Hi

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

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.

 

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

Sometimes Eisig or Ajzik in Yiddish.
Vered Dayan
Israel

Itsik, Itzik,   and any spelling that is phonetically similar to that or Yitzchak or Isaac.   

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

Ayzik, Icek, Itzchak

Some used the name Icek (especially from Poland) or Anglicized to Isidor. 
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Abby Barry Bergman
New York

I would like to congratulate the IAJGS on awarding this recognition to such a worthy individual.
Shalom and his lovely wife, Fran welcomed us to Israel in 1991 smoothing our Aliyah process.
Shalom's genealogy work is legendary and of such value to our community and I have a personal story on that note:
One day he called and asked if i had a copy of my ggrandfather's signature.
When I answered in the negative, he informed me that he had obtained a copy of his grandparents marriage certificate from Philadelphia and no other then my ggrandfather, Rabbi Joseph Grossman, was the officiated Rabbi.
When he later held one of my grandsons at the little boy's bris, I was overwhelmed by this connection between the generations and our families discovered by Shalom.

I was privileged to this very personal assistance in my search for family roots but I can only imagine how many people have been assisted by Shalom's work over the years, 

Keep up the wonderful work!
Sharon Grossman Rottman

At 19:07 13/06/2020, Karol Swanson via groups.jewishgen.org wrote:

I just discovered my great grandfather's surname was TAJWIL and the
name appears on the JRI list of Rozdal surnames 1869-1901. Can
anyone please tell me how to pronounce this name? Is it Yiddish,
Polish, Russian or whatever? Would there be an English or Yiddish
equivalent of this name?
Also, I have two different first name versions for, what I believe,
is the same person. One is spelled Uszer and the other is Vicher.
Could this be the same name?

Many thanks,
Karol Schlosser Swanson
Scotland

Dates and countries - or language - would be of great help for this guesswork


I had two possibilities come to mind

1, Tevele - diminutive for Tuvia Tuvia being "Tuv" or "Tov" -
Good and "ia" being God

2, Teufel

David Lewin
London

At 18:41 13/06/2020, judith.cannon4@... wrote:

On my grandfather Louis Witkin's death certificate, his father's
name is Yitzchak, but I can't find Yitzchak anywhere in the
archives. Any suggestions for how that name may have been listed?
Thanks/
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Judy Cannon
judith.cannon4@...
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Yitzchak is the Hebrew (Ivrit) for Isaac. Does that help??

David Lewin
London

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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Had one of the Moshe-Chaim's died before the other was born?

David Lewin
London

At 09:33 13/06/2020, jlevy2008@... wrote:

Hello everyone from the sweltering heat of Dubai,

Thank you all for your replies and interest.

I just wanted to clarify that I am asking about the likelihood of a
man swapping his given name and his family name.

The 1812 marriage recorded in the register of London's Great
Synagogue indicates that the groom's given name was Hyam in English
and Chayim in Hebrew. His English family name was apparently MOSES.

Is it likely that that he later chose to call himself Moses (given
name) HYAM (family name) for civil purposes, i.e. change his family name?

Were the family names used by the Jews of early 19th England fixed
or was there a degree of fluidity?

Justin Levy
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Are you certain that the reversed names apply to the same individual
and not to different generations in that family?


A string of two names was used before they invented family
names. XY was simply X, the son of Y

Jews also often named a newborn after a deceased grandparent. So XY
could be read as X son of Y. Mostly that was the name of a
grandfather - but not always, of course. That would be too
simple. Giving the child the same personal name as the father became
a "modern" copying of the gentiles.

In Germany Jews did not take on family names until 1812 -
1834. There are a couple of such databases at Jewishgen of name
adoptions which I created some years back for the 1812 and 183427
West Prussia and Posen provinces. At that time the Jews were granted
citizenship in those territories and one condition was that they
adopt family names as had been practiced by their non-Jewish host
territories for generations.

David Lewin
London

The question is not clear. 
   If you are looking for names Yitzkhak might use in a country where English is not the language spoken, I have seen Icek, Izaak, Aizik and Itsko.
   If you are looking at English language possibilities, Isaac is the direct translation, but I have seen Isadore, Irving, Irwin, all of which begin with the same sound. Though I have never seen it, Zach is another sound-alike.

Herbert Lazerow

An idea I had to possibly suggest which chassidus your family followed would be to look for names given in honor of deceased Rebbes. Although it's not a very reliable method, if you find relatives' names that are in common with Rebbes from either Ger or Radomsk that could suggest your family named after the chassidus they were members of. This would be if you don't know of another reason they would have picked the name (ie. there is no obvious relative they were named after).
You can find the names of the Rebbes from both Ger and Radomsk chassidus on Wikipedia and then check if the dates make sense that any relatives with names in common could have been named after the death of the Rabbi in question.
I like Steve Bloom's suggestion about maybe being a Radomsker chassid. It seems after WWI the chassidus moved to Sosnowiec which is even closer to Krakow than Radomsko is.
Good luck!