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Re: Translate Yiddish Grave
#photographs
#translation
#yiddish
Sam Eneman
The ViewMate site is at: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/
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Re: The male name Shapsei
#names
#lithuania
gnscpa@...
The Hebrew name shabtai is shabsai (Sephardi vs ashkenazi pronunciation) shepsel is the Yiddish version. Btw many an Israeli today named after a grandfather or previous generation is Roie (shepherd) as in Yiddish a shof is a sheep & shepsel is a lamb. Also rakhel is a female ewe. So Rachel is also a possible namesake
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Always count the generations from the common ancestor to the descendants, not from the descendants to the common ancestor. As long as the descendants' generations are parallel, you'll be counting first/second/third/etc. cousins. Once the generations stop being parallel, you start counting once/twice/etc. removed.
-- Deborah Blankenberg (JewishGen ID #613395)
Lodi, CA
dtblankenberg@... Researching BLOCH/BLOCK (Germany to New York, Colombia and Missouri), BLINDER (Kishinev to New York via Poland? and Paris), KUSHER/KUSZER (Lodz vicinity to New York via Paris), GOLDSCHMIDT (Germany)
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We Are Here World-Wide Event
#announcements
#events
Hi all
A World-Wide event not to be missed!
See
We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope Livestreamed at: www.wearehere.liveThis special livestreamed concert event commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the 77th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, even as it speaks to the challenges of the current moment. —Featuring: Mayim Bialik, Renée Fleming, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Joel, Academy Award Winner - Adrien Brody Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Lang Lang, Joyce DiDonato, Lea Salonga, Lauren Ambrose, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo and many others— Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Sing For Hope In partnership with: Lang Lang International Music Foundation Network of 135+ organizations across the globe to livestream event— in 14 countries (Australia, Belarus, Canada, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine, the UK, and the US) and 35 US states. We hope to reach more than 100,000 people worldwide with a message of hope grounded in our history and elevated by powerful music. Australia: WE ARE HERE Foundation Premieres USA: Sunday June 14 at 2pm US ET (New York) and goes dark Wed 17th 2pm US ET Australia: Monday June 15 at 4am - Eastern States (3:30am - Adelaide, 2am - WA, 6am - Auckland) The video will be online for 72 hours after that, until Thursday 18th in Australia Livestreamed at: www.wearehere.liveThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising—in which 13,000 Jews died fighting Nazi oppression in April and May 1943—was the largest single act of resistance during the Holocaust. The Uprising was the inspiration for “Zog nit keyn mol” (Yiddish: “Never Say”), also known as the “Partisan Song,” which was written in 1943 by Hirsch Glick while he was in the Vilna Ghetto. The song, which exemplifies Jewish resistance to Nazi persecution, provided the initial inspiration for the June 14 concert event, and resonates today with themes of resistance, resilience, and hope. “We are all inspired by the example set in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Partisan Song, which begins and ends this program, speaks to the fight for social justice and fundamental human rights,” said Bruce Ratner, Chairman of the Board at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. “With this program we hope to make our contribution to the tradition of resilience, resistance, and hope.” said Jack Kliger, President & CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC Thanks and regards
Eli Rabinowitz
Perth, Australia
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Re: synagogue memorial plaques
#JewishGenUpdates
Nurit Har-zvi
Hello,
The letter to synagogues refers to an attached spreadsheet but I don't see one. Is that a separate download? Nurit Har-zvi famhisthz@...
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Re: We Are Here! Join us on June 14@2PM ET for a very special program
#JewishGenUpdates
#events
Peter Heilbrunn
There doesn’t seem any way to log in to the event from UK.
Regards,
Peter
Peter Heilbrunn Tel +44 (0)1494 725966 Amersham England
From: main@... <main@...>
On Behalf Of Avraham Groll
Sent: 14 June 2020 06:04 To: main@... Subject: [Special] [JewishGen.org] We Are Here! Join us on June 14@2PM ET for a very special program #JewishGenUpdates #events
**WE ARE HERE!** JOIN US TOMORROW - JUNE 14@2PM ET - FOR THIS IMPORTANT EVENT
JewishGen.org is proud to partner with 60 other museums and cultural institutions around the world for:
We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope Sunday, June 14 @ 2:00 PM ET.
Featuring award-winning media personalities Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Adrien Brody, Mayim Bialik, Jackie Hoffman, and Tiffany Haddish, world-renowned singers and musicians Renee Fleming, Lea Salonga, Steven Skybell, Joyce DiDonato, and Lang Lang, and other public figures from all walks of life, the free 90-minute program will commemorate the recent anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and project a message of hope amidst the crises we face.
Find more info and tune in to view the program at
www.WeAreHere.live.
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Re: Pincus LISHINSKY/LECZINSKY/LISCHINSKY/LEGINSKI
#names
Diane Jacobs
GO back to stevemose.org and in the first group of passenger manifest databases you will see The Ship Lists. Fill in the name if the ship and month and year of arrival. Then click search and up will come 1 or 2 choices in the upper part of the screen. Click on the ship's name and using this to you can scroll through the manifest pages And look for the entry carefully. Hope thus helps. Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Felissa Lashley <frlashley@...> Date: 6/13/20 4:36 PM (GMT-05:00) To: main@... Subject: [JewishGen.org] Pincus LISHINSKY/LECZINSKY/LISCHINSKY/LEGINSKI #names I need some assistance in finding the passenger record to Ellis Island for my grandfather, Pincus LISHINSKY spelt a variety of ways. He said that he arrived on the SS St. Louis from Southampton to Ellis Island on January 23, 1905. One time, it was noted that he entered through Philadelphia. He would have been travelling alone I believe, age 28-30, a tailor, married from Gorodische, Cherkassy, Kiev, Russia. I have tried using the Steve Morse site but have not had any luck to date. I would appreciate any suggestions please. Thank you.
Felissa Lashley
Austin, Texas
-- Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey
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Re: Moses Hyam or Hyam Moses - name reversal in early 19th century
#unitedkingdom
David Lewin
Had one died before the other was born?
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At 12:47 13/06/2020, Steven I Usdansky via groups.jewishgen.org
wrote:
In my family, one grandson of Chaim-Moshe was named that, two were named Moshe-Chaim. The reason for the reversal of the names remains a mystery.
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emmabcole@...
Hello
I am tracing the family tree of the Friedmann family from Hungary and Vienna who came to New York in the 1930s. One of the branches, Hugo Mantel and his wife Edith and son Jonathan moved to Israel in the 1950s, would anyone be able to help find out about any other family they had in Israel? Hugo died in 1983, Edith in 2001 and Jonathan in 2002. Hugo's brother Louis Mantel was a Hebrew teacher and died in 1996 in Far Rockaway, New York. I am trying to work out if he married or had any children, but I can't find any in the records. I would also love to know more about his aunt Margit Friedmann who was married to my great uncle Miksa Weisz. Although they divorced in 1929 in Vienna, Margit kept her married name, so died as Margit Weiss. She also lived in Far Rockaway and died there in April 1976. Nobody in the family knows what happened to Miksa, it is one of my ambitions to find that out too. I don't think he went to America and could have ended up anywhere after his divorce. He didn't return to his daughter from his 2nd wife (who died in the Spanish flu in 1918), she was looked after by her grandparents in Budapest. Would anyone know more about the Mantels in Israel, or about Louis and Margit in Far Rockaway? Huge gratitude if anyone is able to help Best wishes Emma
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Jewish Prison Commander - Kharkov 1923
#ukraine
According to the family narrative Yakov KARLINSKY known as Yasha was
arrested in 1922-1923 as a capitalist and enemy of the people and held in a prison in Kharkov. He was fortunate - the prison commander was a Jew whom he had met a few years previously in Palestine. The commander let him out of prison and he was able to leave the Soviet Union. This is a long shot : who was the prison commander? Jules Feldman Kibbutz Yizreel Israel -- הודעת דוא"ל זו נבדקה לאיתור וירוסים על ידי תוכנת האנטי-וירוס של avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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jenya.kanadov@...
Hello everyone, My last time I asked about subcarpatia's archive Thank you everyone who wrote me and tried to help and of course thank this site for this service,you really make avodat kodesh. Today I ask for advice I am trying to locate family from Skole, Galicia Austria,now Ukraine. To Skole they came from another place (Bessarabia? Marmorosh ? Veretzko?) The question is where? Which archive? I know AGAD, State Archive of Lvov Oblast,Uzhgorod's archive Maybe you know something more Where are you looking for? Thank you very very much, please,write me jenya.kanadov@... P. S. If anyone of you needs translate from russian and I can help, write me also.
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Re: Moses Hyam or Hyam Moses - name reversal in early 19th century
#unitedkingdom
jlevy2008@...
Thank you, Bob.
You have confirmed what I suppose I already suspected. People did reverse their secular given and family names. But it's great to hear some concrete examples. I once knew a guy in the UK with the surname MORRIS. His grandfather or great-father appeared in secular records as Breslauer MORRIS. That was a pretty obvious case of name reversal. It did not take long to find the record of the adoption of the surname BRESLAUER by a man called Moritz. Justin Levy Dubai, UAE
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Re: We Are Here! Join us on June 14@2PM ET for a very special program
#JewishGenUpdates
#events
Kathy Miller
Hi
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As I live in Australia and this webinar is at 4am, I ask, will there be a recording for me to watch at a convenient time? Thanks Kathy Miller
On 14 Jun 2020, at 3:04 pm, Avraham Groll <agroll@...> wrote:
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Who knows Moldavanski or Kushnir?
#ukraine
Jana.Tegel@...
One of my grandmothers was Fanja Shljoma Selmanovna Moldovanskaja (male form is Moldovanski). She was born in 1923 in the Ukraine.
My another grandmother's name was Betya(Basya) Chaimovna Kushnir, born in Polonnoye, the Ukraine, in 1917. Bevore the Second World War they both moved to Siberia and lived in Jewish Autonome Region in the town Birobidshan. I am searching for thier relatives, maybe brothers, sisters, grandparents. Does anybody know something? Jana Tegel Fertel, Fetell MOLDOVANSKI Kushnir
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Re: Sourcing Photos
#general
#photographs
I forgot to mention that I think for exchanging with other people purposes, a code for source is a great idea. I would append it to the end of my filename.
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FINKEL / FINKLE family in Philadelphia
#usa
boris
Has anybody come across this family?
They came to New York City, lived to Philly (1910), then back in New York (1920). Still lived in New York in 1940.
Joseph FINKEL , b. ca. 1867, in "Russia", tailor; Wife Sarah Fikel; immigrated ca. 1892-1894-1896 (different in each subsequent census). had several daughters: Lizzi, Minnie, Mary, Clara, Dorothy, and one (?) son Morris.
Mary married one Abe Goodman, a tailor and lived all her life in Philly. Don't know yet what happened to others.
Any leads are appreciated.
Please help others by responding to the group and listing all related last names. Boris Feldblyum
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Re: Har Nebo Cemetery in Phila
#photographs
#usa
Harry Green
I am sorry to hear about that as my maternal ancestors (Brantz) have some beautiful monuments!!! Fortunately we have photos of them all (taken about 2006). They were erected in the 1920's. The last time I visited them was about 1988. At that time they had an active open office and a new section.
Harry Green
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Re: Other names for Yitzchak?
#names
Vered Dayan
Sometimes Eisig or Ajzik in Yiddish.
Vered Dayan Israel
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Re: Other names for Yitzchak?
#names
Elise Cundiff
Itsik, Itzik, and any spelling that is phonetically similar to that or Yitzchak or Isaac.
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Russ Maurer
Each additional generation makes the relationship more distant or further "removed" to use the lingo. Thus if two people (A & B) are, say 2nd cousins, then A's child and B are 2nd cousins, once removed.
Russ Maurer
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