the family of his
mother, Sara-Basie Stirbu, was
for generations dealers of wine and plum brandy in Rǎducǎneni,
a
small
village
(shtetl)
about
twenty
kilometers
east
of
Iasi,
Moshe
spent
his
early
childhood
among
the
village
folk-the
vintners,
coopers,
smiths,
cobblers,
and
bakers-in
this
fertile
region
of
Romania. click link
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