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AncestryDNA10 Matching Workshop - Wednesday, Oct 19 from 1:30-4:30 pm EDT Zoom RSVP requested. 

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The notation you mention was made when the immigrant exhibited some medical or physical condition that the authorities wanted to screen for & the immigrant was held for observation.  Starting around 1903, additional details were added -- for example, my great-grandmother arrived in 1911 and in addition to "hospital" it states "conjunctivitis".

If a passenger had died, an entry would have been made in the "Date and cause of death" column, immediately to the left of where "hospital" was recorded.

There are no additional records available regarding hospitalizations of passengers except for those hospitalized at Philadelphia ca. 1882 to ca. 1902; those records are at NARA, Philadelphia.

Regards,
David Oseas

Dear JewishGen Family,

We are pleased to present the JewishGen High Holiday Companion 2022/5783, which contains inspirational vignettes about how Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur were observed in various communities. This year's collection includes towns in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus, and includes the account of Holocaust Survivors observing Rosh Hashana in their hometown after the war - a town which did not have even one standing synagogue for them to pray in.

Particularly during this troubling time throughout the world, we hope that this companion will inspire you to connect with previous generations, and to help preserve and perpetuate the values which they held most dear.

There are two ways to read the High Holiday Companion:
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I hope you will enjoy reading these articles. If you have any feedback, or would like to help sponsor a future addition, please contact me at your convenience.

Shana Tova, Happy New Year, and THANK YOU for being part of the JewishGen family. We are looking forward to a GREAT year ahead.


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Linda Gold Buford
davidlinda@...

Researching: Poland or other GOLD, BREWDA - BREVDA - BRAUDA , BLUMENTHAL, PALTER - SPITZ, GILCHENSKI
                      Kobryn, Belarus Belarus - KAMENETZKI - KAMIENKA
                      Russia - SALIMAN, SCHREIBER, SEGAL, WALDMANN
                      Israel - PALTER

For a different perspective: https://www.timesofisrael.com/pbs-holocaust-documentary-perpetuates-well-worn-myths-to-glorify-fdr-says-historian/

I also found the book Gentleman's Agreement, published in the late 1940s, a fascinating albeit fictional look at the general perception of Jews. It's also well known that colleges/universities changed their admissions policies beginning in the 1920s to limit the number of Jewish students.

JoAnne

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On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 12:33 PM, <shlasky@...> wrote:

In addition, many Americans were almost completely anti immigration believing in "replacement theory", which was new at that time.  Back then, replacement theory meant that white Protestants would be replaced by nonwhites and/or people of other faiths. 

According to Ken Burns' first episode in the currently running PBS documentary mentioned above, a lot of Americans thought that Jews were not "white."  This was also a time when Jews were not welcome at social and country clubs, some elite schools of higher education and other places. I remember Jews being unwelcome at local country clubs where I grew up in SC during the 1950s and 1960s. Later, they begged some to join.  
 
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

Warren Blatt addressed this topic in post #429602 (https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/message/429602 ) -- some E.I. administrative records were destroyed in the fire, but no passenger manifests were lost.

New York passenger manifests, whether Castle Garden, Ellis Island or the Barge Office are typically put into a single collection on the popular genealogy websites, so a NY passenger search should include all of the records.

On Steve's site, the Gold form is the best one for NY passengers arriving between 1892 and 1924.
 
Regards,
David Oseas

Researching:
HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York;  KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles
KRONOWITH: Hungary > New York;  OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
SCHECHTER/SHEKTER: Kishinev, Bessarabia > New York;  SHERMAN: Iasi, Romania > New York > Los Angeles
STRUL:  Iasi, Romania > Haifa, Israel;  WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles

Sarah,

If they arrived at the port of NY the records are not separated by whether they landed at Castle Garden, the Barge Office or Ellis Island, but rather by the year they arrived.

Steve Morse has a wonderful search portal that covers 1820 to 1957 arrivals at the port of NY.
https://stevemorse.org/ellis2/elliswhite.html

Also, keep in mind that people landed at many other ports in The U.S., and many landed in Canada and than crossed to The U.S., and also there are Eastern European arrivals from Mexico into The U.S.

Searches for many of these ports are at www.stevemorse.org and www.familysearch.org

Ancestry.com also has databases of manifests from many U.S. ports.  Ancestry, however, is a subscription site, although many public libraries offer free access to Ancestry on their computers.

Good luck in your search,

Sherri Bobish

Searching:
RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala, Lith.); LEFFENFELD / FINK / KALTER (Daliowa & Jasliska, Pol.)
BOJDA / BLEIWEISS (Tarnow & Tarnobrzeg, Pol.); WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne, Pol.)
LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.); SOLON / SOLAN / SOKOLSKY (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.)
BOBISH / BLUMENKRANZ / APPEL / WEINER / ROSENBERG (Vysoko-Litovsk, Brest, Biala Podlaska)

The Suwalki District Research Group of LitvakSIG has added three files
of births, marriages and deaths for Wizajny, Suwalki. These files are
available immediately to contributors to the Suwalki DRG in
spreadsheet form, and will be added to the freely-searchable All
Lithuania Database in about 18 months. The years of births and deaths
are 1808-1880, and marriages from 1809-1880.
#Suwalki #Wizajny

Jody Tzucker, Suwalki Coordinator
jodytzucker@...
Carmel IN

Hi all -

I was lucky enough to come into possession of the attached photo from ~1905 in Indura, Grodno, Poland (now Belarus). I know that the people circled are my family members (great-great grandparents and two of their children), but I know nothing else about the photo. Does anyone know anything about wedding traditions from that time in the region?  Are there any interesting details that capture anyone's eye?  I am so, so curious about this picture and the people in it!

Thanks so much!
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Tracy Grigoriades

Wayne, PA

Researching: Greenberg (Pasvitinys, Lithuania), Slevitz (Subate, Lithuania), Adler (Wytkor, Galicia), Friedlander (Skadvile, Russia), Blinder (Pocotilova, Kiev, Ukraine), Savitt (Grodno, Belarus), Newman (Zemplen, Hungary), Weissman (Kamenetz, Ukraine)

Immigration continued through 1897 - 1900, in lower Manhattan. I wish I knew, for sure, the answer to Johanna's question (above) but there are good responses here, - 

I watched the first part of the Ken Burns documentary and there were huge rallies, protests, and marches all over the US. Christians as well as Jews participated. Rabbi Stephen Wise was very influential in getting people on board.

The problem for Roosevelt was that he was dealing with millions of Americans who were pro Nazi and thought Hitler was a great man coupled with the resurgent KKK, also with millions of members and supporters.  Plus, there were people who believed that Roosevelt was Jewish and had changed his name from "Rosenberg" despite the fact that it was well known at the time that the Dutch had settled New Amsterdam in the early 1600s. 

In addition, many Americans were almost completely anti immigration believing in "replacement theory", which was new at that time.  Back then, replacement theory meant that white Protestants would be replaced by nonwhites and/or people of other faiths.  Catholics were not all that more welcome than Jews.  On top of that, the absurd theory of eugenics was widely believed.  Despite the efforts of scientists and some politicians to debunk it, people believed that where you came from made you more or less intelligent and worthwhile.  Naturally, the whiter people, those from the UK and Scandinavian countries, were deemed to be superior.  Of course, those were generally Protestant countries with the exception of Ireland and the Irish weren't especially welcome because they were Catholic.

Stephanie Shlasky

Would be happy to provide a small stipend for your time if anyone is available. This is not a vital record, it is a poem. 

Theresa Koenigsknecht 

"None is too many" from the preface to the book: [This] is a story best summed up in the words of an anonymous senior Canadian official who, in the midst of a rambling, off-the-record discussion with journalists in 1945, was asked how many Jews would be allowed into Canada after the war … ‘None,’ he said, ‘is too many.’
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Ruth Chernia
Toronto, Canada
searching for
TSCHERNIA of Copenhagen, Denmark, & Genichesk, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
SHLAMOWITZ/SZLAMOWICZ/BIRENCWEIG of London, England; Lodz & Jezow, Poland
SEIDLER/ZAJDLER/LANDAU of Lodz & Sulejow, Poland
ROSENFELD of Raków, Kielce, Poland
SHKOLNIK/TICK[ER] of Ladyzhyn & Bershad, Vinnytsia, Ukraine

https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/m02_adath-israel/index.htm
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Michael Sharp
Manchester UK
michael.sharp@...

Two good resources I don't see mentioned:
Blaine Bettinger's book is an excellent intro/overview, although it doesn't really address endogamy: https://www.amazon.com/Family-Guide-Testing-Genetic-Genealogy/dp/1440300577/ref=asc_df_1440300577/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=366402441998&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18258362118990958123&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007906&hvtargid=pla-799253516361&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=79033900551&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=366402441998&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18258362118990958123&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007906&hvtargid=pla-799253516361

And the Jewish DNA group on Facebook (of which I am the administrator)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DNAHelpJewishJourney



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Jennifer Mendelsohn
Baltimore, Maryland
https://www.apgen.org/profiles/jennifer-mendelsohn