{geni:about_me} Y'shia was born in either Warsaw or Lodz, Poland in 1886. His
parents were Rivkah Oberman and Mordechai Leib Enfield. He had a sister
named Channa who was two years his junior. He had many older
half-siblings, as this was his father's third marriage, but these
half-siblings were older and wanted little to do with Y'shia or his
sister. Y'shia's father died when he was about ten years old, leaving
his mother a poor widow.

While he was still a teenager he left for Russia, to avoid the
draft. He arrived in Yekatrinaslav. There he learned to be a baker. It is
also there that he met his wife, Chaya Levine. As the the Pogroms
intensified in the beginning of this century, he and his wife decided to
leave Russia for the New land.

The Atlantic crossing was arduous. He arrived with his wife in New
York in 1906. Settling in Brooklyn, he found a job as a baker. Times
were hard and there were six mouths to feed. Trying to better his
family's situation, he joined his sister's family in Buffalo. It is there
that his first child, Alice was born.

They moved back to New York, settling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He
joined the Baker's Union, looking for stability and higher pay. ëShiya
worked all night long in the bakery and came home in the morning with
fresh hot bread. He would have a can of salmon and would leave a little
over for Alice who would take a small piece of bread and the remainder of
the salmon as a sandwich for lunch every single day. While in Brooklyn,
he and his wife had three additional children, Lena, Freda, and Max.

Hearing of a business opportunity in Los Angeles, the family packed
up and headed west. The opportunity did not pan out, and Y'shia went to
work at his trade. He lived in Boyle Heights. Six years after coming to
Los Angeles, in 1931, he bought a bakery in East Los Angeles, and called
it the "People's Bakery". He held on to it for a few years, and then sold
it when his strength gave out. A while later he sold his house too and
bought a small property in Ocean Park, next to the beach. This was a
densely populated Jewish area at the time. He aquirred more property in
the area as time went on.

Y'shia lived with his wife in their home in Ocean Park for many
years until he passed away on February 20, 1963. He was a kind, sweet,
and soft spoken man. He loved to listen to a worthwhile subject being
discussed, and he was loved by all, and especialy by his grandchildren