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Searching: KANEL and RITZ (Poland, Russia)
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UZIDUZIT <uziduzit@...>
Please contact me directly if these names are familiar.
Thank you, Jim BRUMBACH TAVARES, FLORIDA USA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching: KANEL and RITZ (Poland, Russia)
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UZIDUZIT <uziduzit@...>
Please contact me directly if these names are familiar.
Thank you, Jim BRUMBACH TAVARES, FLORIDA USA
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Searching: BRUSSEL family from Hamburg
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micheline Gutmann <MichelineGUTMANN@...>
It is strange that we never got any news >from my husband's ggrandmother's
siblings, even on different databases as JGFF. She was Sabine BRUSSEL, born Hamburg 1836. She married Moses GUTMANN. She was the daughter of Salomon BRUSSEL and Louise HAGENOW. Adolph, Henry, Joseph, James went to USA , New York. But also Cuba. Johanna and Luis LOEFFLER's children went to Kansas City. Now the name BRUSSEL disappeared quite completely because more girls than boys married. They can have the names DEITSCH, LICHSTENSTEIN, ROSSMAN, KOCH, LOGIN, BIKET.... I hope we can hear >from some of them once ! Micheline GUTMANN, Paris, France http://www.sgip.fr/rdegroot/genami
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching: BRUSSEL family from Hamburg
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micheline Gutmann <MichelineGUTMANN@...>
It is strange that we never got any news >from my husband's ggrandmother's
siblings, even on different databases as JGFF. She was Sabine BRUSSEL, born Hamburg 1836. She married Moses GUTMANN. She was the daughter of Salomon BRUSSEL and Louise HAGENOW. Adolph, Henry, Joseph, James went to USA , New York. But also Cuba. Johanna and Luis LOEFFLER's children went to Kansas City. Now the name BRUSSEL disappeared quite completely because more girls than boys married. They can have the names DEITSCH, LICHSTENSTEIN, ROSSMAN, KOCH, LOGIN, BIKET.... I hope we can hear >from some of them once ! Micheline GUTMANN, Paris, France http://www.sgip.fr/rdegroot/genami
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Searching family KRAUSZ, in Hungary in 1939
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micheline Gutmann <MichelineGUTMANN@...>
Odette BAGNO was engaged in 1939 to Andre KRAUSZ .
He had prepared all the documents for their marriage. But he was killed in France at the Marne battle in 1940. Of course she could not be considered as a widow. The family KRAUSZ (Hermann, Erzebeth and children) was living in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary in 1939 except two brothers : Andre who was killed in 1940, and another brother, Zoltan, was a sailor on an English boat called "The KELET" . He was interned as a war prisonner in Ottawa at the beginning of the war. Then she knew that he tried to find her in 1942 but she did not want to give her address to the Red Cross. After the war, she could not find him anymore. Now a pensioner, she is trying to find Zoltan KRAUSZ more than ever. Eventually other members of the family if they escaped >from the Shoa. Please, try to help her. Thank you ! Micheline GUTMANN, GenAmi, Paris, France http: //www.sgip.fr/rdegroot/genami
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching family KRAUSZ, in Hungary in 1939
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micheline Gutmann <MichelineGUTMANN@...>
Odette BAGNO was engaged in 1939 to Andre KRAUSZ .
He had prepared all the documents for their marriage. But he was killed in France at the Marne battle in 1940. Of course she could not be considered as a widow. The family KRAUSZ (Hermann, Erzebeth and children) was living in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary in 1939 except two brothers : Andre who was killed in 1940, and another brother, Zoltan, was a sailor on an English boat called "The KELET" . He was interned as a war prisonner in Ottawa at the beginning of the war. Then she knew that he tried to find her in 1942 but she did not want to give her address to the Red Cross. After the war, she could not find him anymore. Now a pensioner, she is trying to find Zoltan KRAUSZ more than ever. Eventually other members of the family if they escaped >from the Shoa. Please, try to help her. Thank you ! Micheline GUTMANN, GenAmi, Paris, France http: //www.sgip.fr/rdegroot/genami
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Re: Sima=sister??
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Mike Lipsie <Mike_Lipsie@...>
MBernet@aol.com wrote:
As we have discussed here at length, it is not unlikely that aIs this a "recent" or "new world" phenomenon? I ask because my grandfather, his wife, and all of his children had two names (Charles Benjamin, Henry Isaac, Ruth Pescha, ...) but everything I have found on my great grandfather only shows one name (Simon). This seems to be true for both the Hebrew and "American" names. Thanks for any enlightenment. Mike Lipsie MODERATOR NOTE: Have you read FAQ #17 on Jewish names on our web site?
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Sima=sister??
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Mike Lipsie <Mike_Lipsie@...>
MBernet@aol.com wrote:
As we have discussed here at length, it is not unlikely that aIs this a "recent" or "new world" phenomenon? I ask because my grandfather, his wife, and all of his children had two names (Charles Benjamin, Henry Isaac, Ruth Pescha, ...) but everything I have found on my great grandfather only shows one name (Simon). This seems to be true for both the Hebrew and "American" names. Thanks for any enlightenment. Mike Lipsie MODERATOR NOTE: Have you read FAQ #17 on Jewish names on our web site?
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Re: Why did Jews slavicize their last names?
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Stan Goodman <sheol@...>
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:32:01, davic@pop.erols.com (David Goldman) 'llowed:
-> I have wondered whether any studies have been done to explain why certain -> Jewish communities or families slavicized their original Germanic Jewish -> last names, while others did not. Why did this happen, where and when? -> -> Thus Rosen probably became Krasner, Schwartz Cherny, Apfel Yablik, etc. 1) History did not begin with all Jews concentrated in German-speaking areas and bearing German surnames, so the question makes an assumption that is incorrect. Many Jews were in fact in Slavic-speaking areas when the civil authorities began to require the adoption of surnames. Previously, like the general populations around them, Jews that had no surnames used patronymics alone. Read e.g. Dostoevsky to see that Russians still do this in conversation, even though they now have surnames. 2) Jews, whether in Germanic-, Slavic, French-, or English-speaking areas often change their names when they immigrate to an area of different language (much as do other immigrants). For the antiquity of this custom, see the description of the change of names by Abram and Sarai upon immigration into Canaan, which you can find in Genesis. 3) If somebody does wangle a grant to investigate the reasons that drive people to do this, I imagine that the report will cite, among other things, a desire to fit less conspicuously into Canaanitic, Germanic, or Slavic society. Or indeed, simply to foster their own feeling of belonging in their new surroundings -- which is why many have Hebraicized their names on immigrating to Israel. ------------- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel (Remove "takeout" >from domain; replace "sheol" with "stan". Sorry) Searching: NEACHOWICZ, NEJMAN, ISMACH, ROKITA: Lomza Gubernia, Poland HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: Iasi, Romania See my interactive tree (requires Java 1.1 or better): http://www.hashkedim.com [You can download Java 1.1.6 >from my site, if you don't have it]
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Why did Jews slavicize their last names?
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Stan Goodman <sheol@...>
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:32:01, davic@pop.erols.com (David Goldman) 'llowed:
-> I have wondered whether any studies have been done to explain why certain -> Jewish communities or families slavicized their original Germanic Jewish -> last names, while others did not. Why did this happen, where and when? -> -> Thus Rosen probably became Krasner, Schwartz Cherny, Apfel Yablik, etc. 1) History did not begin with all Jews concentrated in German-speaking areas and bearing German surnames, so the question makes an assumption that is incorrect. Many Jews were in fact in Slavic-speaking areas when the civil authorities began to require the adoption of surnames. Previously, like the general populations around them, Jews that had no surnames used patronymics alone. Read e.g. Dostoevsky to see that Russians still do this in conversation, even though they now have surnames. 2) Jews, whether in Germanic-, Slavic, French-, or English-speaking areas often change their names when they immigrate to an area of different language (much as do other immigrants). For the antiquity of this custom, see the description of the change of names by Abram and Sarai upon immigration into Canaan, which you can find in Genesis. 3) If somebody does wangle a grant to investigate the reasons that drive people to do this, I imagine that the report will cite, among other things, a desire to fit less conspicuously into Canaanitic, Germanic, or Slavic society. Or indeed, simply to foster their own feeling of belonging in their new surroundings -- which is why many have Hebraicized their names on immigrating to Israel. ------------- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel (Remove "takeout" >from domain; replace "sheol" with "stan". Sorry) Searching: NEACHOWICZ, NEJMAN, ISMACH, ROKITA: Lomza Gubernia, Poland HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: Iasi, Romania See my interactive tree (requires Java 1.1 or better): http://www.hashkedim.com [You can download Java 1.1.6 >from my site, if you don't have it]
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WOLF, LOEWY & PLAUT
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Counsel17 <counsel17@...>
I have been working on a home page which includes many surnames in addition to
the ones listed above, such as DANNENBERG (Germany), FISCHER (Czernowitz), ROSENBLATT, FALK, LICHTENBERG & ANDERSON. John Anderson John D. Anderson------Visit my Home Page for Descendant Charts & Surnames at http://members.aol.com/counsel17/John_Anderson_Home_Page.html
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen WOLF, LOEWY & PLAUT
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Counsel17 <counsel17@...>
I have been working on a home page which includes many surnames in addition to
the ones listed above, such as DANNENBERG (Germany), FISCHER (Czernowitz), ROSENBLATT, FALK, LICHTENBERG & ANDERSON. John Anderson John D. Anderson------Visit my Home Page for Descendant Charts & Surnames at http://members.aol.com/counsel17/John_Anderson_Home_Page.html
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Re: Heidelberg School for Jewish Studies
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Neubauer <neubauer@...>
In a message dated 98-09-20 07:38:46 EDT, hannakg@snet.net writes: MBernet@aol.com writes:The "Hochschule fuer Juedische Studien Heidelberg" (Staatlich anerkannte Hochschule in der Traegerschaft des Zentralrates der Juden in Deutschland) does exist in Friedrichstrasse 9, D-69117 Heidelberg, phone *49 62 21 /2 25 76 since the winter term 1979/80 and will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 1999. Its web address is <http://129.206.242.30/> and it provides its history also in English. I hope it will help to trace the informatiion required. Fritz Neubauer
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen re: Heidelberg School for Jewish Studies
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Neubauer <neubauer@...>
In a message dated 98-09-20 07:38:46 EDT, hannakg@snet.net writes: MBernet@aol.com writes:The "Hochschule fuer Juedische Studien Heidelberg" (Staatlich anerkannte Hochschule in der Traegerschaft des Zentralrates der Juden in Deutschland) does exist in Friedrichstrasse 9, D-69117 Heidelberg, phone *49 62 21 /2 25 76 since the winter term 1979/80 and will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 1999. Its web address is <http://129.206.242.30/> and it provides its history also in English. I hope it will help to trace the informatiion required. Fritz Neubauer
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Finding Jack & Rose HOFFMITZ in Israel
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susskind <nrg@...>
We will be visiting Israel in two weeks and would love to contact an old
friend who made Aliah, but don't know which city he moved to. Can any Jewish Genner in Israel look into their phone books and see if they can find Jack & Rose HOFFMITZ for us. Shana Tova to all, Adele Susskind (for Sam Silver)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Finding Jack & Rose HOFFMITZ in Israel
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susskind <nrg@...>
We will be visiting Israel in two weeks and would love to contact an old
friend who made Aliah, but don't know which city he moved to. Can any Jewish Genner in Israel look into their phone books and see if they can find Jack & Rose HOFFMITZ for us. Shana Tova to all, Adele Susskind (for Sam Silver)
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Re: BURDINE--Elvis's Jewish link, finally!
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Beth Wellington <wellingtonbj@...>
N. Brent Kennedy spoke recently on our local television station about
the Jewish Elvis connection, with regard to the history of the Melungeons. He can be reached at: Office of Development & College Relations Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia 1 College Avenue, Wise, Virginia 24293-4400 Smiddy Hall (540) 328-0132 FAX: (540) 328-0115 Bowers/Sturgill Hall (540) 328-0129 FAX: (540) 376-1012 His e-mail address is: n_kennedy@clinch.edu
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: BURDINE--Elvis's Jewish link, finally!
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Beth Wellington <wellingtonbj@...>
N. Brent Kennedy spoke recently on our local television station about
the Jewish Elvis connection, with regard to the history of the Melungeons. He can be reached at: Office of Development & College Relations Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia 1 College Avenue, Wise, Virginia 24293-4400 Smiddy Hall (540) 328-0132 FAX: (540) 328-0115 Bowers/Sturgill Hall (540) 328-0129 FAX: (540) 376-1012 His e-mail address is: n_kennedy@clinch.edu
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NYC teachers early 1900's
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Carol Skydell <skydell@...>
Has anybody successfully located a list of NYC teachers
in the early 1900's? If so, how? Thanks Carol Skydell Chilmark, MA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen NYC teachers early 1900's
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Carol Skydell <skydell@...>
Has anybody successfully located a list of NYC teachers
in the early 1900's? If so, how? Thanks Carol Skydell Chilmark, MA
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