I met Lily (as she was known) when were both workers in NYCHA's Section 8 management unit in the early 1980s, and was friendly with her on and off over the years. She studied music in her native Azerbaijan, played classical music and sang traditional French songs by Edith Piaf and so on. She loved French culture and said she visited Paris 15 times. She worked for the Board of Ed, first as a teacher and then as a substitute, and also as a teacher in a business school. She lived in the same Bensonhurst apartment since she came to the U.S. around 1980 or so. Unlike more Soviet immigrants of that era, she already was fluent in English, and even had been a guide for American tourists in either Moscow or Leningrad before she came here. In her later years, she became more involved in Judaism and Jewish culture.

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Lillian Galperin

January 15, 1950 – September 4, 2024

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