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David Barrett
Whilst the question implies that Chashele is a Lithuanian derivative there is a Dutch name I believe Hashele which means 'little egg' Could there be any connection? Regards David Barrett
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sharon yampell
My great great grandfather’s sister in law was named Chashe; looks like a diminutive of that…
Sharon F. Yampell Voorhees, NJ USA GenealogicalGenie@...
From: Sally Bruckheimer via groups.jewishgen.org
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2020 8:42 PM To: main@... Subject: Re: [JewishGen.org] given name Chashele #latvia #names
My first thought was that Chashele was Haskiel, a man's name. But you want it to be a woman's name. Women often did not have a Hebrew name, but only Yiddish and / or secular names. One of my 2g grandmothers had 20 children in a tiny town,
and her name is different on each birth record; My ggrandmother, her daughter was mostly Rachel in records in the US - this was also one of her mother's names; on her marriage record in NYC, she was Regina. She had a sister born Regina, and this was another
of their mother's names. So go figure.
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Harvey,
You asked about the given name Chashele for someone born in 19th century Lithuania. According to Alexander Beider’s A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names, Khasele is a Yiddish variant of the name Khane (or Chane), apparently a diminutive form of the derivation Khase. Perhaps that is the origin of your relative's name.
Sincerely,
Jay
Jay Paul
San Francisco, CA 94117
Researching: SUMBERG (Pilvishok/Pilviskiai, Lithuania), LANGERT (Pilviskiai & elsewhere in Suwalki gubernia); KAHN (Ranstadt, Germany), GOTTLIEB (Grebenau, Germany), PAVLOVSKIY / PAVLOVSKY (Mala Antonivka, Bila Tserkiv, Vasyl’kiv, Kyiv gubernia, Ukraine), LEVITSKIY / LEVITZSKY (Yasnohorodka, Vasyl’kiv, Kyiv gubernia), KOTLER (Vistytis, Suwalki gubernia, Lithuania; Traby, Belarus), LEIBSON (Lithuania), WOLF, SCHWARZ and STERN (presumed from Austro-Hungary).
-- Jay Paul, PhD San Francisco CA 94117 Researching: SUMBERG (Pilvishok/Pilviskiai, Lithuania), LANGERT (Pilviskiai & elsewhere in Suwalki gubernia); KAHN (Ranstadt, Germany), GOTTLIEB (Grebenau, Germany), PAVLOVSKIY / PAVLOVSKY (Mala Antonivka, Bila Tserkiv, Vasyl’kiv, Kyiv gubernia, Ukraine), LEVITSKIY / LEVITZSKY (Yasnohorodka, Vasyl’kiv, Kyiv gubernia), KOTLER (Vistytis, Suwalki gubernia), WOLF (Austro-Hungary).
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Gesher Galicia Presents "Shtetl Life: An American's Journey from Ukraine to the Rabbinate and now Germany"
#announcements
#holocaust
#rabbinic
#galicia
#germany
Dear Friends,
Gesher Galicia is proud to offer as part of our webinar series an interview with Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz conducted by Steven Turner and moderated by John Diener. Rabbi Borovitz is a young orthodox Rabbi now living in Berlin who grew up in New York City. Rabbi Borovitz developed a romantic attachment to the shtetl and decided after college to join the Peace Corps and live in a shtetl in Ukraine. He discusses how this led him to develop his inner Yiddishkeit in a way that ultimately led him down the path of becoming a Rabbi. During this time, he was very much involved in preserving Jewish heritage in his ancestral shtetl of Rohatyn. After his Peace Corps service Jeremy joined the Jewish Corps and he was stationed in Kyiv which eventually led him to be part of the protests on the streets during the Maidan revolution. From there, Jeremy studied in yeshivot in Israel and later at a seminary in Brooklyn, NY from which he was recently ordained. He now lives with his wife Rebecca who is also an orthodox Rabbi in Berlin as part of Hillel's Base Berlin. Jeremy and Rebecca were in the synagogue in Halle during a terrorist attack on Yom Kippur, 2019. Fortunately the terrorist was unable to break down the doors and all the worshipers were saved, but sadly 2 innocent people outside the synagogue were murdered. We trust that you will find Jeremy's story to be fascinating and well worth your time. This presentation is recorded and on our Members Portal for members to view at their convenience Preview a trailer of the interview with Rabbi Borovitz talking about what Gesher Galicia means to him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch? Please make sure you are logged into Gesher Galicia before clicking the link below to view the complete interview. https://www.geshergalicia.org/ You must be a member of Gesher Galicia to be able to access the webinars and other resources in the Members Portal. Please click on the link below to join or renew your membership to be able to view this presentation. https://www.geshergalicia.org/ If you are unable to access the Members Portal, send your inquiries to: membership@.... Please email us at ssturner@... with any questions or comments. Sincerely, Dr. Steven S. Turner President, Gesher Galicia
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Re: Beth David Cemetery. Elmont, Queens NY
#photographs
#usa
rebasolomon
You are doing so many good deeds by searching for people at Beth David. I can barely find my own grandparents, even though I’ve been there many times. The groundskeepers have worked very hard cleaning it up, so it’s not as tangled as before. I wish you good luck. Reba Harris Solomon
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Sally Bruckheimer <sallybruc@...>
My first thought was that Chashele was Haskiel, a man's name. But you want it to be a woman's name. Women often did not have a Hebrew name, but only Yiddish and / or secular names. One of my 2g grandmothers had 20 children in a tiny town, and her name is different on each birth record; My ggrandmother, her daughter was mostly Rachel in records in the US - this was also one of her mother's names; on her marriage record in NYC, she was Regina. She had a sister born Regina, and this was another of their mother's names. So go figure.
Are you sure Chashele isn't Rachele? Where did you find Chashele? Sally Bruckheimer Princeton, NJ "Can anyone tell me about the given name Chashele"
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rv Kaplan
Thanks - but don't think so. I'm wondering if it is a diminutive of Channa - which still wouldn't fit in with the family names - who knows? Harvey Kaplan
On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 22:59, lydgateaction via groups.jewishgen.org <lydgateaction=btinternet.com@...> wrote: Is it not perhaps Chavala -- .חבלה Although the Hebrew meaning of the name Chavala is "life", in Yiddish it sometimes also meant "a little bird" I think.
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Latvia Database Broken Links - Workaround video now online
#JewishGenUpdates
#courland
#latvia
Marion Werle
Many of us have come to depend on the JewishGen Latvia database as a source for tranlated vital and 1897 census records. As you probably know,the Latvian State Historical Archives' Raduraksti website has moved, breaking the database links to the actual documents. There is no substitute for looking at the original record (even if you need to have it translated), so the broken links are a problem. We have a workaround that was presented at the IAJGS 2020 virtual conference's Latvia Resarch Division meeting, and I'm happy to announce that I've recorded it and it is now on the JewishGen Youtube channel. The presentation, "Finding Unindexed Latvian BMD and Census Records on FamilySearch," may be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwpu2OHFmS8&t=4s . The JewishGen introduction to the database will be updated shortly to point to the video. Hopefully this will be helpful to genealogists in locating digital copies of Latvian vital records, until the Latvia Research Division is able to correct the broken links.
Please forward any questions to LatviaRD@....
-- Marion Werle, Co-Director Latvia Research Division <canadagenes@...>
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There is a Hebrew name Chasha which exists among the ultra-Orthodox in
Jerusalem Chashele is a diminutive form of the name. Jules Feldman Kibbutz Yizreel
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Marcel Apsel
Harvey,
It might be a diminutive of Chasya
Marcel Apsel Antwerpen, Belgium
If you don’t remember me, I think we had together Friday night dinner in 2018 at the Warsaw Seminar together with Bill Gladstone.
Marcel
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m_tobiasiewicz@...
Hi Richard,
What name are you looking for? I am pretty good at finding elusive relatives. What street did they live on in 1930? -- Maryellen Tobiasiewiczfamily from: Bielsko-Biala powiat Poland
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lydgateaction@...
Is it not perhaps Chavala -- .חבלה Although the Hebrew meaning of the name Chavala is "life", in Yiddish it sometimes also meant "a little bird" I think.
I'm no expert but I can see possible confusion in the lettering and transliteration /sin/ vs /shin/ and /bet vs /vet/
In Fiddler on the roof, Tevya sings a song ``Little bird, little Chavala'' (about his daughter Chavala).
"Little Bird, Little Chavala
I don't understand what's happening today
everything is all a blur
Gentle and kind and affectionate
The sweet little bird you were
Chavala, Chavala
Little Bird, Little Chavala.... Aubrey Blumsohn Sheffield, UK
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Re: Geni Family Trees
#general
Jeffrey, I agree that it is one of the things that is very difficult for users operating in a smaller field to understand, that a process that allows some errors to creep into their tree is also a process that ends up catching and correcting even more errors. I try to explain that it is like a machine that goes three steps forward and one step back, three steps forward and one step back . . . . Over time, it averages out to real progress.
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I was able to reconnect two branches of the family I’m working on with 1920 census data, where the pioneering brothers were still living in the same household in Philadelphia. One brother immigrated in 1903; the other followed ten years later. I have not able to find the earlier arrival in the 1910 census.
Another member of this forum was able to find brother #2’s immigration record for me. Census records only show the country of birth, however the immigration record also showed the town they came from, as a mangled but still recognizable transliteration.
David Mason Culver City, California
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Excellent lecture series from The Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre
#holocaust
Ellen Caplan
The Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre at The University of Huddersfield, UK is a hidden gem. I don’t remember where I heard of them - perhaps in this very discussion list. They have an excellent series of free, online lectures that I have been attending. The subjects are interesting, and the speakers have been first-rate. I couldn’t help but notice that attendance is low - in each of the Zoom lectures that I listened to, there were not more than 25 attendees, which is really a shame.
Recent topics included Creating the National Institute of Holocaust Documentation at the USHMM (United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum); and Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution. Lectures yet to come include Jewish Refugees Find a Haven in the Dominican Republic; Sources of the Holocaust and from Concentration Camps: Documents and Personal Items from the Arolsen Archives; Shores of Light, Salento 1945,1947: Film Streaming and Director Talk. I highly recommend these lectures.
Ellen Caplan Ottawa, Canada Researching: EISENBERG, NAGLER, GINIGER, KLINGER: Mielnica, Ustye Biscupie, & Zalescie, Galicia; BREGER, LIEBMAN: Gomel & area, Belarus; PARADISGARTEN, SOLOMON: Tukums & Mitau, Latvia
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Markus ROSNER (1859-1934) From Tarnow
#galicia
Abuwasta Abuwasta
Dear Genners,
Just discovered on JRI-PL that my late grandfather Chiel Jakub ROSNER had a brother called Markus ROSNER who died in Tarnow in 1934 at the age of 75. I do not find anything else about him. His parents were Rubin ROSNER and Malka PERLBERG. If it rings a bell I would like to hear about it. Thanks Jacob Rosen Jerusalem
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Re: "Unehelichen"/Illegitimacy: applied to mother or child?
#germany
Eva Lawrence
You don't say whether the record actually gives the name of the child Regina, which is usually the case in Pfalz birth records. . As quoted, I agree that uneh;lich means unmarried, and I take it, also that Karolina's ,father's name was Isaak. Is Regina also given a surname, in the record, I wonder, which would be an indication of her father's idemtity?
-- Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK.
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families left out of 1793 Czech Jewish census
#austria-czech
#general
Craig Partridge
Every census misses some folks. I'm trying to get a sense of how many people were missed in the 1793 Czech Jewish census. If you know of a family (individuals are trickier, so I'm focused on families) that was missed by the 1793 census, could you drop me a note describing how you know the family existed and where they lived? Thanks! Craig (rfc974@...)
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Geni Family Trees - Privacy and Baptism Concerns
#general
Tamas Fleischer
(My other address was registered in JG I have to re-send this post.
I know since there were many new posts, perhaps still relevant. It addressed to the starter of this line.)
Dear Joan,
(1) in the case of Geni public surface there exist 'my family' but not exist 'my tree'
(2) it is a positive act to add joining family details to the tree. If you find a mistake in the added information, you can correct it, or negotiate it with the partner.
(3) to delete family branches from other people's family just because you don't like to see it is explicitly a brutal intervention against another partner's activity -- a much more severe error in the collaboration, than your supposed harm you complain about.
Tamás Fleischer
Budapest
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rv Kaplan
Can anyone tell me about the given name Chashele - for someone who was born in 19th century Lithuania. Is it Yiddish, corresponding to a Hebrew name? Seems to refer in my family to my grandfather's sister Ray. I don't know if she was maybe Rochel Chashele?
thanks
Harvey Kaplan
Glasgow, Scotland
KAPLAN, FAYN, FEIN, FINE, BARSD, GRADMAN
- Ariogala, Josvainiai, Kedainiai, Krakes, Seta, Veliuona, Grinkiskis, Lithuania
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