Benjamin Mailer
Norman Mailer's paternal grandfather. Born in Lithuania in 1865; arrived in South Africa in 1890, where he raised Isaac Barnett "Barney" Mailer and other children with his wife Celia Schapochsik. Never settled in the United States. Dies 25 May 1926.
Born in Lithuania in 1865, Benjamin Mailer emigrated to South Africa in 1890, where he and his wife Celia Schapochsik (also a Lithuanian emigrant, 1890) raised Isaac Barnett “Barney” Mailer and his siblings. Unlike the Schneider side of the family, the South African Mailers did not emigrate onward to the United States; Barney was the family member to do so, arriving in 1919 after wartime service in London.
Benjamin dies on 25 May 1926, in South Africa — a year before the birth of his granddaughter Barbara.