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Melykut Synagogue
#hungary
Jbacskai@...
1. There is a web site for Melykut in the internet. In the geography section
it says: "Melykut is located near Baja (40km), Kiskunhalas (36km) and Szeged (65 km)". Janoshalma is the adjacent community on the North. Melykut village web site: http://www.melykut.com/modules.php?name=tortenelme On the history page there is one sentence concerning the Jewish community: " in 1875 a Jewish Elementary school was established" 2. There is a book in Hungarian by Somodi Henrietta: Zsidok Bacs-Kiskun Megyeben (Jews in Bacs-Kis-Kun County). A brief history of the Jewish community of Melykut is on p. 137--139. English translation of p. 137-138: "... The community was founded around 1890, more specific information on this is unavailable. The holidays and prayer times were celebrated in the home of one of the members of the community, they did not have an independent synagogue. The community probably joined the Janoshalma community." Judy Bacskai Kensington, California
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Melykut Synagogue
#hungary
Jbacskai@...
1. There is a web site for Melykut in the internet. In the geography section
it says: "Melykut is located near Baja (40km), Kiskunhalas (36km) and Szeged (65 km)". Janoshalma is the adjacent community on the North. Melykut village web site: http://www.melykut.com/modules.php?name=tortenelme On the history page there is one sentence concerning the Jewish community: " in 1875 a Jewish Elementary school was established" 2. There is a book in Hungarian by Somodi Henrietta: Zsidok Bacs-Kiskun Megyeben (Jews in Bacs-Kis-Kun County). A brief history of the Jewish community of Melykut is on p. 137--139. English translation of p. 137-138: "... The community was founded around 1890, more specific information on this is unavailable. The holidays and prayer times were celebrated in the home of one of the members of the community, they did not have an independent synagogue. The community probably joined the Janoshalma community." Judy Bacskai Kensington, California
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Book recommendation
#general
Elsebeth Paikin
"Norman S. Poser:
"Escape. A Jewish Scandinavian family in the Second World War". Sareve Press, New York. 2006. 304 pages. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-9785910-0-3 Now available on JewishGen Mall http://www.jewishgenmall.org/ On April 9, 1940, Germany invaded Norway and Denmark. By the end of WWII more than a third of the Norwegian Jews would be dead at the hand of the Nazis and their collaborators, but most of the Danish Jews were saved by the Danish People. This is the story of a Jewish-Scandinavian family who, all but one, escaped the death camps. It is also a story of the Jews in Scandinavia from medieval times through the upheavals of the 20th Century, told in the context of the national movements, attitudes, and policies that are inseparable from both collective and individual history. The Salomons were descended >from two Jewish Danish-born brothers who established a shoe factory in Norway in the 19th Century. At the time of the invasion most members were still living in Norway or Denmark. Their routes of escape >from their Nazi-occupied homelands weave a mixed pattern of strategies, reactions, good and bad luck, and debts to the kindness of strangers that mirrors on an intimate scale the experience of Holocaust survivors in Scandinavia. Johanna, the widowed matriarch of the family, refused to flee Norway and was imprisoned there, stubbornly clinging to Norwegian citizenship. Because of an equal determined diplomat, who interceded for her, she escaped deportation to Auschwitz, by fleeing to Denmark - only to have to flee once more in October 1943 >from Denmark to Sweden. One of Johanna's sons survived the occupation in a mental asylum. Two sons and a cousin were able to reach Sweden, a daughter fled alone with her little girl along a circuitous path via Sweden, Moscow and Tokyo that ended in New York City. But the history unfolded here is more than a tale of physical escape. It reverberates through multiple levels with the many meanings of what is lost and what is gained when lives are overturned. For one brother, escape >from Norway meant a chance, at last, to do work he seemed meant to do. Escape for one sister freed her >from the direct control of a domineering mother. In the strangest and saddest saga, the only sister not endangered my the Nazis escaped her own life by leaping >from an oceanliner window. Escape is a family story and much, much more. It is an exciting story, easily read (and hard to put down before the last page) and free form sentimentality, but it is also an academic work with bibliography, notes and index. A formidable book that I warmly recommend. P.S. I have no economic interest in the book Best regards Elsebeth Paikin, President Jewish Genealogical Society of Denmark: http://www.jewishgen.org/jgs-denmark/ & SIG Coordinator and webmaster: JewishGen's Scandinavia SIG http://www.jewishgen.org/scandinavia/ mailto:elsebeth@paikin.dk
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Book recommendation
#general
Elsebeth Paikin
"Norman S. Poser:
"Escape. A Jewish Scandinavian family in the Second World War". Sareve Press, New York. 2006. 304 pages. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-9785910-0-3 Now available on JewishGen Mall http://www.jewishgenmall.org/ On April 9, 1940, Germany invaded Norway and Denmark. By the end of WWII more than a third of the Norwegian Jews would be dead at the hand of the Nazis and their collaborators, but most of the Danish Jews were saved by the Danish People. This is the story of a Jewish-Scandinavian family who, all but one, escaped the death camps. It is also a story of the Jews in Scandinavia from medieval times through the upheavals of the 20th Century, told in the context of the national movements, attitudes, and policies that are inseparable from both collective and individual history. The Salomons were descended >from two Jewish Danish-born brothers who established a shoe factory in Norway in the 19th Century. At the time of the invasion most members were still living in Norway or Denmark. Their routes of escape >from their Nazi-occupied homelands weave a mixed pattern of strategies, reactions, good and bad luck, and debts to the kindness of strangers that mirrors on an intimate scale the experience of Holocaust survivors in Scandinavia. Johanna, the widowed matriarch of the family, refused to flee Norway and was imprisoned there, stubbornly clinging to Norwegian citizenship. Because of an equal determined diplomat, who interceded for her, she escaped deportation to Auschwitz, by fleeing to Denmark - only to have to flee once more in October 1943 >from Denmark to Sweden. One of Johanna's sons survived the occupation in a mental asylum. Two sons and a cousin were able to reach Sweden, a daughter fled alone with her little girl along a circuitous path via Sweden, Moscow and Tokyo that ended in New York City. But the history unfolded here is more than a tale of physical escape. It reverberates through multiple levels with the many meanings of what is lost and what is gained when lives are overturned. For one brother, escape >from Norway meant a chance, at last, to do work he seemed meant to do. Escape for one sister freed her >from the direct control of a domineering mother. In the strangest and saddest saga, the only sister not endangered my the Nazis escaped her own life by leaping >from an oceanliner window. Escape is a family story and much, much more. It is an exciting story, easily read (and hard to put down before the last page) and free form sentimentality, but it is also an academic work with bibliography, notes and index. A formidable book that I warmly recommend. P.S. I have no economic interest in the book Best regards Elsebeth Paikin, President Jewish Genealogical Society of Denmark: http://www.jewishgen.org/jgs-denmark/ & SIG Coordinator and webmaster: JewishGen's Scandinavia SIG http://www.jewishgen.org/scandinavia/ mailto:elsebeth@paikin.dk
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Phila. Orphans Court or Archive Office
#general
Steve Pickoltz
Is there a Genner going to Phila. that could stop in at the City's Marriage
Bureau (a part of the Phila. Orphans Court, 4th floor at City Hall) or the City's Archive Office located on Market St? I am trying to find a marriage record between the years of 1891 and 1901. The couple in question are Berisch (Bernard) Pickholtz and Bluma Bernstein. At either location, the records are free to the public for viewing. To make it easy to locate people, the record books are by year and in alphabetical order for both the bride and groom. Any help is appreciated. Steve Pickholtz Tabernacle, NJ searching---- PICKHOLTZ (all spellings), WINITSKY (all spellings), and KLEIN/KLINE (of the Phila. JCC family).
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Phila. Orphans Court or Archive Office
#general
Steve Pickoltz
Is there a Genner going to Phila. that could stop in at the City's Marriage
Bureau (a part of the Phila. Orphans Court, 4th floor at City Hall) or the City's Archive Office located on Market St? I am trying to find a marriage record between the years of 1891 and 1901. The couple in question are Berisch (Bernard) Pickholtz and Bluma Bernstein. At either location, the records are free to the public for viewing. To make it easy to locate people, the record books are by year and in alphabetical order for both the bride and groom. Any help is appreciated. Steve Pickholtz Tabernacle, NJ searching---- PICKHOLTZ (all spellings), WINITSKY (all spellings), and KLEIN/KLINE (of the Phila. JCC family).
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Re: finding grandfather's town
#general
Joanne Saltman <js24saltman@...>
Most birth records list the place of birth of the parents-if you know the
name and date of birth of his children you can get the birth record. This is how I found the town of origin for my ancestors. Joanne Saltman Belchertown, MA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: finding grandfather's town
#general
Joanne Saltman <js24saltman@...>
Most birth records list the place of birth of the parents-if you know the
name and date of birth of his children you can get the birth record. This is how I found the town of origin for my ancestors. Joanne Saltman Belchertown, MA
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Elsebeth Paikin
2007 IAJGS Conference Registration Open
I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Conference. ' It is scheduled for July 15-20, 2007 (Tamuz 29-Av 5, 5767) at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. Please visit the conference website at http://www.slc2007.org to register, submit speaking proposals, book rooms at the Hilton, plan your travel and learn more about what the conference and Salt Lake City have to offer. We will keep you informed as the website is updated with additional information, including scheduled speakers, computer workshops, SIG luncheons and much, much more. The conference will include a special showing of "Lives Remembered: A Shtetl Through A Photographer's Eye". This photographic, museum exhibit has been displayed internationally. It depicts a vibrant and modern life in an Eastern European shtetl >from 1898-1939. Conference Co-Chairs Hal Bookbinder and Michael Brenner, and the entire conference committee, look forward to sharing this exciting experience with all of you. Jan Meisels Allen Registration Chair
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Elsebeth Paikin
2007 IAJGS Conference Registration Open
I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Conference. ' It is scheduled for July 15-20, 2007 (Tamuz 29-Av 5, 5767) at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. Please visit the conference website at http://www.slc2007.org to register, submit speaking proposals, book rooms at the Hilton, plan your travel and learn more about what the conference and Salt Lake City have to offer. We will keep you informed as the website is updated with additional information, including scheduled speakers, computer workshops, SIG luncheons and much, much more. The conference will include a special showing of "Lives Remembered: A Shtetl Through A Photographer's Eye". This photographic, museum exhibit has been displayed internationally. It depicts a vibrant and modern life in an Eastern European shtetl >from 1898-1939. Conference Co-Chairs Hal Bookbinder and Michael Brenner, and the entire conference committee, look forward to sharing this exciting experience with all of you. Jan Meisels Allen Registration Chair
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2007 IAJGS Conference Registration Open
#latvia
Elsebeth Paikin
Next conference:
I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Conference. It is scheduled for July 15-20, 2007 (Tamuz 29-Av 5, 5767) at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. Please visit the conference website at http://www.slc2007.org to register, submit speaking proposals, book rooms at the Hilton, plan your travel and learn more about what the conference and Salt Lake City have to offer. We will keep you informed as the website is updated with additional information, including scheduled speakers, computer workshops, SIG luncheons and much, much more. The conference will include a special showing of "Lives Remembered: A Shtetl Through A Photographer's Eye". This photographic, museum exhibit has been displayed internationally. It depicts a vibrant and modern life in an Eastern European shtetl >from 1898-1939. Conference Co-Chairs Hal Bookbinder and Michael Brenner, and the entire conference committee, look forward to sharing this exciting experience with all of you. Jan Meisels Allen Registration Chair
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Latvia SIG #Latvia 2007 IAJGS Conference Registration Open
#latvia
Elsebeth Paikin
Next conference:
I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Conference. It is scheduled for July 15-20, 2007 (Tamuz 29-Av 5, 5767) at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. Please visit the conference website at http://www.slc2007.org to register, submit speaking proposals, book rooms at the Hilton, plan your travel and learn more about what the conference and Salt Lake City have to offer. We will keep you informed as the website is updated with additional information, including scheduled speakers, computer workshops, SIG luncheons and much, much more. The conference will include a special showing of "Lives Remembered: A Shtetl Through A Photographer's Eye". This photographic, museum exhibit has been displayed internationally. It depicts a vibrant and modern life in an Eastern European shtetl >from 1898-1939. Conference Co-Chairs Hal Bookbinder and Michael Brenner, and the entire conference committee, look forward to sharing this exciting experience with all of you. Jan Meisels Allen Registration Chair
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Re: Origin of the name Beines
#latvia
Gary Mokotoff: <mokotoff@...>
According to "A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names", Beines is a variant
of Bendit which has its origins in the Christian name Benedictus (blessed). The Hebrew equivalent would be Boruch (blessed). I had a granduncle named Beines. Gary Mokotoff mokotoff@earthlink.net
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Latvia SIG #Latvia RE: Origin of the name Beines
#latvia
Gary Mokotoff: <mokotoff@...>
According to "A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names", Beines is a variant
of Bendit which has its origins in the Christian name Benedictus (blessed). The Hebrew equivalent would be Boruch (blessed). I had a granduncle named Beines. Gary Mokotoff mokotoff@earthlink.net
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2007 IAJGS Conference Registration Open
#scandinavia
Elsebeth Paikin
I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Conference. '
It is scheduled for July 15-20, 2007 (Tamuz 29-Av 5, 5767) at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. Please visit the conference website at http://www.slc2007.org to register, submit speaking proposals, book rooms at the Hilton, plan your travel and learn more about what the conference and Salt Lake City have to offer. We will keep you informed as the website is updated with additional information, including scheduled speakers, computer workshops, SIG luncheons and much, much more. The conference will include a special showing of "Lives Remembered: A Shtetl Through A Photographer's Eye". This photographic, museum exhibit has been displayed internationally. It depicts a vibrant and modern life in an Eastern European shtetl >from 1898-1939. Conference Co-Chairs Hal Bookbinder and Michael Brenner, and the entire conference committee, look forward to sharing this exciting experience with all of you. Jan Meisels Allen Registration Chair
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Scandinavia SIG #Scandinavia 2007 IAJGS Conference Registration Open
#scandinavia
Elsebeth Paikin
I am delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Conference. '
It is scheduled for July 15-20, 2007 (Tamuz 29-Av 5, 5767) at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. Please visit the conference website at http://www.slc2007.org to register, submit speaking proposals, book rooms at the Hilton, plan your travel and learn more about what the conference and Salt Lake City have to offer. We will keep you informed as the website is updated with additional information, including scheduled speakers, computer workshops, SIG luncheons and much, much more. The conference will include a special showing of "Lives Remembered: A Shtetl Through A Photographer's Eye". This photographic, museum exhibit has been displayed internationally. It depicts a vibrant and modern life in an Eastern European shtetl >from 1898-1939. Conference Co-Chairs Hal Bookbinder and Michael Brenner, and the entire conference committee, look forward to sharing this exciting experience with all of you. Jan Meisels Allen Registration Chair
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Frankfurt Rat-Beil Str. Cemetery Database images
#germany
Larry E.Oppenheimer <leoppen7@...>
I am interested in the inscriptions on 6 gravestones at the
Rat-Beil-Strasse cemetery, Frankfurt aM. I went to the Leo Baeck Institute library to view their copies of the Norbert Heyeckhaus database DVD set. I couldn't figure out how to find the high resolution images I needed, and the librarians were not of much help. >from the on-line database at http://www.jcdp.de I have the field numbers and ID numbers. How do I get >from there to the correct high resolution images on the DVDs? I would really appreciate any help you could give me. Larry Oppenheimer Sarasota, Florida <leoppen7@verizon.net>
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German SIG #Germany Frankfurt Rat-Beil Str. Cemetery Database images
#germany
Larry E.Oppenheimer <leoppen7@...>
I am interested in the inscriptions on 6 gravestones at the
Rat-Beil-Strasse cemetery, Frankfurt aM. I went to the Leo Baeck Institute library to view their copies of the Norbert Heyeckhaus database DVD set. I couldn't figure out how to find the high resolution images I needed, and the librarians were not of much help. >from the on-line database at http://www.jcdp.de I have the field numbers and ID numbers. How do I get >from there to the correct high resolution images on the DVDs? I would really appreciate any help you could give me. Larry Oppenheimer Sarasota, Florida <leoppen7@verizon.net>
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Re: puzzling results of GUGENHEIM research
#germany
buckidstein@...
The pieces of information, which Dottie J. Miller gives about the GUGENHEIM
or GUGENHEIMB or GUGGENHEIMER and about the GEISMAR families may be fit together in the following way. However, since too often the localities are not mentioned and the context in which these names are used is missing, only be an attempt can be made by someone who regularly works with this sort of material. Jacob Geismar in Ihringen had at least three daughters. First one of them married Marx G. not long before 1739. He was allowed to move to Ihringen. In 1738, he was called Marx G. >from T in order to make clear >from where this new person had come. ">from T" can be a hint that he was not yet a resident in Ihringen. He might have been a servant of his future father-in-law. In later entries, his new residence was added. About the same time, a second daughter married Samuel >from a different place. His father-in-law's second attempt to make him Schutzjude in Ihringen was successful in 1740. Out of unknown reasons, Samuel's family did not move to Ihringen. There are plausible rasons. Sometimes Jews rejected their Schutzbrief. Samuel may have changed his mind and did no longer want to leave his hometown. Or he had moved to another locality, or he had died. I have found all these reasons. Or did he move later and is hidden behind the phrase "another Gugenheim"? A third daughter married in or before 1744. Her husband was not allowed to move to Ihringen. I regard Marx or Mardechai and Samuel as two persons, first because of their two different Jewish given names. I see no reason why one should mistrust the document of 1739. On the contrary, why should a father-in-law apply for a second Schutzbrief, if he had already recently received one for this son-in-law? The fact that there are no entries in 18th century registers does not prove that someone did not exist. This person might have been exempted from paying taxes in his first year, he might have been exempted frompaying in later years because of poverty. I remember a Jew near Wiesbaden who became Schutzjude in 1777; he paid some of his duties in the first years and nearly nothing for more than 20 years. Widows often disappear >from the Schutzgeld records, not because they had died, but because the obligation to pay had ended. There is no general rule how many sons and daughters of one couple were conceded a Schutzbrief. That was different >from state to state and >from time to time. It depended e.g. on the influence a father had. The economic situation in a locality could cause Gentiles and Jews to protest against new Jewish families as a result of a newly granted Schutzbrief. Gerhard Buck, Idstein, Germany (mailto:buckidstein@aol.com) MODERATOR NOTE: Gerhard Buck is the author of several books and numerous articles on Jewish communities in Hesse Nassau. He is compiling a database which, he hopes, will eventually include all Jewish residents of the towns in that region. His two articles in the most recent issues of "Stammbaum, the Journal of German Jewish Genealogy" describe the techniques that he uses to comb archival records for information.
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German SIG #Germany Re: puzzling results of GUGENHEIM research
#germany
buckidstein@...
The pieces of information, which Dottie J. Miller gives about the GUGENHEIM
or GUGENHEIMB or GUGGENHEIMER and about the GEISMAR families may be fit together in the following way. However, since too often the localities are not mentioned and the context in which these names are used is missing, only be an attempt can be made by someone who regularly works with this sort of material. Jacob Geismar in Ihringen had at least three daughters. First one of them married Marx G. not long before 1739. He was allowed to move to Ihringen. In 1738, he was called Marx G. >from T in order to make clear >from where this new person had come. ">from T" can be a hint that he was not yet a resident in Ihringen. He might have been a servant of his future father-in-law. In later entries, his new residence was added. About the same time, a second daughter married Samuel >from a different place. His father-in-law's second attempt to make him Schutzjude in Ihringen was successful in 1740. Out of unknown reasons, Samuel's family did not move to Ihringen. There are plausible rasons. Sometimes Jews rejected their Schutzbrief. Samuel may have changed his mind and did no longer want to leave his hometown. Or he had moved to another locality, or he had died. I have found all these reasons. Or did he move later and is hidden behind the phrase "another Gugenheim"? A third daughter married in or before 1744. Her husband was not allowed to move to Ihringen. I regard Marx or Mardechai and Samuel as two persons, first because of their two different Jewish given names. I see no reason why one should mistrust the document of 1739. On the contrary, why should a father-in-law apply for a second Schutzbrief, if he had already recently received one for this son-in-law? The fact that there are no entries in 18th century registers does not prove that someone did not exist. This person might have been exempted from paying taxes in his first year, he might have been exempted frompaying in later years because of poverty. I remember a Jew near Wiesbaden who became Schutzjude in 1777; he paid some of his duties in the first years and nearly nothing for more than 20 years. Widows often disappear >from the Schutzgeld records, not because they had died, but because the obligation to pay had ended. There is no general rule how many sons and daughters of one couple were conceded a Schutzbrief. That was different >from state to state and >from time to time. It depended e.g. on the influence a father had. The economic situation in a locality could cause Gentiles and Jews to protest against new Jewish families as a result of a newly granted Schutzbrief. Gerhard Buck, Idstein, Germany (mailto:buckidstein@aol.com) MODERATOR NOTE: Gerhard Buck is the author of several books and numerous articles on Jewish communities in Hesse Nassau. He is compiling a database which, he hopes, will eventually include all Jewish residents of the towns in that region. His two articles in the most recent issues of "Stammbaum, the Journal of German Jewish Genealogy" describe the techniques that he uses to comb archival records for information.
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