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A.Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Courland, alternate spelling Kurland, is Kurzeme in Latvian, and is Dolores PalomoIn South Africa, where the majority of the Jewish population originated >from the Baltic States, and Lithuania in particular, I have been very surprised to learn >from my friend of mine that his father came to RSA >from the Baltic region called Kurlandia. The Duchy of Courland was a Polish fief till last partition of Poland in 1795, when it was incorporated into Russian Empire, and in 1918, Courland became a part of the newly independent state of Latvia. This is probably why the immigrants >from this region refer to their origins land as Courland rather than Russia, which is similar to point out as to their origin from Lithuania, Estonia or Finland.And another historical curiosity about Courland. During the 17th century under the rule of Duke Jacob (ruled 1640-1682), Duchy of Courland was powerful enough to try to establish colonies in the West Indies (Tobago: 1645-65) and in West Africa (Gambia: 1651-65). This curiosity I have located in ol'Encyclopedia Britannica; this book never stops to amuse me. Alexander Sharon
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Provozhna
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IsraelP <p2o5rock@...>
Is anyone out there involved with the eastern Galician
town of Provozhna? Israel Pickholtz
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Courland
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A.Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Courland, alternate spelling Kurland, is Kurzeme in Latvian, and is Dolores PalomoIn South Africa, where the majority of the Jewish population originated >from the Baltic States, and Lithuania in particular, I have been very surprised to learn >from my friend of mine that his father came to RSA >from the Baltic region called Kurlandia. The Duchy of Courland was a Polish fief till last partition of Poland in 1795, when it was incorporated into Russian Empire, and in 1918, Courland became a part of the newly independent state of Latvia. This is probably why the immigrants >from this region refer to their origins land as Courland rather than Russia, which is similar to point out as to their origin from Lithuania, Estonia or Finland.And another historical curiosity about Courland. During the 17th century under the rule of Duke Jacob (ruled 1640-1682), Duchy of Courland was powerful enough to try to establish colonies in the West Indies (Tobago: 1645-65) and in West Africa (Gambia: 1651-65). This curiosity I have located in ol'Encyclopedia Britannica; this book never stops to amuse me. Alexander Sharon
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Provozhna
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IsraelP <p2o5rock@...>
Is anyone out there involved with the eastern Galician
town of Provozhna? Israel Pickholtz
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Kolo family names
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Judith Wolkovitch <102444.44@...>
I have been researching the following names in Kolo, Poland and if anyone
is researching the same names in that town please contact me privately: Neiman Slomko Kutzer Dumsky Rosenberg I have found them all in connection with their wives whose maiden name was Wolkowicz. Many thanks, Judy Wolkovitch 102444.44@compuserve.com
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Russian Jews in the Horsehair business
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SelmaN@...
Thanks for the excellent posts about Russian Jews in the lumber business.
Does anyone have ancestors engaged in the "horsehair dressing" business? I'm told that it was prevalent to Volhynia Gubernia in general, and the area in and around Kolki in particular. The WAGMAN, PEPPER & SCHMOISH relatives came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; on the ship manifests the occupation was "hairdresser". The GALOON family went to Argentina and Uruguay; they were "hairworkers". Ring 'dem bells! Selma Neubauer Philadelphia, PA SelmaN@aol.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Kolo family names
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Judith Wolkovitch <102444.44@...>
I have been researching the following names in Kolo, Poland and if anyone
is researching the same names in that town please contact me privately: Neiman Slomko Kutzer Dumsky Rosenberg I have found them all in connection with their wives whose maiden name was Wolkowicz. Many thanks, Judy Wolkovitch 102444.44@compuserve.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Russian Jews in the Horsehair business
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SelmaN@...
Thanks for the excellent posts about Russian Jews in the lumber business.
Does anyone have ancestors engaged in the "horsehair dressing" business? I'm told that it was prevalent to Volhynia Gubernia in general, and the area in and around Kolki in particular. The WAGMAN, PEPPER & SCHMOISH relatives came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; on the ship manifests the occupation was "hairdresser". The GALOON family went to Argentina and Uruguay; they were "hairworkers". Ring 'dem bells! Selma Neubauer Philadelphia, PA SelmaN@aol.com
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Searching: REZINOVSKY -BENTOLILA
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Sir Alex <alerezi@...>
I search information for my family.
My great grandfather was Saul Herss Rezinovsky (1869-1940), he cames from Ukraine to Argentina. His first marriage was to Fanny (Faqa) Tenenbaum, the second Clara Tamara Rubinchuc. With her (Rubinchuc) born my grand father Isaac Rezinovsky (1912-1978), marriage woth Sol Bentolila (1904) sefaradi, dauther >from Salomon Bentolila and Emma Bentiolila Sedero. Alejandro Rezinovsky Mendoza - Argentina
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching: REZINOVSKY -BENTOLILA
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Sir Alex <alerezi@...>
I search information for my family.
My great grandfather was Saul Herss Rezinovsky (1869-1940), he cames from Ukraine to Argentina. His first marriage was to Fanny (Faqa) Tenenbaum, the second Clara Tamara Rubinchuc. With her (Rubinchuc) born my grand father Isaac Rezinovsky (1912-1978), marriage woth Sol Bentolila (1904) sefaradi, dauther >from Salomon Bentolila and Emma Bentiolila Sedero. Alejandro Rezinovsky Mendoza - Argentina
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Searching: MELAMED, b. 1866
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Tove Dimmock <tove.dimmock@...>
I'm searching for my great grandfather Herman (norwegian name?) MELAMED
born May 30th 1866. Different people say he came from: Russia Riga, Latvia Lithuania Poland He worked as a stable master on a Tsar estate just outside of Odessa Ukraine. He married Klara Lea BECKER b. 1869 and emigrated to Norway 1894. Regards Tove Marie Dimmock
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching: MELAMED, b. 1866
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Tove Dimmock <tove.dimmock@...>
I'm searching for my great grandfather Herman (norwegian name?) MELAMED
born May 30th 1866. Different people say he came from: Russia Riga, Latvia Lithuania Poland He worked as a stable master on a Tsar estate just outside of Odessa Ukraine. He married Klara Lea BECKER b. 1869 and emigrated to Norway 1894. Regards Tove Marie Dimmock
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Searching: BECKER from Leckava, Lithuania
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Tove Dimmock <tove.dimmock@...>
Does anybody have information on relatives to these:
BECKER, Hezekiel Mordechai (Hetzkel) b. 1861 Leckava d. 1909 Norway BECKER, Mendel Davidor b. 1862 Leckava d. 1942 Auschwitz BECKER, Isak or Abel or Moses Isak b. 1885(1884) Leckava 4 siblings: BECKER, Klara Lea b. 1869 Leckava? (married Herman Melamed) d. 1925 Norway or Mina or Moritz or Therese Eiris b. Leckava Regards Tove Marie Dimmock
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching: BECKER from Leckava, Lithuania
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Tove Dimmock <tove.dimmock@...>
Does anybody have information on relatives to these:
BECKER, Hezekiel Mordechai (Hetzkel) b. 1861 Leckava d. 1909 Norway BECKER, Mendel Davidor b. 1862 Leckava d. 1942 Auschwitz BECKER, Isak or Abel or Moses Isak b. 1885(1884) Leckava 4 siblings: BECKER, Klara Lea b. 1869 Leckava? (married Herman Melamed) d. 1925 Norway or Mina or Moritz or Therese Eiris b. Leckava Regards Tove Marie Dimmock
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Searching: BEER, Lvov
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Joe Berry <joe@...>
It had never occurred to me to query this newsgroup about my family's
background. They too were in the lumber business and apparently were well off (if I heard this correctly). This was in Lvov. My family's last name was BEER. Joe Berry (edit the 'from' e-mail address appropriately) Baltimore, MD MODERATOR NOTE: The best way to go >from here is to the resources found in JewishGen. There is a wealth of information to help you further your research. You can get a list of all the resources available by accessing our home page at http://www.jewishgen.org. Under the heading RESEARCH you will find : FamilyFinder where you can search for other people researching the same surnames.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching: BEER, Lvov
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Joe Berry <joe@...>
It had never occurred to me to query this newsgroup about my family's
background. They too were in the lumber business and apparently were well off (if I heard this correctly). This was in Lvov. My family's last name was BEER. Joe Berry (edit the 'from' e-mail address appropriately) Baltimore, MD MODERATOR NOTE: The best way to go >from here is to the resources found in JewishGen. There is a wealth of information to help you further your research. You can get a list of all the resources available by accessing our home page at http://www.jewishgen.org. Under the heading RESEARCH you will find : FamilyFinder where you can search for other people researching the same surnames.
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Rzeszow, Poland (Galicia) Research Group
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Marian Rubin
In their announcement of the Kolbuszowa District Research Group (Dec.04
Digest), Susana Leistner Bloch and Phyllis Goldberg referred to the Rzeszow Research Group which I am coordinating. The Rzeszow Research Group was formed in June 1998 for the purpose of sharing research of our families >from Rzeszow (pronounced Zhe-shof). We are in the process of compiling a database of names appearing in some Rzeszow birth records >from 1842-1866. Other information is also being shared. If your family was >from Rzeszow, and if you are not already on our list, I would like to hear >from you. Please include the surnames of your Reyshe (Yiddish name for Rzeszow) families in your message, and I will send you a reply with a recent message I sent to the group. Marian Rubin San Francisco merubin@aol.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Rzeszow, Poland (Galicia) Research Group
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Marian Rubin
In their announcement of the Kolbuszowa District Research Group (Dec.04
Digest), Susana Leistner Bloch and Phyllis Goldberg referred to the Rzeszow Research Group which I am coordinating. The Rzeszow Research Group was formed in June 1998 for the purpose of sharing research of our families >from Rzeszow (pronounced Zhe-shof). We are in the process of compiling a database of names appearing in some Rzeszow birth records >from 1842-1866. Other information is also being shared. If your family was >from Rzeszow, and if you are not already on our list, I would like to hear >from you. Please include the surnames of your Reyshe (Yiddish name for Rzeszow) families in your message, and I will send you a reply with a recent message I sent to the group. Marian Rubin San Francisco merubin@aol.com
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Divorce by Proxy
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Judith Romney Wegner
Great-grandpa left behind a wife and son when he came to America.[snip] I am fascinated by the divorce-by-proxy suggestion. Has anyone run across anything like this?Jewish law has at least theoretically provided for divorce-by-proxy ever since the time of the Mishnah (c. 200 CE) -- so there is a firm halakhic basis for this procedure. (I've never personally thought about divorce by proxy in modern times, but presumably is theoretically unobjectionable and may occur in practice >from time to time. The mishnaic procedure involved the husband, or his agent, sending the bill of divorce to the wife's agent, who would receive it on her behalf (see Mishnah tractate Gittin 6:3, 6:4. Subsequent halakhic developments are outlined in Encyclopaedia Judaica Vol. 6 cols. 132-133. Until the 11th century for Askhenaim -- and presumably until today for Jews living in the lands of Islam -- a Jewish husband could divorce his wife even without her consent. Today in the Ashkenazic diaspora and for Jews of all backgrounds in Israel, the wife's consent is theoretically necessary (except where one of the parties has become an apostate from Judaism, in which case for the benefit of the still-Jewish spouse, Jewish law allows a husband to deliver the get to a court-appointed agent and it will take effect immediately even before the wife knows it. In general, though, if receiving the get through her agent, she will have appointed the agent, or agreed to his appointment. Marriage-by-proxy (i.e., by use of an agent) is likewise possible in Jewish law (see Mishnah Qiddushin 2:1). Judith Romney Wegner MODERATOR NOTE: Thread now closed.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Divorce by Proxy
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Judith Romney Wegner
Great-grandpa left behind a wife and son when he came to America.[snip] I am fascinated by the divorce-by-proxy suggestion. Has anyone run across anything like this?Jewish law has at least theoretically provided for divorce-by-proxy ever since the time of the Mishnah (c. 200 CE) -- so there is a firm halakhic basis for this procedure. (I've never personally thought about divorce by proxy in modern times, but presumably is theoretically unobjectionable and may occur in practice >from time to time. The mishnaic procedure involved the husband, or his agent, sending the bill of divorce to the wife's agent, who would receive it on her behalf (see Mishnah tractate Gittin 6:3, 6:4. Subsequent halakhic developments are outlined in Encyclopaedia Judaica Vol. 6 cols. 132-133. Until the 11th century for Askhenaim -- and presumably until today for Jews living in the lands of Islam -- a Jewish husband could divorce his wife even without her consent. Today in the Ashkenazic diaspora and for Jews of all backgrounds in Israel, the wife's consent is theoretically necessary (except where one of the parties has become an apostate from Judaism, in which case for the benefit of the still-Jewish spouse, Jewish law allows a husband to deliver the get to a court-appointed agent and it will take effect immediately even before the wife knows it. In general, though, if receiving the get through her agent, she will have appointed the agent, or agreed to his appointment. Marriage-by-proxy (i.e., by use of an agent) is likewise possible in Jewish law (see Mishnah Qiddushin 2:1). Judith Romney Wegner MODERATOR NOTE: Thread now closed.
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