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Researching MOROSHOHK family in Passaic,New Jersey and cemetetery in Garfield, New Jersey
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Marilyn Nathanson
I recently learned that my great grandfather Zelick MAISEL, who
arrived in 1907, was sponsored by his brother-in-law Abram MOROSOHK of Passaic New Jersey (thanks to great help >from Barbara Zimmerman). I've been in touch with his 94-year-old grandson Irving,who states his grandparents (he can't remember his grandmother's name - but the census says Annie and my great aunt called her Neshie) lived in Passaic and he says they are buried in a Jewish Cemetery in Garfield, New Jersey. Lots of his memories coincide with the memories of my one living great aunt. Does anyone know the name and phone of a cemetery in Garfield (very close to Passaic street) - and is anyone close enough that they would be willing to take photographs? I'm also looking for descendants. I understand that Abram and Annie (Neshie?) had a son David (Irving's father), daughter Anne and daughter Sarah. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Marilyn Nathanson mnathanson@ameritech.net Farmington Hills, Michigan
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Researching MOROSHOHK family in Passaic,New Jersey and cemetetery in Garfield, New Jersey
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Marilyn Nathanson
I recently learned that my great grandfather Zelick MAISEL, who
arrived in 1907, was sponsored by his brother-in-law Abram MOROSOHK of Passaic New Jersey (thanks to great help >from Barbara Zimmerman). I've been in touch with his 94-year-old grandson Irving,who states his grandparents (he can't remember his grandmother's name - but the census says Annie and my great aunt called her Neshie) lived in Passaic and he says they are buried in a Jewish Cemetery in Garfield, New Jersey. Lots of his memories coincide with the memories of my one living great aunt. Does anyone know the name and phone of a cemetery in Garfield (very close to Passaic street) - and is anyone close enough that they would be willing to take photographs? I'm also looking for descendants. I understand that Abram and Annie (Neshie?) had a son David (Irving's father), daughter Anne and daughter Sarah. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Marilyn Nathanson mnathanson@ameritech.net Farmington Hills, Michigan
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Barnett ASHENFARB obituary - Thanks for helpful research
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Chris Gould <oldandintheway9@...>
Dear All
In response to a recent request I made for an obituary for my great-uncle Barnett ASHENFARB (New York), I had a number of helpful responses but Barbara Zimmer also provided me with additional information on surviving family members. As a result of her work, I have been able to establish contact with cousins in Florida and I wanted to publicly thank Barbara for the wonderful outcome that has resulted >from her kind diligence. Christopher GOULD London/UK NB: Barnett arrived in NY in 1908 and established a mirror factory in the Bronx. His story is nicely told in this piece at http://www.bagladyemporium.com/BLU/index.php?n=Main.Mirrors
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Barnett ASHENFARB obituary - Thanks for helpful research
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Chris Gould <oldandintheway9@...>
Dear All
In response to a recent request I made for an obituary for my great-uncle Barnett ASHENFARB (New York), I had a number of helpful responses but Barbara Zimmer also provided me with additional information on surviving family members. As a result of her work, I have been able to establish contact with cousins in Florida and I wanted to publicly thank Barbara for the wonderful outcome that has resulted >from her kind diligence. Christopher GOULD London/UK NB: Barnett arrived in NY in 1908 and established a mirror factory in the Bronx. His story is nicely told in this piece at http://www.bagladyemporium.com/BLU/index.php?n=Main.Mirrors
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SILBERT/SHOUFMAN in Winnipeg- follow up tidbits
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yehuda frischman
I wanted to add two more interesting tidbits to my post about the our
SILBERT/SHOUFMAN family last week: To review: Many years ago, my late aunt, Sarah SILBERT PINX, wrote a brief family telling of her grandparents Sholem and Passye SHOUFMAN, and Meier and Mariam SILBERT, as well as her parents (my grandparents) Leizer and Malka SILBERT, their life in Bessarabia (She writes that she was born in Ananiev), the pogroms there, and the decision of my zeide Meier and later, his son my zeide Leizer to come to Canada. As I mentioned, Zeide Meier, ever the pioneer, saw the writing on the wall, and with ever more increasing antisemitism in Bessarabia, decided to make a fresh start, came to Canada in the 1880s and helped build the Canadian Transcontinental railroad. My grandparents, Zeide Leizer and Babba Malka, though came later, arriving in January 1908, after surviving terrible pogroms. What I didn't tell you, though, was that Babba Malka's parents, zeide Sholem and Babba Passye had many, many children, something like 18 (though I am not sure of the number, I am cc'ing this to cousins who perhaps can correct me!). When Babba Malka said goodbye to her parents, she never heard >from them again, though she repeatedly attempted wrote them. She always suspected that they were massacred in pogroms, but how can we ever know? But one other interesting tidbit that we hope someday we can resolve is that Babba Malka on more than one occasion mentioned that the great violin virtuoso, Nathan MILSTEIN, was a cousin. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on how to verify this? Yehuda Frischman, L.Ac, CST, SER
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen SILBERT/SHOUFMAN in Winnipeg- follow up tidbits
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yehuda frischman
I wanted to add two more interesting tidbits to my post about the our
SILBERT/SHOUFMAN family last week: To review: Many years ago, my late aunt, Sarah SILBERT PINX, wrote a brief family telling of her grandparents Sholem and Passye SHOUFMAN, and Meier and Mariam SILBERT, as well as her parents (my grandparents) Leizer and Malka SILBERT, their life in Bessarabia (She writes that she was born in Ananiev), the pogroms there, and the decision of my zeide Meier and later, his son my zeide Leizer to come to Canada. As I mentioned, Zeide Meier, ever the pioneer, saw the writing on the wall, and with ever more increasing antisemitism in Bessarabia, decided to make a fresh start, came to Canada in the 1880s and helped build the Canadian Transcontinental railroad. My grandparents, Zeide Leizer and Babba Malka, though came later, arriving in January 1908, after surviving terrible pogroms. What I didn't tell you, though, was that Babba Malka's parents, zeide Sholem and Babba Passye had many, many children, something like 18 (though I am not sure of the number, I am cc'ing this to cousins who perhaps can correct me!). When Babba Malka said goodbye to her parents, she never heard >from them again, though she repeatedly attempted wrote them. She always suspected that they were massacred in pogroms, but how can we ever know? But one other interesting tidbit that we hope someday we can resolve is that Babba Malka on more than one occasion mentioned that the great violin virtuoso, Nathan MILSTEIN, was a cousin. I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on how to verify this? Yehuda Frischman, L.Ac, CST, SER
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Rhodes memorials / photos.
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nigel wilson <wilsonettess@...>
Dear Genners,
Having recently returned >from Rhodes I have pictures of the Rhodes cemetery, the memorial within the cemetery dedicated to those who perished in the Shoah and a separate memorial stone in the centre of Rhodes town also in memory of those who perished in the Shoah. If anyone wishes to have copies of these photos please contact me privately and I shall be pleased to forward them. Patricia Wilson (Israel)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Rhodes memorials / photos.
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nigel wilson <wilsonettess@...>
Dear Genners,
Having recently returned >from Rhodes I have pictures of the Rhodes cemetery, the memorial within the cemetery dedicated to those who perished in the Shoah and a separate memorial stone in the centre of Rhodes town also in memory of those who perished in the Shoah. If anyone wishes to have copies of these photos please contact me privately and I shall be pleased to forward them. Patricia Wilson (Israel)
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Re: Were there quotas to US emigration around 1912?
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David Oseas <doseas{nospam}@...>
I wrote:
I'm not aware of any quotas in existence before the Immigration Act ofCorrection: Emergency Quota Act of 1921 David Oseas Researching: HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles SCHECHTER: Odessa, Ukraine > New York SHERMAN: Russia/Romania > New York > Los Angeles WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Were there quotas to US emigration around 1912?
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David Oseas <doseas{nospam}@...>
I wrote:
I'm not aware of any quotas in existence before the Immigration Act ofCorrection: Emergency Quota Act of 1921 David Oseas Researching: HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles SCHECHTER: Odessa, Ukraine > New York SHERMAN: Russia/Romania > New York > Los Angeles WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
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Re: FELDMAN family from Paterson, NJ
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Leslie320 <Hilmis@...>
On Jul 4, dlfran...@mindspring.com (Diane) wrote:
I am trying to find the descendants of a FELDMAN child who may haveI happen to be on vacation with my parents who are long time Patersonians. I asked about the FELDMAN name. They knew of a Philip FELDMAN. He'd probably be around 80 now. If this info interests you, you please contact me privatly at Hilmis@aol.com. Leslie Moser Researching Wimenitz >from Belarus and Boguchwal/Kleiner >from Poland
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: FELDMAN family from Paterson, NJ
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Leslie320 <Hilmis@...>
On Jul 4, dlfran...@mindspring.com (Diane) wrote:
I am trying to find the descendants of a FELDMAN child who may haveI happen to be on vacation with my parents who are long time Patersonians. I asked about the FELDMAN name. They knew of a Philip FELDMAN. He'd probably be around 80 now. If this info interests you, you please contact me privatly at Hilmis@aol.com. Leslie Moser Researching Wimenitz >from Belarus and Boguchwal/Kleiner >from Poland
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Viewmate Polish Translations
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With the aid of Viewmate, I recently learned the names of my
great-great-great grandparents (Berek & Hai Rubinsztajn) >from the death record of my great-great grandfather. With that information I reviewed the copies that I have of records for family names and found that I had a death record for Berek Rubinsztajn and marriage records for two daughters of Berek and Hai. I've posted the death record 13081 for Berek Rubinsztajn at http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/memberadmin/submissionsview.asp?ID=13081 and the marriage record for his daughter Bayla at http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/memberadmin/submissionsview.asp?ID=13082 The record for his other daughter Rochla 13083 should be posted shortly. I'd be interested in any information that might help me verify this connection. In addition to Rochla and Bayla, my great-great-great grandparents also had a son Josek. Susan Weinberg Edina, Minnesota Radom & Sienno, Poland: WAJNBERG, RUBINSTAJN, ROZENBERG, BIEKERMAN, BAUMZECER, DREZNER Kamenetz Podolsk, Ukraine KISHLANSKY, SCHIECHER, WASSERMAN Dunilowicz & Glebokie, Belarus: RAICHEL, LIEBOWITZ, SCHER, GOLD MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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JRI Poland #Poland Viewmate Polish Translations
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With the aid of Viewmate, I recently learned the names of my
great-great-great grandparents (Berek & Hai Rubinsztajn) >from the death record of my great-great grandfather. With that information I reviewed the copies that I have of records for family names and found that I had a death record for Berek Rubinsztajn and marriage records for two daughters of Berek and Hai. I've posted the death record 13081 for Berek Rubinsztajn at http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/memberadmin/submissionsview.asp?ID=13081 and the marriage record for his daughter Bayla at http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/memberadmin/submissionsview.asp?ID=13082 The record for his other daughter Rochla 13083 should be posted shortly. I'd be interested in any information that might help me verify this connection. In addition to Rochla and Bayla, my great-great-great grandparents also had a son Josek. Susan Weinberg Edina, Minnesota Radom & Sienno, Poland: WAJNBERG, RUBINSTAJN, ROZENBERG, BIEKERMAN, BAUMZECER, DREZNER Kamenetz Podolsk, Ukraine KISHLANSKY, SCHIECHER, WASSERMAN Dunilowicz & Glebokie, Belarus: RAICHEL, LIEBOWITZ, SCHER, GOLD MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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Email address change
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Sylvia Tulkoff
I have changed my email address to stulkoff@verizon.net
If you sent a message to me in the past week please resend it - it's probably lost in cyberspace - as my email was down for a week. Thanks, Sylvia Tulkoff MODERATOR NOTE: Please remember to update your email address on JewishGen. http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/Support.htm
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Email address change
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Sylvia Tulkoff
I have changed my email address to stulkoff@verizon.net
If you sent a message to me in the past week please resend it - it's probably lost in cyberspace - as my email was down for a week. Thanks, Sylvia Tulkoff MODERATOR NOTE: Please remember to update your email address on JewishGen. http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/Support.htm
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Re: Were there quotas to US emigration around 1912?
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David Oseas <doseas{nospam}@...>
"Evan Fishman" <ebf2001@comcast.net> wrote
Were there any quotas in existence which would have limited emigration toI'm not aware of any quotas in existence before the Immigration Act of 1924 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_immigration_legislation). There must have been some other influencing factor at that time, since two of my uncles first went to live in Buenos Aires before they arrived in the US in December, 1911. However, the rest of the family came directly >from Romania in January, 1921. Perhaps it was easier or less expensive to go that route. Baron Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association had established several settlements in Argentina by then. According to the Wikipedia article, "between 1906 and 1912, some 13,000 Jews immigrated to Argentina every year" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_of_Argentina). -David Oseas Researching: HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles SCHECHTER: Odessa, Ukraine > New York SHERMAN: Russia/Romania > New York > Los Angeles WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Were there quotas to US emigration around 1912?
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David Oseas <doseas{nospam}@...>
"Evan Fishman" <ebf2001@comcast.net> wrote
Were there any quotas in existence which would have limited emigration toI'm not aware of any quotas in existence before the Immigration Act of 1924 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_immigration_legislation). There must have been some other influencing factor at that time, since two of my uncles first went to live in Buenos Aires before they arrived in the US in December, 1911. However, the rest of the family came directly >from Romania in January, 1921. Perhaps it was easier or less expensive to go that route. Baron Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association had established several settlements in Argentina by then. According to the Wikipedia article, "between 1906 and 1912, some 13,000 Jews immigrated to Argentina every year" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_of_Argentina). -David Oseas Researching: HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles SCHECHTER: Odessa, Ukraine > New York SHERMAN: Russia/Romania > New York > Los Angeles WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
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Article about Label & Runya GOREN of Terespol
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philafrum
Dear Genners:
I just read a story about a Terespol (Poland) couple named Label and Runya GOREN and their descendants which was submitted this past May. THe name of the author isn't, however, indicated, and I'd like to get in touch with him/her. Can anybody help? Thanks. Evan Fishman ebf2001@comcast.net
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Article about Label & Runya GOREN of Terespol
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philafrum
Dear Genners:
I just read a story about a Terespol (Poland) couple named Label and Runya GOREN and their descendants which was submitted this past May. THe name of the author isn't, however, indicated, and I'd like to get in touch with him/her. Can anybody help? Thanks. Evan Fishman ebf2001@comcast.net
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