The following is information my husband gave me as he was raised in that synagogue. The Sephardi synagogue/organization has been in continuous operation. Congregation founded in 1911 and acquired the building from a congregation for $1 in 1926. Located at 1926 63rd St. Friendship Truth and Brotherly Synagogue (718)-259-2449. As of 2014, it was still operational. Congregants are buried in Mt. Hebron (Queens) https://www.mounthebroncemetery.com/interments/?page=2&fname=&lname=&yod=&society=friendship&block=&reference=#results.%C2%A0%C2%A0 There are a few dozen Perririlos (3 different spellings) listed in cemetery.

The Facebook group is  https://www.facebook.com/people/Center-of-Studies-of-Jewish-Heritage-of-Kastoria/100068396357488/

My husband attended there in the 1950s (his father was Sephardic and mother was Ashkenazia (a mixed marriage) and his father would point to the congregation and say "Meet your community." My father-in-law's parents and one sister arrived in New York/Brooklyn from Kastoria around 1905. A few years ago PBS showed a film about the Jews of Kastoria. Sadly WWII ended that population.
Barbara Cohen (ahcbfc@...)

Dear friends,
Can anyone translate the attached note in Yiddish that was on the back of a circa 1915 photograph of family members around the matzevah of my great grandfather in the Lublin or Łęczna cemetery (Poland).  Thank you.
Carl
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Carl Feuer
Ithaca NY
carlfeuer@...

I can’t read all the Hebrew but the bottom line is his name Chaim Yosef son of Arye Yehuda.

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Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey

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Saul Issroff
London UK

I was at a family reunion on Sunday attended by the grandchildren of a family member who was divorced in the High Court of Scotland in Edinburgh in 1916, on her second attempt (the first had been in 1911).  She had been pregnant when she married her husband, and they had married in a synagogue in 1908 (in Glasgow where he came from, rather than Edinburgh where she came from), despite her Cohen husband being illegitimate himself with a mother who was not Jewish and a father who was Jewish. Clearly no checks had been made as the marriage was authorized by the synagogue.

The 1916 petition for divorce succeeded because her husband wanted to remarry (a non Jewish woman - whom he married in a church), so he could be proved to be the guilty party. The case was reported in the Scotsman newspaper, and after WW1 my widowed great grand aunt moved from Edinburgh to London with her daughters including the divorced wife and her son, presumably to escape the stigma. 

However, it was common for people to remarry when they were already married. There is a case of this in my husband's non Jewish family from the 19th century where a family member had originally married in Lancashire but a remarriage took place, also in Glasgow, where his ancestor was away for work purposes. 

Divorce was too expensive for most people, and I do not know who paid for my family's divorce in Edinburgh, whether it was one person or a number of family members, but presumably some financial recompense was made by the court in 1916 - nowadays assets are split half and half, but I do not know how they worked it out in 1916. 

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

I notice that one marriage was before the Great War and the second one after. If your relative was not English,  an enemy alien, his English wife would have benefitted by divorcing him. I have a relative whose case was similar, though  I'm not sure whether his second marriage was a synagogue one, but it took place abroad.

A second thought is that divorces were expensive as well as frowned upon, so lying about the split may have been mutually agreed..

Eva Lawrence,

St Albans UK.

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Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.

I would greatly appreciate an English translation for the attached tombstone.

Thanks very much!
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Robin August, Ph.D.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 10:16 PM, <gsjacobs412@...> wrote:

First question is . would he be allowed to marry in a Synagogue after marrying out.

Allowed - or forbidden - by whom?

Third question is. If he was not a widower is the marriage strictly legal

According to whose laws?
 
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Odeda Zlotnick
Jerusalem, Israel.

I've just encountered a puzzling pair of DNA matches which I hope those with more expertise in this area might be able to unpuzzle.

I found what looks like a significant match between my mother Nancy and Mary through MyHeritage – 123.8cM total/10 segments/largest segments 25.2, 20.2, 15.2, 14.1.  In addition, MyHeritage showed that Mary and my mother triangulated with 2 other known cousins on my mother's paternal branch.   

I contacted Mary and, happily, she replied. Among other things, she let me know that she'd also tested at Ancestry though under a different name.  When I found the match between my mother and Mary on Ancestry, the match data was so radically different – 21cM/7segments/ largest 15cM – that I'm stumped to understand it.  Nor do I see any known shared matches, even though one of those with triangulated matches at MyHeritage also tested at Ancestry. 



I've looked at enough DNA match data that I'm not surprised by slightly different numbers reported by different testing companies.  I understand that the companies test different areas but it is hard to believe that this could result in such widely divergent readings.  In one case, according to the rule-of-thumb for evaluating and prioritizing matches I've learned, one test reveals a close(ish) match with likely common ancestors and the other test suggests the match isn't worth pursuing.  

Can anyone enlighten me about what's going on?   Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Lee David Jaffe
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Surnames / Towns:  Jaffe / Suchowola, Poland ; Stein (Sztejnsapir) / Bialystok and Rajgrod ; Roterozen / Rajgrod ; Joroff (Jaroff, Zarov) / Chernigov, Ukraine ; Schwartz (Schwarzstein) / Ternivka, Ukraine ;  Weinblatt / Brooklyn, Perth Amboy, NJ ; Koshkin / Snovsk, Ukraine ; Rappoport / ? ; Braun / Wizajny, Suwalki,  Ludwinowski / Wizajny, Suwalki

The coffin story is on the stamps it was standard practice. I should have pointed out in my previous post that the text that I quoted and translated was from the stamp at the left of the document. So, the coffin story is on the stamp, so it was standard practice for remains to be kept in the mortuary.
The note at the bottom says "Aufschub befürwortet" - postponement approved.
I give you again the link for the history of the Zentral-Kroppenverein here:
https://docplayer.org/17478546-Www-heilstaettenschule-at-rohue-rohue_kalender-2011-kalender_2011-htm.html


Here is a translation:

The B I W A K Association introduces itself
How it began
Child protection and youth welfare were not always the responsibility of society as a whole. Only since the twenties of our [the 20th] century has there been a social consensus about this, which is also reflected as a legal obligation of the general public. Until then, children had to rely on the voluntary charity of private associations.
One of the first of these associations in the Vienna area was the Zentral-Krippenverein, founded on November 29, 1847 under the protection of Archduchess Maria Josepha. According to some sources, the association may even be the oldest welfare association in Austria.
In 1847, the Centralverein für Kostkinder-Beaufsichtigung und Krippen, as it was initially called, opened the first Viennese nursery, which was soon followed by others. In the early days, 400 children of poor parents were cared for and fed daily, and, as the chronicle notes, without distinction as to nationality or religion. At the beginning of the 20th century, the association already ran eight nurseries, four of which were housed in its own houses and four in rented apartments.
After the First World War, a home for healthy infants was opened in Seitenberggasse in the 16th district. The home was already run as a day and night operation and cared for wards of the Vienna municipality and some private children, but also took in mothers with their babies; to ensure their supply of breast milk, the association even founded its own nurses' school.
From 1930 onwards, disabled children up to the age of 14 were also admitted; those who were wards of the Vienna municipality were taken over by the National Socialist Volksfürsorge. During the war, the staff was then also deployed in other care areas.
After the war, the Zentral- Krippenverein was re-established and cared for 100 healthy infants up to the age of two. In August 1945, children and caregivers moved into the house at Lainzer Strasse 172, and the association left the property in Seitenberggasse to the City of Vienna, which set up a day school there.
In 1966 the house in Lainzer Straße was bought by the municipality of Vienna and rented to the Zentral-Krippenverein. Since 1973, at the request of the municipality of Vienna, handicapped infants have been admitted. Since the name of the association repeatedly led to misunderstandings in the public, it was renamed in 2003. The new association name BIWAK stands for - CARE AND INTEGRATION OF CHILDREN, JOINT LIVING, ACCEPTANCE in society and COMPETENCE in work. Since the relocation of the association in 2004 to Vienna 10, Collmanngasse 5, the association name is BIWAK- Kinderwohngemeinschaft Laaerberg.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

I suggest you contact BIWAK- Kinderwohngemeinschaft Laaerberg to see if they have more information.
The other link I gave you is for the files of the Zentral-Krooppenverein at the Austrian State Archive
https://www.archivinformationssystem.at/detail.aspx?ID=1283851
The seem to have material up to 1938.


Andreas Schwab
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Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada

In the USC Shoah Foundation survivor interviews in the section for the country-state-city-place they list the following: Russia Glowaczow (Kielce, Poland).  What does this mean?  Are they from Kielce Poland?  What is Russia Glowaczow?

Brian Stevens
Dallas, TX

Christine, are you aware of a very interesting Jewish Museum in Fuerth? It was the former house of a Jewish merchant.
it features a Mikvah with water from natural spring.
Has a sukkah with retractable roof.

Hannah Sperber 
naturefan33@...
Denver, Colorado USA

 

Sunday, December 11^th  2022   1:00-3:00 p.m.

JCC 2^nd floor in the Library

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This will be a “Live and In-Person” Event only..

Please join us  for an afternoon of food, friendship and sharing as we celebrate Hanukkah  and the 40^th Anniversary  Milestone of  SDJGS  

 

There will be a silent auction for all attendees and a drawing for a free full year membership to the San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society for all those who purchase a buffet ticket

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Thank you so much Andreas for your help here. Of course your additional explanation yields more questions.

• Why was there a delay in the internment? To me the most obvious answer is that the pathology department wanted more time to prepare slides of Leo's brain or other body parts to study. And what were they studying? Might it be how the barbiturates worked to kill Leo to help them plan the more massive killing that was to come?
• What's the story with the metal coffin that was to be cemented and screwed with double soldering? Leo's remains were given to the Jewish cemetery for burial not to the family. Why such an unkosher coffin? Could it possibly be prevent some exhumation of the remains in the future?

Thank you also for finding out the name of the institution. Does anybody know what happened to that institution, Zental-Krippenverein and whether it survived the war?

On the coroner's report at the bottom there is a comment that my friend found impossible to read to translate. Maybe somebody here can make out what this says?
 
Again thank you all for the help and the kind comments both posted here and sent to me privately. My family sincerely appreciates them.
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Dr. Steven S. Turner
President, Gesher Galicia
www.geshergalicia.org

I'll leave others to comment on questions #1 and #2, but as to #3:  Is it possible that your relative and wife No. 1 divorced?  Granted, this would (sadly) have entailed each of them lying on the occasion of their remarriages.  But I'm not sure this means that divorce can be ruled out as an explanation: after all, there was considerable stigma attached to divorce in those days.
Have you checked contemporary newspapers in case there is any record?

Peter Lobbenberg, London

Shalom Everyone,

JewishGen Press is proud to announce the publication of our 155th
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This is the translation of: Pinkas Hrubieszow (Hrubieszów, Poland).

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I am involved with other posters in researching the all-too-short life of Rolf Rudi Grab, born Breslau (Wroclaw) 1919, a religious Jew.  He moved first with his family to Hannover, then in 1939 to England where he was involved with Bachad (Brit Chalutzim Dati'im, the Alliance of Religious Pioneers) and for a period was interned on the Isle of Man.  Later he joined the British Army (Royal Army Ordnance Corps / RAOC), and then the Jewish Brigade, with whom he was stationed in Italy.  The rest of his immediate family all perished.

In late 1945 or early 1946, he was severely injured in a motor accident in or near Naples.  He requested to be moved to Palestine, and that request was granted: he died in a hospital there in April 1946, and was buried with full British military honours in Ramleh/Ramla War Cemetery.

Now here's the thing.  Neither his headstone (which is on findagrave.com), nor the British Commonwealth Graves Commission website http://cwgc.org, make any mention of his being in the Jewish Brigade: both state merely that he was a private in the RAOC.

A Google search as follows - site:cwgc.org "jewish brigade"  - suggests that he was not alone: the only hits appear to be for minutes of committee meetings and the like.  So far as I can see there is no CWGC grave, be it in Israel or anywhere else, on which the deceased's membership of the Jewish Brigade is acknowledged.  And yet there must surely be a number of others who died while serving with the JB.

Is this delicate political territory for some reason?  Can anyone suggest any other explanation?

Peter Lobbenberg, London

Please translate the records for Abraham Wolf Philipson (Faivush)- I think this was my grandfather from Kedainiai. This is from LitvakSig and the film number is 2289447, image #221.
The URL is https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99GQ-2685?i=220

Thank you - Elliot Philipson