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BOOK CITE - Re: Value of Prussian Thaler
#germany
Ralph Salinger <salinger@...>
The MODERATOR wrote:
MODERATOR NOTE: This kind of question has been asked and discussedhttp://www.jewishgen.org/GerSIG/resources.htm#money --------- Dear Moderator, Thank you for your suggestions ! however I have checked out all the sources before I posted this inquiry ! I have also checked all the references to Thaler and Prussian Thaler via Google ! If you have any further suggestions where to look I would be delighted to know. With kindest regards Ralph Salinger Kfar Ruppin Israel -------- Thanks for your note and for doing your own research before posting your question. In cases like that please mention the sources that you have already consulted when you write a question to the GerSig Forum. I add Moderator Notes reminding readers of sources available at our website so that all GerSig readers can be aware of those sources. The note added to your question was not intended only for you. Another excellent source for you with regard to your Thaler question would be: W. Michael Blumenthal - The Invisible Wall - Germans and Jews, A Personal Exploration - Counterpoint / Perseus Books, Washington, DC 1998 ISBN 1-887178-73-2 (hard cover) 1-58243-012-8 (paperback) In addition to providing a rich history of Jewish life in Prussia and other parts of modern Germany, this book includes countless examples of financial transactions and often provides 1998 US Dollar values for the Thaler amounts cited. John Paul Lowens, GerSig Moderator 1
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German SIG #Germany BOOK CITE - Re: Value of Prussian Thaler
#germany
Ralph Salinger <salinger@...>
The MODERATOR wrote:
MODERATOR NOTE: This kind of question has been asked and discussedhttp://www.jewishgen.org/GerSIG/resources.htm#money --------- Dear Moderator, Thank you for your suggestions ! however I have checked out all the sources before I posted this inquiry ! I have also checked all the references to Thaler and Prussian Thaler via Google ! If you have any further suggestions where to look I would be delighted to know. With kindest regards Ralph Salinger Kfar Ruppin Israel -------- Thanks for your note and for doing your own research before posting your question. In cases like that please mention the sources that you have already consulted when you write a question to the GerSig Forum. I add Moderator Notes reminding readers of sources available at our website so that all GerSig readers can be aware of those sources. The note added to your question was not intended only for you. Another excellent source for you with regard to your Thaler question would be: W. Michael Blumenthal - The Invisible Wall - Germans and Jews, A Personal Exploration - Counterpoint / Perseus Books, Washington, DC 1998 ISBN 1-887178-73-2 (hard cover) 1-58243-012-8 (paperback) In addition to providing a rich history of Jewish life in Prussia and other parts of modern Germany, this book includes countless examples of financial transactions and often provides 1998 US Dollar values for the Thaler amounts cited. John Paul Lowens, GerSig Moderator 1
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Cluj
#romania
Melvin Hoffman <MHoffman@...>
We are planning a trip to Cluj later this month. Has anyone been there
recently who is willing to share impressions or leads on contacting Jewish community? Thanks Mel Hoffman Melvin S. Hoffman Boston, MA 02110 MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies please.
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Romania SIG #Romania Cluj
#romania
Melvin Hoffman <MHoffman@...>
We are planning a trip to Cluj later this month. Has anyone been there
recently who is willing to share impressions or leads on contacting Jewish community? Thanks Mel Hoffman Melvin S. Hoffman Boston, MA 02110 MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies please.
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Ship Manifests
#romania
bernard sivak <gasdoc@...>
Fellow Genners
The exit city on the ship manifest is many times misleading. 1. Could it be the point of visa application 2. a city distant >from revolutionary , anarchist upheaval? The city I can not find in any almanac is ROBRIN, RUSSIA the ancestor I am researching came >from Bessarabia 1901 but the city of residence listed was Robrin. Comments? Bernard SIVAK, ANN ARBOR MI JGFF Code 51151
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Romania SIG #Romania Ship Manifests
#romania
bernard sivak <gasdoc@...>
Fellow Genners
The exit city on the ship manifest is many times misleading. 1. Could it be the point of visa application 2. a city distant >from revolutionary , anarchist upheaval? The city I can not find in any almanac is ROBRIN, RUSSIA the ancestor I am researching came >from Bessarabia 1901 but the city of residence listed was Robrin. Comments? Bernard SIVAK, ANN ARBOR MI JGFF Code 51151
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Teleneshty and Yedintsy cemetery project
#romania
Joyce Field
Dear Rom-Siggers,
Very good news about the Teleneshty cemetery project. Our researcher found not 1600 but 2000 tombstones in two cemeteries!! It took him two trips to photograph all the tombstones. He also was able to photograph the broken tombstones and he created maps of the cemeteries. He reports that official records >from Teleneshty are in Chisineu (National Archives). The synagogue was destroyed during World War II and probably the kehila records with it. As the Teleneshty photograph project took longer than he had originally planned, he had to schedule a separate trip to Yedintsy this past weekend. I will let you know how this went as soon as I hear. Additional funds are needed to complete the Teleneshty and Yedintsy cemetery projects. There are also projects for Barlad and Bucecea that we cannot begin until sufficient funds are raised. There are other cemeteries in Moldova and Romania that need indexing, but until we get these projects funded I am reluctant to add more. Donations can be made at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/Research.ihtml. Please contribute as much as you can so we can preserve the important information in these cemeteries. The stones are deteriorating and with it the information on our ancestors. We must record and preserve this data in a permanent format. No one else will do this for us. Finally, we are going to need volunteers who can translate the inscriptions on these tombstones and enter the data into the JOWBR Excel template. I have one volunteer but he cannot do 2000 tombstones. Please contact me directly if you can read help translate. the template and instructions are at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/. Joyce Field jfield@jewishgen.org
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Romania SIG #Romania Teleneshty and Yedintsy cemetery project
#romania
Joyce Field
Dear Rom-Siggers,
Very good news about the Teleneshty cemetery project. Our researcher found not 1600 but 2000 tombstones in two cemeteries!! It took him two trips to photograph all the tombstones. He also was able to photograph the broken tombstones and he created maps of the cemeteries. He reports that official records >from Teleneshty are in Chisineu (National Archives). The synagogue was destroyed during World War II and probably the kehila records with it. As the Teleneshty photograph project took longer than he had originally planned, he had to schedule a separate trip to Yedintsy this past weekend. I will let you know how this went as soon as I hear. Additional funds are needed to complete the Teleneshty and Yedintsy cemetery projects. There are also projects for Barlad and Bucecea that we cannot begin until sufficient funds are raised. There are other cemeteries in Moldova and Romania that need indexing, but until we get these projects funded I am reluctant to add more. Donations can be made at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/Research.ihtml. Please contribute as much as you can so we can preserve the important information in these cemeteries. The stones are deteriorating and with it the information on our ancestors. We must record and preserve this data in a permanent format. No one else will do this for us. Finally, we are going to need volunteers who can translate the inscriptions on these tombstones and enter the data into the JOWBR Excel template. I have one volunteer but he cannot do 2000 tombstones. Please contact me directly if you can read help translate. the template and instructions are at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/. Joyce Field jfield@jewishgen.org
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Roni S. Liebowitz
Dear Researchers,
I am pleased to announce that we have a time slot on the schedule now for our SIG (Special Interest Group) meeting at the 23rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Washington, D.C. We will meet Monday, July 21, 3:30-4:45. It is presently listed as Meeting C on the schedule. The room will be posted. Please let me know if you plan to attend. Hope to see you there. Regards, Roni (Roni Seibel Liebowitz) New York LARG Co-coordinator http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/LARG.htm Belchatow ShtetLink Coordinator http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/belchatow/ Belchatow Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/belchatow.htm Belchatow Yizkor Book Project Coordinator http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Belchatow/Belchatow.html JRI-Poland Board Member http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
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Roni S. Liebowitz
Dear Belchatow Researchers,
In addition to the LARG SIG meeting, several of you also expressed an interest in a Belchatow BOF (Birds of a Feather) get together. I am please to tell you that there are enough of us to go ahead with this. This will be a less formal meeting and the time and place will be decided closer to the conference. If you are not registered for the whole conference, please let me know what days you plan to attend. It would also be productive to tell me ahead of time, what surnames you are researching and grant permission to share this information with others planning to attend this meeting. That way if any of us have documents >from Belchatow that include names the rest of us are researching, we can bring copies to the meeting. I will also bring any data that may not be on the Belchatow ShtetLinks website by the time of the meeting. Belchatow is located approximately 27 miles south of Lodz. Nearby towns and villages include: Grocholice (2.4 miles SSW), Kamiensk (11.5 miles SSE), Szcercow (11.7 miles W), Rozprza (11.7 miles ESE), Piotrkow Trybunalski (13.1 miles E), Sulmierzyce (14.9 miles SSW), Tuszyn (17.6 miles NNE), Lask (18.4 miles NW) Widawa (19.2 mles WNW), Pabience (20.7 miles N) and Radomsko (20.9 miles S). If your family lived in any of these places, it's possible some of your family also lived in Belchatow and may have records in the Belchatow Jewish civil record registers. I look forward to seeing you in July. Sincerely, Roni (Roni Seibel Liebowitz) New York LARG Co-coordinator http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/LARG.htm Belchatow ShtetLink Coordinator http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/belchatow/ Belchatow Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/belchatow.htm Belchatow Yizkor Book Project Coordinator http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Belchatow/Belchatow.html JRI-Poland Board Member http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
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Roni S. Liebowitz
Dear Researchers,
I am pleased to announce that we have a time slot on the schedule now for our SIG (Special Interest Group) meeting at the 23rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Washington, D.C. We will meet Monday, July 21, 3:30-4:45. It is presently listed as Meeting C on the schedule. The room will be posted. Please let me know if you plan to attend. Hope to see you there. Regards, Roni (Roni Seibel Liebowitz) New York LARG Co-coordinator http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/LARG.htm Belchatow ShtetLink Coordinator http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/belchatow/ Belchatow Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/belchatow.htm Belchatow Yizkor Book Project Coordinator http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Belchatow/Belchatow.html JRI-Poland Board Member http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
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Roni S. Liebowitz
Dear Belchatow Researchers,
In addition to the LARG SIG meeting, several of you also expressed an interest in a Belchatow BOF (Birds of a Feather) get together. I am please to tell you that there are enough of us to go ahead with this. This will be a less formal meeting and the time and place will be decided closer to the conference. If you are not registered for the whole conference, please let me know what days you plan to attend. It would also be productive to tell me ahead of time, what surnames you are researching and grant permission to share this information with others planning to attend this meeting. That way if any of us have documents >from Belchatow that include names the rest of us are researching, we can bring copies to the meeting. I will also bring any data that may not be on the Belchatow ShtetLinks website by the time of the meeting. Belchatow is located approximately 27 miles south of Lodz. Nearby towns and villages include: Grocholice (2.4 miles SSW), Kamiensk (11.5 miles SSE), Szcercow (11.7 miles W), Rozprza (11.7 miles ESE), Piotrkow Trybunalski (13.1 miles E), Sulmierzyce (14.9 miles SSW), Tuszyn (17.6 miles NNE), Lask (18.4 miles NW) Widawa (19.2 mles WNW), Pabience (20.7 miles N) and Radomsko (20.9 miles S). If your family lived in any of these places, it's possible some of your family also lived in Belchatow and may have records in the Belchatow Jewish civil record registers. I look forward to seeing you in July. Sincerely, Roni (Roni Seibel Liebowitz) New York LARG Co-coordinator http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/LARG.htm Belchatow ShtetLink Coordinator http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/belchatow/ Belchatow Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/belchatow.htm Belchatow Yizkor Book Project Coordinator http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Belchatow/Belchatow.html JRI-Poland Board Member http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
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Re: Help with Surname Etymology
#ukraine
NFatouros@...
In a message dated 5/7/03 3:12:00 PM, sarahgibb@earthlink.net writes:
<< I'm wondering if anyone can help me figure out if the surname ZAPOLANSKY is associated with Poland, or any other particular place (like a river or a village). I have looked for this family name in various databases of Jewish surnames and have not found it. My ggf Mottel ZAPOLANSKY was born in Kremenchug and lived in Iekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). >> I'll be very brave (or rash!) and suggest that the ZAPOLANSKY is based on the Polish "za" which means "behind," "after," "by" or "in" or "on." As for the rest, there is a Polish noun "polana" which means "glade," or "clearing." So ZAPOLANSKY may be a sort of toponym meaning "he who lives behind or beside the glade." I did some quick lookups on the internet for ZAPOLANSKY and found the name listed at: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/szczuczyn-belarus/szc368.html which is a necrology for Ostrin by Ellen Sadove Renck. The second URL that appeared was for an artist named Alexander Zapolansky who was born in Tomsk, Siberia, and claims to be a descendent of Rabbi Tosfot Yomtov ( Lipman-Heller). See "The Tribe: The Cohen-Levy Heritage" website at: http://www.cohen-levi.org/whos_who/zapolyansky_a001.htm So I then did an online search for Tosfot Yomtov and one of the URLs that turned up http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/maharamschick.html which is for the 100th Yahrzeit of the "Maharam Schick." This has a "click-on" for the Shick family tree showing descendents of Rabbi Yuda ben Maharan Padua, Saul Wahl (the alleged "King for a Day") Rabbi Katzenellenbogen, Rabbi Yomtov Heller, and others. Dr. Neil Rosenstein, the noted genealogist who specializes in the rabbinical genealogy has published articles on the Katzenellenbogens, so maybe he would be the best person to ask whether the artist Alexander Zapolansky is, as he claims on , a descendent of YomTov Heller. Dr. Rosenstein's email address is: Neil@tali.net Naomi Fatouros (nee FELDMAN) Bloomington, Indiana NFatouros@aol.com Researching: BELKOWSKY and BIELKOWSKY, Odessa and Berdichev;ROTHSTEIN, Kremenchug; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SCHUTZ, RETTIG, WAHL, Shcherets; LEVY, Mulhouse; SAS or SASS,Podwolochisk; RAPOPORT, Tarnopol, Korostyshev; BEHAM, Salok and Kharkov; WOLPIANSKY, Ostryna.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re: Help with Surname Etymology
#ukraine
NFatouros@...
In a message dated 5/7/03 3:12:00 PM, sarahgibb@earthlink.net writes:
<< I'm wondering if anyone can help me figure out if the surname ZAPOLANSKY is associated with Poland, or any other particular place (like a river or a village). I have looked for this family name in various databases of Jewish surnames and have not found it. My ggf Mottel ZAPOLANSKY was born in Kremenchug and lived in Iekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). >> I'll be very brave (or rash!) and suggest that the ZAPOLANSKY is based on the Polish "za" which means "behind," "after," "by" or "in" or "on." As for the rest, there is a Polish noun "polana" which means "glade," or "clearing." So ZAPOLANSKY may be a sort of toponym meaning "he who lives behind or beside the glade." I did some quick lookups on the internet for ZAPOLANSKY and found the name listed at: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/szczuczyn-belarus/szc368.html which is a necrology for Ostrin by Ellen Sadove Renck. The second URL that appeared was for an artist named Alexander Zapolansky who was born in Tomsk, Siberia, and claims to be a descendent of Rabbi Tosfot Yomtov ( Lipman-Heller). See "The Tribe: The Cohen-Levy Heritage" website at: http://www.cohen-levi.org/whos_who/zapolyansky_a001.htm So I then did an online search for Tosfot Yomtov and one of the URLs that turned up http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/maharamschick.html which is for the 100th Yahrzeit of the "Maharam Schick." This has a "click-on" for the Shick family tree showing descendents of Rabbi Yuda ben Maharan Padua, Saul Wahl (the alleged "King for a Day") Rabbi Katzenellenbogen, Rabbi Yomtov Heller, and others. Dr. Neil Rosenstein, the noted genealogist who specializes in the rabbinical genealogy has published articles on the Katzenellenbogens, so maybe he would be the best person to ask whether the artist Alexander Zapolansky is, as he claims on , a descendent of YomTov Heller. Dr. Rosenstein's email address is: Neil@tali.net Naomi Fatouros (nee FELDMAN) Bloomington, Indiana NFatouros@aol.com Researching: BELKOWSKY and BIELKOWSKY, Odessa and Berdichev;ROTHSTEIN, Kremenchug; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SCHUTZ, RETTIG, WAHL, Shcherets; LEVY, Mulhouse; SAS or SASS,Podwolochisk; RAPOPORT, Tarnopol, Korostyshev; BEHAM, Salok and Kharkov; WOLPIANSKY, Ostryna.
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Professor Anders in Toronto May 8
#latvia
lisa.newman.a@...
In case any of you have not heard, Professor Edward Anders, author of JEWS IN
LIEJAPJA, LATVIA 1941-45 - A Memorial Book is speaking to the Toronto Jewish Genealogical Society, Thursday May 8, 8 pm at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue, Glencairn Avenue at Bathurst. Lisa Newman researching SAMUEL, SEBBA - Libau PINES - Belarus ROTENBERG - Ivansk, Poland
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Latvia SIG #Latvia Professor Anders in Toronto May 8
#latvia
lisa.newman.a@...
In case any of you have not heard, Professor Edward Anders, author of JEWS IN
LIEJAPJA, LATVIA 1941-45 - A Memorial Book is speaking to the Toronto Jewish Genealogical Society, Thursday May 8, 8 pm at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue, Glencairn Avenue at Bathurst. Lisa Newman researching SAMUEL, SEBBA - Libau PINES - Belarus ROTENBERG - Ivansk, Poland
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Re: Salomon family in Gothenburg
#scandinavia
adamandlopa yamey <adamandlopa@...>
I have forwarded your message to an uncle of mine,
Julian SALOMON. Adam Yamey, London UK. ------------------------ Norman Poser: ------------------------
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Scandinavia SIG #Scandinavia Re: Salomon family in Gothenburg
#scandinavia
adamandlopa yamey <adamandlopa@...>
I have forwarded your message to an uncle of mine,
Julian SALOMON. Adam Yamey, London UK. ------------------------ Norman Poser: ------------------------
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Re: Simcha
#general
dshapiro@...
This is correct only in modern Israel, but I think further investigationGeoffrey Collins wrote: >Is there any truth in the idea that 'Simha'is a name given to Boys by Ashkenazim and Girls by Sefardim?> will show that most of these Ashkenazi female Simchas were named after a relative named Freida and translated it to Simcha, but traditionally the name was restricted to males. The same is true with Yona, which traditionally was a male name (like the prophet Jonah) but in Israel is used by females as a translation of the Yiddish Toibe (dove). David Shapiro Jerusalem
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Simcha
#general
dshapiro@...
This is correct only in modern Israel, but I think further investigationGeoffrey Collins wrote: >Is there any truth in the idea that 'Simha'is a name given to Boys by Ashkenazim and Girls by Sefardim?> will show that most of these Ashkenazi female Simchas were named after a relative named Freida and translated it to Simcha, but traditionally the name was restricted to males. The same is true with Yona, which traditionally was a male name (like the prophet Jonah) but in Israel is used by females as a translation of the Yiddish Toibe (dove). David Shapiro Jerusalem
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