He was named after Laurens Bloch, who admired the hardworking household working his women’s clothes retailer known as The Parisian. Bloch operated an identical retailer in Birmingham and hoped to increase to Atlanta. He needed Julius to take over in Birmingham however died earlier than they’d signed a contract. It was one other in a sequence of setbacks for Julius Israel, whose household had fled the pogroms, an interval of persecution and slaughtering
