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I found an 1893 Lithuanian birth record that I believe is for a relative of
mine which shows a given name of "Shere", in both the Russian and Hebrew
records for the birth. All the rest of the data in the birth record seems
to match the relative.

However, the anglicized name of the relative was Sarah, and her gravestone
many years later shows a Hebrew name of "Sarah" as well.

My question is whether the name of "Shere" was a common given name for a
female that eventually was called "Sarah". I see that the name "Shere" is
a Yiddish equivalent to the Hebrew name "Sarah", so this may be the reason
for the birth name.

Thanks for any feedback.

Roy Ogus
California, USA
r_ogus at hotmail.com

I found an 1893 Lithuanian birth record that I believe is for a relative of
mine which shows a given name of "Shere", in both the Russian and Hebrew
records for the birth. All the rest of the data in the birth record seems
to match the relative.

However, the anglicized name of the relative was Sarah, and her gravestone
many years later shows a Hebrew name of "Sarah" as well.

My question is whether the name of "Shere" was a common given name for a
female that eventually was called "Sarah". I see that the name "Shere" is
a Yiddish equivalent to the Hebrew name "Sarah", so this may be the reason
for the birth name.

Thanks for any feedback.

Roy Ogus
California, USA
r_ogus at hotmail.com

I found an 1893 Lithuanian birth record that I believe is for a
relative of mine which shows a given name of "Shere", in both the
Russian and Hebrew records for the birth. All the rest of the data
in the birth record seems to match the relative.

However, the anglicized name of the relative was Sarah, and her
gravestone many years later shows a Hebrew name of "Sarah" as well.

My question is whether the name of "Shere" was a common given name
for a female that eventually was called "Sarah". I see that the
name "Shere" is a Yiddish equivalent to the Hebrew name "Sarah", so
this may be the reason for the birth name.

Thanks for any feedback.

Roy Ogus
California, USA
r_ogus at hotmail.com

I found an 1893 Lithuanian birth record that I believe is for a
relative of mine which shows a given name of "Shere", in both the
Russian and Hebrew records for the birth. All the rest of the data
in the birth record seems to match the relative.

However, the anglicized name of the relative was Sarah, and her
gravestone many years later shows a Hebrew name of "Sarah" as well.

My question is whether the name of "Shere" was a common given name
for a female that eventually was called "Sarah". I see that the
name "Shere" is a Yiddish equivalent to the Hebrew name "Sarah", so
this may be the reason for the birth name.

Thanks for any feedback.

Roy Ogus
California, USA
r_ogus at hotmail.com

Hello All-

My last post many years ago has since turned out to be full of
inaccuracies. Reposting in the hopes the new info might connect me to
researchers who were eliminated by my earlier misinformation.

My Great-Grandfather Bruno SLANSKY was born in Teplitz-Schonau
(Teplice) in 1885. He was the last child born to Jakob and Marie (nee
LOWY) SLANSKY. The other siblings (Anna, Kamilla, Helena, Laura,
Richard, Klara, and Erwine) were born >from 1872 - 1884 in
Weitentrebtisch (Siroke Trebcice). The only siblings we were aware of
before the new development in research were Anna (m. Jakob SALOMAN),
Kamilla (m. Alois EISENMANN), and Helena (m. Emanuel POPPER). I have
no further info on the rest aside >from a death date for Laura (1884).

When the birth of Anna, the first of Jakob and Marie's children, was
registered, it was noted in the document that Jakob had previously
been using the last name ROBITSCHEK but the child would be registered
under his "right name" of Slansky. We've been Slansky ever since.
There seem to be a few things going on with Jakob, one of them being
that his mother, Anna SLANSKY, angered her father (name unknown) who
was a rabbi >from Horowitz (Horovice) by falling for a man who didn't
practice the "right" kind of Judaism. I believe that Anna (sr's)
father may have refused to make the marriage legal, so in the eyes of
the law Anna's children should have had her last name, but she and her
husband, who was a ROBITSCHEK (I don't have his first name), used his
name when their own children were born. Then, when her son Jakob went
to register his first child, he could not be found under the name had
been using, and the historical record was corrected (perhaps to his
own surprise).

Bruno immigrated to the U.S. in 1905. As far as we know, he was the
only one >from the Slansky branch, but he did stay with Lowy relatives

from his mother's side while he was getting settled. He had regular

contact with Kamilla, Helena, and Anna as well as their extended
families up until the communication lines closed during WWII. Of that
group, all were lost to the holocaust except for one nephew and two
nieces.

Previously, I had believed that the name change >from Robitchek to
Slansky was arbitrary and I was thus not related to any prior to
Jakob. I am hoping to learn about the family of Anna Slansky of
Horowitz. Now that I know there were other siblings, I would also like
to know more about what became of them. Searching Jewishgen has not
turned up any leads.

I am also cross-posting to the Austria-Czech SIG.

Rachel SLANSKY
Oakland, CA, U.S.A.

Hello All-

My last post many years ago has since turned out to be full of
inaccuracies. Reposting in the hopes the new info might connect me to
researchers who were eliminated by my earlier misinformation.

My Great-Grandfather Bruno SLANSKY was born in Teplitz-Schonau
(Teplice) in 1885. He was the last child born to Jakob and Marie (nee
LOWY) SLANSKY. The other siblings (Anna, Kamilla, Helena, Laura,
Richard, Klara, and Erwine) were born >from 1872 - 1884 in
Weitentrebtisch (Siroke Trebcice). The only siblings we were aware of
before the new development in research were Anna (m. Jakob SALOMAN),
Kamilla (m. Alois EISENMANN), and Helena (m. Emanuel POPPER). I have
no further info on the rest aside >from a death date for Laura (1884).

When the birth of Anna, the first of Jakob and Marie's children, was
registered, it was noted in the document that Jakob had previously
been using the last name ROBITSCHEK but the child would be registered
under his "right name" of Slansky. We've been Slansky ever since.
There seem to be a few things going on with Jakob, one of them being
that his mother, Anna SLANSKY, angered her father (name unknown) who
was a rabbi >from Horowitz (Horovice) by falling for a man who didn't
practice the "right" kind of Judaism. I believe that Anna (sr's)
father may have refused to make the marriage legal, so in the eyes of
the law Anna's children should have had her last name, but she and her
husband, who was a ROBITSCHEK (I don't have his first name), used his
name when their own children were born. Then, when her son Jakob went
to register his first child, he could not be found under the name had
been using, and the historical record was corrected (perhaps to his
own surprise).

Bruno immigrated to the U.S. in 1905. As far as we know, he was the
only one >from the Slansky branch, but he did stay with Lowy relatives

from his mother's side while he was getting settled. He had regular

contact with Kamilla, Helena, and Anna as well as their extended
families up until the communication lines closed during WWII. Of that
group, all were lost to the holocaust except for one nephew and two
nieces.

Previously, I had believed that the name change >from Robitchek to
Slansky was arbitrary and I was thus not related to any prior to
Jakob. I am hoping to learn about the family of Anna Slansky of
Horowitz. Now that I know there were other siblings, I would also like
to know more about what became of them. Searching Jewishgen has not
turned up any leads.

I am also cross-posting to the Austria-Czech SIG.

Rachel SLANSKY
Oakland, CA, U.S.A.

An historic Ark >from Siret was dismantled, taken to Israel and is up
for auction.

You can read the article here:

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2019/02/13/update-comparative-photos-siret-ark-and-replica/


Diane

An historic Ark >from Siret was dismantled, taken to Israel and is up
for auction.

You can read the article here:

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2019/02/13/update-comparative-photos-siret-ark-and-replica/


Diane

I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation.
It is on ViewMate at the following address
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71878

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Thank you very much.

Mordechai Wiznitzer

I've posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation.
It is on ViewMate at the following address
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71878

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Thank you very much.

Mordechai Wiznitzer

During World War ll, the Nazis looted the YIVO Archive and Library. Some of
the documents came to the United States after the war, the rest remained in
Lithuania until they were discovered in 1991. Along with their Lithuanian
partners YIVO is digitizing 1.3 million pages of documents and 12,200 books.
The books comprise rabbinical texts, diaries, letters, communal records,
literary manuscripts, photographs, Yiddish theater and eye-witness accounts
of the pogroms and the Holocaust. The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
located in New York City, NY has placed that archive and library in the
Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections.

Go to: https://vilnacollections.yivo.org/ and type in the search bar an
individual place, book or event you may wish to examine. Images are being
added daily to the website. Scroll down the page where there are
opportunities to view various items. For example, "The Collections" and the
"Featured Artifacts" Recent additions included a 1902 instruction manual for
Jewish farmers "Back to the Land" posted on February 12, 2019; a memoir of
50 years of Life in America of Yisroel Yehkiel Kopeloff posted December 10,
2018. Again under the Collections, I went to "Exhibitions" The Strashun
Library of Vilna and clicked on "gallery" which opens to a selection of
artifacts. Each different "gallery" gives an opportunity to search these
precious documents >from the past.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

During World War ll, the Nazis looted the YIVO Archive and Library. Some of
the documents came to the United States after the war, the rest remained in
Lithuania until they were discovered in 1991. Along with their Lithuanian
partners YIVO is digitizing 1.3 million pages of documents and 12,200 books.
The books comprise rabbinical texts, diaries, letters, communal records,
literary manuscripts, photographs, Yiddish theater and eye-witness accounts
of the pogroms and the Holocaust. The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
located in New York City, NY has placed that archive and library in the
Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections.

Go to: https://vilnacollections.yivo.org/ and type in the search bar an
individual place, book or event you may wish to examine. Images are being
added daily to the website. Scroll down the page where there are
opportunities to view various items. For example, "The Collections" and the
"Featured Artifacts" Recent additions included a 1902 instruction manual for
Jewish farmers "Back to the Land" posted on February 12, 2019; a memoir of
50 years of Life in America of Yisroel Yehkiel Kopeloff posted December 10,
2018. Again under the Collections, I went to "Exhibitions" The Strashun
Library of Vilna and clicked on "gallery" which opens to a selection of
artifacts. Each different "gallery" gives an opportunity to search these
precious documents >from the past.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

I've posted three records in Polish for which I'd appreciate translation.
All are for the NUSBAUM or NISENBAUM family in Sokolow Podlaski

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71807
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71808
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71809

Please respond privately or on the form provided.

With many thanks,
Sherri Venditti
The Berkshires, USA

I've posted three records in Polish for which I'd appreciate translation.
All are for the NUSBAUM or NISENBAUM family in Sokolow Podlaski

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71807
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71808
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71809

Please respond privately or on the form provided.

With many thanks,
Sherri Venditti
The Berkshires, USA

I've posted two documents in Russian on ViewMate, both are for
NISENBAUM in Sokolow Podlaski. If I'm correct, these are the death
records for my GGGG GP's so I would appreciate as much detail as can
be gleaned >from them, especially as their births predate the
documentary record..

Ajzyk NISENBAUM
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71810

Rojza Cjwie NISENBAUM
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71797

Please respond privately or on ViewMate.

Many thanks to all who help with these translations!
Sherri Venditti
The Berkshires, USA

I've posted two documents in Russian on ViewMate, both are for
NISENBAUM in Sokolow Podlaski. If I'm correct, these are the death
records for my GGGG GP's so I would appreciate as much detail as can
be gleaned >from them, especially as their births predate the
documentary record..

Ajzyk NISENBAUM
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71810

Rojza Cjwie NISENBAUM
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71797

Please respond privately or on ViewMate.

Many thanks to all who help with these translations!
Sherri Venditti
The Berkshires, USA

I'm looking for a family history of Rabbi Moshe Segal BRANDEIS of Mainz.
Thanks for any assistance.

Uri Fish

I'm looking for a family history of Rabbi Moshe Segal BRANDEIS of Mainz.
Thanks for any assistance.

Uri Fish