According to Lil's son Artie her father's name was Israel David Rubenstein and he was born in Tlumacz, Poland in March of 1888. Tlumacz which had a Jewish population of about 2,000 in 1900 was in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire before WWI and is currently in Ukraine, 14 miles ESE of Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Stanislau).