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Robbins was born Harold Rubin in New York City in 1916, the son of Frances "Fannie" Smith and Charles Rubin. His parents were well-educated Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire, his father from Odessa and his mother from Neshwies (Nyasvizh), south of Minsk.
Contents Early life Robbins was born Harold Rubin in New York City, the son of Frances "Fannie" Smith and Charles Rubin. His parents were well-educated Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire, his father from Odessa and his mother from Neshwies, south of Minsk.[1]
- May 21, 1916
- Randy Schoenberg
- New York, NY, United States
Oct 15, 1997 · Harold Robbins was born May 21, 1916, in New York City. He never knew who his parents were; the name on his birth certificate was Francis Kane.
Robbins began life as Francis Kane, an abandoned infant whose parents were unknown. Raised in a Roman Catholic orphanage in New York's tough Hell's Kitchen area, Robbins was placed in a series of foster homes as a youth.
Oct 26, 2007 · Harold Robbins’s beginnings were as dramatic as anything found in his fiction. Born to unknown parents in 1916, he was abandoned on the steps of an orphanage run by the Paulist Fathers, a...
Jul 3, 2019 · He knew the power of a good story. His was that he was abandoned, placed on the steps of a Catholic orphanage in 1916, and adopted by a Jewish family named Rubin in Brooklyn. His childhood...
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Sep 27, 2007 · In the Jean R. Mahn Center in Athens there exists the correspondence between Harold Robbins and his good friend, the writer Cornelius Ryan. Although the two men were very different, they had a...
