Success! Here are the buildings at 8 and 10 Delancey Street in a photo taken in Dec. 1907, featuring the Guttman Coffee House and Delicatessen (see attached image, and detail). Perhaps this is your grandfather's restaurant, or perhaps his replaced the Guttman? This photo is from the New York Historical Society, which has a full set of 1907 Delancey St. images, building by building, from Dec. 1907 at http://digitalcollections.nyhistory.org/islandora/search/delancey?type=dismax

Enjoy,
Bob M

Robert Murowchick    <robertmurowchick AT gmail.com>
Needham, MA

Researching these family links:
MUROWCHICK/MURAWCHICK/MURAWCZYK etc (David-Gorodok, Belarus, New Jersey, Chicago)
KUNECK/KONIK/KYONIK (Kozhan-Gorodok, Belarus)
EPSTEIN/EPSTINE (Gavish/Gavieze, Liepaja, Latvia)
SEGAL/SIEGEL (Tilsit, Koenigsburg, Germany; Baltimore; Chicago)

Researching a supposed marriage of the son of a Rabbi David, Rabbi of
Novarodk, family name unknown to me, to a HOROWITZ daughter probably
around the early part of the 19th century. The groom's name was Moshe
(son of David son of Moshe of Klezk). Reportedly he adopted the
HOROWITZ family name and died relatively young. (Possibitiy that his
father, Rabbi David, had no family name.

As the (A)GOLNICK) family in USA are descendants of the above Rabbi
David of Novarodok, the above Moshe may be their ancestor.

TIA

Yoni Ben-Ari

Seeking to identify close friend of Blumeh (Movshovich) Berkovich, writing to Blumeh from Grenoble, France:



the postcard reads something like this:

“And I again settled in Grenoble. The mood is not to describe. And how are you? I didn't thank you for your friendship. Don't be upset/everything goes by [or ends] in this stupid life/the stupid existence becomes yesterday [news]/loses its whole importance___ Stupid post - again and again the same. ___I made piece with my destiny and you do the same. The game is over/the future preset. And work is awaiting me - again and again work. May God give us strength to cope with all. Be well your ...[illegible first name or 'friend' ] Wein.”


Adam Cherson

Comments: Photo from family collection of Samuel BENYAKONSKI. This photos shoe the 5^th and 6^th grade classes of 1942-43 at the Centro Israelita of Havana (located on Muralla/between Zulueta and Egido). Reasonable to suppose that some of these kids were of parents from Divenishok (Dieveniskes).

 

Families known to have been associated with the Centro Israelita of Havana during this period and who may have family in these photos:

ABRAMCZYK, AFRIN, ALTMAN, ARLIUK, BAUM, BAUMGART, BEYZER, BEREZDIVIN, BERGER, BIMBLICH, BLOCH, BOLTINSKI, COHEN, DREIMAN, EDELSHTEYN, FITER, GEITZHOLZ, GOLDSTEIN, GOLDWATER, GORFINKEL, HERTZBERG, HIMMELSHTEYN, HAIMOVICH, HANIVIESTKI, KATZ, HERSZFELD, KLEIMAN, KRAMER, KRIEGER, LAZAR, LEVINSON, LUBIN, MARKEVICH, MILINIFKER, MILLER, ORDER, RYBAK, SANDBERG, SCHLESINGER, SZLIPAKH, SCHUCHINSKI, SCHWED, SHAFTAL, SHKLAR, SHKOLNIK, STUTMAN, SZECHET, SZPRYNGIER, TAUBER, TENENBAUM, TUREK, WAGNER, WAHL, VOLBE, WEINER, VOLSON, YARMUS, ZAJAC, ZOLL

1941: 5th Grade (top row 3rd from viewer's left: Samuel BENYAKONSKI)

 


1942: 6th Grade: (2nd row from back, furthest on viewer's right: Samuel BENYAKONSKI)


Adam Cherson

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Moriah Amit

Hi Laurent,
You are right, the grave is in a former Hungarian province, now in Romania, and related to a Hungarian family.

In that case, what could be the meaning of "Shem Imo"?
Many thanks
Best regards
Maria Rev

My great-great-grandparents Joseph Jonas (Jannes) and his wife were from Riga; they were feldshers (paramedics) that died in treating cholera victims during the epidemic that f=broke out in Moscow in1830.  Their son, Samuel Jonas (Jannes)aged 12, and his sister were orphaned and went to live with an uncle.  The uncle substituted my great grandfather Samuel for his son and he was drafted into the Russian army where he served for 25 years.  Upon leaving the Russian army as a corporal, he married a younger Jewish woman and he served as a constable somewhere in central Russia.  During that stay, his wife was attacked and Samuel beat the living daylights out of that lowlife.  As Jews, they would have been lynched except because of Samuel's service, they were exiled to Bialystok in the Russian Pale.  They grew a large family, which included my grandmother Gussie and all of them emigrated to the USA/  BTW, Matilda is not a rare name among Jews.  I had two relatives named Tillie.

Most of my mother's family were from Opole Lubelskie. Only a few survived the Holocaust. I found records on Yad Vashem, submitted by a surviving cousin, saying they all died in Treblinka. My sister visited the area a few years ago with a  guide who told her that some of the residents were taken to Poniatowa, near Opole Lubelskie, where they were forced to work and later killed. 
Perla Goldschmidt
Doylestown, PA
Researching: ZYLBERMAN, SCHENKER, LERNER, JAKUBOWICZ, PERELBERG, GOLDSCHMIDT, GUTERMAN, KLEIN(er), BRETZLER

I can highly recommend a visit  Kazerne Dossin (pandemic permitting) or of course online in the meantime.  They keep alive an important part of the history of the Holocaust which some may be unaware of. They were (and still are) extremely helpful with my research on a branch of my family that emigrated to Belgium in the 1920s from Poland, who like so many more were seeking a better life away from poverty and antisemitism.  

Jeff Kutcher

Unfortunately I do not see an listings for this town in Alex Krakovsky's postings and not much online at JG database

Good Morning,
The Hebrew Date of 5689 corresponds to 1929.

Leya Aronson
Toronto

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Buried Here
The Dear Woman and a Good Soul
The Crown of her Husband, the Glory of her Children
Mrs. Cirka daughter of
???? Rabi Yoel Betzalel the Levite
her death is painful for her husband and all her houshold
in the 5 day of the month of AV in the year 1929
her soul shall be bound in the bundle of life

(notice the discrepany in the year of death!)

Meir Razy
researching Rovno & Dubno

Here is buried
The beloved woman and good soul
The crown of her husband and glory of her children
Mrs Tzilka daughter of our teacher the rabbi Yoel Betzalel the Levi 
Died to the despair of her husband and all her family
The 5th day of month of Menachem-Av the year 5689
May her soul be bound in the bond of life


-Binyamin Kerman
Baltimore MD

Hello all, I have been helping my dad with the maternal side of my genealogy, but we both seem to have hit a wall at my great grandfather's side of the family and I am hoping some distant relatives are using this site as well and have some pieces to this puzzle that I am missing.

Ingrid

I think you should definitely do a DNA test which will give you your Ethnicity.  There are many Companies to choose from such as MyHeritage.com,  FTDNA. com (Family Tree DNA). Ancestry.com and others. The name Erika Dreznieks sounds Latvian but not Jewish. Matilda Jonuss likewise does not sound Jewish as Matilda is not a common Jewish name. .  Ancestry has the largest database but My heritage has the largest Jewish database.   FTDNA has the advantage that part from autosomal DNA which means you inherit  half from each parent they also do Mitochondrial DNA which is the maternal line and Y DNA which is the paternal line. You just need to test autosomal DNA(called Family Finder) in the first instance.  The Ethnicity results also vary with different testing Companies depending on the pool they have tested.   IF you test with Ancestry as with any of the Companies you  are able to  download your Raw DNA data and upload to other Companies but you cannot upload Raw data from other Companies to Ancestry.  
The name Late Mazus may be Jewish. Jekab Jonuss also cannot be ruled out. as it may be a Jewish Name.

Shalom, 
Is there any JewishGeners whose family name is/was GEDALI or a variant in
the spelling of this name and lived in the mid 19th century and onwards in the
Hungarian town called Batiz (which later became part of Romania). If there is please reply to my personal email address sabaisio@.... Thank you in advance, now y'all stay safe, sound, and very healthy during this pandemic, 
Aizic Sechter from the Lone Magen David Star state of Israel.

Check into the Kovel group on Facebook.

Joel Ackerman
Jerusalem, Israel