Shalom,

I am doing research on the LERNER family >from Briceni, Moldova.
Lat= 48deg 22'; Lon= 27deg 05' , 125 miles/200 kilometers NW of Chisinau
and near the Ukraine border.

His father was Chaim LERNER (born circa 1880's) ben Nachum. I believe
Nachum's father was a Rabbi in Briceni. The Rabbi's other children include,
Mordechai, Leizer, Rose and Mary. I do not know the Yiddish names of Nachum's
sisters.

Nachum immigrated to Argentina and then the USA. He lived in Cincinnati,
Ohio and then New York.

The Rabbi may have also had a niece named Sarah, who married George
GANDELMAN/HANDELMAN. They lived in New York.

If anyone is familiar with this family, please email me privately.

Thank you,

Shelly Crane
crzprncess@...
USA
Other names I am researching in the Ukraine but are not part of the LERNER
family:
BABEL, BERMAN, BINDER, BLAS/BLAZ, BLEKHMAN, BOGUZ, CHESSIN, CHOLODENKO,
COHEN, DICKTER, FELDMAN, GITERMAN, GLASS, KWAIT, KVACHINSKIJ, LEFELMAN,
LIPOVETSKY, MEZHERITZKY, OSCHERANKO, PETROVSKIJ, SELDMAN, SHAPIRA, SHIFFMAN,
WASSERMAN, WEXLER, ZEISLER

There is a short story by (I think) Isaac Bashevis Singer; I don't remember
the name of the story, and have been trying to find it for you for a week
but cannot.

The story is told >from the point of view of a seven-year-old boy who hides
in his Cheder while the melamed is murdered in a pogrom. He then cannot
understand why, when his mother and father survived, there is so much
sadness and anger between his parents. He cannot understand why his father
is so angry at having to pack up and leave their village, why they move to
America, why his mother cannot take joy in her pregnancy, etc. . . .

Sometimes, fiction tells the story better than non-fiction. I'm sorry I
don't remember the name of the story.

Doug Cohen
Lexington, MA
dmc@...

Shalom,

I am doing research on the LERNER family >from Briceni, Moldova.
Lat= 48deg 22'; Lon= 27deg 05' , 125 miles/200 kilometers NW of Chisinau
and near the Ukraine border.

His father was Chaim LERNER (born circa 1880's) ben Nachum. I believe
Nachum's father was a Rabbi in Briceni. The Rabbi's other children include,
Mordechai, Leizer, Rose and Mary. I do not know the Yiddish names of Nachum's
sisters.

Nachum immigrated to Argentina and then the USA. He lived in Cincinnati,
Ohio and then New York.

The Rabbi may have also had a niece named Sarah, who married George
GANDELMAN/HANDELMAN. They lived in New York.

If anyone is familiar with this family, please email me privately.

Thank you,

Shelly Crane
crzprncess@...
USA
Other names I am researching in the Ukraine but are not part of the LERNER
family:
BABEL, BERMAN, BINDER, BLAS/BLAZ, BLEKHMAN, BOGUZ, CHESSIN, CHOLODENKO,
COHEN, DICKTER, FELDMAN, GITERMAN, GLASS, KWAIT, KVACHINSKIJ, LEFELMAN,
LIPOVETSKY, MEZHERITZKY, OSCHERANKO, PETROVSKIJ, SELDMAN, SHAPIRA, SHIFFMAN,
WASSERMAN, WEXLER, ZEISLER

There is a short story by (I think) Isaac Bashevis Singer; I don't remember
the name of the story, and have been trying to find it for you for a week
but cannot.

The story is told >from the point of view of a seven-year-old boy who hides
in his Cheder while the melamed is murdered in a pogrom. He then cannot
understand why, when his mother and father survived, there is so much
sadness and anger between his parents. He cannot understand why his father
is so angry at having to pack up and leave their village, why they move to
America, why his mother cannot take joy in her pregnancy, etc. . . .

Sometimes, fiction tells the story better than non-fiction. I'm sorry I
don't remember the name of the story.

Doug Cohen
Lexington, MA
dmc@...

Shalom,

I am doing research on the LERNER family >from Briceni, Moldova.
Lat= 48deg 22'; Lon= 27deg 05' , 125 miles/200 kilometers NW of Chisinau

His father was Chaim LERNER (born circa 1880's) ben Nachum. I believe
Nachum's father was a Rabbi in Briceni.. The Rabbi's other children include,
Mordechai, Leizer, Rose and Mary. I do not know the Yiddish names of Nachum's
sisters.

Nachum eventually settled in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Rabbi may have also had a niece named Sarah, who married George
HANDELMAN. They lived in New York.

If anyone is familiar with this family, please email me privately.

Thank you,

Shelly Crane
crzprncess@...
USA

Shalom,

I am doing research on the LERNER family >from Briceni, Moldova.
Lat= 48deg 22'; Lon= 27deg 05' , 125 miles/200 kilometers NW of Chisinau

His father was Chaim LERNER (born circa 1880's) ben Nachum. I believe
Nachum's father was a Rabbi in Briceni.. The Rabbi's other children include,
Mordechai, Leizer, Rose and Mary. I do not know the Yiddish names of Nachum's
sisters.

Nachum eventually settled in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Rabbi may have also had a niece named Sarah, who married George
HANDELMAN. They lived in New York.

If anyone is familiar with this family, please email me privately.

Thank you,

Shelly Crane
crzprncess@...
USA

Dear JGenners,

We are trying to trace our cousin Zalman GUREVIC and
his family in Israel.
The last address we have is:

Z. Gurevitch
Visotsky St., Tel Aviv

We believe the connection is that he is the nephew of
Simon Gurevitz(sp?) who emigrated to London >from Minsk
early in the 20th Century.

Visits and correspondence were exchanged with my
cousin Lou Gordon (son of Simon) and his family (of
Brighton, Sussex) in the latter part of the 1900s.

Any information would be very much appreciated.
With thanks.

Mavis Shaffer
London, U.K.

Dear JGenners,

We are trying to trace our cousin Zalman GUREVIC and
his family in Israel.
The last address we have is:

Z. Gurevitch
Visotsky St., Tel Aviv

We believe the connection is that he is the nephew of
Simon Gurevitz(sp?) who emigrated to London >from Minsk
early in the 20th Century.

Visits and correspondence were exchanged with my
cousin Lou Gordon (son of Simon) and his family (of
Brighton, Sussex) in the latter part of the 1900s.

Any information would be very much appreciated.
With thanks.

Mavis Shaffer
London, U.K.

My friend Israel PICKHOLTZ writes:

A couple of days ago, a man here in Israel wrote to tell me that sixty
years ago he knew a young man named Pikholz, in Riga. The Pikholz
families are >from Galicia, but of course people travelled and especially
after the Holocaust many found themselves in unfamiliar places. But
this is the first I have heard of a Pikholz in Latvia and I haven't a
clue how to investigate further.

I'd apprecaite any help or direction that anyone can offer.

Israel Pickholtz
Gush Etzion
ISRAEL.

You can reach him at IsraelP at pikholz.org

Martha Lev-Zion
Israel

My friend Israel PICKHOLTZ writes:

A couple of days ago, a man here in Israel wrote to tell me that sixty
years ago he knew a young man named Pikholz, in Riga. The Pikholz
families are >from Galicia, but of course people travelled and especially
after the Holocaust many found themselves in unfamiliar places. But
this is the first I have heard of a Pikholz in Latvia and I haven't a
clue how to investigate further.

I'd apprecaite any help or direction that anyone can offer.

Israel Pickholtz
Gush Etzion
ISRAEL.

You can reach him at IsraelP at pikholz.org

Martha Lev-Zion
Israel

Shalom,

I am doing research for a friend whose LERNER family came >from Briceni, Moldova.
125 miles/200 kilometers NW of Chisinau

His father was Chaim LERNER (born circa 1880's) ben Nachum. I believe Nachum's
father was a Rabbi in Briceni. The Rabbi's other children include, Mordechai,
Leizer, Rose and Mary. I do not know the Yiddish names of Nachum's sisters.

Nachum eventually settled in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Rabbi may have also had a niece named Sarah, who married George
HANDELMAN. They lived in New York.

If anyone is familiar with this family, please email me privately.

Thank you,

Shelly Crane
crzprncess@...
USA

Dear Genners,

Any suggestions on how to enlarge the document found on the left side of the
information. I click "enlarge on Photo" and I all I see and can print is a
1/2" "swiggle".

I have successful enlarged and printed the Information Sheet in the past.
The information is a link to our past. I contacted another person who has
the same problem.

Could you email me privately with any suggestions as to how to correct this.

Thanks so much,

Valerie Miller Fox
GTA Ontario

I am working on a Solomon LEWIS family tree that has only recently been
handed on. There is very little to guide the reader.

However, a recent email says:

"The person Mum thinks might help you is Wiggs ( nickname obviously) Hill.She
has a daughter called Rosemary who I believe worked for the BBC". This dates

from a meeting in London in 1970's

If this email makes any sense to listers, please make direct contact with
me. My GGM Matilda Lewis was born in London in 1845 and travelled to New
Zealand where she married Henry Solomon Meyers in November 1867.

Hope someone can help, please?

John Meyers
PO Box 1497
Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
meyersje@...

Dear friends genners:
I need to know if there are a Plonsker Center or Association in Israel, because
in Argentina there was one many years ago.

If anyone know some thing about it contact me privately at ananuta@...
Thanks for all, and it is a pleasure to be with you again.
Ana R.Nuta
ananuta@.... or
ananuta@...
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Shalom,

I am doing research for a friend whose LERNER family came >from Briceni, Moldova.
125 miles/200 kilometers NW of Chisinau

His father was Chaim LERNER (born circa 1880's) ben Nachum. I believe Nachum's
father was a Rabbi in Briceni. The Rabbi's other children include, Mordechai,
Leizer, Rose and Mary. I do not know the Yiddish names of Nachum's sisters.

Nachum eventually settled in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Rabbi may have also had a niece named Sarah, who married George
HANDELMAN. They lived in New York.

If anyone is familiar with this family, please email me privately.

Thank you,

Shelly Crane
crzprncess@...
USA

Dear Genners,

Any suggestions on how to enlarge the document found on the left side of the
information. I click "enlarge on Photo" and I all I see and can print is a
1/2" "swiggle".

I have successful enlarged and printed the Information Sheet in the past.
The information is a link to our past. I contacted another person who has
the same problem.

Could you email me privately with any suggestions as to how to correct this.

Thanks so much,

Valerie Miller Fox
GTA Ontario

Dear friends genners:
I need to know if there are a Plonsker Center or Association in Israel, because
in Argentina there was one many years ago.

If anyone know some thing about it contact me privately at ananuta@...
Thanks for all, and it is a pleasure to be with you again.
Ana R.Nuta
ananuta@.... or
ananuta@...
Buenos Aires
Argentina

I am working on a Solomon LEWIS family tree that has only recently been
handed on. There is very little to guide the reader.

However, a recent email says:

"The person Mum thinks might help you is Wiggs ( nickname obviously) Hill.She
has a daughter called Rosemary who I believe worked for the BBC". This dates

from a meeting in London in 1970's

If this email makes any sense to listers, please make direct contact with
me. My GGM Matilda Lewis was born in London in 1845 and travelled to New
Zealand where she married Henry Solomon Meyers in November 1867.

Hope someone can help, please?

John Meyers
PO Box 1497
Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
meyersje@...

"Jules Levin" <ameliede@...> wrote

I spent six-and-a-half weeks in Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine this
past summer and was shocked to see the numbers of locals who had the
same hair and strange cheeks as me: hair that is very straight and
very fine and very, very unlike the waves and curls of every, single,
other Jew studying at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute and cheeks with a
strange slight sinking.

1) We shouldn't discount the ability of phenotypic selection to influence
such things. If Jews, adopting the aesthetic values of their milieu,
prefer taller, paler, and straighter hair in mate selection, even if this
amounted to less than 1% per generation, in 10 generations,
400 years, there would be some affect on the appearance of [some of] the
population.
2) Given all the pressures for conversion in the community, I would
expect to see more evidence of 'Jewish' genes in the gentile community
than the opposite. I think the story of Oskar Milasz, the French poet,
cousin of Nobel Prize-winner Czeslaw Milasz, is more typical than
gentile-sired babies in the Jewish community. Oskar's mother was the
daughter of a rabbi in a Lithuanian village. His father was a Polish
cavalry officer
in the Russian army. Riding through the village, their eyes met, he swept
her up on his horse, and rode off with her to marriage. It is possible
that she, like the Rothschild daughters married to English nobles,
privately
practiced Judaism on their estate, but their descendents are good
Catholics, no doubt.

Stephen Pinker, the psychologist had a long article in this Jewish New
Year's edition of the London Jewish Chronicle which was a wide-ranging look
at the psychology of being Jewish (very crudely as I don't have a copy to
hand).

He briefly touched on the subject of the difference between European Jews
and Gentiles - and as I recall he said that with a small amount of
intermarriage over the centuries there was very little difference between
the two groups genetically.

Maybe someone else has a copy of this recent edition and would have a look
at it for me?

Nick Landau
London, UK

COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near
Lvov/Lemberg), Poland) WEITZMAN (Cracow), WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany),
THALHEIMER (Mainbernheim, Germany), KOHN/WEISSKOPF (Wallerstein and
Kleinerdlingen,Germany), LANDAU (only adopted
on leaving Russia/Belarus or later)/FREDKIN (?)
(Gomel, Mogilev, Chernigov, Russia/Belarus)

I would appreciate translation, please, of an article about the town
Nemirow, written in a Polish Gazette between 1887-1902. The direct URL for the
article is

http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/all/viewmateview.asp?key=8691

Please send responses directly to me; my e-mail address is srhlsr@...

Thank you.

Sarah Lasry
Israel