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LEWINSKI from Krasnopol, or Krasne Poland
#general
sharon cooper
Does anyone have information on this family.
Thanks, Sharon Cooper, Ottawa, Canada
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen LEWINSKI from Krasnopol, or Krasne Poland
#general
sharon cooper
Does anyone have information on this family.
Thanks, Sharon Cooper, Ottawa, Canada
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KRASNE or KRASNOPOL Poland
#general
sharon cooper
I would like to learn more about Krasne or Krasnopol
Poland. Any information would be welcome. I am researching a family called LEWIN or LEWINSKI from there.Thanks, Sharon Cooper Ottawa, Ontario
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen KRASNE or KRASNOPOL Poland
#general
sharon cooper
I would like to learn more about Krasne or Krasnopol
Poland. Any information would be welcome. I am researching a family called LEWIN or LEWINSKI from there.Thanks, Sharon Cooper Ottawa, Ontario
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Requesting Translation Help -- ViewMate
#general
SBernst579@...
Fellow JewishGeners
I would appreciate help with the translation of a letter I recently received >from Israel, which is written in Hebrew. I am attempting to make contact with any poetential relatives >from my father's BARANSHTEYN family,who were >from the Labun/Polonnoye area of the Ukraine. The letter is >from the son of lady who's last name was BARAN, and was born in Labun. The letter can be accessed at the View-mate sight at (http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/) in the "To View" section - as files - VM202 Thank you, Stewart Bernstein Thousand Oaks, CA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Requesting Translation Help -- ViewMate
#general
SBernst579@...
Fellow JewishGeners
I would appreciate help with the translation of a letter I recently received >from Israel, which is written in Hebrew. I am attempting to make contact with any poetential relatives >from my father's BARANSHTEYN family,who were >from the Labun/Polonnoye area of the Ukraine. The letter is >from the son of lady who's last name was BARAN, and was born in Labun. The letter can be accessed at the View-mate sight at (http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/) in the "To View" section - as files - VM202 Thank you, Stewart Bernstein Thousand Oaks, CA
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Re: name suffix
#belarus
Leonid Zeliger <lzeliger@...>
The suffix "chuk" is a sort of possessive indicator in Ukrainian and maybe
Polish. Many Ukraninian (non-Jewish) surnames have this suffix. Generally speaking, "-chuk" is non-Jewish ending, but some Jews could attach this ending to their surname just to give it more "gentile" sound. It's relevant also in amusing case of "Ashkenadze", which is actually "Georgian"( Caucasian) mask for Hebrew "Ashkenazi". Some of that changings were made illegaly by hand in the document(ID) by the bearer of the document (ID)himself.I new for example someone who "corrected" his typically Jewish name "Kavalerchik" to pseudo-Ukrainian "Kavalerchuk". The situation with Kushnerchuk looks very much similar. Leonid Zeliger Jerusalem lzeliger@hotmail.com From: Alex Schust <aschust@erols.com> Leonid Zeliger Jerusalem lzeliger@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail >from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Re: name suffix
#belarus
Leonid Zeliger <lzeliger@...>
The suffix "chuk" is a sort of possessive indicator in Ukrainian and maybe
Polish. Many Ukraninian (non-Jewish) surnames have this suffix. Generally speaking, "-chuk" is non-Jewish ending, but some Jews could attach this ending to their surname just to give it more "gentile" sound. It's relevant also in amusing case of "Ashkenadze", which is actually "Georgian"( Caucasian) mask for Hebrew "Ashkenazi". Some of that changings were made illegaly by hand in the document(ID) by the bearer of the document (ID)himself.I new for example someone who "corrected" his typically Jewish name "Kavalerchik" to pseudo-Ukrainian "Kavalerchuk". The situation with Kushnerchuk looks very much similar. Leonid Zeliger Jerusalem lzeliger@hotmail.com From: Alex Schust <aschust@erols.com> Leonid Zeliger Jerusalem lzeliger@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail >from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
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Re 100 Shtetls again
#ukraine
NFatouros@...
I have been asked what shtetls the two volumes cover.
I don't know what the latest or second volume discusses, but, according to a 2-21-99 posting by Ellen Shindelman (grapevyn#erols.com) to the Volhynia Digest the contents of the first volume were listed by Evie Mintzer (EMintser@compuserve.com) and if you can find Ms. Shindelman's message you can see the names of the shtetls in that first volume. I'd copy the list directly >from that old message but it is stored on my old laptop which is not yet connected to my iMac and I haven't the patience to copy them again by typing them here. Naomi Fatouros (nee FELDMAN) Bloomington, Indiana NFatouros@aol.com Researching: BELKOWSKY, Odessa, Berdichev; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SHUTZ, SCHUTZ, Shcherets; LEVY, Mulhouse;SAS, Podwolochisk; RAPOPORT, Tarnopol.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re 100 Shtetls again
#ukraine
NFatouros@...
I have been asked what shtetls the two volumes cover.
I don't know what the latest or second volume discusses, but, according to a 2-21-99 posting by Ellen Shindelman (grapevyn#erols.com) to the Volhynia Digest the contents of the first volume were listed by Evie Mintzer (EMintser@compuserve.com) and if you can find Ms. Shindelman's message you can see the names of the shtetls in that first volume. I'd copy the list directly >from that old message but it is stored on my old laptop which is not yet connected to my iMac and I haven't the patience to copy them again by typing them here. Naomi Fatouros (nee FELDMAN) Bloomington, Indiana NFatouros@aol.com Researching: BELKOWSKY, Odessa, Berdichev; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SHUTZ, SCHUTZ, Shcherets; LEVY, Mulhouse;SAS, Podwolochisk; RAPOPORT, Tarnopol.
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Re: Online newsletter
#galicia
Jessica Tropp <jtropp@...>
While I read many online newsletters, I believe there should be the option
of receiving a print version, even if it costs extra. Jessica Tropp Northampton, MA USA Researching: LEVIN(E), KARCHMER, SILVERMAN, RIVKIND >from Vilna ENTE >from Przemysl, Poland TROPP >from Galicia GOLDNER >from Romania
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Re:Online newsletter
#galicia
Jessica Tropp <jtropp@...>
While I read many online newsletters, I believe there should be the option
of receiving a print version, even if it costs extra. Jessica Tropp Northampton, MA USA Researching: LEVIN(E), KARCHMER, SILVERMAN, RIVKIND >from Vilna ENTE >from Przemysl, Poland TROPP >from Galicia GOLDNER >from Romania
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account of travel to Poland
#galicia
Marion Hattenbach Bernstein
Through another listserv I participate in (eejh), I learned of theMarion Hattenbach Bernstein hlb@texas.net San Antonio, TX
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia account of travel to Poland
#galicia
Marion Hattenbach Bernstein
Through another listserv I participate in (eejh), I learned of theMarion Hattenbach Bernstein hlb@texas.net San Antonio, TX
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Re: Hamagid
#lithuania
klevinski.benzion <bentsion@...>
Rav Aryeh Leib Lopiansky wrote:
> I tried reading some issues of Hamagid on the microfilms available at Hebrew university library, but I found it too difficult to do. The paper was too dark, the letters too small etc.> For the Israelis, I suggest going to the Ariela Library in Tel-Aviv (near the Tel-Aviv museum), where you can find the originals of Hamagid - instead of "struggling" with microfilms. Shalom, Ben-Tsion Klibansky
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania re:Hamagid
#lithuania
klevinski.benzion <bentsion@...>
Rav Aryeh Leib Lopiansky wrote:
> I tried reading some issues of Hamagid on the microfilms available at Hebrew university library, but I found it too difficult to do. The paper was too dark, the letters too small etc.> For the Israelis, I suggest going to the Ariela Library in Tel-Aviv (near the Tel-Aviv museum), where you can find the originals of Hamagid - instead of "struggling" with microfilms. Shalom, Ben-Tsion Klibansky
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Resources on Svencionys page
#lithuania
steven weiss <szome@...>
I do hope that Marjorie Rosenfeld's Svencionys Shtetlink page will be
visited by readers of this forum. There is a lot on this web site that will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of the area of Vilna Guberniya which was part of Poland between the Wars. I wanted to point out three things >from the Svencionys page that I think are of particular value. Polish priest Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel's account of how the Svencionys Landsmanshaft in Israel helped him learn about his Jewish parents. You will not soon forget this amazing story which can be read at: http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/svencionys/father_weksler.html An interview with Svencionys native and resistance fighter Yitzhak Arad (RUDNITZKY) who was Chairman of Yad Vashem >from 1972 to 1993. Dr. Arad speaks about his experiences during the war in the Vilna area. This interview is at: http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/svencionys/interview_with_arad.html Finally Marjorie provides a link to a facinating paper presented by Ben Weider, founder & president of The International Napoleonic Society, on the relationship between Napoleon and the Jews. As the subject of Napoleon's journey through Lithuania came up recently, I highly recommend a visit to this web site. You will see scans of Hebrew prayers (with translations) composed in France in 1807 to honor Napoleon..."Could another be found as worthy as NAPOLEON deserving of such honours and kingship, who shepherds his people with sincerity and with the understanding of his heart?" The Napoleon and the Jews web page can be found through visiting the Svencionys Shtetlink home page at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Svencionys/Svencionys.html Steven Weiss HURWITZ and RUDNITZKY >from Svencionys
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Resources on Svencionys page
#lithuania
steven weiss <szome@...>
I do hope that Marjorie Rosenfeld's Svencionys Shtetlink page will be
visited by readers of this forum. There is a lot on this web site that will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of the area of Vilna Guberniya which was part of Poland between the Wars. I wanted to point out three things >from the Svencionys page that I think are of particular value. Polish priest Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel's account of how the Svencionys Landsmanshaft in Israel helped him learn about his Jewish parents. You will not soon forget this amazing story which can be read at: http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/svencionys/father_weksler.html An interview with Svencionys native and resistance fighter Yitzhak Arad (RUDNITZKY) who was Chairman of Yad Vashem >from 1972 to 1993. Dr. Arad speaks about his experiences during the war in the Vilna area. This interview is at: http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/svencionys/interview_with_arad.html Finally Marjorie provides a link to a facinating paper presented by Ben Weider, founder & president of The International Napoleonic Society, on the relationship between Napoleon and the Jews. As the subject of Napoleon's journey through Lithuania came up recently, I highly recommend a visit to this web site. You will see scans of Hebrew prayers (with translations) composed in France in 1807 to honor Napoleon..."Could another be found as worthy as NAPOLEON deserving of such honours and kingship, who shepherds his people with sincerity and with the understanding of his heart?" The Napoleon and the Jews web page can be found through visiting the Svencionys Shtetlink home page at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/Svencionys/Svencionys.html Steven Weiss HURWITZ and RUDNITZKY >from Svencionys
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Obeliai homepage
#lithuania
Emma Freeman <em-ma@...>
I am putting together a page on the shtetl of Obeliai (Abel). If anyone
has any photographs, family stories, records, or (translations of) articles >from encyclopedias etc. on Obeliai, I would be very grateful for all contributions. Please reply to me privately at em-ma@rocketmail.com Thanks in advance. Emma Freeman
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Obeliai homepage
#lithuania
Emma Freeman <em-ma@...>
I am putting together a page on the shtetl of Obeliai (Abel). If anyone
has any photographs, family stories, records, or (translations of) articles >from encyclopedias etc. on Obeliai, I would be very grateful for all contributions. Please reply to me privately at em-ma@rocketmail.com Thanks in advance. Emma Freeman
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