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Schraga Faibich Zarfin (1899-1975), whose first name is sometimes cited as « Sam », was born of a well-to-do family in Smilovitchi, a village near Minsk in Belorusse. Smilovitchi was also the birthplace of Chaïm Soutine in 1893 ; the two painters would meet up in Paris.