Ann Rabinowitz wrote:

I believe that 1917 was the first opportunity that Jews had to become officers
in the Russian military and many rose to the rank of General after that. It was
also the first time that they were allowed entrance into the military academies.

Actually, Joseph Trumpeldor, the hero of Tel Hai, received his St. George order
awarded for his bravery in Russo-Japan war and officer commission in 1906.

In a year 1917 with abdication of Nicolas II, Russian Empire has ceased to exist,
and Jew in a new Russia could become a supreme commander of the Red Army, as Lev
Trotsky did.

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, AB

Ann Rabinowitz wrote:

I believe that 1917 was the first opportunity that Jews had to become officers
in the Russian military and many rose to the rank of General after that. It was
also the first time that they were allowed entrance into the military academies.

Actually, Joseph Trumpeldor, the hero of Tel Hai, received his St. George order
awarded for his bravery in Russo-Japan war and officer commission in 1906.

In a year 1917 with abdication of Nicolas II, Russian Empire has ceased to exist,
and Jew in a new Russia could become a supreme commander of the Red Army, as Lev
Trotsky did.

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, AB

There are some databases for Syria in the Syria section of
http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/databases.html

Also Sarina Roffe is quite knowledgeable about what is available about
Aleppo records. I'll send you her email privately.

Jeff Malka
Website: http://www.SephardicGen.com

<davidnead@gmail.com> wrote:

There are some databases for Syria in the Syria section of
http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/databases.html

Also Sarina Roffe is quite knowledgeable about what is available about
Aleppo records. I'll send you her email privately.

Jeff Malka
Website: http://www.SephardicGen.com

<davidnead@gmail.com> wrote:

Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce the addition to the All Galicia
Database of two important sets of Holocaust records. This database is
free and available to all, at: http://search.geshergalicia.org

1. Debica-area Holocaust-period death testimonies. Rzeszow State
Archive, Fond 881, Sygn. 1 (791 records)
These are testimonies, provided by people who survived, of Jews who
died during the Holocaust - all but a handful of them murdered. They
were gathered after the end of the war in Europe. The records are in a
single file, divided into volumes with town names, which appear to
refer to the places where the testimonies were gathered. The people
named in the records, though, came >from a wide range of localities in
the Debica area. Each testimony is signed by two witnesses.

In indexing these records, we have extracted the following information:
Names of person, names of parents, town of origin, date of testimony
(where given), reported date of death, reported place of death,
reported cause of death, and the names (where the signatures are
legible) of the two people signing the form of testimony.

The reported places of death include:
Bagienica (near Dabrowa), Baranowa, Belzec, Biala Podlaska, Biecz,
Biesiadka, Bochnia, Borki, Borki Nizinskie, Borowa, Brzezany,
Brzostek, Chorzelow, Chrzastow, Czermin, Dabrowa, Debica, Deborzyn,
Debowa (near Jodlowa), Dubienka, Dukla, Dulabka, Dulcza, Frysztak,
Gebiczyn, Gliwice, Golce, Gorlice, Gorzejowa, Grabiny, Halbow, Horbow,
Hrubieszow, Janow, Jarocin, Jaslo, Jastrzebia, Jawiszow, Jaworze,
Jaworze Gorne, Jazwiny, Jedlicze, Jodlowa, Kamienica, Kamionka
Strumilowa, Kolaczyce, Kozlow (near Debica), Krajowice (Jaslo),
Krakow, Krakow-Plaszow, Krzeszow, Lubaczow, Lubaczowa, Lwow, Lysakow,
Majdanek, Miedzyrzec, Mielec, Nadworna, Nagoszyn, Nizna Laka,
Oleszyce, Olpiny, Opacionka, Oswiecim [Auschwitz], Padew, Parkosz,
Pilznionka, Pilzno, Plaszow, Podborze, Podleszany, Polaniec, Przeclaw,
Przeczyca (Jodlowa), Pustkow, Radomysl Wielke, Rawa Ruska, Ropczyce,
Roza , Rozwadow, Rudniki, Rymanow, Rzeszow, Sedziszow, Skarzysko,
Sokolow (Rzeszow district), Straszecin, Stroza, Szczucin, Szerzyny,
Tarnobrzeg, Tarnow, Ulanow, Wiewiorka, Wlodawa, Wojslaw, Wola Lubecka,
Wolka Tanewska, Zagorze, Zaklikow, and Zdziary.

2. Doctors' Questionnaires, 1941-1943 (133 records)
These are detailed, four-page forms (some with face photos) that
Jewish medical and health-care workers were obliged to complete under
the Nazi occupation., sometimes in duplicate or triplicate. The people
named include doctors, dentists, dental technicians, nurses, midwives,
radiologists, cosmeticians, medical students and others.

All these forms were completed in eastern Galician towns. Yad Vashem
holds a set of 2,001 questionnaires of the same type, also from
eastern Galicia, which were indexed for JewishGen some ten years ago
and are described and can be searched on JewishGen's web site:
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0132_polish_medical_questionnaires.html
(MODERATOR: http://tinyurl.com/jy9bfza )

The records Gesher Galicia has now transcribed consist of 121
questionnaires held in the Przemysl State Archive (Fond 154, IGW102,
Sygn. 31-33) and 12 questionnaires >from AGAD, Warsaw (Fond 424, Sygn.
9, 13, 17, 64, 97 and 179).

Gesher Galicia has fully indexed these records, extracting the
following information:
Names of person, date and place of birth, place of residence and
street address, marital status, occupation, institution and town of
practice, spouse's name and date of birth, children's names and
ages/dates of birth, names of grandparents [not the parents], date of
professional examination, and period and place of studies.

The places of birth include:
Bajkowce, Biala (Silesia), Bolechow, Brody, Brzezany, Brzozow,
Buczacz, Budzanow, Czortkow, Czortkow-Wygnanka, Czyszki, Dabrowice,
Dawidow, Dolina, Drohobycz, Graz, Grzymalow, Jaroslaw, Jezierna,
Kalisz, Kalusz, Kolonice, Korzec, Kozowa, Krakow, Krystynopol,
Lezajsk, Lodz, Lwow, Mielec, Mogilany, Monasterzec, Nadworna, Neumarkt
(Nowy Targ), Nosow, Piotrkow, Podhajce, Podwoloczyska, Przemysl,
Rohatyn, Rozniatow, Rzeszow, Sanok, Serwery, Sieniawa, Skalat,
Stanislawow, Stara Sol, Stryj, Swistelniki, Tarnopol, Tarnow, Vienna,
Warsaw, Wojnilow, Wygnanka, Zakliczyn, Zalanow, Zalozce, Zamosc,
Zarnowiec, Zawoj, Zbaraz, Zborow, and Zwiahel.

Tony Kahane
Chair & Research Coordinator, Gesher Galicia
http://www.geshergalicia.org

Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce the addition to the All Galicia
Database of two important sets of Holocaust records. This database is
free and available to all, at: http://search.geshergalicia.org

1. Debica-area Holocaust-period death testimonies. Rzeszow State
Archive, Fond 881, Sygn. 1 (791 records)
These are testimonies, provided by people who survived, of Jews who
died during the Holocaust - all but a handful of them murdered. They
were gathered after the end of the war in Europe. The records are in a
single file, divided into volumes with town names, which appear to
refer to the places where the testimonies were gathered. The people
named in the records, though, came >from a wide range of localities in
the Debica area. Each testimony is signed by two witnesses.

In indexing these records, we have extracted the following information:
Names of person, names of parents, town of origin, date of testimony
(where given), reported date of death, reported place of death,
reported cause of death, and the names (where the signatures are
legible) of the two people signing the form of testimony.

The reported places of death include:
Bagienica (near Dabrowa), Baranowa, Belzec, Biala Podlaska, Biecz,
Biesiadka, Bochnia, Borki, Borki Nizinskie, Borowa, Brzezany,
Brzostek, Chorzelow, Chrzastow, Czermin, Dabrowa, Debica, Deborzyn,
Debowa (near Jodlowa), Dubienka, Dukla, Dulabka, Dulcza, Frysztak,
Gebiczyn, Gliwice, Golce, Gorlice, Gorzejowa, Grabiny, Halbow, Horbow,
Hrubieszow, Janow, Jarocin, Jaslo, Jastrzebia, Jawiszow, Jaworze,
Jaworze Gorne, Jazwiny, Jedlicze, Jodlowa, Kamienica, Kamionka
Strumilowa, Kolaczyce, Kozlow (near Debica), Krajowice (Jaslo),
Krakow, Krakow-Plaszow, Krzeszow, Lubaczow, Lubaczowa, Lwow, Lysakow,
Majdanek, Miedzyrzec, Mielec, Nadworna, Nagoszyn, Nizna Laka,
Oleszyce, Olpiny, Opacionka, Oswiecim [Auschwitz], Padew, Parkosz,
Pilznionka, Pilzno, Plaszow, Podborze, Podleszany, Polaniec, Przeclaw,
Przeczyca (Jodlowa), Pustkow, Radomysl Wielke, Rawa Ruska, Ropczyce,
Roza , Rozwadow, Rudniki, Rymanow, Rzeszow, Sedziszow, Skarzysko,
Sokolow (Rzeszow district), Straszecin, Stroza, Szczucin, Szerzyny,
Tarnobrzeg, Tarnow, Ulanow, Wiewiorka, Wlodawa, Wojslaw, Wola Lubecka,
Wolka Tanewska, Zagorze, Zaklikow, and Zdziary.

2. Doctors' Questionnaires, 1941-1943 (133 records)
These are detailed, four-page forms (some with face photos) that
Jewish medical and health-care workers were obliged to complete under
the Nazi occupation., sometimes in duplicate or triplicate. The people
named include doctors, dentists, dental technicians, nurses, midwives,
radiologists, cosmeticians, medical students and others.

All these forms were completed in eastern Galician towns. Yad Vashem
holds a set of 2,001 questionnaires of the same type, also from
eastern Galicia, which were indexed for JewishGen some ten years ago
and are described and can be searched on JewishGen's web site:
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0132_polish_medical_questionnaires.html
(MODERATOR: http://tinyurl.com/jy9bfza )

The records Gesher Galicia has now transcribed consist of 121
questionnaires held in the Przemysl State Archive (Fond 154, IGW102,
Sygn. 31-33) and 12 questionnaires >from AGAD, Warsaw (Fond 424, Sygn.
9, 13, 17, 64, 97 and 179).

Gesher Galicia has fully indexed these records, extracting the
following information:
Names of person, date and place of birth, place of residence and
street address, marital status, occupation, institution and town of
practice, spouse's name and date of birth, children's names and
ages/dates of birth, names of grandparents [not the parents], date of
professional examination, and period and place of studies.

The places of birth include:
Bajkowce, Biala (Silesia), Bolechow, Brody, Brzezany, Brzozow,
Buczacz, Budzanow, Czortkow, Czortkow-Wygnanka, Czyszki, Dabrowice,
Dawidow, Dolina, Drohobycz, Graz, Grzymalow, Jaroslaw, Jezierna,
Kalisz, Kalusz, Kolonice, Korzec, Kozowa, Krakow, Krystynopol,
Lezajsk, Lodz, Lwow, Mielec, Mogilany, Monasterzec, Nadworna, Neumarkt
(Nowy Targ), Nosow, Piotrkow, Podhajce, Podwoloczyska, Przemysl,
Rohatyn, Rozniatow, Rzeszow, Sanok, Serwery, Sieniawa, Skalat,
Stanislawow, Stara Sol, Stryj, Swistelniki, Tarnopol, Tarnow, Vienna,
Warsaw, Wojnilow, Wygnanka, Zakliczyn, Zalanow, Zalozce, Zamosc,
Zarnowiec, Zawoj, Zbaraz, Zborow, and Zwiahel.

Tony Kahane
Chair & Research Coordinator, Gesher Galicia
http://www.geshergalicia.org

The Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia digitized and posted
online the Seidelman Documentary Heritage Communities Program Family Fonds.
The fond includes records, photos, financial records and more spanning the
years 1889-1975. This was able to be done due to the financial support from
Library and Archives Canada.

To view the online records go to:
http://archives.jewishmuseum.ca/seidelman-family-fonds

The Museum also has an online exhibit on World War 1 calling it Letters Home
which may be viewed at: http://jewishmuseum.ca/exhibit/letters-home/
Which includes the letters of Edward Joseph Seidelman.

Thank you to Gail Dever and Genealogy a la carte for informing us about the
new trove of family history for this part of Canada.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

The Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia digitized and posted
online the Seidelman Documentary Heritage Communities Program Family Fonds.
The fond includes records, photos, financial records and more spanning the
years 1889-1975. This was able to be done due to the financial support from
Library and Archives Canada.

To view the online records go to:
http://archives.jewishmuseum.ca/seidelman-family-fonds

The Museum also has an online exhibit on World War 1 calling it Letters Home
which may be viewed at: http://jewishmuseum.ca/exhibit/letters-home/
Which includes the letters of Edward Joseph Seidelman.

Thank you to Gail Dever and Genealogy a la carte for informing us about the
new trove of family history for this part of Canada.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

I've posted a vital record in German and French for which I need a
translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49307

This is a letter about a relative who was moving to Belgium and it is a
reference of sorts for being allowed to stay in the country. This is a
document >from Altona, Germany to Police in Brussels Belgium for a relative
wishing to live there. Part of the notes are in French. I am looking for as
complete a translation as possible.

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.
Thank you very much.


Sally Vetstein

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation.
It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49308
Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

I would like a translation of the French for this partial record of
foreigner arrival in Belgium for my cousin.

Sally Vetstein

I've posted a vital record in German and French for which I need a
translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49307

This is a letter about a relative who was moving to Belgium and it is a
reference of sorts for being allowed to stay in the country. This is a
document >from Altona, Germany to Police in Brussels Belgium for a relative
wishing to live there. Part of the notes are in French. I am looking for as
complete a translation as possible.

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.
Thank you very much.


Sally Vetstein

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation.
It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49308
Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

I would like a translation of the French for this partial record of
foreigner arrival in Belgium for my cousin.

Sally Vetstein

Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce the indexing and uploading onto
the All Galicia Database of several records pertaining to the Josephine
and Franciscan Surveys Project. The All Galicia Database is free and
available to all. See: http://search.geshergalicia.org

To learn more about the Josephine and Franciscan Surveys Project,
please click on the link:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/projects/josephine-and-franciscan-surveys-project/

a) Delatyn (Delyatyn)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/66 (500 records).
ii. The Franciscan cadastral survey 1820: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 20/6/125 (282 records).

b) Kolomyja (Kolomyya)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/260 (1003 records).
ii. The Franciscan cadastral survey 1821: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 20/11/33 (394 records).

c) Kuty
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/221 (580 records).

d) Nadworna (Nadvirna)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants
(Kameral Herrschaft Nadworna; Schueldigkeit Inventarium fuer die
Stadt Nadworna). Lviv National Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library of
Ukraine (LNSL), Fond 141/1/326 (478 records).

e) Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/1 (1659 records).
ii. The Franciscan cadastral survey 1822: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 20/6/184 (922 records).

f) Tlumacz (Tlumach)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/187 (249 records).

g) Zablotow (Zabolotiv)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/10/25 (229 records).

Additional uploads will be posted in the fourth quarter of 2016. For full
listing of towns in scope for 2016, please click on the link:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/projects/josephine-and-franciscan-surveys-project/

For information how you can support the Josephine and Franciscan
Surveys Project, see the link:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/support-the-josephine-franciscan-project/

For any questions on these files, please contact info@geshergalicia.org


Andrew Zalewski
Gesher Galicia, the J&F Surveys Project Coordinator

editor@geshergalicia.org
http://www.geshergalicia.org

Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce the indexing and uploading onto
the All Galicia Database of several records pertaining to the Josephine
and Franciscan Surveys Project. The All Galicia Database is free and
available to all. See: http://search.geshergalicia.org

To learn more about the Josephine and Franciscan Surveys Project,
please click on the link:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/projects/josephine-and-franciscan-surveys-project/

a) Delatyn (Delyatyn)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/66 (500 records).
ii. The Franciscan cadastral survey 1820: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 20/6/125 (282 records).

b) Kolomyja (Kolomyya)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/260 (1003 records).
ii. The Franciscan cadastral survey 1821: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 20/11/33 (394 records).

c) Kuty
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/221 (580 records).

d) Nadworna (Nadvirna)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants
(Kameral Herrschaft Nadworna; Schueldigkeit Inventarium fuer die
Stadt Nadworna). Lviv National Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library of
Ukraine (LNSL), Fond 141/1/326 (478 records).

e) Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/1 (1659 records).
ii. The Franciscan cadastral survey 1822: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 20/6/184 (922 records).

f) Tlumacz (Tlumach)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/6/187 (249 records).

g) Zablotow (Zabolotiv)
i. The Josephine cadastral survey 1787: the list of inhabitants.
Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL),
Fond 19/10/25 (229 records).

Additional uploads will be posted in the fourth quarter of 2016. For full
listing of towns in scope for 2016, please click on the link:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/projects/josephine-and-franciscan-surveys-project/

For information how you can support the Josephine and Franciscan
Surveys Project, see the link:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/support-the-josephine-franciscan-project/

For any questions on these files, please contact info@geshergalicia.org


Andrew Zalewski
Gesher Galicia, the J&F Surveys Project Coordinator

editor@geshergalicia.org
http://www.geshergalicia.org

Feel you could use a little health boost and relaxation? Sometimes
your ancestors felt the same way, and we're here to help: we've just
posted an 1862 map of medical spas in Galicia and Bukovina on the
Gesher Galicia Map Room:

http://maps.geshergalicia.org/special/galicia-medical-spas-1862/

With well over a hundred spa locations categorized eight ways based
on plants, salts and other minerals, oils, and hot springs, there's
plenty to choose from. A good first choice would be Iwonicz-Zdroj,
one of the oldest spas in the region and secluded in the Beskid Niski
hills; Virtual Shtetl calls it "the favorite Jewish spa":
http://bit.ly/29AYhOY

Gesher Galicia purchased this interesting map at auction, then
digitized and assembled it for you >from membership dues and
general fund donations. Many of you had family who went to one or
more of these spas for holidays or treatment; now you can learn more
about them!

The GG Map Room home page: http://maps.geshergalicia.org/

Jay Osborn
Gesher Galicia Digital Map Manager
Warsaw, Poland
maps@geshergalicia.org

Feel you could use a little health boost and relaxation? Sometimes
your ancestors felt the same way, and we're here to help: we've just
posted an 1862 map of medical spas in Galicia and Bukovina on the
Gesher Galicia Map Room:

http://maps.geshergalicia.org/special/galicia-medical-spas-1862/

With well over a hundred spa locations categorized eight ways based
on plants, salts and other minerals, oils, and hot springs, there's
plenty to choose from. A good first choice would be Iwonicz-Zdroj,
one of the oldest spas in the region and secluded in the Beskid Niski
hills; Virtual Shtetl calls it "the favorite Jewish spa":
http://bit.ly/29AYhOY

Gesher Galicia purchased this interesting map at auction, then
digitized and assembled it for you >from membership dues and
general fund donations. Many of you had family who went to one or
more of these spas for holidays or treatment; now you can learn more
about them!

The GG Map Room home page: http://maps.geshergalicia.org/

Jay Osborn
Gesher Galicia Digital Map Manager
Warsaw, Poland
maps@geshergalicia.org

Dear fellow Rom-SIGgers,

The time is drawing still closer for the 20216 IAJGS Conference in
Seattle, and we are still hoping to hear >from you as to your plans to
attend!

Here are some events to consider:
- Come by our SIG table at the Share Fair on Sunday, 1-5:30pm, to get
acquainted, or just to say "Hello", and chat.

- Attend the the Rom-SIG meeting on Monday 10:30-11:45 am. We have
lots to discuss, and plans to make! Do let us hear >from you, positive
or negative, so that we have some idea of how to plan!

- Attend the Sephardic genealogy and history of Romania, Monday at
1:30 pm. A new view of Jewish history in Romania!

- Attend the special talk by Jeffrey Gorney, Wednesday >from 8-8:25
pm. He will have a fascinating tale to tell of his visits to Romania ,
past and present!

If there is a demand, while we have no official SIG luncheon planned, we
could possibly arrange an informal luncheon with those who would like to
get together.

Looking forward to hearing >from many of our 2400 members! Let's get
back on a roll - as Bob Wascou would have said!

Rosanne Leeson
Coordinator
Rom-SIG

Dear fellow Rom-SIGgers,

The time is drawing still closer for the 20216 IAJGS Conference in
Seattle, and we are still hoping to hear >from you as to your plans to
attend!

Here are some events to consider:
- Come by our SIG table at the Share Fair on Sunday, 1-5:30pm, to get
acquainted, or just to say "Hello", and chat.

- Attend the the Rom-SIG meeting on Monday 10:30-11:45 am. We have
lots to discuss, and plans to make! Do let us hear >from you, positive
or negative, so that we have some idea of how to plan!

- Attend the Sephardic genealogy and history of Romania, Monday at
1:30 pm. A new view of Jewish history in Romania!

- Attend the special talk by Jeffrey Gorney, Wednesday >from 8-8:25
pm. He will have a fascinating tale to tell of his visits to Romania ,
past and present!

If there is a demand, while we have no official SIG luncheon planned, we
could possibly arrange an informal luncheon with those who would like to
get together.

Looking forward to hearing >from many of our 2400 members! Let's get
back on a roll - as Bob Wascou would have said!

Rosanne Leeson
Coordinator
Rom-SIG

To commemorate his 92nd Birthday last Friday, Harold Pollins has
provided JCR-UK with yet a further superbly researched and annotated
article, this time on the "Jews of Dewsbury" (which can be viewed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/dewsbury/Jews_of_Dewsbury.htm)

Harold has also considerably expanded his extracts of press reports
relating to the Dewsbury Jewish Community. These can be viewed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/dewsbury/jc.htm.
The document now contains nearly 150 separate press extracts >from 1885 to 2005.
JCR-UK now includes extracts of press reports for over 70 different
communities, throughout the UK, all extracted and compiled by Harold.

Another extremely interesting article recently provided by Harold and
posted to JCR-UK is "Herbert Martin James Loewe in Oxford" (which can
be viewed at http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/oxford_articles/Loewe_in_Oxford.htm),
which is part of his Oxford series of articles and which was first
published in the Jewish Journal of Sociology.

We wish Harold a (slightly belated) very happy birthday and again
thank Harold for all his contributions to JCR-UK over the years. We
look forward to receiving many more articles >from him.

Do you have any data or material on any Jewish community or
congregation, past or present, anywhere in the British Isles? These
may take the form of, for example, corrections or updates to existing
material; photographs; articles and histories; copies of press
reports; personal reminisces; copies of brochures or other communal
publications or pamphlets, useful links or publications; lists of
ministers, communal officers or members. Almost anything goes that may
be of interest to present day or future researchers. If you have items
of this nature that you would like to see preserved for posterity on
the JCR-UK website, please contacts me at the email below.

Regards,

David Shulman
Webmaster JCR-UK
Ra'anana, Israel
jcrukwebmaster@gmail.com

To commemorate his 92nd Birthday last Friday, Harold Pollins has
provided JCR-UK with yet a further superbly researched and annotated
article, this time on the "Jews of Dewsbury" (which can be viewed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/dewsbury/Jews_of_Dewsbury.htm)

Harold has also considerably expanded his extracts of press reports
relating to the Dewsbury Jewish Community. These can be viewed at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/dewsbury/jc.htm.
The document now contains nearly 150 separate press extracts >from 1885 to 2005.
JCR-UK now includes extracts of press reports for over 70 different
communities, throughout the UK, all extracted and compiled by Harold.

Another extremely interesting article recently provided by Harold and
posted to JCR-UK is "Herbert Martin James Loewe in Oxford" (which can
be viewed at http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/oxford_articles/Loewe_in_Oxford.htm),
which is part of his Oxford series of articles and which was first
published in the Jewish Journal of Sociology.

We wish Harold a (slightly belated) very happy birthday and again
thank Harold for all his contributions to JCR-UK over the years. We
look forward to receiving many more articles >from him.

Do you have any data or material on any Jewish community or
congregation, past or present, anywhere in the British Isles? These
may take the form of, for example, corrections or updates to existing
material; photographs; articles and histories; copies of press
reports; personal reminisces; copies of brochures or other communal
publications or pamphlets, useful links or publications; lists of
ministers, communal officers or members. Almost anything goes that may
be of interest to present day or future researchers. If you have items
of this nature that you would like to see preserved for posterity on
the JCR-UK website, please contacts me at the email below.

Regards,

David Shulman
Webmaster JCR-UK
Ra'anana, Israel
jcrukwebmaster@gmail.com