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Re: unusual name #general

Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
 

Jules Levin wrote on 03 mei 2013 in soc.genealogy.jewish:
Evertjan. wrote:
I have come across a man living in South Wales, known in the Census and other
sources as Harry Goldblatt. He was naturalised as a British subject in 1920
and the entry in the London Gazette gives his name as 'Chlavney (known as
Harry) Goldblatt'. Could that be a mis-spelling of his forename?
Wild guess: Czech hlavni, Slovac hlavny
"big":<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hlavn%C3%AD> >from Czech& Slovac
hlava "head":<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hlava#Czech> [From
Proto-Slavic *golva] Perhaps there are other Slavic forms?
Indeed there are. I propose Slavic xvala 'praise', semantically more
likely to appear in names in the Hebrew style. Indeed, a Hebrewist
among us might know a Biblical name of the form "God praises/praise > God" etc.
Kinui for Tehillah, Hallel, Hodia?

While perhaps of Church Slavic origin, the root occurs in all three Slavic
branches--East, West, and South. Switching chval- to chlav- is an easy
linguistic change. [..]
--
Evertjan Hannivoort.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
Visit [recently changed URL]: <http://synagogeenschede.nl/>
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: unusual name #general

Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
 

Jules Levin wrote on 03 mei 2013 in soc.genealogy.jewish:
Evertjan. wrote:
I have come across a man living in South Wales, known in the Census and other
sources as Harry Goldblatt. He was naturalised as a British subject in 1920
and the entry in the London Gazette gives his name as 'Chlavney (known as
Harry) Goldblatt'. Could that be a mis-spelling of his forename?
Wild guess: Czech hlavni, Slovac hlavny
"big":<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hlavn%C3%AD> >from Czech& Slovac
hlava "head":<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hlava#Czech> [From
Proto-Slavic *golva] Perhaps there are other Slavic forms?
Indeed there are. I propose Slavic xvala 'praise', semantically more
likely to appear in names in the Hebrew style. Indeed, a Hebrewist
among us might know a Biblical name of the form "God praises/praise > God" etc.
Kinui for Tehillah, Hallel, Hodia?

While perhaps of Church Slavic origin, the root occurs in all three Slavic
branches--East, West, and South. Switching chval- to chlav- is an easy
linguistic change. [..]
--
Evertjan Hannivoort.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
Visit [recently changed URL]: <http://synagogeenschede.nl/>
Re: looking for Jewish German actor named Karl H. SEFFERS from Berlin #general

André Günther
 

Hello Moshe,

the 1938 ship manifest shows additional the sister Anna KILIAN (>from Bassy). More
interesting: The manifest >from 1933 - the Bremen >from Cherbourg to nyc - which has
slight failures- but shows the same person! Here she is a private person - but she
travels to United Artists! And she is married with Lipmann DAVIDSON >from Riga..

Refering to the also jewish actor Karl SEFFERS >from Stuttgart (travelling to his
uncle Joseph DRECHSLER) seems to have changed his name - Carl Hans Georg Steffens
became Charles SOREL (who travelled a lot around).

May it help.
"Anderl" Andre´ Guenther
Munich, Germany

From: Moshe Schaeffer <schaefferfamilytree@gmail.com>
I am looking for information on a Mrs. Bassy r. DAVIDSON nee KADIS. I found her on
a ship manifest the S.S. Oriente sailing >from Havana on July 1938 to New York. On
the ship with her was a Jewish German actor named Karl H. SEFFERS >from Berlin. It
says she is a film representative. I am trying to find more info on her i thought
if I could find more info on him it might lead to her.
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: looking for Jewish German actor named Karl H. SEFFERS from Berlin #general

André Günther
 

Hello Moshe,

the 1938 ship manifest shows additional the sister Anna KILIAN (>from Bassy). More
interesting: The manifest >from 1933 - the Bremen >from Cherbourg to nyc - which has
slight failures- but shows the same person! Here she is a private person - but she
travels to United Artists! And she is married with Lipmann DAVIDSON >from Riga..

Refering to the also jewish actor Karl SEFFERS >from Stuttgart (travelling to his
uncle Joseph DRECHSLER) seems to have changed his name - Carl Hans Georg Steffens
became Charles SOREL (who travelled a lot around).

May it help.
"Anderl" Andre´ Guenther
Munich, Germany

From: Moshe Schaeffer <schaefferfamilytree@gmail.com>
I am looking for information on a Mrs. Bassy r. DAVIDSON nee KADIS. I found her on
a ship manifest the S.S. Oriente sailing >from Havana on July 1938 to New York. On
the ship with her was a Jewish German actor named Karl H. SEFFERS >from Berlin. It
says she is a film representative. I am trying to find more info on her i thought
if I could find more info on him it might lead to her.
Siblings of My Great-Grandparents #general

Helene Kenvin <hekenvin@...>
 

I have responded individually to those who were kind enough to answer my query
about what my relationship would be to the siblings of my great-grandparents.
The consensus is that I would be their great-grand niece.

Helene Kenvin
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Siblings of My Great-Grandparents #general

Helene Kenvin <hekenvin@...>
 

I have responded individually to those who were kind enough to answer my query
about what my relationship would be to the siblings of my great-grandparents.
The consensus is that I would be their great-grand niece.

Helene Kenvin
Re: Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive #yiddish

Bob Kosovsky
 

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Joan Rosen <jgrosen98@gmail.com> asked:

Can this be accessed anywhere besides at the
library itself? Is the scanning the same as that for other ProQuest
databases, wherein one can scan for any word (or name)?
It can be accessed within NYPL's four research centers (Scwharzman Building,
SIBL, Schomburg, and Library for the Performing Arts).

And yes, the scans are full-text (OCR) scans, so you can search by keyword, but
with any OCR scan, you also have to assume it misses some.


Bob Kosovsky, New York City, seeking any and all permutations/locations of:
KASOVSKI/Y, KASOWSKI/Y, KOSOFSKY, KOSOVSKY, KOSOWSKY, KOSOW, KOSSOVE, etc.
Slutsk: DAVIDSON, GELFAND (also Sioux City, Iowa)
Klodawa: JARET, JARETSKY, JARECKI, KOLSKY/I; Przedecz: PIFKO, PIWKO
Yiddish Theatre and Vadeville #YiddishTheatre Re: Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive #yiddish

Bob Kosovsky
 

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Joan Rosen <jgrosen98@gmail.com> asked:

Can this be accessed anywhere besides at the
library itself? Is the scanning the same as that for other ProQuest
databases, wherein one can scan for any word (or name)?
It can be accessed within NYPL's four research centers (Scwharzman Building,
SIBL, Schomburg, and Library for the Performing Arts).

And yes, the scans are full-text (OCR) scans, so you can search by keyword, but
with any OCR scan, you also have to assume it misses some.


Bob Kosovsky, New York City, seeking any and all permutations/locations of:
KASOVSKI/Y, KASOWSKI/Y, KOSOFSKY, KOSOVSKY, KOSOWSKY, KOSOW, KOSSOVE, etc.
Slutsk: DAVIDSON, GELFAND (also Sioux City, Iowa)
Klodawa: JARET, JARETSKY, JARECKI, KOLSKY/I; Przedecz: PIFKO, PIWKO
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive #yiddish

jgrosen98@...
 

The new electronic database (named above) at the NY Public Library was
mentioned in a posting. Can this be accessed anywhere besides at the
library itself? Is the scanning the same as that for other ProQuest
databases, wherein one can scan for any word (or name)?
Thanks.
Joan Rosen
Elkins Park, PA, outside Philadelphia
Yiddish Theatre and Vadeville #YiddishTheatre Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive #yiddish

jgrosen98@...
 

The new electronic database (named above) at the NY Public Library was
mentioned in a posting. Can this be accessed anywhere besides at the
library itself? Is the scanning the same as that for other ProQuest
databases, wherein one can scan for any word (or name)?
Thanks.
Joan Rosen
Elkins Park, PA, outside Philadelphia
Re: unusual name #general

Jules Levin
 

Evertjan. wrote:
I have come across a man living in South Wales, known in the Census and other
sources as Harry Goldblatt. He was naturalised as a Britishcsubject in 1920
and the entry in the London Gazette gives his name as 'Chlavney (known as Harry)
Goldblatt'. Could that be a mis-spelling of his forename?
Wild guess:
Czech hlavni, Slovac hlavny "big":<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hlavn%C3%AD>
from Czech& Slovac hlava "head":<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hlava#Czech>
[>from Proto-Slavic *golva]
Perhaps there are other Slavic forms?
Indeed there are. I propose Slavic xvala 'praise', semantically more likely to
appear in names in the Hebrew style. Indeed, a Hebrewist among us might know a
Biblical name of the form "God praises/praise God" etc. While perhaps of Church
Slavic origin, the root occurs in all three Slavic branches--East, West, and South.
Switching chval- to chlav- is an easy linguistic change. PS I would love to
confine the technical discussion to private exchange, if Evertjan would be kind
enough to send me an email address that doesn't require rewriting.
Jules Levin
Los Angeles
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: unusual name #general

Jules Levin
 

Evertjan. wrote:
I have come across a man living in South Wales, known in the Census and other
sources as Harry Goldblatt. He was naturalised as a Britishcsubject in 1920
and the entry in the London Gazette gives his name as 'Chlavney (known as Harry)
Goldblatt'. Could that be a mis-spelling of his forename?
Wild guess:
Czech hlavni, Slovac hlavny "big":<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hlavn%C3%AD>
from Czech& Slovac hlava "head":<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hlava#Czech>
[>from Proto-Slavic *golva]
Perhaps there are other Slavic forms?
Indeed there are. I propose Slavic xvala 'praise', semantically more likely to
appear in names in the Hebrew style. Indeed, a Hebrewist among us might know a
Biblical name of the form "God praises/praise God" etc. While perhaps of Church
Slavic origin, the root occurs in all three Slavic branches--East, West, and South.
Switching chval- to chlav- is an easy linguistic change. PS I would love to
confine the technical discussion to private exchange, if Evertjan would be kind
enough to send me an email address that doesn't require rewriting.
Jules Levin
Los Angeles
Re: Unusual name #general

Martin Miller
 

I have seen the name Chlavna (in Cyrillic characters) in records for my wife's
Seligman family, who came >from Shchedrin, Belarus. I don't recall if that member of
the family came to the US or by what name he might have been known. In Yiddish I'd
expect to hear Chlav-nee or Chlav-neh so Chlavney would be a good representation.

Martin Miller
Syracuse, NY
millerm214@gmail.com

From: Snillop47@aol.com
I have come across a man living in South Wales, known in the Census and other
sources as Harry Goldblatt. He was naturalised as a British subject in 1920 and
the entry in the London Gazette gives his name as 'Chlavney known as Harry)
Goldblatt'. Could that be a mis-spelling of his forename? If so, what is the
correct version?
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: Unusual name #general

Martin Miller
 

I have seen the name Chlavna (in Cyrillic characters) in records for my wife's
Seligman family, who came >from Shchedrin, Belarus. I don't recall if that member of
the family came to the US or by what name he might have been known. In Yiddish I'd
expect to hear Chlav-nee or Chlav-neh so Chlavney would be a good representation.

Martin Miller
Syracuse, NY
millerm214@gmail.com

From: Snillop47@aol.com
I have come across a man living in South Wales, known in the Census and other
sources as Harry Goldblatt. He was naturalised as a British subject in 1920 and
the entry in the London Gazette gives his name as 'Chlavney known as Harry)
Goldblatt'. Could that be a mis-spelling of his forename? If so, what is the
correct version?
Re: Unusual name #general

RsH <robert.heuman@...>
 

Sounds like it is an attempt to get to Ha Levi or something similar,
transliterating the Hebrew as Ch Lavney, when I look at it and pronounce it, and
the Harry because his English name.

Sort of my using Schlomo (known as Samuel) if the Yiddish on my Jewish birth
certificate is used, which it isn't.

Bob Heuman

Harold Pollins wrote:
I have come across a man living in South Wales, known in the Census and other
sources as Harry Goldblatt. He was naturalised as a British subject in 1920 and
the entry in the London Gazette gives his name as 'Chlavney (known as Harry)
Goldblatt'. Could that be a mis-spelling of his forename? If so, what is the
correct version?
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Unusual name #general

RsH <robert.heuman@...>
 

Sounds like it is an attempt to get to Ha Levi or something similar,
transliterating the Hebrew as Ch Lavney, when I look at it and pronounce it, and
the Harry because his English name.

Sort of my using Schlomo (known as Samuel) if the Yiddish on my Jewish birth
certificate is used, which it isn't.

Bob Heuman

Harold Pollins wrote:
I have come across a man living in South Wales, known in the Census and other
sources as Harry Goldblatt. He was naturalised as a British subject in 1920 and
the entry in the London Gazette gives his name as 'Chlavney (known as Harry)
Goldblatt'. Could that be a mis-spelling of his forename? If so, what is the
correct version?
Krakow Project #galicia

E. Randol Schoenberg
 

Thanks to the leadership and hard work of curator Pam Karp, the Jewish
Families of Krakow project on Geni at
< http://www.geni.com/projects/Jewish-Families-of-Krak%C3%B3w-Poland/12917 >
has now reached its first major milestone. Every one of the over 1,000
families identified in Dan Hirshberg's Krakow database is now connected
to the big tree on Geni and indexed on the project page. Now it is quite
easy for others to come and finish the data entry for each family. The
project has 67 collaborators and 78 followers (anyone is welcome to
join). There are 11,969 profiles added to the project (the highest for any
project on Geni, according to
http://www.geni.com/projects/Geni-Top-10-Lists/11937
Congratulations Pam and the many others working on this project.

Randy Schoenberg
Los Angeles, CA
Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Krakow Project #galicia

E. Randol Schoenberg
 

Thanks to the leadership and hard work of curator Pam Karp, the Jewish
Families of Krakow project on Geni at
< http://www.geni.com/projects/Jewish-Families-of-Krak%C3%B3w-Poland/12917 >
has now reached its first major milestone. Every one of the over 1,000
families identified in Dan Hirshberg's Krakow database is now connected
to the big tree on Geni and indexed on the project page. Now it is quite
easy for others to come and finish the data entry for each family. The
project has 67 collaborators and 78 followers (anyone is welcome to
join). There are 11,969 profiles added to the project (the highest for any
project on Geni, according to
http://www.geni.com/projects/Geni-Top-10-Lists/11937
Congratulations Pam and the many others working on this project.

Randy Schoenberg
Los Angeles, CA
View Mate: photo and photo studio ID requested #general

Karen Wyman <ancestoire@...>
 

I just posted this image to ViewMate and am interested in identifying the image and
also if anyone is aware of possible locations for the studio, to help narrow down
my search. It is posted on ViewMate at the following address:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM27164

Please respond using the ViewMate online form.

Thank you very much!

Karen Katz Wyman
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen View Mate: photo and photo studio ID requested #general

Karen Wyman <ancestoire@...>
 

I just posted this image to ViewMate and am interested in identifying the image and
also if anyone is aware of possible locations for the studio, to help narrow down
my search. It is posted on ViewMate at the following address:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM27164

Please respond using the ViewMate online form.

Thank you very much!

Karen Katz Wyman
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
136521 - 136540 of 657928