Today Zhytomyr is in Ukraine. I think "Celleitz" may refer to one of two villages in that area: one is a suburb of Zhytomyr, now called Sloboda-Selets', and the other is a bit farther north called

Chinka usually does correspond to Chana. But things were probably more fluid in the old country. My father-in-law had Polish family members who were brothers named Isak and Eyzyk. They were alive at

Jack or Jacob Horwitz is buried in Ottawa at the Jewish Memorial Gardens Bank Street Cemetery. He was actually murdered in 1931. A picture of his gravestone can be found at

I have many Chinke females in my tree, including my sister's middle name. It was not common, but was not a diminutive if anything. -- Deborah Shindell Trumbull, CT deborah.shindell@... researching:

For the names from Ottawa, see this article in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. It's quite a story. (I suspect that Mrs. Rosen was Jack Horwitz's mother-in-law.) David Kimmel Montreal,

GENI is a subject worth discussing I think because that sort of platform, for all its flaws, can serve a critical purpose in the field of rabbinical (and archaic) genealogy, if designed well. Those

There is a museum of his art in Bat Yam. Part of Bat Yam museums -- https://moby.org.il/building/issachar-ber-ryback/ Tzvika SHACHAM

Another idea may be to contact the University of Florida department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies (within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences). I would think they may be able to solicit

There is also an Aryeh Leib Ber(e)nstein (1790-1843), son of Yechiel Michel Berenstein (1770-1839) and Taube Wohl, who lived in Lvov (Lemberg) and is a descendant of the Pnei Joshua. Which from the

My Grandfather had a sister called Chinka born in 1878 in Motol, Russia (Now Belarus) Lesley Edwards Cheshire, England

Hi, In my experience the was names were translitereated into English or other languages varies greatly. Chinka is most likely Cheyenka (which the “ch” pronounced as the gutteral “ch” as in the

Try contacting the Jewish Genealogical Society at The Villages https://vgsfl.org/cpage.php?pt=159 . They are a 1 hour drive from Gainesville. Marlis Humphrey marlis@... marlis@... -- Marlis

Genners, Norman Kagan wrote an article entitled "Rivne Memories" which can be found at https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/rovno/memories.asp I'd like to contact him. Does anyone have an email

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Ralph Cilevitz He thought his family was wiped out in the Holocaust Then he discovered 75,000 distant relatives Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 7:30 PM

I recently came across an item in the Canadian Jewish Review mentioning the wedding of one of my probable cousins, Florence Merson, in Montreal, in 1928. Her parents were Joseph Merson and Dora Herr,

According to the Jacobi Papers, a product of fifty years of intensive and scrupulous research, R' Aryeh Leyb Bernstein (1708-1789) son of Yitzach (Yssachar) Ber son of Moshe Zev Vulf has only one

I initially replied privately, but seeing the public interest of so many others,.. My parents and brother left Portugal on the "Serpa Pinto" in January of 1942, arriving in Havana (after some time at

Hello, I am researching the Gerber/Garber family in Zhitomir, Russia in the mid- to late-19th century. My ancestor lists his town in Zhitomir as a place that sounds like Celleitz. Does anyone have

I am interested in how my great-uncle, Willem Holler (Dutch passport), and his wife Amalia (Holler nee Heller; Polish Passport) arrived in Florida from Havana in February 1942. My last info (of

Please also keep me in this loop - my machtunim's family was Gefter who left Havana in 1937. Of great interest to this group - I found a listing for Abraham Gefter in the 1949 Havana directory for