Bella Lipson Fraidlin

Bella Lipson was the daughter of Isak Jacob Lipson and Peshe Levy. She was born in Jerusalem in 1906 and had 3 sisters (Libe, Celia and Tsivia) and one brother (Leo). She came to the US with her mother and siblings in 1920 (her father Isak was already there, working as a rabbi and a kosher butcher). She proved to be an excellent student and graduated from high school in Minneapolis as valedictorian. After moving to Los Angeles around 1925, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles between 1926 and 1930. She married Herzel Fraidlin, on June 23, 1934, and settled with him, in Kfar Saba, Israel, where she had three children. Ephraim Friedman (Freddy) remembered his Aunt Bella with much fondness. She took him to the public library in LA. He wrote her numerous letters. She was named after her grandmother (Isak’s mother)  Beila Kansterin of Lithuania. 

She died Feb 4, 1963 in Kfar Saba.