Ruben (Robert) Jankeloff
Vita
(Mk) Jankeloff, Ruben 22.01.1906 Helsingfors [Helsinki, Finnland], isr., ledig, Ingenieur
StA: Finnland
v. Konstanz
17.10.1925 Bleichstr. 13
15.12.1925 unbekannt
(W) Ruben Jaari (born Robert Jankeloff)(1906-1991), business man, founder of Pukeva department store, born in Helsinki, Finland (then part of the Russian Empire), into a Jewish family of clothing merchants who came to Finland from Russia in the 1860s. He was educated as an electrical engineer in Germany and France. During World War I the family moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, but returned to Finland after the war. In 1933 he opened the Kappa-Keskus clothing store in Helsinki selling the products of Mallio, a factory he owned in partnership with his brother Fajo Jaari. The Kappa-Keskus was renamed Pukeva in 1969 and during the 1970s became the largest clothing store chain in Finland with five stores in Helsinki and elsewhere in Finland and even in Russia and the second largest department store in Finland. Pukeva went bankrupt in 1993.
Q: https://dbs.anumuseum.org.il/skn/en/c6/e19724794/Personalities/Ruben_Jaari
(W) Ruben Jaari (until 1936 Robert Jankeloff; 22 January 1906 Helsinki – 15 August 1991 Helsinki) was a Finnish businessman and founder of the department store Pukeva.
Jaari's parents were Samuel and Lena Jankeloff, and the family – originally from Russia – moved to Helsinki in the 1860s. The Jankeloff family maintained clothing shops in Kamppi and in Annankatu, in central Helsinki. As well as Ruben the Jankeloff family had three other sons: Sender, David, and Fabian (known as Fajo). Sender later emigrated to the United States. During the First World War the family moved to Copenhagen, but they returned in the 1920s to Finland.
Ruben Jaari trained as an electrical engineer in France and Germany, changing his surname to Jaari in the 1930s. He founded a store, named Kappa, in 1933 and sold in Vuorikatu with his brother Fajo women's jackets. Fajo was later to found his own business.
In 1939 Jaari married Irene Friedländer, a Latvian Jew whose parents later were murdered in the Holocaust. Ruben and Irene had three children: Rea (b. 1940), who today works as a psychologist in England; Ray (1943–1991), who died in a car accident; and Ralph (b. 1949), who today works in the construction trade in Tallinn.
Pukeva went bankrupt during the Recession of the 1990s, partly due to the construction of Kaisaniemi metro station.
Jaari died in 1991, and is buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Helsinki.
Q: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Jaari
Bemerkungen
(geni.com) Vater Samuel Jankeloff 10.09.1878 Helsinki – 15.04.1942 Helsinki
Mutter Lena Jankeloff geb. Orscholik 01.01.1885 Helsinki – 26.09.1949 Helsinki
Bruder Sender Jankeloff Jaari 14.05.1904 Helsinki – 20.11.1976 Helsinki
Bruder Fajo Jaari 09.06.1907 Helsinki – 10.03.1962 Helsinki
Bruder David Jaari 09.08.1901 Helsinki – 21.12.1981 Helsinki
Ehefrau Rena irene Jaari geb. Friedländer 24.07.1916 Riga, Lettland – 30.03.1996 Helsinki
Sohn Ray Jaari 23.07.1943 Helsinki – 23.12.1991 Helsinki (W) who died in a car accident
Tochter Rea Reason geb. Jaari (W) (b. 1940), who today works as a psychologist in England
Sohn Ralph Jaari (W) (b. 1949), who today works in the construction trade in Tallinn
(RS) Vater Samuel Zusman Jankeloff Jankelow 1878–1942
Mutter Lena Jankelow geb. Orscholik 1884–1949
Geschwister:
Sender Jankeloff Jankelow Jaari 1904–1976
Fabian Faivel Jankeloff Jankelow Jaari 1907–1962
David Jankeloff 1911–1981
Ehefrau Rena Irene Jankelow geb. Friedlender Friedlaender 1916–1998
Kinder:
Rea Jaari 1940–
Ray Jaari 1943–1991
Ralph Gideon Jaari 1949–2020