Dear Fellow Researchers,
The next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami is
scheduled for this coming Sunday, May 7th, 2000 at:
The Greater Miami Jewish Federation Bldg
4200 Biscayne Blvd
Miami FL 33137
305 576-4000
10:00AM

Our featured speaker is Barbara Musikar, avid genealogist & fellow member
of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, Inc. She has an
impressive academic background in Jewish history.
Her lecture will focus on Jewish History in America >from the 18th Century.
She will present detailed info on Jewish settlements in America with a
strong emphasis on New York City.
Her information is sure to aid you in your genealogical research.

The meeting is free and open to all who wish to attend. Our library is
also accessible before and after the meeting. All visitors and guests are
welcome.
We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.
Sincerely,
Jordan Linn
Board Member
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, Inc.

Hello, Fellow Researchers,

We now understand why some members of an "old" mailing list are not on
the "new" list.

I am writing on behalf of the working committee of the Borislav,
Drogobych, Sambor & Vicinity Research Group (BDS&V, for short). While
many people have found us and have subscribed, some haven't, probably
thinking membership in the "new" group is automatic. It isn't, friends.

This "new" discussion group is housed by JewishGen, and you must send a
notice to JewishGen saying you'd like to join, if you wish to receive
email >from other subscribers to BDS&V.

Much information has already been shared by our resident map, geography
and history specialist, Alex Sharon. He listed virtually all the
shtetlach in our area, including the newly added shtetl, Dobromil, and
all the businesses found in the 1929 Polish Business Directory for our
area.

Another BDS&V member, David Priever, has volunteered to photograph and
record the data on tombstones in New York City landsmanschaft plots for
our area of interest.

Quite a lot has happened in a very short time. Since subscribing is
easy we invite all interested parties to do so. If you want to read
about our goals and how to subscribe, do the following:

Begin at www.jewishgen.org
Click on "Infofiles"
Scroll to "Countries", click on "Ukraine"
Finally, click on "Borislav, Drogobycy, Sambor & Vicinity"

We look forward to more researchers' participation.

Best wishes.

Carole GLICK FEINBERG
Atlanta, GA, USA

Dear Fellow Researchers,
The next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami is
scheduled for this coming Sunday, May 7th, 2000 at:
The Greater Miami Jewish Federation Bldg
4200 Biscayne Blvd
Miami FL 33137
305 576-4000
10:00AM

Our featured speaker is Barbara Musikar, avid genealogist & fellow member
of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, Inc. She has an
impressive academic background in Jewish history.
Her lecture will focus on Jewish History in America >from the 18th Century.
She will present detailed info on Jewish settlements in America with a
strong emphasis on New York City.
Her information is sure to aid you in your genealogical research.

The meeting is free and open to all who wish to attend. Our library is
also accessible before and after the meeting. All visitors and guests are
welcome.
We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.
Sincerely,
Jordan Linn
Board Member
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, Inc.

Hello, Fellow Researchers,

We now understand why some members of an "old" mailing list are not on
the "new" list.

I am writing on behalf of the working committee of the Borislav,
Drogobych, Sambor & Vicinity Research Group (BDS&V, for short). While
many people have found us and have subscribed, some haven't, probably
thinking membership in the "new" group is automatic. It isn't, friends.

This "new" discussion group is housed by JewishGen, and you must send a
notice to JewishGen saying you'd like to join, if you wish to receive
email >from other subscribers to BDS&V.

Much information has already been shared by our resident map, geography
and history specialist, Alex Sharon. He listed virtually all the
shtetlach in our area, including the newly added shtetl, Dobromil, and
all the businesses found in the 1929 Polish Business Directory for our
area.

Another BDS&V member, David Priever, has volunteered to photograph and
record the data on tombstones in New York City landsmanschaft plots for
our area of interest.

Quite a lot has happened in a very short time. Since subscribing is
easy we invite all interested parties to do so. If you want to read
about our goals and how to subscribe, do the following:

Begin at www.jewishgen.org
Click on "Infofiles"
Scroll to "Countries", click on "Ukraine"
Finally, click on "Borislav, Drogobycy, Sambor & Vicinity"

We look forward to more researchers' participation.

Best wishes.

Carole GLICK FEINBERG
Atlanta, GA, USA

[Reposted >from GerSig Digest by Moderator]

Subject: GenAmi and Besancon International Seminar
From: Micheline GUTMANN <MichelineGUTMANN@...>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 07:07:35 -0400
X-Message-Number: 4

GenAmi will be present at the International Congress of Genealogy and
Heraldry in Besancon, Doubs, France.

At this occasion, we updated our website.

We'll have a stand where all people interested in Jewish genealogy
everywhere in the world will be welcome. >from 4 to 7th May 2000

We'll bring a lot of documents and information, many people will find
there the possibility to begin or to improve their research.

We are going to inform everybody about possibilities not only in France
but everywhere in the world, about all which is done in other countries.

Come and see us !

Micheline GUTMANN, GenAmi, Paris, France MichelineGUTMANN@...
http://www.chez.com/genami

[Reposted >from GerSig Digest by Moderator]

Subject: GenAmi and Besancon International Seminar
From: Micheline GUTMANN <MichelineGUTMANN@...>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 07:07:35 -0400
X-Message-Number: 4

GenAmi will be present at the International Congress of Genealogy and
Heraldry in Besancon, Doubs, France.

At this occasion, we updated our website.

We'll have a stand where all people interested in Jewish genealogy
everywhere in the world will be welcome. >from 4 to 7th May 2000

We'll bring a lot of documents and information, many people will find
there the possibility to begin or to improve their research.

We are going to inform everybody about possibilities not only in France
but everywhere in the world, about all which is done in other countries.

Come and see us !

Micheline GUTMANN, GenAmi, Paris, France MichelineGUTMANN@...
http://www.chez.com/genami

JFRA is sincerely sorry for errors in the first
announcement of our May 16 meeting.


Shalom!
JFRA announces its May 16 program, lecture in English.
The Jewish Family Research Association (member, IAJGS) welcomes to
our Tel Aviv meetings all those interested in Jewish genealogy,
those resident in Israel as well as Genners who may be visiting

from other countries.

To speak at the FORUM on issues/resources, contact:
Tomer Brunner: <tomerbr@...>

Our next program will be in English.

Date: Tuesday, May 16 -- English special guest lecture
Speaker: MONICA CARO
JGS Buenos Aires, Argentina
Topic: The Jews of Argentina, including the Jewish colonies.

Location: Bet Hatefutsot/Museum of the Diaspora
Room 815 (lower level)
Tel Aviv University campus, Klausner Blvd.
Time: Forum, 6:45 pm; lecture, 7:30 pm.
Admission: JFRA members, free; others, NIS 15.

JFRA looks forward to welcoming you at our meetings.

For more information, contact:
President Aviva Neeman, 03-699-2813, <aneeman@...>, or
Schelly Talalay Dardashti, 03-699-4270 <dardasht@...>

JFRA is sincerely sorry for errors in the first
announcement of our May 16 meeting.


Shalom!
JFRA announces its May 16 program, lecture in English.
The Jewish Family Research Association (member, IAJGS) welcomes to
our Tel Aviv meetings all those interested in Jewish genealogy,
those resident in Israel as well as Genners who may be visiting

from other countries.

To speak at the FORUM on issues/resources, contact:
Tomer Brunner: <tomerbr@...>

Our next program will be in English.

Date: Tuesday, May 16 -- English special guest lecture
Speaker: MONICA CARO
JGS Buenos Aires, Argentina
Topic: The Jews of Argentina, including the Jewish colonies.

Location: Bet Hatefutsot/Museum of the Diaspora
Room 815 (lower level)
Tel Aviv University campus, Klausner Blvd.
Time: Forum, 6:45 pm; lecture, 7:30 pm.
Admission: JFRA members, free; others, NIS 15.

JFRA looks forward to welcoming you at our meetings.

For more information, contact:
President Aviva Neeman, 03-699-2813, <aneeman@...>, or
Schelly Talalay Dardashti, 03-699-4270 <dardasht@...>

For Yom Ha'SHOA, see my new web page:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/testimon/shoachil.htm

To the memory of my little cousins:
Eli, Szajna, Andjia, Chana, Perla, Eli, Chana Holcman, Chana and
Ella Bauman of Gombin, Eli, Rutka, Perla and Bajla Luksenburg of
Lodz, the unborn child of Channa nee' Laski and Pinkus
Gostinski of Gombin and all the 1.5 million children perished in the
Nazi Holocaust.

And I still see their faces...

Staring at me, also now on this screen, through the only one
photograph saved >from the fire, farewell >from my father and
the world of the living, crying to me >from the abyss:
FORGET ME NOT!

Ada Holtzman
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/

For Yom Ha'SHOA, see my new web page:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/testimon/shoachil.htm

To the memory of my little cousins:
Eli, Szajna, Andjia, Chana, Perla, Eli, Chana Holcman, Chana and
Ella Bauman of Gombin, Eli, Rutka, Perla and Bajla Luksenburg of
Lodz, the unborn child of Channa nee' Laski and Pinkus
Gostinski of Gombin and all the 1.5 million children perished in the
Nazi Holocaust.

And I still see their faces...

Staring at me, also now on this screen, through the only one
photograph saved >from the fire, farewell >from my father and
the world of the living, crying to me >from the abyss:
FORGET ME NOT!

Ada Holtzman
Web Site: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/

Forwarded to LITVAK SIG Discussion Group
---------------------------------------

I am very pleased to announce that yet another group geared to
facilitating communication between 'genners with a common interest
is now live and awaiting subscribers. With Elsebeth Paikin as
moderator, and myself (Jerry Touger) as coordinator, the Ekaterinoslav
Area Research Group is joining the long list of JewishGen hosted
mailing lists.

The Ekaterinoslav Area Research Group is dedicated to serving as an
information- gathering vehicle and clearinghouse for Jewish genealogical
as well as historical information relating to the Jewish community in
and around the city formerly known as Ekaterinoslav and now called
Dniepropetrovsk in the Ukraine. Because many Jews relocated to
Ekaterinoslav or the surrounding agricultutral colonies >from Belarus
(and many of these in turn subsequently emigrated), many of those people
already participating and also potential members will be particularly
interested in Belarus-Ekaterinoslav connections In fact, the effort to
establish this group was initiated specifically by people whose forebears
were originally >from Belarus, but later settled in Ekaterinoslav.

However there was also settlement in the area >from elsewhere in the Pale
of Settlement, and there are also people who know they have ancestors who
lived in Ekaterinoslav but do not know what prior roots those ancestors
might have had. Since these groups of ancestors no doubt intermingled
and intermarried, it makes good historical sense to embrace all of them
under the umbrella of the Ekaterinoslav area research group.

Joining this group is simple and can be done via e-mail or online.
To use the online automated webform, please go to:

http://www.jewishgen.org/listserv/sigs.htm

and click on the word Subscribe. You will be taken to the webform
where you will follow the directions to fill out completely, then
select Ekaterinoslav which you will find listed under the Shtetl
Research Groups. Scroll down and click on the button that says
Submit my Request.

To subscribe via e-mail simply send a message addressed to:

listserv@... and say

subscribe ekaterinoslav (first name) (last name)

With either method, online or e-mail you will receive a request to
confirm the subscription. Just click on the reply button and the
message with the proper confirmation number will be returned to us.

You'll know you've done it all correctly when you receive the
Welcome Document >from the Ekaterinoslav Group which will contain
information about the address to be used when you post messages to
the entire list as well as the importance of setting your e-mail
program to send messages to us in plain text only.

If you need any help with any of this, please send an e-mail to:
mailto:support@...

Best regards,

Jerry Touger,
Coordinator,
Ekaterinoslav Area Research Group
Jtouger@... <mailto:Jtouger@...>

Researching
TOUGER/TAVGER (Minsk gubernya and Ekaterinoslav)
PALEY(Minsk gubernya)
SADKOVSKY (Murafa and vicinity, Podolia, Ukraine)
POLONSKY (Kishinev)
mailto:support@...> .


--
Elsebeth Paikin, Copenhagen, Denmark,
e-mail: elsebeth@...
--

Forwarded to LITVAK SIG Discussion Group
---------------------------------------

I am very pleased to announce that yet another group geared to
facilitating communication between 'genners with a common interest
is now live and awaiting subscribers. With Elsebeth Paikin as
moderator, and myself (Jerry Touger) as coordinator, the Ekaterinoslav
Area Research Group is joining the long list of JewishGen hosted
mailing lists.

The Ekaterinoslav Area Research Group is dedicated to serving as an
information- gathering vehicle and clearinghouse for Jewish genealogical
as well as historical information relating to the Jewish community in
and around the city formerly known as Ekaterinoslav and now called
Dniepropetrovsk in the Ukraine. Because many Jews relocated to
Ekaterinoslav or the surrounding agricultutral colonies >from Belarus
(and many of these in turn subsequently emigrated), many of those people
already participating and also potential members will be particularly
interested in Belarus-Ekaterinoslav connections In fact, the effort to
establish this group was initiated specifically by people whose forebears
were originally >from Belarus, but later settled in Ekaterinoslav.

However there was also settlement in the area >from elsewhere in the Pale
of Settlement, and there are also people who know they have ancestors who
lived in Ekaterinoslav but do not know what prior roots those ancestors
might have had. Since these groups of ancestors no doubt intermingled
and intermarried, it makes good historical sense to embrace all of them
under the umbrella of the Ekaterinoslav area research group.

Joining this group is simple and can be done via e-mail or online.
To use the online automated webform, please go to:

http://www.jewishgen.org/listserv/sigs.htm

and click on the word Subscribe. You will be taken to the webform
where you will follow the directions to fill out completely, then
select Ekaterinoslav which you will find listed under the Shtetl
Research Groups. Scroll down and click on the button that says
Submit my Request.

To subscribe via e-mail simply send a message addressed to:

listserv@... and say

subscribe ekaterinoslav (first name) (last name)

With either method, online or e-mail you will receive a request to
confirm the subscription. Just click on the reply button and the
message with the proper confirmation number will be returned to us.

You'll know you've done it all correctly when you receive the
Welcome Document >from the Ekaterinoslav Group which will contain
information about the address to be used when you post messages to
the entire list as well as the importance of setting your e-mail
program to send messages to us in plain text only.

If you need any help with any of this, please send an e-mail to:
mailto:support@...

Best regards,

Jerry Touger,
Coordinator,
Ekaterinoslav Area Research Group
Jtouger@... <mailto:Jtouger@...>

Researching
TOUGER/TAVGER (Minsk gubernya and Ekaterinoslav)
PALEY(Minsk gubernya)
SADKOVSKY (Murafa and vicinity, Podolia, Ukraine)
POLONSKY (Kishinev)
mailto:support@...> .


--
Elsebeth Paikin, Copenhagen, Denmark,
e-mail: elsebeth@...
--

Economic distress giving birth
to 'anti-establishment anti-Semitism'
in Lithuania

This is the subject of a copyrighted article in >from Ha'aretz based on an
interview with Lithuanian ambassador to Israel, Romas Misiunas, by
Catherine Cohen.

Because it is copyright, I can only refer briefly to this article. However, anyone who wants to read the entire article can do so by going to the Haaretz website <http://www.haaretzdaily.com/htmls/kat24_2.asp>

The thrust of the article is that economic and social distress in
Lithuania has allowed a far right party to win control ( last week) of the majority of the Baltic state's second largest city, Kaunas (Kovno).

According to Misiunas, Vytautas Sustauskas, the new mayor of Kaunas
(formerly Kovno), ran a campaign based on slogans like "Lithuania for
Lithuanians," and racist slurs against Jews, blacks and foreigners. "There aren't even 600 black people in Lithuania and only a few hundred Jews," said Misiunas in an interview with Anglo File. Misiunas has been in Israel for five years,and noted that the Freedom Union, the right wing party
headed by Sustauskas, is only a year old, and with a 20 percent
plurality won the majority in a crowded field.

His opinion is that the rise of the far right in Lithuania signals
dissatisfaction with the political establishment.

"Sustauskas basically has the same philosophies as Jean-Marie Le Pen in
France and Joerg Haider in Austria " says Misiunas. "But the situation
in Lithuania and other Eastern European nations differs >from countries
like Austria and France, which are more prosperous. In Lithuania, the
swing to the right was caused by economic and social problems. This was
a vote against the establishment."

The Lithuanian government is monitoring the growing extremism.

"The comments made by Sustauskas during the election campaign alerted
the government to extremism," said Misiunas. He added that the chairman
of the Lithuanian parliament, Vytautas Landsberg (a previous President), has since requested that the government examine the spread of extremism in the country.

Before the Second World War, approximately 160,000 Jews lived in
Lithuania, including 40,000 in the city of Kaunas. Some 85 percent of
the population was killed in the war, and most of the survivors settled in Israel. "Today, there are between 5,000 to 10,000 Jews in Lithuania. Nobody is sure how many there are because they are mostly elderly and non-religious," said Misiunas.

(Note >from submitter of this summary, these figures refer to interwar independent Lithuania, and thus exclude the 80,000 or more Jews in Vilna and the rest of Polish Lithuania. Estimates by Yitzchak Arad and others give a figure of between 220,00-250,000 Jews killed, possibly 95% of the Jewishpopulation if the contemporary boundaries of Lithuania are considered).

The ambassador will be visiting Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"I did not receive special instructions >from the government to go to Yad
Vashem. It is just taken for granted that I will go," he said.

--
Dr Saul Issroff

Economic distress giving birth
to 'anti-establishment anti-Semitism'
in Lithuania

This is the subject of a copyrighted article in >from Ha'aretz based on an
interview with Lithuanian ambassador to Israel, Romas Misiunas, by
Catherine Cohen.

Because it is copyright, I can only refer briefly to this article. However, anyone who wants to read the entire article can do so by going to the Haaretz website <http://www.haaretzdaily.com/htmls/kat24_2.asp>

The thrust of the article is that economic and social distress in
Lithuania has allowed a far right party to win control ( last week) of the majority of the Baltic state's second largest city, Kaunas (Kovno).

According to Misiunas, Vytautas Sustauskas, the new mayor of Kaunas
(formerly Kovno), ran a campaign based on slogans like "Lithuania for
Lithuanians," and racist slurs against Jews, blacks and foreigners. "There aren't even 600 black people in Lithuania and only a few hundred Jews," said Misiunas in an interview with Anglo File. Misiunas has been in Israel for five years,and noted that the Freedom Union, the right wing party
headed by Sustauskas, is only a year old, and with a 20 percent
plurality won the majority in a crowded field.

His opinion is that the rise of the far right in Lithuania signals
dissatisfaction with the political establishment.

"Sustauskas basically has the same philosophies as Jean-Marie Le Pen in
France and Joerg Haider in Austria " says Misiunas. "But the situation
in Lithuania and other Eastern European nations differs >from countries
like Austria and France, which are more prosperous. In Lithuania, the
swing to the right was caused by economic and social problems. This was
a vote against the establishment."

The Lithuanian government is monitoring the growing extremism.

"The comments made by Sustauskas during the election campaign alerted
the government to extremism," said Misiunas. He added that the chairman
of the Lithuanian parliament, Vytautas Landsberg (a previous President), has since requested that the government examine the spread of extremism in the country.

Before the Second World War, approximately 160,000 Jews lived in
Lithuania, including 40,000 in the city of Kaunas. Some 85 percent of
the population was killed in the war, and most of the survivors settled in Israel. "Today, there are between 5,000 to 10,000 Jews in Lithuania. Nobody is sure how many there are because they are mostly elderly and non-religious," said Misiunas.

(Note >from submitter of this summary, these figures refer to interwar independent Lithuania, and thus exclude the 80,000 or more Jews in Vilna and the rest of Polish Lithuania. Estimates by Yitzchak Arad and others give a figure of between 220,00-250,000 Jews killed, possibly 95% of the Jewishpopulation if the contemporary boundaries of Lithuania are considered).

The ambassador will be visiting Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"I did not receive special instructions >from the government to go to Yad
Vashem. It is just taken for granted that I will go," he said.

--
Dr Saul Issroff

Does anyone have any idea what the name Khonan means and where it comes from. Is it related to Solomon?

Please reply privately,

Thanks
Scott Noar
sman@...

Does anyone have any idea what the name Khonan means and where it comes from. Is it related to Solomon?

Please reply privately,

Thanks
Scott Noar
sman@...

in response to:

~~~~~
The Latvian State Archives was able to send me detailed information on
my grandmother's SPIVAK family in Riga. However, it seems that the family
originally came >from New Zagare, Lithuania.

Instead of going to the archives in Lithuania I tried the All Lithuania
Data Base and WOW there they all were, all listed in the May 1858
Revision List.

Much of the information I had previously obtained by "word-of-mouth" is
now changed. Now I have the rest of the story. Thanks to all the
volunteers who make our research efforts meaningful.

Alfred Lipsey, Tucson, Arizona
~~~~~

There is a lot more information on Zagare that has not yet been released
to the ALD. It is available to contributors to the Siauliai District
research group. A donation of $100 entitles you to all of the past,
present and future data acquired by this very active and productive
group. The data is sent as an e-mail attachment in Excel format. For
access to this information, please send your check with the notation
"Siauliai" in the memo field to:


LITVAKSIG, INC.
Dept. 77-9253
Chicago, Illinois 60678-9253

or, if you prefer to pay by credit card, you can find instructions at
http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak/donor.htm

Carol Coplin Baker
Siauliai District Research Coordinator

in response to:

~~~~~
The Latvian State Archives was able to send me detailed information on
my grandmother's SPIVAK family in Riga. However, it seems that the family
originally came >from New Zagare, Lithuania.

Instead of going to the archives in Lithuania I tried the All Lithuania
Data Base and WOW there they all were, all listed in the May 1858
Revision List.

Much of the information I had previously obtained by "word-of-mouth" is
now changed. Now I have the rest of the story. Thanks to all the
volunteers who make our research efforts meaningful.

Alfred Lipsey, Tucson, Arizona
~~~~~

There is a lot more information on Zagare that has not yet been released
to the ALD. It is available to contributors to the Siauliai District
research group. A donation of $100 entitles you to all of the past,
present and future data acquired by this very active and productive
group. The data is sent as an e-mail attachment in Excel format. For
access to this information, please send your check with the notation
"Siauliai" in the memo field to:


LITVAKSIG, INC.
Dept. 77-9253
Chicago, Illinois 60678-9253

or, if you prefer to pay by credit card, you can find instructions at
http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak/donor.htm

Carol Coplin Baker
Siauliai District Research Coordinator

Hi there...I am hoping these names may ring a bell..

I am looking for my great aunt and uncle..Joseph and Jennie Schwartz. I
know Joe had a fur shop in NYC in 1920 called French Furs..they also had
2 daughters Lillian and Ruth..

The last that anyone had heard >from them was at my grandfather's funeral
in 1960..and at that time they were living in the Grande Concorse, in the
Bronx.

If any of these names ring a bell..please let me know.

Helene Rose-Carson
carsonmh@...

Visit The Rose Family at:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Grove/5672
Researching:

ROSE/ROSEN - Russia, Poland, England and New York City
SCHWARTZ, NUROCK - New York City
THEIS - Germany, New York City and New Jersey
MICHAELS/MICHALES - New York City, Boston Mass

Hi there...I am hoping these names may ring a bell..

I am looking for my great aunt and uncle..Joseph and Jennie Schwartz. I
know Joe had a fur shop in NYC in 1920 called French Furs..they also had
2 daughters Lillian and Ruth..

The last that anyone had heard >from them was at my grandfather's funeral
in 1960..and at that time they were living in the Grande Concorse, in the
Bronx.

If any of these names ring a bell..please let me know.

Helene Rose-Carson
carsonmh@...

Visit The Rose Family at:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Grove/5672
Researching:

ROSE/ROSEN - Russia, Poland, England and New York City
SCHWARTZ, NUROCK - New York City
THEIS - Germany, New York City and New Jersey
MICHAELS/MICHALES - New York City, Boston Mass