In New York the family sold newspapers and moved constantly.
With six children (Ariel was the fifth), her mother soon managed to reunite the family after a forced quarantine in England. Her new husband, a gentile, renamed her Ariel after the Shakespearean character.Īriel Durant was born Chaya (her English name was Ida) Kaufman on May 10, 1898, in the city of Proskurov, or Chmelnitski, in West Ukraine, to Ethel Appel, the stylish and poetic daughter of a biblical scholar, and Joseph Kaufman, a struggling clothing salesman who subsequently immigrated to America in search of a better life for his family. On October 31, 1913, at age fifteen, she roller-skated to her civil wedding ceremony at City Hall. Ida Kaufman was a recalcitrant student, but after observing a Ferrer Modern School class meeting in Central Park, New York City, she immediately enrolled herself and promptly fell in love with her teacher, William Durant, thirteen years her senior.
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