I know there is someone out there who can help me. I am translating a Yizkor
Book and have come across these abbreviations. Can‘t find them in my Hebrew
Dictionary or my Yiddish Dictionaries. I‘m sure they use the quotation mark to
connote an abbreviation.
1. >from Hamelitz nun, vov, shin ayen.
2. after the name Gaon Reb Shmuel Mohlever - shin, hey somech

Many thanks,
F. Lynn

I know there is someone out there who can help me. I am translating a Yizkor
Book and have come across these abbreviations. Can‘t find them in my Hebrew
Dictionary or my Yiddish Dictionaries. I‘m sure they use the quotation mark to
connote an abbreviation.
1. >from Hamelitz nun, vov, shin ayen.
2. after the name Gaon Reb Shmuel Mohlever - shin, hey somech

Many thanks,
F. Lynn

During my recent visit to Hungary I met the (R.C.) director of the
Jewish Museum of Balassagyarmat. He handed me a DVD disc containing
photograph of about half of the Jewish tombstones in the
Balassagyarmat cemetery. The Museum is preparing two more DVDs. There
is no catalogue or list book. There are no Jews in the once
prosperous town with a 40% Jewish population. There is nobody who
could read the Yiddish text written with Hebrew letters on most of
the tombstones.

Any suggestion what to do with this treasure?

Peter

During my recent visit to Hungary I met the (R.C.) director of the
Jewish Museum of Balassagyarmat. He handed me a DVD disc containing
photograph of about half of the Jewish tombstones in the
Balassagyarmat cemetery. The Museum is preparing two more DVDs. There
is no catalogue or list book. There are no Jews in the once
prosperous town with a 40% Jewish population. There is nobody who
could read the Yiddish text written with Hebrew letters on most of
the tombstones.

Any suggestion what to do with this treasure?

Peter

Hello,
The familly of my wife comes >from Kalisz in Poland. Some of them are gone to
Berlin end of 19th or beginning of 20th century .I know only that Mikaël MESSING
was born approximativly in year 1909 in Berlin >from his father Josef MESSING
and his mother Prana born SHWIZER.

His parents was dead in the camp of Poniakow during the war???
Can somebody help me? Thanks Please answer directly to me.

Leon Porzycki in France <leon.porzycki@...>

MODERATOR NOTE: The JewishGen International Desk offers help to people who
are not fluent in English.

Hello,
The familly of my wife comes >from Kalisz in Poland. Some of them are gone to
Berlin end of 19th or beginning of 20th century .I know only that Mikaël MESSING
was born approximativly in year 1909 in Berlin >from his father Josef MESSING
and his mother Prana born SHWIZER.

His parents was dead in the camp of Poniakow during the war???
Can somebody help me? Thanks Please answer directly to me.

Leon Porzycki in France <leon.porzycki@...>

MODERATOR NOTE: The JewishGen International Desk offers help to people who
are not fluent in English.

The name Mem-Yod-Khaf-Lamed was fairly common in Europe (I believe that in a
totally different context another genner recently posted a list of famous
Rabbis who had the pairing Yekhiel Mikhel). The name is believed to be
Yiddish affectionate-diminutive of Mikha, and should not be confused with
the feminine name Mikhal, of Davidian notoriety.

All the Best,
Benzy Shani

"Trevor Waner" <wanertnt@...> wrote

The name Mem-Yod-Khaf-Lamed was fairly common in Europe (I believe that in a
totally different context another genner recently posted a list of famous
Rabbis who had the pairing Yekhiel Mikhel). The name is believed to be
Yiddish affectionate-diminutive of Mikha, and should not be confused with
the feminine name Mikhal, of Davidian notoriety.

All the Best,
Benzy Shani

"Trevor Waner" <wanertnt@...> wrote

Having just come across this discussion and noticed that the concensus is that
the name is Michael, I most respectfully disagree.

The name is Michel (not Michael and not Michal - both biblical names). The name
Michel usually went with the name Yechiel, but is used with other names too. I
know of men who are called Michel, living today, so this name is still in use.

Best wishes,
Yehuda Herskowitz

Having just come across this discussion and noticed that the concensus is that
the name is Michael, I most respectfully disagree.

The name is Michel (not Michael and not Michal - both biblical names). The name
Michel usually went with the name Yechiel, but is used with other names too. I
know of men who are called Michel, living today, so this name is still in use.

Best wishes,
Yehuda Herskowitz

The Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society and JewishGen are pleased to
announce the update of the Houston Jewish Herald-Voice life cycle event
database to add the years 1965-1979 to the previously available 1908-1964.
It can be addressed at the following URL.
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/HoustonHeraldVoice.htm

Mervin Rosenbaum

The Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society and JewishGen are pleased to
announce the update of the Houston Jewish Herald-Voice life cycle event
database to add the years 1965-1979 to the previously available 1908-1964.
It can be addressed at the following URL.
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/HoustonHeraldVoice.htm

Mervin Rosenbaum

My name is Stephen Field. My E mail address is: stemarfie@...
I am looking for my Great Uncle & Aunt Harry and Rebecca SCHNEIDERMAN.

Family members say they should be buried in the Adath Jeshurun Cemetery on
Grove Street, West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
I have checked with the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts.
They do not have any records of them.

If you find them, please notify me at my E mail
address listed above with the name of the cemetery, their birth & death dates,
section of cemetery, and grave numbers.

The following information I received >from the
Massachusetts death index:

1. Harry Schneiderman
Husband of Rebecca Schneiderman
Certificate: 006247
Place of Death: Boston
Date of Death: August 23, 1977 ?????
Born?
Cemetery?
Section?
Grave #?

2. Rebecca Schneiderman
Wife of Harry Schneiderman
Certificate: 008752
Place of Death: Boston
Date of Death: November 3, 1975 ?????
Born?
Cemetery?
Section?
Grave #?

Their son’s name was Irving, who was married to
Theresa (Novak) Schneiderman.

Please send the information to my E mail address
listed above.

Thank you for your cooperation.


Stephen Field
stemarfie@...

My name is Stephen Field. My E mail address is: stemarfie@...
I am looking for my Great Uncle & Aunt Harry and Rebecca SCHNEIDERMAN.

Family members say they should be buried in the Adath Jeshurun Cemetery on
Grove Street, West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
I have checked with the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts.
They do not have any records of them.

If you find them, please notify me at my E mail
address listed above with the name of the cemetery, their birth & death dates,
section of cemetery, and grave numbers.

The following information I received >from the
Massachusetts death index:

1. Harry Schneiderman
Husband of Rebecca Schneiderman
Certificate: 006247
Place of Death: Boston
Date of Death: August 23, 1977 ?????
Born?
Cemetery?
Section?
Grave #?

2. Rebecca Schneiderman
Wife of Harry Schneiderman
Certificate: 008752
Place of Death: Boston
Date of Death: November 3, 1975 ?????
Born?
Cemetery?
Section?
Grave #?

Their son’s name was Irving, who was married to
Theresa (Novak) Schneiderman.

Please send the information to my E mail address
listed above.

Thank you for your cooperation.


Stephen Field
stemarfie@...

The Swedish White Pages have 12 Pesel, 10 Fessel, and no Pessel. None of
these are in Stockholm.
I suggest you contact the Jewish community in Stockholm at
info@...
If the man joined the community upon or after his arrival in Stockholm, they
will have a record of him.

All the Best,
Benzy Shani

The Swedish White Pages have 12 Pesel, 10 Fessel, and no Pessel. None of
these are in Stockholm.
I suggest you contact the Jewish community in Stockholm at
info@...
If the man joined the community upon or after his arrival in Stockholm, they
will have a record of him.

All the Best,
Benzy Shani

It is all too easy for those of us who are privileged to have access to the
leading research libraries in America to become blase over the richness of their
collections. The University of California at Berkeley is indeed one of these. I
am constantly amazed at the depth and breadth of the books published for all of
us to benefit from. Here are some more new books I have noted that might prove
not only interesting, but potentially illuminating in our constant search for
a better explanation of our past.

Recently I alerted the Discussion Group to a book which describes the history of
the Jews in Eastern Europe >from 1772 -1881. Another book which overlaps and
moves the history forward by another 30 years, sheds light on the local
bureaucracies which controlled the ten gubernias of Russian-Poland; Kalisz,
Piotrkow, Warsaw, Plock, Lomza, Suwalki, Siedlce, Lublin, Radom and Kielce.
The book covers the period >from 1863 to 1905.

Author:KatyaVladimirov
Title: The World of Provincial Bureaucracy in Late 19th and 20th Century Russian
Poland
Publisher: The Edwin Mellon Press, (#10 in the Studies in Russian History
series) 2004
ISBN: 0-7734-6337-2

(Note: I think that the title is slightly misleading as the book covers the late
19th and early 20th Century...)

Another book which goes off in a totally different direction looks at Jewish
scholarship and culture in nineteenth century Germany. It is a part of the
series "Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature.

Author: Nils H. Roemer
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-299-21170-03

For a glimpse of the Second World War, there is Wendy Lower's "Nazi Empire-
Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine. The book is dedicated to, amongst others
the members of the Czilug family who were killed at Babi Yar. Unusual for an
academic publication on this topic (that I have seen recently), there are a
number of illustrations and maps.

Author: Wendy Lower
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-8078-2960-9

These books alert us not only to their existence but also the fact that there
are major topics of study as can be seen by the various study series. The other
benefit, of course, are the rich bibliographies which can lead us to even more
treasures of the printed word - a welcome respite >from the assumption that
everything to be found is only online! One day everything will be illuminated!

Enjoy!

Jeremy G Frankel
ex Edgware, London, England
Berkeley, California, USA

EBIN: Russia -> New York, USA
FRANKEL: Poland -> London, England
GOLD (RATH): Praszka, Poland -> London, England
KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania -> London, England -> NYC, NY, USA
LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland -> London, England
PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland -> London, England -> NYC, NY, USA

It is all too easy for those of us who are privileged to have access to the
leading research libraries in America to become blase over the richness of their
collections. The University of California at Berkeley is indeed one of these. I
am constantly amazed at the depth and breadth of the books published for all of
us to benefit from. Here are some more new books I have noted that might prove
not only interesting, but potentially illuminating in our constant search for
a better explanation of our past.

Recently I alerted the Discussion Group to a book which describes the history of
the Jews in Eastern Europe >from 1772 -1881. Another book which overlaps and
moves the history forward by another 30 years, sheds light on the local
bureaucracies which controlled the ten gubernias of Russian-Poland; Kalisz,
Piotrkow, Warsaw, Plock, Lomza, Suwalki, Siedlce, Lublin, Radom and Kielce.
The book covers the period >from 1863 to 1905.

Author:KatyaVladimirov
Title: The World of Provincial Bureaucracy in Late 19th and 20th Century Russian
Poland
Publisher: The Edwin Mellon Press, (#10 in the Studies in Russian History
series) 2004
ISBN: 0-7734-6337-2

(Note: I think that the title is slightly misleading as the book covers the late
19th and early 20th Century...)

Another book which goes off in a totally different direction looks at Jewish
scholarship and culture in nineteenth century Germany. It is a part of the
series "Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature.

Author: Nils H. Roemer
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-299-21170-03

For a glimpse of the Second World War, there is Wendy Lower's "Nazi Empire-
Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine. The book is dedicated to, amongst others
the members of the Czilug family who were killed at Babi Yar. Unusual for an
academic publication on this topic (that I have seen recently), there are a
number of illustrations and maps.

Author: Wendy Lower
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-8078-2960-9

These books alert us not only to their existence but also the fact that there
are major topics of study as can be seen by the various study series. The other
benefit, of course, are the rich bibliographies which can lead us to even more
treasures of the printed word - a welcome respite >from the assumption that
everything to be found is only online! One day everything will be illuminated!

Enjoy!

Jeremy G Frankel
ex Edgware, London, England
Berkeley, California, USA

EBIN: Russia -> New York, USA
FRANKEL: Poland -> London, England
GOLD (RATH): Praszka, Poland -> London, England
KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania -> London, England -> NYC, NY, USA
LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland -> London, England
PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland -> London, England -> NYC, NY, USA

Please contact me if you have any information that might help me to
find out what happened to William (Willie) and Fried NEUMANN, Holocaust
survivors who arrived in NYC after World War II and eventually settled
in Israel. I don't know if Willie and Fried were husband and wife or
brother and sister. What we do know is that they were Hungarians who
were likely born in what is now Slovakia. I found a Villiam Neumann
and a Freid Neumann on the list of Terezin survivors but don't know if
this is a match.

One of my cousins recalls that Willie was either a lawyer or a doctor
in Europe who was unable to practice in the US. Based on a letter that
my uncle Jeno Ferber sent to my parents in 1966, Willie and Fried were
then living in Israel, possibly in Tel Aviv.

I've had a lot of trouble finding any survivors >from my father's
NEUMANN family. My great-grandparents were Miksa NEUMANN and Ottilie
(Adel) POLACSEK. Miksa (Maximilian, Meier Shlomo haLevi) died in 1897
in Kereszt, Hungary, now Kristy, Slovakia, a small agricultural
community close to the present Ukrainian border. Miksa and Ottilie had
at least five children. Ludvik, born 1864 who probably died before
1901; Rosza (Terez) b. 1866 who married Simon ZICHERMAN, my paternal
grandfather Viktor (b. 1868 d. 1920), Josefina b. 1871 who married Izek
(Ignac) ROSENBERG, and Markus (Marci) b. 1883 who probably died in
December 1912.

I have no info identifying William (Vilmos?) or Fried as cousins of my
father but given family memories and references it appears likely that
the are related to this elusive family.

Any suggestions about where to look for additional info on post-war
immigration to NYC or to Israel >from NYC would be appreciated. I have
not attempted to contact any of the burial societies in Israel because
the names are too common and I don't know where these people lived.

Please contact me off-list unless your info may be of help to others
involved in similar investigations.

Vivian Kahn, Oakland, CA

Please contact me if you have any information that might help me to
find out what happened to William (Willie) and Fried NEUMANN, Holocaust
survivors who arrived in NYC after World War II and eventually settled
in Israel. I don't know if Willie and Fried were husband and wife or
brother and sister. What we do know is that they were Hungarians who
were likely born in what is now Slovakia. I found a Villiam Neumann
and a Freid Neumann on the list of Terezin survivors but don't know if
this is a match.

One of my cousins recalls that Willie was either a lawyer or a doctor
in Europe who was unable to practice in the US. Based on a letter that
my uncle Jeno Ferber sent to my parents in 1966, Willie and Fried were
then living in Israel, possibly in Tel Aviv.

I've had a lot of trouble finding any survivors >from my father's
NEUMANN family. My great-grandparents were Miksa NEUMANN and Ottilie
(Adel) POLACSEK. Miksa (Maximilian, Meier Shlomo haLevi) died in 1897
in Kereszt, Hungary, now Kristy, Slovakia, a small agricultural
community close to the present Ukrainian border. Miksa and Ottilie had
at least five children. Ludvik, born 1864 who probably died before
1901; Rosza (Terez) b. 1866 who married Simon ZICHERMAN, my paternal
grandfather Viktor (b. 1868 d. 1920), Josefina b. 1871 who married Izek
(Ignac) ROSENBERG, and Markus (Marci) b. 1883 who probably died in
December 1912.

I have no info identifying William (Vilmos?) or Fried as cousins of my
father but given family memories and references it appears likely that
the are related to this elusive family.

Any suggestions about where to look for additional info on post-war
immigration to NYC or to Israel >from NYC would be appreciated. I have
not attempted to contact any of the burial societies in Israel because
the names are too common and I don't know where these people lived.

Please contact me off-list unless your info may be of help to others
involved in similar investigations.

Vivian Kahn, Oakland, CA