I come >from Germiston and I would be happy to be the liaison person for
Germiston, In addition as I am now a Capetonian, if i can be of assistance
to you Beryl, or to your group, please use me.

Colin Plen
Phone 021 442 4689

I come >from Germiston and I would be happy to be the liaison person for
Germiston, In addition as I am now a Capetonian, if i can be of assistance
to you Beryl, or to your group, please use me.

Colin Plen
Phone 021 442 4689

The Jewish Genealogical Society is the host society for the 2006
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies annual
conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New York City

from August 13th to 18th.

We are pleased to announce our Call for Papers. Submissions should be
made at the Conference website at
<http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm>http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm

All abstract submissions must be submitted via our on-line abstract
module process. E-mail submittals will not be accepted.

Presentation categories are listed below:

Computer Training Workshops
Eastern and Central European research
Genetics and DNA Research
Holocaust research
Immigration, naturalization and migration
Methodology
Metropolitan New York City and New York State research
Non-European research (e.g. India, China)
Rabbinical research
Repositories
Sephardic research
Technology and Internet resources
United States research
Yiddish theater/Tin Pan Alley

Just follow the instructions at the website.

The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward
presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide
specific research methodology and that include specific information for
researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in acquiring
information.

Sessions will be one hour and fifteen minutes, with the last 15 minutes
reserved for questions and answers.

Proposal Deadline December 1, 2005.

Speakers will be notified no later than February 1, 2006.

Handout material/resource material, due March 1, 2006, is required for
each presentation and will be included in the syllabus distributed to
all conference registrants. Further details of the handout material
requirements will be provided upon acceptance of lecture.

Gloria Berkenstat Freund
2006 Conference Program Committee Chair
gloria@...

The Jewish Genealogical Society is the host society for the 2006
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies annual
conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New York City

from August 13th to 18th.

We are pleased to announce our Call for Papers. Submissions should be
made at the Conference website at
<http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm>http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm

All abstract submissions must be submitted via our on-line abstract
module process. E-mail submittals will not be accepted.

Presentation categories are listed below:

Computer Training Workshops
Eastern and Central European research
Genetics and DNA Research
Holocaust research
Immigration, naturalization and migration
Methodology
Metropolitan New York City and New York State research
Non-European research (e.g. India, China)
Rabbinical research
Repositories
Sephardic research
Technology and Internet resources
United States research
Yiddish theater/Tin Pan Alley

Just follow the instructions at the website.

The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward
presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide
specific research methodology and that include specific information for
researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in acquiring
information.

Sessions will be one hour and fifteen minutes, with the last 15 minutes
reserved for questions and answers.

Proposal Deadline December 1, 2005.

Speakers will be notified no later than February 1, 2006.

Handout material/resource material, due March 1, 2006, is required for
each presentation and will be included in the syllabus distributed to
all conference registrants. Further details of the handout material
requirements will be provided upon acceptance of lecture.

Gloria Berkenstat Freund
2006 Conference Program Committee Chair
gloria@...

During my professional lifetime I attended many conferences in many places,
of the American Chemical Society, Plastics Engneering Society, and others.
Some of the confereences had thousands of participants. The organizers
attached to the invitation to the conference a map of the area with several
hotels marked on it. The marking indicated the category or price range and
addresses of the hotels. The organizers of our conference could do the same.
They could include the area of New Jersey and other areas accessible to the
Marriott.

Dr. Joseph M. Schwarcz
Dr. Ida Selavan Schwarcz
Arad, Israel

During my professional lifetime I attended many conferences in many places,
of the American Chemical Society, Plastics Engneering Society, and others.
Some of the confereences had thousands of participants. The organizers
attached to the invitation to the conference a map of the area with several
hotels marked on it. The marking indicated the category or price range and
addresses of the hotels. The organizers of our conference could do the same.
They could include the area of New Jersey and other areas accessible to the
Marriott.

Dr. Joseph M. Schwarcz
Dr. Ida Selavan Schwarcz
Arad, Israel

""Christian Janus Køster"" wrote

I am looking for information concerning the famous russian composer Anton
RUBINSTEIN. I have been researching my family for three years now and >from
three
different parts of the world I have been told that there is some
connection
between by great grand father Moses Rubinstein >from East prussia and Anton
Rubinstein >from Russia. The relatives that has passed on this information
has
heard the story >from their parents, grandparents and greatgrand parents.So
I think
it is time to find out whether this story is true or just a
"family-legend". I
have been unable to find any genealogical information about Anton
Rubinstein on
the internet. Please help!
Janus Køster
Denmark

I believe that this is rather a family legend since Anton Rubinstein family
is >from the small settlement Vykhvatintsy situated in the Podolia region of
Ukraine where Anton was born in 1829. Village Vykhvatintsy is located in
the vicinity of the known larger Jewish Pale territory towns of Khmelnitsky
(ex Proskurov), Satanov, Gorodok and Yarmolintsy. This is far away >from the
Eastern Prussia.

Rubinstein family was converted in Anton's yearly age, it is known that his
six years younger brother Nikolai (a founder of Russian Musical Society and
St. Petersburg Conservatory) was already born in Moscow in 1835 which was
normally off limits for the Jews.

Little is known about Anton Rubinstein parents - his father name was Grigory
(presumably originally it was known as Gershon), he was an industrialist who
opened factory in Moscow in 1835, the year when his younger son, Nikolai was
born. I could not locate even the first name of Anton's mother - it is known
that she was German and Anton's first piano instructor till the professional
piano teacher A.I. Villoing took care of young Anton. Villoing took Anton
for the European tour (1840-1843) when he was just 11 - this tour has
introduced young prodigy to the Russian Imperial family members during his
visit to Netherlands which was important for his future since the Russian
Emperor's Nicholas I sister - in law, The Grand Duchess Yelena Pavlovna
(formerly Princess of Saxe-Altenhurg) took young Anton under her wings.

Only known to me Anton's relation to Prussia was his touring of the Prussian
Empire in his very young age and two years of his family residency in Berlin
(1844-1846) where Anton took piano lessons >from Siegfried Dehn and met
another famous (and also converted) Jewish musicians Mendelssohn and
Meyerbeer.

Although his was as famous pianist, his compositions have suffered neglect
since his death for several reasons. One of the reason was his Jewish
background at a time when anti-Semitism was prevalent in musical circles in
Europe. He was also a throw-back as far as musical taste and form are
concerned, being influenced by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin, and little
else after them. Another reason was that Rubinstein was also constantly at
odds with the famous Russian Five (Cui, Mussogrsky, Borodin, Glinka,
Tchaikovsky) because of his disdain for nationalism and because his
compositional style was very cosmopolitan.
The famous Rubinstein's quote: "To the Germans I am a Russian, to the
Russians a German; to the Christian I am a Jew, to the Jews a Christians; to
the Classicist I am a Wagnerite, to the Wagnerites a reactionary; I am
neither fish nor fowl - I am an unfinished man".

BTW, there is no relation between born in Lodz, Polish Jewish pianist Artur
Rubinstein and Anton Rubinstein.

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Ab, Canada

""Christian Janus Køster"" wrote

I am looking for information concerning the famous russian composer Anton
RUBINSTEIN. I have been researching my family for three years now and >from
three
different parts of the world I have been told that there is some
connection
between by great grand father Moses Rubinstein >from East prussia and Anton
Rubinstein >from Russia. The relatives that has passed on this information
has
heard the story >from their parents, grandparents and greatgrand parents.So
I think
it is time to find out whether this story is true or just a
"family-legend". I
have been unable to find any genealogical information about Anton
Rubinstein on
the internet. Please help!
Janus Køster
Denmark

I believe that this is rather a family legend since Anton Rubinstein family
is >from the small settlement Vykhvatintsy situated in the Podolia region of
Ukraine where Anton was born in 1829. Village Vykhvatintsy is located in
the vicinity of the known larger Jewish Pale territory towns of Khmelnitsky
(ex Proskurov), Satanov, Gorodok and Yarmolintsy. This is far away >from the
Eastern Prussia.

Rubinstein family was converted in Anton's yearly age, it is known that his
six years younger brother Nikolai (a founder of Russian Musical Society and
St. Petersburg Conservatory) was already born in Moscow in 1835 which was
normally off limits for the Jews.

Little is known about Anton Rubinstein parents - his father name was Grigory
(presumably originally it was known as Gershon), he was an industrialist who
opened factory in Moscow in 1835, the year when his younger son, Nikolai was
born. I could not locate even the first name of Anton's mother - it is known
that she was German and Anton's first piano instructor till the professional
piano teacher A.I. Villoing took care of young Anton. Villoing took Anton
for the European tour (1840-1843) when he was just 11 - this tour has
introduced young prodigy to the Russian Imperial family members during his
visit to Netherlands which was important for his future since the Russian
Emperor's Nicholas I sister - in law, The Grand Duchess Yelena Pavlovna
(formerly Princess of Saxe-Altenhurg) took young Anton under her wings.

Only known to me Anton's relation to Prussia was his touring of the Prussian
Empire in his very young age and two years of his family residency in Berlin
(1844-1846) where Anton took piano lessons >from Siegfried Dehn and met
another famous (and also converted) Jewish musicians Mendelssohn and
Meyerbeer.

Although his was as famous pianist, his compositions have suffered neglect
since his death for several reasons. One of the reason was his Jewish
background at a time when anti-Semitism was prevalent in musical circles in
Europe. He was also a throw-back as far as musical taste and form are
concerned, being influenced by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin, and little
else after them. Another reason was that Rubinstein was also constantly at
odds with the famous Russian Five (Cui, Mussogrsky, Borodin, Glinka,
Tchaikovsky) because of his disdain for nationalism and because his
compositional style was very cosmopolitan.
The famous Rubinstein's quote: "To the Germans I am a Russian, to the
Russians a German; to the Christian I am a Jew, to the Jews a Christians; to
the Classicist I am a Wagnerite, to the Wagnerites a reactionary; I am
neither fish nor fowl - I am an unfinished man".

BTW, there is no relation between born in Lodz, Polish Jewish pianist Artur
Rubinstein and Anton Rubinstein.

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Ab, Canada

While I can appreciate the complaints - and even feel the pinch
myself - I don't think that those writing to complain about the venue
are aware of what it takes to set up a conference of this sort. There
are few hotels that have the number and proper sized halls available
for multisession talks every hour. When a conference group makes a
deal with a hotel, they have to take into account the cost of the
halls, the cost of the rooms, the cost of the food, the convenience
of proximity to local archives, the ability to house at least 1,000
guests, the number of free room nights they can obtain per number of
beds ordered; and more and more. It isn't just a simple matter of how
much a room will cost the attendees, although that is certainly a
factor. It is also the number of rooms and halls available; the
ability to have enough rooms to host SIGs for lunches and meetings;
available security and logistics. A million things go into choosing
the right hotel for the Conference. That probably is the hardest
thing for the committee to finally decide. If NYC has decided on the
Marriott, you can be sure that they have checked out all possible
alternatives and received the best deal available >from the Marriott.
After all, it is in the interests of the JGSNYC to have as many of us
attend as possible! So try to cut them some slack about the cost of
the rooms. They did the best by us that was possible, taking all the
requirements of the conference into consideration. I know what goes
into this choice because of our Conference arrangements in Jerusalem
in 2004. So thank you, JGSNYC, for making the best arrangements you
could for us!

Martha Lev-Zion
President, IGS-Negev

While I can appreciate the complaints - and even feel the pinch
myself - I don't think that those writing to complain about the venue
are aware of what it takes to set up a conference of this sort. There
are few hotels that have the number and proper sized halls available
for multisession talks every hour. When a conference group makes a
deal with a hotel, they have to take into account the cost of the
halls, the cost of the rooms, the cost of the food, the convenience
of proximity to local archives, the ability to house at least 1,000
guests, the number of free room nights they can obtain per number of
beds ordered; and more and more. It isn't just a simple matter of how
much a room will cost the attendees, although that is certainly a
factor. It is also the number of rooms and halls available; the
ability to have enough rooms to host SIGs for lunches and meetings;
available security and logistics. A million things go into choosing
the right hotel for the Conference. That probably is the hardest
thing for the committee to finally decide. If NYC has decided on the
Marriott, you can be sure that they have checked out all possible
alternatives and received the best deal available >from the Marriott.
After all, it is in the interests of the JGSNYC to have as many of us
attend as possible! So try to cut them some slack about the cost of
the rooms. They did the best by us that was possible, taking all the
requirements of the conference into consideration. I know what goes
into this choice because of our Conference arrangements in Jerusalem
in 2004. So thank you, JGSNYC, for making the best arrangements you
could for us!

Martha Lev-Zion
President, IGS-Negev

Dear All,

Please let me inform you that on the meeting of the
Committee for the Preservation of the Memory of
Holocaust Victims in the Republic of Belarus that took
place last week, a decision was taken on the erecting
new Holocaust monuments in the places of mass killing
in the following cities:

- Novoelnya (850 Jews were killed)
- Dolmatovschina (55 Jews were killed)
- Dyatlovo (remains of 55 Jews were reburied)

Opening of these monuments will take place on the 30th
of October, 2005.

For getting any additional information please feel
free to write to the following e-mail address:
belshtetl@...

Yuri Dorn – Co-chairman of the Committee for the
Preservation of the Memory of Holocaust Victims in the
Republic of Belarus

Dear All,

Please let me inform you that on the meeting of the
Committee for the Preservation of the Memory of
Holocaust Victims in the Republic of Belarus that took
place last week, a decision was taken on the erecting
new Holocaust monuments in the places of mass killing
in the following cities:

- Novoelnya (850 Jews were killed)
- Dolmatovschina (55 Jews were killed)
- Dyatlovo (remains of 55 Jews were reburied)

Opening of these monuments will take place on the 30th
of October, 2005.

For getting any additional information please feel
free to write to the following e-mail address:
belshtetl@...

Yuri Dorn – Co-chairman of the Committee for the
Preservation of the Memory of Holocaust Victims in the
Republic of Belarus

Our family of FEIGENBAUMs is related to the mother of Taube who was a
FEIGENBAUM. Taube's brothers were listed as FEIGENBAUM on their
marriage records in Poland. I will bet because of the practices in
Galicia at the time that in Galicia Taube's last name was FEIGENBAUM
(even though I know her father is KAUFMAN) because of the common
practices of the day.

Louise Hajdenberg
New York City



Subject: Nettie REISS (1905-2005) z"l
From: Abuwasta Abuwasta <abuwasta@...>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:22:50 -0700 (PDT)


In "The Jerusalem Post" of today Sept. 13th,2005 an obit about Nettie
REISS who
died in Raanana,Israel.
She is the daughter of the famous cantor Yossele ROSENBLATT. Her mother
was
Taube
KAUFMAN >from Brzesko, Galicia and she was associated with Pressburg and
Nowy
Targ.
Jacob Rosen
Jerusalem

Our family of FEIGENBAUMs is related to the mother of Taube who was a
FEIGENBAUM. Taube's brothers were listed as FEIGENBAUM on their
marriage records in Poland. I will bet because of the practices in
Galicia at the time that in Galicia Taube's last name was FEIGENBAUM
(even though I know her father is KAUFMAN) because of the common
practices of the day.

Louise Hajdenberg
New York City



Subject: Nettie REISS (1905-2005) z"l
From: Abuwasta Abuwasta <abuwasta@...>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:22:50 -0700 (PDT)


In "The Jerusalem Post" of today Sept. 13th,2005 an obit about Nettie
REISS who
died in Raanana,Israel.
She is the daughter of the famous cantor Yossele ROSENBLATT. Her mother
was
Taube
KAUFMAN >from Brzesko, Galicia and she was associated with Pressburg and
Nowy
Targ.
Jacob Rosen
Jerusalem

Further to Israel Pickholtz's response about further Rozdol records
becoming available for indexing by JRI-Poland. This response applies
to ALL Jewish administrative towns with records at the AGAD Archives
in Warsaw and also towns with records at other Polish State Archive
regional branches in Poland (e.g. Krakow, Przemysl, Rzeszow).

First, you can establish whether vital records for your town exist and
where they can be found at Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation
website at http://www.rtrfoundation.org/search.asp. To find out more
about vital records of Poland, read the JewishGen Infofile at
< http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/polandv.html >.

Vital Records registers with records that are 100 years old or less are
maintained by local civil records offices in Poland. Those records for
eastern Galicia are maintained at the civil records office in Warsaw.
Periodically (in the case of the Warsaw civil records office, every two
years), vital records registers that contain records that are ALL over
100 years old are transferred >from the civil records office to the
Polish State Archive regional branch. After the transfer, these records
are then available to JRI-Poland for indexing and ordering of the
underlying records.

The key point here is that ALL the entries in the register book MUST BE
over 100 years old to be transferred and then indexed. For large towns
like Lwow, Stanislawow, Kolomyja, and Tarnopol, register books usually
contain only one year of records. We expect (and hope) that 1904-05
vital records for these towns will be transferred to the AGAD Archives
sometime in 2006. For smaller towns, multiple years of records are
contained in the vital record registers and these books will not be
transferred until all the records are over 100 years old. For example
the following records were transferred in recent years and contained
many years of records.

Jagielnica 1896-1902 Births
Trembowla 1892-1903 Births
Borszczow 1877-1900 Marriages
Tartakow 1877-1903 Marriages
Skala 1893-1900 Deaths
Borszczow 1899-1902 Deaths

You can readily see that multiple years are transferred and this is most
prevalent when dealing with marriages, where examples show 25 years of
marriage records in one register book.

There is no way to estimate when new volumes for Rozdol or any town will
become available for indexing. When JRI-Poland is notified of a transfer

from the Warsaw USC to AGAD, we will announce the contents of this

transfer.

Mark Halpern
JRI-Poland AGAD Archive Coordinator

----- Original Message -----

Allen,

Rozdol records go through 1901. They get released in bunches so I
expected they would have been among the Forty or so towns that came
out last summer (2004), but I was disappointed. I expect they'll be in
the next batch, whenever that is.

Israel Pickholtz

QUESTION: Are there more birth records for the period after 1900 for
Rozdol? Are they accessible?

Allen HAUSMAN
Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Further to Israel Pickholtz's response about further Rozdol records
becoming available for indexing by JRI-Poland. This response applies
to ALL Jewish administrative towns with records at the AGAD Archives
in Warsaw and also towns with records at other Polish State Archive
regional branches in Poland (e.g. Krakow, Przemysl, Rzeszow).

First, you can establish whether vital records for your town exist and
where they can be found at Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation
website at http://www.rtrfoundation.org/search.asp. To find out more
about vital records of Poland, read the JewishGen Infofile at
< http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/polandv.html >.

Vital Records registers with records that are 100 years old or less are
maintained by local civil records offices in Poland. Those records for
eastern Galicia are maintained at the civil records office in Warsaw.
Periodically (in the case of the Warsaw civil records office, every two
years), vital records registers that contain records that are ALL over
100 years old are transferred >from the civil records office to the
Polish State Archive regional branch. After the transfer, these records
are then available to JRI-Poland for indexing and ordering of the
underlying records.

The key point here is that ALL the entries in the register book MUST BE
over 100 years old to be transferred and then indexed. For large towns
like Lwow, Stanislawow, Kolomyja, and Tarnopol, register books usually
contain only one year of records. We expect (and hope) that 1904-05
vital records for these towns will be transferred to the AGAD Archives
sometime in 2006. For smaller towns, multiple years of records are
contained in the vital record registers and these books will not be
transferred until all the records are over 100 years old. For example
the following records were transferred in recent years and contained
many years of records.

Jagielnica 1896-1902 Births
Trembowla 1892-1903 Births
Borszczow 1877-1900 Marriages
Tartakow 1877-1903 Marriages
Skala 1893-1900 Deaths
Borszczow 1899-1902 Deaths

You can readily see that multiple years are transferred and this is most
prevalent when dealing with marriages, where examples show 25 years of
marriage records in one register book.

There is no way to estimate when new volumes for Rozdol or any town will
become available for indexing. When JRI-Poland is notified of a transfer

from the Warsaw USC to AGAD, we will announce the contents of this

transfer.

Mark Halpern
JRI-Poland AGAD Archive Coordinator

----- Original Message -----

Allen,

Rozdol records go through 1901. They get released in bunches so I
expected they would have been among the Forty or so towns that came
out last summer (2004), but I was disappointed. I expect they'll be in
the next batch, whenever that is.

Israel Pickholtz

QUESTION: Are there more birth records for the period after 1900 for
Rozdol? Are they accessible?

Allen HAUSMAN
Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Will Norman GINSBERG or anyone who knows him please contact me. Messages to:
<blackstoneco@...> and <Norman.Ginsberg@...> bounced.

Susana Leistner Bloch

Will Norman GINSBERG or anyone who knows him please contact me. Messages to:
<blackstoneco@...> and <Norman.Ginsberg@...> bounced.

Susana Leistner Bloch

The Jewish Genealogical Society is the host society for the 2006
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies? annual
conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New York City

from August 13th to 18th.

We are pleased to announce our Call for Papers. Submissions should be
made at the Conference website at http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm

All abstract submissions must be submitted via our on-line abstract
module process. E-mail submittals will not be accepted.

Presentation categories are listed below:

Computer Training Workshops
Eastern and Central European research
Genetics and DNA Research
Holocaust research
Immigration, naturalization and migration
Methodology
Metropolitan New York City and New York State research
Non-European research (e.g. India, China)
Rabbinical research
Repositories
Sephardic research
Technology and Internet resources
United States research
Yiddish theater/Tin Pan Alley

Just follow the instructions at the website.

The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward
presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide
specific research methodology and that include specific information
for researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in acquiring
information.

Sessions will be one hour and fifteen minutes, with the last 15
minutes reserved for questions and answers.

Proposal Deadline =AD December 1, 2005.

Speakers will be notified no later than February 1, 2006

Handout material/resource material, due March 1, 2006, is required for
each presentation and will be included in the syllabus distributed to
all conference registrants. Further details of the handout material
requirements will be provided upon acceptance of lecture.

Gloria Berkenstat Freund
2006 Conference Program Committee Chair
gloria@...

[Moderator's Note: Please do not send replies to RavSIG. A new
mailing list, NYC2006, is being created to address the needs of
those planning to attend the conference.]

The Jewish Genealogical Society is the host society for the 2006
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies? annual
conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New York City

from August 13th to 18th.

We are pleased to announce our Call for Papers. Submissions should be
made at the Conference website at http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm

All abstract submissions must be submitted via our on-line abstract
module process. E-mail submittals will not be accepted.

Presentation categories are listed below:

Computer Training Workshops
Eastern and Central European research
Genetics and DNA Research
Holocaust research
Immigration, naturalization and migration
Methodology
Metropolitan New York City and New York State research
Non-European research (e.g. India, China)
Rabbinical research
Repositories
Sephardic research
Technology and Internet resources
United States research
Yiddish theater/Tin Pan Alley

Just follow the instructions at the website.

The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward
presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide
specific research methodology and that include specific information
for researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in acquiring
information.

Sessions will be one hour and fifteen minutes, with the last 15
minutes reserved for questions and answers.

Proposal Deadline =AD December 1, 2005.

Speakers will be notified no later than February 1, 2006

Handout material/resource material, due March 1, 2006, is required for
each presentation and will be included in the syllabus distributed to
all conference registrants. Further details of the handout material
requirements will be provided upon acceptance of lecture.

Gloria Berkenstat Freund
2006 Conference Program Committee Chair
gloria@...

[Moderator's Note: Please do not send replies to RavSIG. A new
mailing list, NYC2006, is being created to address the needs of
those planning to attend the conference.]