Fellman Taranto Family Collection

Rosalind Fellmann (1944- ) was born to Sidney Fellman and Suzanne Taranto, who were married on March 19, 1939, in Washington, D.C. She attended Peacham Academy in Peacham, Vermont, graduating in 1962, and then went on to American University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1966. She was an art teacher at Tuckahoe Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, for many years before retiring in 2006. She continues to teach art classes in and around Washington, D.C. Rosalind's family includes her maternal grandparents, Alegra (Sidy) Taranto and Isaac Taranto; her paternal grandparents, Pauline (Eingold) Fellman and Harry Fellman; her uncles, Maurice (Morris) Taranto and Milton Fellman; and various other aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Alegra Sidy was born in Greece in 1892 and immigrated to the United States in 1914. Isaac Taranto was born in Turkey in 1881 and immigrated in 1904. They were married on September 27, 1914, in Washington, D.C., and had two children, Suzanne, born in 1917, and Maurice (Morris), born in 1922. In 1914, Isaac and Alegra Taranto and their families were part of the small group of Greek and Turkish Jews who founded the Yom Tov Hebrew Congregation, the first Sephardic prayer and burial society in Washington, D.C. By the 1970s, the Yom Tov Hebrew Congregation had merged with the Magen David Sephardic Congregation.

Harry Fellman was born in Russia in 1886 and immigrated to the United States in 1903. Pauline Eingold was born in 1893, also in Russia, and immigrated in 1908. They were married on January 14, 1911, in New York. Their two children were Sidney, born in 1912, and Milton, born in 1917. Sidney Fellman graduated from high school in Long Beach, NY in 1930 and was the class of 1937 at the Howard University College of Dentistry in Washington, D.C. Dr. Fellman was the president of the Yom Tov Hebrew Congregation from 1961 until his death in 2003, by which point it had long functioned solely as a burial society.