Felix Slatkin (December 22, 1915 ? February 8, 1963) was an American violinist and conductor. Biography Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a Jewish family originally named Zlotkin from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. "The Zlotkin/Slatkin lineage is Russian Jewish. The first Zlotkin arrival to the US was Felix's father, grandpa Chaim Peretz Zlotkin, who came to settle with relatives in St. Louis in 1913; he (or the clerk at Ellis Island) changed the name. He probably came from the town of Mogilev [LINK: now] Mohyliv-Podilskyi, from a shtetl (the Russians forced most Jews to live in villages outside of the major cities). He came to America and settled with relatives in St. Louis in 1913. In 1923, his father came over and lived in St. Louis." He began studying the violin at the age of nine with Isadore Grossman. He began working professionally

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