![]() ![]() Eva Sapir ran a small shop to support herself and young Edward after she and Jacob divorced sometime after 1910. Then while Jacob's career declined into a series of short-term appointments, the family moved to the Lower East Side of New York City when Edward was ten. Tragically, Sapir's younger brother Max died of typhoid shortly afterwards. He started kindergarten in Liverpool, England, then his family emigrated to the United States when he was five and they arrived in Richmond, Virginia in 1890. The family moved many times during Sapir's early childhood. However, since his father, Jacob, preferred music to theology, the family was not strictly orthodox in their religious observance. ![]() His parents were both Lithuanian Jews, and while he learned German as a child, the language in his home was Yiddish. Edward Sapir was born in 1884 in Lauenburg, Germany. ![]()
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