The Life of George Gershwin

George Gershwin (1898 - 1937) George's parents emigrated to the USA in the late 1800's. George's father, Morris, was trying to avoid a probable twenty year conscription in his native St. Petersburg. Besides that, his hometown sweetheart, Rose Bruskin, had already moved to New York with her family. They are shown here at about the time of their marriage in 1895. George was Morris and Rose's second son, born on September 26, 1898. Athough Morris had already Americanized the family …

…re made to the White House and soon two navy destroyers were dispatched to locate the yacht and bring the doctor to California. The doctor got as far as the Newark airport, when the decision was made that the operation could not wait for his arrival. He was on the phone with the medical team in California during the surgery. George Gershwin never regained consciousness. He died on Sunday, July 11, 1937. He was thirty-eight years old.