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ViewMate translation request - Yiddish
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Rose
Dear Group
I've posted a photo inscription in Yiddish for which I need a loose translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23122 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Rose Raymen Perth, Western Australia
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate translation request - Yiddish
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Rose
Dear Group
I've posted a photo inscription in Yiddish for which I need a loose translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23122 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Rose Raymen Perth, Western Australia
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ViewMate translation request - Polish
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Rose
Dear Group
I've posted a photo inscription in Polish for which I need a loose translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23121 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Rose Raymen Perth, Western Australia
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate translation request - Polish
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Rose
Dear Group
I've posted a photo inscription in Polish for which I need a loose translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23121 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Rose Raymen Perth, Western Australia
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Viewmate translation request - Polish
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Rose
Dear Group
I've posted a photo inscription in Polish for which I need a loose translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23120 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Rose Raymen Perth, Western Australia
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Viewmate translation request - Polish
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Rose
Dear Group
I've posted a photo inscription in Polish for which I need a loose translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23120 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Rose Raymen Perth, Western Australia
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ViewMate Translation Request--Yiddish?
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Vivian Kahn <viviankahn@...>
I've posted what appears to be an early 20th century Yahrzeit card and
would appreciate a translation of the handwritten entry. Would also like to know if the name of the deceased appears anywhere on the card. I don't think so but would appreciate it if someone else could take a look. The scan is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=23110 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Vivian Kahn, Oakland, California
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate Translation Request--Yiddish?
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Vivian Kahn <viviankahn@...>
I've posted what appears to be an early 20th century Yahrzeit card and
would appreciate a translation of the handwritten entry. Would also like to know if the name of the deceased appears anywhere on the card. I don't think so but would appreciate it if someone else could take a look. The scan is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=23110 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Vivian Kahn, Oakland, California
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Viewmate - Hebrew translation needed for tombstones
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Beth Downing
I just posted two Hebrew snips >from my ggrandparents' tombstones
that need translating. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23101 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23102 If you can help, please respond via the Viewmate form. Thanks, Beth Broodno Downing Researching: BRUDNO/BRUDNY/BROODNO, KLEINBERG, GREENBERG, WEISS, GOLD, LEBOWITZ, KANTOR, FUCHS/FOX, STEIN Places: Smarhon (Belarus), Tukkums and Bauska (Latvia), Vilna and Kaunas (Lithuania), Teresov (Czech Republic), Iasi and Harghita(Romania), Philadelphia, Pa (USA)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Viewmate - Hebrew translation needed for tombstones
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Beth Downing
I just posted two Hebrew snips >from my ggrandparents' tombstones
that need translating. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23101 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=23102 If you can help, please respond via the Viewmate form. Thanks, Beth Broodno Downing Researching: BRUDNO/BRUDNY/BROODNO, KLEINBERG, GREENBERG, WEISS, GOLD, LEBOWITZ, KANTOR, FUCHS/FOX, STEIN Places: Smarhon (Belarus), Tukkums and Bauska (Latvia), Vilna and Kaunas (Lithuania), Teresov (Czech Republic), Iasi and Harghita(Romania), Philadelphia, Pa (USA)
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Bessarabia Jewish Business Directory
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Harvey Kabaker
The 1924 Bessarabia Jewish Business directory project is complete.
Bessarabia SIG has completed work on extracting names and other data for Jewish businesspeople active in the early 1920s in the eastern counties of Romania that formerly comprised the Bessarabia territory of pre-World War I Imperial Russia. Files in HTML and .xls format are available on the Bessarabian Databases page at http://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/Databases.html. They report on grocers, shopkeepers, teachers, local officials, stone carvers, butchers, bakers, innkeepers, lawyers, peddlers, rabbis, and many others who worked in Romania's nine eastern counties and Chisinau (the former Kishinev), and who apparently were Jewish. The 13,056 records represent 705 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. The information was extracted >from the "Socec Annuary of the Great-Roumania," dated 1924-1925, issued by the prominent Romanian publishing house Socec & Co. The Library of Congress calls the two-volume set a historic address book that "stands as the most complete survey of Greater Romania during the interwar period." A detailed description of the project and notes on the source are available by clicking the title, "Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924-25" at the top of the page referenced above. Volunteers who extracted the data were Ala Gamulka, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Harvey Kabaker, Silver Spring, MD, USA Paola Khalili, London, UK Ayana Kimron Yefim Kogan, Newton, MA USA Alison Shein, Arlington, VA, USA Flo Wolf, Atlanta, GA, USA Harvey Kabaker, project manager Researching KABAKER/KABAKIER, OKUN, BERLINSKY/BERLUNSKY, Seirijai, Lithuania WEINHOUSE/MILLER, Edinet, Moldova KOTLARSKY/CUTLER, SCHAEFER/SHAEFER, Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Bessarabia Jewish Business Directory
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Harvey Kabaker
The 1924 Bessarabia Jewish Business directory project is complete.
Bessarabia SIG has completed work on extracting names and other data for Jewish businesspeople active in the early 1920s in the eastern counties of Romania that formerly comprised the Bessarabia territory of pre-World War I Imperial Russia. Files in HTML and .xls format are available on the Bessarabian Databases page at http://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/Databases.html. They report on grocers, shopkeepers, teachers, local officials, stone carvers, butchers, bakers, innkeepers, lawyers, peddlers, rabbis, and many others who worked in Romania's nine eastern counties and Chisinau (the former Kishinev), and who apparently were Jewish. The 13,056 records represent 705 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. The information was extracted >from the "Socec Annuary of the Great-Roumania," dated 1924-1925, issued by the prominent Romanian publishing house Socec & Co. The Library of Congress calls the two-volume set a historic address book that "stands as the most complete survey of Greater Romania during the interwar period." A detailed description of the project and notes on the source are available by clicking the title, "Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924-25" at the top of the page referenced above. Volunteers who extracted the data were Ala Gamulka, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Harvey Kabaker, Silver Spring, MD, USA Paola Khalili, London, UK Ayana Kimron Yefim Kogan, Newton, MA USA Alison Shein, Arlington, VA, USA Flo Wolf, Atlanta, GA, USA Harvey Kabaker, project manager Researching KABAKER/KABAKIER, OKUN, BERLINSKY/BERLUNSKY, Seirijai, Lithuania WEINHOUSE/MILLER, Edinet, Moldova KOTLARSKY/CUTLER, SCHAEFER/SHAEFER, Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine
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Summit Jewish Cemetery - Summit, Mississippi
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Gilda Kurtzman <gildak@...>
If you are a descendent of a Jewish family who lived in Summit, Mississippi
I would appreciate your contacting me about research for the Jewish Cemetery project being conducted by the remaining Jewish families living in the town. Sincerely, Gilda Kurtzman Petach Tikva Israel
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Summit Jewish Cemetery - Summit, Mississippi
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Gilda Kurtzman <gildak@...>
If you are a descendent of a Jewish family who lived in Summit, Mississippi
I would appreciate your contacting me about research for the Jewish Cemetery project being conducted by the remaining Jewish families living in the town. Sincerely, Gilda Kurtzman Petach Tikva Israel
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Yiddish Literary Circles
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Irving Skorka <irvela@...>
Hi--
The Circle may have been associated with the Arbiter Ring (Workman's Circle) or other similar organizations. There were several literature circles started as a result of the presence of jewish intellectuals that came to the United States during the late 1890s and early 1900s. I recently completed Aaron Lansky's book on the development of the Yiddish Book Center entitled, "Outwitting History". It's an easy read and discusses in detail how and why the Center was established. Lansky spent many years collecting Yiddish books where he could. These books were in the collection of many Jewish intellectuals living at the time. They had grown old and could not find many people or libraries who would take the books, including their children, who had become Americanized and knew little Yiddish. He met them all, as he describes in "Outwitting History". One of the many places he visited was Coney Island. He may have knowledge of the subject Circle. Sincerely, Irv Skorka
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Yiddish Literary Circles
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Irving Skorka <irvela@...>
Hi--
The Circle may have been associated with the Arbiter Ring (Workman's Circle) or other similar organizations. There were several literature circles started as a result of the presence of jewish intellectuals that came to the United States during the late 1890s and early 1900s. I recently completed Aaron Lansky's book on the development of the Yiddish Book Center entitled, "Outwitting History". It's an easy read and discusses in detail how and why the Center was established. Lansky spent many years collecting Yiddish books where he could. These books were in the collection of many Jewish intellectuals living at the time. They had grown old and could not find many people or libraries who would take the books, including their children, who had become Americanized and knew little Yiddish. He met them all, as he describes in "Outwitting History". One of the many places he visited was Coney Island. He may have knowledge of the subject Circle. Sincerely, Irv Skorka
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BRODSKY
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Tamar Gold <trgold@...>
Looking for exact details of how the wife of Marc Chagall, V. Brodsky
(?second wife) traced back to the famous wealthy Brodsky family of Kiev. Any biographical and family information would be appreciated. Thanks Neil Rosenstein Please respond to neilgenealogy@... only. Thank you.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen BRODSKY
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Tamar Gold <trgold@...>
Looking for exact details of how the wife of Marc Chagall, V. Brodsky
(?second wife) traced back to the famous wealthy Brodsky family of Kiev. Any biographical and family information would be appreciated. Thanks Neil Rosenstein Please respond to neilgenealogy@... only. Thank you.
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Lillian Katz in NY circa 1940
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A. E. Jordan
I have a long time stumper on my tree and I need some new inspiration to
finding the answer. In his will in 1941 my great grandfather (Jacob Joseph) leaves money to his niece Lillian Katz. No one in the family remembers any details on Lillian other than some vague remember of a sister (of Joseph) or maybe her daughter living in the Bronx and being possibly a seamstress. I had hoped it would become apparent in the 1940 Census but so far I am seeing nothing there to solve this mystery. I need some inspiration to figure out how to sort out this sister and her family. Jacob was born in Austria circa 1866 the son of Joshua Selig Joseph and Gussie Schwartz Joseph. Jacob say he immigrated to the USA in 1887 and I pick up his paper trail with his naturalization in 1892 in New Jersey. In the late 1880s he is living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and marries Theresia Lubasch in 1891. They lived in Hoboken and later Jersey City, New Jersey and I know their details. Jacob Joseph had a brother Israel Joseph born circa 1868 and who was married in New York in 1897. I know Israel's details too. He lived in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in 1918. No where in any of the family papers do I find anything about Jacob and Israel's sister. Any ideas on how to find this mystery sister and her family? I don't know if Katz is her married name or the daughter's married name or even what the sister's first name is. Thanks Allan Jordan
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Lillian Katz in NY circa 1940
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A. E. Jordan
I have a long time stumper on my tree and I need some new inspiration to
finding the answer. In his will in 1941 my great grandfather (Jacob Joseph) leaves money to his niece Lillian Katz. No one in the family remembers any details on Lillian other than some vague remember of a sister (of Joseph) or maybe her daughter living in the Bronx and being possibly a seamstress. I had hoped it would become apparent in the 1940 Census but so far I am seeing nothing there to solve this mystery. I need some inspiration to figure out how to sort out this sister and her family. Jacob was born in Austria circa 1866 the son of Joshua Selig Joseph and Gussie Schwartz Joseph. Jacob say he immigrated to the USA in 1887 and I pick up his paper trail with his naturalization in 1892 in New Jersey. In the late 1880s he is living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and marries Theresia Lubasch in 1891. They lived in Hoboken and later Jersey City, New Jersey and I know their details. Jacob Joseph had a brother Israel Joseph born circa 1868 and who was married in New York in 1897. I know Israel's details too. He lived in Jersey City, New Jersey and died in 1918. No where in any of the family papers do I find anything about Jacob and Israel's sister. Any ideas on how to find this mystery sister and her family? I don't know if Katz is her married name or the daughter's married name or even what the sister's first name is. Thanks Allan Jordan
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