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Re: Question about Levite descent
#poland
Susan Tait Porcaro <suetaitporcaro@...>
Thank you to everyone who has responded to my query about Levite descent. It
seems to be the consensus that it is passed down >from father to son, so technically, my husband has the blood of the tribe of Levy in him, but is not considered a Levite since it is his mother's side, etc. some people say Reb is merely a title like Mister, some say it denotes a learned man. thank you for all this feedback. I appreciate it! :) Sue Tait Porcaro Windsor CT
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Yiddish translation help needed on VM
#poland
Connie Fisher Newhan
Dear Friends-
Could someone please translate the writing that is on the back of a photo of my grandmother Liza Barska Fiszer who was murdered in the Holocaust. You may see the script at the direct link: http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6358 Please respond privately to me at ylca87@aol.com Thank you very much. Best Regards, Connie Fisher Newhan (#1272) Corona, California FISHER/FISCHER/FISZER, FISZEL (Warszawa& Bedzin, Poland),S(Z)PRINGER, ROTHSTEIN, HAMBURGER(Bedzin, Lagiza, Zarki, Poland), GERSTEN (Obertyn, Galacia) BARSKA/BARSKY/BARSKIY(Odessa), GOLDBERG (Sokolka?), FELDMAN (Veliuona,Kaunas), KAHN/KOHN/COHN/CAHN, FRIEDSAM (Bodendorf, Coln? Germany, Pittsburgh, PA), NEWHAN/NEUHAN/NEUHAHN (Hesse Cassel, Meimbressen, Germany, Baltimore, MD), BOHORODCZANER (Potok Zloty, Ukraine), LEVINE, BLUM, ROTH, ROCKOVITZ, ABRAMS, RABINOWITZ, GERSHIKEVICH
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JRI Poland #Poland Re: Question about Levite descent
#poland
Susan Tait Porcaro <suetaitporcaro@...>
Thank you to everyone who has responded to my query about Levite descent. It
seems to be the consensus that it is passed down >from father to son, so technically, my husband has the blood of the tribe of Levy in him, but is not considered a Levite since it is his mother's side, etc. some people say Reb is merely a title like Mister, some say it denotes a learned man. thank you for all this feedback. I appreciate it! :) Sue Tait Porcaro Windsor CT
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JRI Poland #Poland Yiddish translation help needed on VM
#poland
Connie Fisher Newhan
Dear Friends-
Could someone please translate the writing that is on the back of a photo of my grandmother Liza Barska Fiszer who was murdered in the Holocaust. You may see the script at the direct link: http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6358 Please respond privately to me at ylca87@aol.com Thank you very much. Best Regards, Connie Fisher Newhan (#1272) Corona, California FISHER/FISCHER/FISZER, FISZEL (Warszawa& Bedzin, Poland),S(Z)PRINGER, ROTHSTEIN, HAMBURGER(Bedzin, Lagiza, Zarki, Poland), GERSTEN (Obertyn, Galacia) BARSKA/BARSKY/BARSKIY(Odessa), GOLDBERG (Sokolka?), FELDMAN (Veliuona,Kaunas), KAHN/KOHN/COHN/CAHN, FRIEDSAM (Bodendorf, Coln? Germany, Pittsburgh, PA), NEWHAN/NEUHAN/NEUHAHN (Hesse Cassel, Meimbressen, Germany, Baltimore, MD), BOHORODCZANER (Potok Zloty, Ukraine), LEVINE, BLUM, ROTH, ROCKOVITZ, ABRAMS, RABINOWITZ, GERSHIKEVICH
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JRI-Poland Success Stories-"The Galitzianer" Summer Issue
#poland
Pamela Weisberger <pweisberger@...>
In honor of Jewish Records Indexing Poland's 10th anniversary, "The
Galitzianer," the quarterly publication of Gesher Galicia, is devoting a major portion of our summer issue to "success stories" involving JRI-Poland, which specifically relate to "Galician" research. If you've used their remarkable indexes make inroads in your family trees or towns of origin...ordered records >from Polish archives, or used these indexes to locate missing ancestors in Family History Center microfilms...please send us your stories! Try to keep these anecdotes short...a few paragraphs will be fine unless its a very involved story. Include as much detail as possible, with a beginning, middle and end. If you want to send a JPEG image of the record(s) that lead you to your success...or an old photograph or map that ties into your story, please do. Take your time to produce the finished product, as we won't be able to rewrite it for you. Even a sentence or two of your successes...the road you traveled to knock down a brick wall....what this enormous undertaking by Stan Diamond & company has meant to you...will help make this tribute as successful as your stories. Please send your copy, if possible, in a Word document, directly to: pweisberger@hotmail.com Due date: July 13th (but sooner will be better) And remember--only Galician research, please! Thank you! Pamela Weisberger Research Coordinator Gesher Galicia Santa Monica, CA pweisberger@hotmail.com
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JRI Poland #Poland JRI-Poland Success Stories-"The Galitzianer" Summer Issue
#poland
Pamela Weisberger <pweisberger@...>
In honor of Jewish Records Indexing Poland's 10th anniversary, "The
Galitzianer," the quarterly publication of Gesher Galicia, is devoting a major portion of our summer issue to "success stories" involving JRI-Poland, which specifically relate to "Galician" research. If you've used their remarkable indexes make inroads in your family trees or towns of origin...ordered records >from Polish archives, or used these indexes to locate missing ancestors in Family History Center microfilms...please send us your stories! Try to keep these anecdotes short...a few paragraphs will be fine unless its a very involved story. Include as much detail as possible, with a beginning, middle and end. If you want to send a JPEG image of the record(s) that lead you to your success...or an old photograph or map that ties into your story, please do. Take your time to produce the finished product, as we won't be able to rewrite it for you. Even a sentence or two of your successes...the road you traveled to knock down a brick wall....what this enormous undertaking by Stan Diamond & company has meant to you...will help make this tribute as successful as your stories. Please send your copy, if possible, in a Word document, directly to: pweisberger@hotmail.com Due date: July 13th (but sooner will be better) And remember--only Galician research, please! Thank you! Pamela Weisberger Research Coordinator Gesher Galicia Santa Monica, CA pweisberger@hotmail.com
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JRI-Poland Success Stories-"The Galitzianer" Summer Issue
#galicia
Pamela Weisberger <pweisberger@...>
In honor of Jewish Records Indexing Poland's 10th anniversary, "The
Galitzianer," the quarterly publication of Gesher Galicia, is devoting a major portion of our summer issue to "success stories" involving JRI-Poland, which specifically relate to "Galician" research. If you've used their remarkable indexes make inroads in your family trees or towns of origin...ordered records >from Polish archives, or used these indexes to locate missing ancestors in Family History Center microfilms...please send us your stories! Try to keep these anecdotes short...a few paragraphs will be fine unless its a very involved story. Include as much detail as possible, with a beginning, middle and end. If you want to send a JPEG image of the record(s) that lead you to your success...or an old photograph or map that ties into your story, please do. Take your time to produce the finished product, as we won't be able to rewrite it for you. Even a sentence or two of your successes...the road you traveled to knock down a brick wall....what this enormous undertaking by Stan Diamond & company has meant to you...will help make this tribute as successful as your stories. Please send your copy, if possible, in a Word document, directly to: pweisberger@hotmail.com Due date: July 13th (but sooner will be better) And remember--only Galician research, please! Thank you! Pamela Weisberger Research Coordinator Gesher Galicia Santa Monica, CA pweisberger@hotmail.com
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia JRI-Poland Success Stories-"The Galitzianer" Summer Issue
#galicia
Pamela Weisberger <pweisberger@...>
In honor of Jewish Records Indexing Poland's 10th anniversary, "The
Galitzianer," the quarterly publication of Gesher Galicia, is devoting a major portion of our summer issue to "success stories" involving JRI-Poland, which specifically relate to "Galician" research. If you've used their remarkable indexes make inroads in your family trees or towns of origin...ordered records >from Polish archives, or used these indexes to locate missing ancestors in Family History Center microfilms...please send us your stories! Try to keep these anecdotes short...a few paragraphs will be fine unless its a very involved story. Include as much detail as possible, with a beginning, middle and end. If you want to send a JPEG image of the record(s) that lead you to your success...or an old photograph or map that ties into your story, please do. Take your time to produce the finished product, as we won't be able to rewrite it for you. Even a sentence or two of your successes...the road you traveled to knock down a brick wall....what this enormous undertaking by Stan Diamond & company has meant to you...will help make this tribute as successful as your stories. Please send your copy, if possible, in a Word document, directly to: pweisberger@hotmail.com Due date: July 13th (but sooner will be better) And remember--only Galician research, please! Thank you! Pamela Weisberger Research Coordinator Gesher Galicia Santa Monica, CA pweisberger@hotmail.com
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Drohobycz Landsman Society Member List Part 3
#galicia
Mark Jacobson
Independent Drohobyczer Young Mens Benevolent
Association. This is the end of the list, mostly younger members, many born in the US and sons or sons-in-law of older members, who joined between 1934 and 1950 when the book ended, and the list is not alphabetical, it is chronological. I hope this was helpful to some of you, if you see a familiar name or need more info on particular people let me know. Some of these people are my family and I have more specific information. Sidney ROSCH wife Tillie GREENBERG Jacob DRUCKER wife Dorothy BLUM Isadore WAGENFELD wife Tillie OLIVER Abraham RUDOLPH wife Anna EHRLICHMAN Harry KREPPEL Solomon GOETZ wife Bertha AUERBACH Leo ROSENBERG MD wife Miriam LONG Mac GELLER (born Russia) wife Tillie TURENSCHEIN William GOLDBERG wife Helen DICHTER Saul STARR MD wife Sarah BUZER Max HERSCHDORFER Irving SCHEFTLER wife Mathilda SCHRANG David LEVINE Rabbi (born Russia) wife Rose HIRSCHMAN Albert BERMAN wife Ruth FERN Morris WULKAN Sidney WULKAN Lester GERSTEN Morris EICHEL David LITTELL wife Bertha APPELDORF Emanuel KRISS wife Ann MENDELSON Abraham FISCHELBERG wife Betty RUBIN Barney LEVENSTEIN wife Rebecca MELLOWITZ Max FERMOGLICH Osias REINER wife Rose LEINWAND Henry WEISS funeral director Nathan WECHTER MD wife Vivian ROSENTHAL Harry FISCHER wife Freda RACHMAN Max BOXER MD Irving MACHLOWITZ wife Rebecca KATZ Irving POSNER wife Mollie BEGAN Jacob OPPERMAN Max FREILICH Maurice NEWMAN wife Anna ZEISEL Herman JASSIN wife Beatrice GREENBERG William OLIVER Morris SETLESS wife Sylvia SPARBER Robert MAYER Lester GERSTEN wife Esther BERMAN Samuel GOLDSTEIN (born Russia) wife Frieda BADIAN Henry KROLL wife Ruth DICHTER Emanuel KRISS wife Anne MENDELSOHON Hyman ZEIDMAN wife Hilda LERNER Jack WEINER Henry DUCHINGER Daniel SPERBER wife Annette KORN Sidney FERMAGLICH wife Rosalind G. BIEDERBERGER Hyman B. FERMAGLICH wife Ida STERNBACH Stanley FERMAGLICH Louis SCHECHTER wife Nettie SACKS Henry BEIN wife Dora TRAUBER Samuel KLINGHOFFER wife Lillian DWORKIN Abraham KLINGHOFFER wife Harriet GRUBER Herman SELINGER wife Katie LERNER Jacob D. GOLLIGER wife Dinah SCHENKER Max SCHNALL wife Minnie LERNER Simon SUSSMAN wife Edna GAIZDA? Martin SCHREINER Joseph KLINGHOFFER wife Mary STERNBERG A. GREEN wife Esther LANGER Mark Jacobson Boca Raton, FL DOGULOV/DOVGALEVSKY - Belaya Tserkov/Kiev Ukraine; COHEN/KANA/KAHAN - Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine; JACOBSON - Polotsk, Belarus; COBLENTZ - Polotsk, Belarus; KAMERMAN - Drohobycz, Galicia; KOPPEL - Stebnik/Drohobycz, Galicia; JACOBI - Stratyn/Rohatyn, Galicia; ROTHLEIN - Stratyn/Rohatyn, Galicia; TUCHFELD - Rzeszow/Stryj/Lvov, Galicia; GOLDSTEIN - Ranizow, Galicia
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Drohobycz Landsman Society Member List Part 3
#galicia
Mark Jacobson
Independent Drohobyczer Young Mens Benevolent
Association. This is the end of the list, mostly younger members, many born in the US and sons or sons-in-law of older members, who joined between 1934 and 1950 when the book ended, and the list is not alphabetical, it is chronological. I hope this was helpful to some of you, if you see a familiar name or need more info on particular people let me know. Some of these people are my family and I have more specific information. Sidney ROSCH wife Tillie GREENBERG Jacob DRUCKER wife Dorothy BLUM Isadore WAGENFELD wife Tillie OLIVER Abraham RUDOLPH wife Anna EHRLICHMAN Harry KREPPEL Solomon GOETZ wife Bertha AUERBACH Leo ROSENBERG MD wife Miriam LONG Mac GELLER (born Russia) wife Tillie TURENSCHEIN William GOLDBERG wife Helen DICHTER Saul STARR MD wife Sarah BUZER Max HERSCHDORFER Irving SCHEFTLER wife Mathilda SCHRANG David LEVINE Rabbi (born Russia) wife Rose HIRSCHMAN Albert BERMAN wife Ruth FERN Morris WULKAN Sidney WULKAN Lester GERSTEN Morris EICHEL David LITTELL wife Bertha APPELDORF Emanuel KRISS wife Ann MENDELSON Abraham FISCHELBERG wife Betty RUBIN Barney LEVENSTEIN wife Rebecca MELLOWITZ Max FERMOGLICH Osias REINER wife Rose LEINWAND Henry WEISS funeral director Nathan WECHTER MD wife Vivian ROSENTHAL Harry FISCHER wife Freda RACHMAN Max BOXER MD Irving MACHLOWITZ wife Rebecca KATZ Irving POSNER wife Mollie BEGAN Jacob OPPERMAN Max FREILICH Maurice NEWMAN wife Anna ZEISEL Herman JASSIN wife Beatrice GREENBERG William OLIVER Morris SETLESS wife Sylvia SPARBER Robert MAYER Lester GERSTEN wife Esther BERMAN Samuel GOLDSTEIN (born Russia) wife Frieda BADIAN Henry KROLL wife Ruth DICHTER Emanuel KRISS wife Anne MENDELSOHON Hyman ZEIDMAN wife Hilda LERNER Jack WEINER Henry DUCHINGER Daniel SPERBER wife Annette KORN Sidney FERMAGLICH wife Rosalind G. BIEDERBERGER Hyman B. FERMAGLICH wife Ida STERNBACH Stanley FERMAGLICH Louis SCHECHTER wife Nettie SACKS Henry BEIN wife Dora TRAUBER Samuel KLINGHOFFER wife Lillian DWORKIN Abraham KLINGHOFFER wife Harriet GRUBER Herman SELINGER wife Katie LERNER Jacob D. GOLLIGER wife Dinah SCHENKER Max SCHNALL wife Minnie LERNER Simon SUSSMAN wife Edna GAIZDA? Martin SCHREINER Joseph KLINGHOFFER wife Mary STERNBERG A. GREEN wife Esther LANGER Mark Jacobson Boca Raton, FL DOGULOV/DOVGALEVSKY - Belaya Tserkov/Kiev Ukraine; COHEN/KANA/KAHAN - Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine; JACOBSON - Polotsk, Belarus; COBLENTZ - Polotsk, Belarus; KAMERMAN - Drohobycz, Galicia; KOPPEL - Stebnik/Drohobycz, Galicia; JACOBI - Stratyn/Rohatyn, Galicia; ROTHLEIN - Stratyn/Rohatyn, Galicia; TUCHFELD - Rzeszow/Stryj/Lvov, Galicia; GOLDSTEIN - Ranizow, Galicia
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Re: Gesher Galicia email address
#galicia
Shelley K. Pollero
Dear All,
I noticed that Katie used the Reply to: geshergalicia@comcast.net instead of to katie2727@comcast.net. The geshergalicia@comcast.net email address is the one I use for GG communication (as coordinator). It comes only to me. It is also the GG email address we have registered on PayPal.com. I am happy to hear >from anyone regarding Gesher Galicia at geshergalicia@comcast.net. If you wish to post a message to the Galicia list, please send it to galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org. Thank you. Shelley -- Shelley K. Pollero, Coordinator Gesher Galicia Severna Park, Maryland geshergalicia@comcast.net http://www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/ On 6/26/05 2:00 AM, "Gesher Galicia SIG digest" <galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org> wrote: Subject: ZOLLER and MESSINGER >from Brody
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Re: Gesher Galicia email address
#galicia
Shelley K. Pollero
Dear All,
I noticed that Katie used the Reply to: geshergalicia@comcast.net instead of to katie2727@comcast.net. The geshergalicia@comcast.net email address is the one I use for GG communication (as coordinator). It comes only to me. It is also the GG email address we have registered on PayPal.com. I am happy to hear >from anyone regarding Gesher Galicia at geshergalicia@comcast.net. If you wish to post a message to the Galicia list, please send it to galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org. Thank you. Shelley -- Shelley K. Pollero, Coordinator Gesher Galicia Severna Park, Maryland geshergalicia@comcast.net http://www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/ On 6/26/05 2:00 AM, "Gesher Galicia SIG digest" <galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org> wrote: Subject: ZOLLER and MESSINGER >from Brody
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Re: Goldenberg
#galicia
David Goldenberg <dgolden2@...>
Dear Group,
I just joined this SIG and want to know if anyone is familiar with GOLDENBERGs >from Zolochev( Lvov, Ternopel)? I found useful information using: Jewish Records Indexing - Poland but I am missing a generation >from the late 1800s and early 1900s (the emigration (& Shoa) generation-to USA, Canada, Israel) Any input would be appreciated Thanks David David Goldenberg MD E-Mail: dgolden2@jhmi.edu E-Mail: gdavid@tx.technion.ac.il
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Re: Goldenberg
#galicia
David Goldenberg <dgolden2@...>
Dear Group,
I just joined this SIG and want to know if anyone is familiar with GOLDENBERGs >from Zolochev( Lvov, Ternopel)? I found useful information using: Jewish Records Indexing - Poland but I am missing a generation >from the late 1800s and early 1900s (the emigration (& Shoa) generation-to USA, Canada, Israel) Any input would be appreciated Thanks David David Goldenberg MD E-Mail: dgolden2@jhmi.edu E-Mail: gdavid@tx.technion.ac.il
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20th of Sivan/Pogroms
#general
Caryl Simon-Katler <csimon@...>
I thought it might be of interest to mention that the 20th of Sivan, which
begins tonight June 26 and lasts until sundown tomorrow, is a day which most of our relatives who lived in eastern Europe would have commemorated with a fast and the reading of yizkorbooks. It initially began following the first ritual murder accusation in Europe, in Blois, France in 1171. Thirty-two Jews died, rather than accept baptism. Yhe day of their burning was declared a perpetual fast. Interestingly, the Chmielnicki massacres some of which took place on the 20th of Sivan in 1648 were also commemorated by this same fast. The Megillat 'Efah or Scroll of Terror, an account of these Cossack massacres in which at least 100,000 Jews were murdered, was read and many old selichos >from 1171 recited. These customs were observed throughout eastern Europe up to the eve of World War II. Even if we no longer follow the custom, I think it's worthwhile to remember its significance for our families, who were coping with the ever-present threat of pogroms for centuries. The 20th of Sivan was their way of memorializing the thousands of victims claimed by these pogroms. Caryl Simon-Katler, Massachusetts
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen 20th of Sivan/Pogroms
#general
Caryl Simon-Katler <csimon@...>
I thought it might be of interest to mention that the 20th of Sivan, which
begins tonight June 26 and lasts until sundown tomorrow, is a day which most of our relatives who lived in eastern Europe would have commemorated with a fast and the reading of yizkorbooks. It initially began following the first ritual murder accusation in Europe, in Blois, France in 1171. Thirty-two Jews died, rather than accept baptism. Yhe day of their burning was declared a perpetual fast. Interestingly, the Chmielnicki massacres some of which took place on the 20th of Sivan in 1648 were also commemorated by this same fast. The Megillat 'Efah or Scroll of Terror, an account of these Cossack massacres in which at least 100,000 Jews were murdered, was read and many old selichos >from 1171 recited. These customs were observed throughout eastern Europe up to the eve of World War II. Even if we no longer follow the custom, I think it's worthwhile to remember its significance for our families, who were coping with the ever-present threat of pogroms for centuries. The 20th of Sivan was their way of memorializing the thousands of victims claimed by these pogroms. Caryl Simon-Katler, Massachusetts
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R' Gaon Shlomo-Zalman ben Faivish ben Melech MARGOLIS GORDON
#rabbinic
Ann Rabinowitz <annrab@...>
Rabbi Gaon Shlomo-Zalman ben Faivish ben Melech MARGOLIS GORDON,
1853-1933, Rabbi of the Karmelitai shul outside Kovna for fifty-two years and one of the three rabbis on the Kovna Beit Din, passed away in 1933. He was supposedly >from at least eight generations of rabbis. In his family, all of the brothers, for the most part, took different last names to avoid conscription. Rachel Margolis, the director of the Jewish Museum in Vilnius, is a member of this family. Upon Rabbi MARGOLIS GORDON's passing, Rabbi MAST, Chief Rabbi B. SAPIRO, Kovno, Rabbi ROZENSON and Rabbi MANTSER eulogised him, as well as many others. His family in the United States received many condolence letters in Yiddish >from the leading rabbis >from around the world which they still have. Some of these were: Chief Rabbi B. SAPIRO, Kaunas, Lithuania Rabbi A. DRUSKOWITZ, Kaunas, Lithuania Chief Rabbi Solomon E. JAFFE, Beth Hamedrash Hagodol, 207 E. Broadway, NY, NY, and Rabbi Elias JAFFE, Assistant Rabbi, Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Rabbi T. GEFFEN, 284 E. Hunter Street, Atlanta, GA Rabbi Naftali-Zvi RIFF, Rabbi of Camden, NJ. Hope this is of interest. Anyone familiar with the MARGOLIS or MARGOLIS GORDON family, please let me know. Ann Rabinowitz annrab@bellsouth.net
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic R' Gaon Shlomo-Zalman ben Faivish ben Melech MARGOLIS GORDON
#rabbinic
Ann Rabinowitz <annrab@...>
Rabbi Gaon Shlomo-Zalman ben Faivish ben Melech MARGOLIS GORDON,
1853-1933, Rabbi of the Karmelitai shul outside Kovna for fifty-two years and one of the three rabbis on the Kovna Beit Din, passed away in 1933. He was supposedly >from at least eight generations of rabbis. In his family, all of the brothers, for the most part, took different last names to avoid conscription. Rachel Margolis, the director of the Jewish Museum in Vilnius, is a member of this family. Upon Rabbi MARGOLIS GORDON's passing, Rabbi MAST, Chief Rabbi B. SAPIRO, Kovno, Rabbi ROZENSON and Rabbi MANTSER eulogised him, as well as many others. His family in the United States received many condolence letters in Yiddish >from the leading rabbis >from around the world which they still have. Some of these were: Chief Rabbi B. SAPIRO, Kaunas, Lithuania Rabbi A. DRUSKOWITZ, Kaunas, Lithuania Chief Rabbi Solomon E. JAFFE, Beth Hamedrash Hagodol, 207 E. Broadway, NY, NY, and Rabbi Elias JAFFE, Assistant Rabbi, Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Rabbi T. GEFFEN, 284 E. Hunter Street, Atlanta, GA Rabbi Naftali-Zvi RIFF, Rabbi of Camden, NJ. Hope this is of interest. Anyone familiar with the MARGOLIS or MARGOLIS GORDON family, please let me know. Ann Rabinowitz annrab@bellsouth.net
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Mormon repositories
#lithuania
Dennis <dgelpe@...>
In a couple of months I'll be heading to Minnesota for 3 months and
plan to check into the Mormon repository there. Does anyone know how Vilna is listed? Is it under Poland in their materials, or Lithuania or Russia? Thanks Dennis Gelpe MODERATOR'S NOTE: Go to www.familysearch.org then click on "Search," then "Family History Library Catalog," then "Place Search." If you simply enter Vilnius, you will get results for Vilnius Lithuania, among them listings for Jewish records. There is also a link to an inventory of Lithuanian Jewish records filmed by the Mormons at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/FHLC/VilnaMicrofilmsIndex.htm
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Mormon repositories
#lithuania
Dennis <dgelpe@...>
In a couple of months I'll be heading to Minnesota for 3 months and
plan to check into the Mormon repository there. Does anyone know how Vilna is listed? Is it under Poland in their materials, or Lithuania or Russia? Thanks Dennis Gelpe MODERATOR'S NOTE: Go to www.familysearch.org then click on "Search," then "Family History Library Catalog," then "Place Search." If you simply enter Vilnius, you will get results for Vilnius Lithuania, among them listings for Jewish records. There is also a link to an inventory of Lithuanian Jewish records filmed by the Mormons at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/FHLC/VilnaMicrofilmsIndex.htm
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