Hi All

I recently found that the Uncle of my GGF died in 1867 in his home
town of Kaluszyn whilst on unlimited leave >from the army. He was
stationed at "Targ City Command"(Targiejskiej Miejskiej Komendy) I'm
told this refers to Nowy Targ.

Does anyone know if there is an archive which might hold records
related to his service or related to the history of Nowy Targ and the
Russian Army's activity there in around this time.

Thanks as always

Ben Forman

searching: BENSON: Hasenpoth/Courland
BERNSTEIN/WEINER: Ylakiai
CAHN/CAHEN/WOLF: Zuendorf/Bruhl/Lechenich/Ahrweiler
FURMAN: Kaluszyn GEVER: Daugavpils/Dvinsk
STILLMAN:Pilica/Ogrodzienec SAWADY: Zavadi,Posen

Hi All

I recently found that the Uncle of my GGF died in 1867 in his home
town of Kaluszyn whilst on unlimited leave >from the army. He was
stationed at "Targ City Command"(Targiejskiej Miejskiej Komendy) I'm
told this refers to Nowy Targ.

Does anyone know if there is an archive which might hold records
related to his service or related to the history of Nowy Targ and the
Russian Army's activity there in around this time.

Thanks as always

Ben Forman

searching: BENSON: Hasenpoth/Courland
BERNSTEIN/WEINER: Ylakiai
CAHN/CAHEN/WOLF: Zuendorf/Bruhl/Lechenich/Ahrweiler
FURMAN: Kaluszyn GEVER: Daugavpils/Dvinsk
STILLMAN:Pilica/Ogrodzienec SAWADY: Zavadi,Posen

I would be grateful for any information about life in the latter half
of the 19th Century in the small Galician town of Ozydow (Ozhydiv),
now in Ukraine. Several generations of one branch of my family were
born and lived their lives there, but I've been unable to unearth much
about the town, beyond a hazardous train derailment occurring in recent
times, and nothing at all about how/why Jews came to live there rather
than in nearby towns with significant Jewish populations, such as Busk.
I've learned >from JRI Poland that family names were POSTEL, WACHS and
TENENBAUM.

With appreciation,

Elissa Hunter, Chicago

I would be grateful for any information about life in the latter half
of the 19th Century in the small Galician town of Ozydow (Ozhydiv),
now in Ukraine. Several generations of one branch of my family were
born and lived their lives there, but I've been unable to unearth much
about the town, beyond a hazardous train derailment occurring in recent
times, and nothing at all about how/why Jews came to live there rather
than in nearby towns with significant Jewish populations, such as Busk.
I've learned >from JRI Poland that family names were POSTEL, WACHS and
TENENBAUM.

With appreciation,

Elissa Hunter, Chicago

from the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews comes Jewish Warsaw,

a powerful online exhibit that allows visitors around the world to learn
about the history of Warsaw through the eyes of historical and
contemporary Jewish individuals.

http://warsze.polin.pl/en

Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD 20901
(primary email address: thausner@...)

from the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews comes Jewish Warsaw,

a powerful online exhibit that allows visitors around the world to learn
about the history of Warsaw through the eyes of historical and
contemporary Jewish individuals.

http://warsze.polin.pl/en

Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD 20901
(primary email address: thausner@...)

In "How They Spent leisure Time," >from the Yizkor book of Borshchiv
(Borstchoff), Ukraine, Shlomo Reibel tells of the ways the Jews of
his shtetl took pleasure >from life. There were the spiritual pleasures
such as the listening to the davening of a guest cantor or when someone
would come to give a sermon. And, then there were the secular pleasures
provided by performers, visiting gypsies, street singers, the circus
and even boxing. ("Naturally, on the placards, the nationality of the
boxers would be stated and there would be added a question of this
nature: 'Who will win, the Jew or the Hungarian?'"

URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1498909580131192

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel

In "How They Spent leisure Time," >from the Yizkor book of Borshchiv
(Borstchoff), Ukraine, Shlomo Reibel tells of the ways the Jews of
his shtetl took pleasure >from life. There were the spiritual pleasures
such as the listening to the davening of a guest cantor or when someone
would come to give a sermon. And, then there were the secular pleasures
provided by performers, visiting gypsies, street singers, the circus
and even boxing. ("Naturally, on the placards, the nationality of the
boxers would be stated and there would be added a question of this
nature: 'Who will win, the Jew or the Hungarian?'"

URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1498909580131192

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel

I recently posted on the IAJGS Leadership Digest and JewishGen Discussion
Group as to how Germany was making an effort to return Nazi looted books
returned to their original Jewish owners through the "Initial Check" whose
mission is finding stolen books and rightful heirs, which is coordinated by
the Magdeburg-based Lost Art Foundation.

Unfortunately, the same is not true of the Nazi looted books in Belarus.
The focus is on 1.2 million volumes the Nazis plundered which went from
France to Germany to Silesia where the Red Army took them as "spoils of
war". This includes about 500,000 books taken >from French Jewish families
and institutions.

The Soviets sent 54 railcars to Minsk where they have remained. Many of the
books were found by the Soviets in Berlin so called "trophy-Brigades of the
Red Army which picked up cultural property in occupied countries. Many of
the French books were stored alongside the books the Nazis plundered from
Belarus. The books remained in Minsk an not mentioned until the falloff
Communism. Many of the French books were taken >from prominent families'
private libraries and are first editions, many of them signed.

There have been discussions between the French and Belarus and other
countries, including the Claims Conference who seeks restitution for those
who lost property or art. Belarus will not discuss restitution, as Belarus
lost nearly all they had in the war. Belarus is willing to discuss
"transfers and exchanges of publications."

The Claims Conference created a website on the looted books and the Minsk
collection which can be accessed at:
https://www.errproject.org/looted_libraries_fr.php the article contains a
link to the list which is at:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/mnr/RBS/T_7.pdf

To read more about this see: http://tinyurl.com/ybphcr7s
Original url:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-the-trail-of-books-stolen-by-the-nazis-15016
87602?mg=prod/accounts-wsj

The Wall Street Journal is a subscription newspaper. However, if you place
the title of the article On the Trail of Books Stolen by the Nazis," into
Google you will be able to read the article.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

I recently posted on the IAJGS Leadership Digest and JewishGen Discussion
Group as to how Germany was making an effort to return Nazi looted books
returned to their original Jewish owners through the "Initial Check" whose
mission is finding stolen books and rightful heirs, which is coordinated by
the Magdeburg-based Lost Art Foundation.

Unfortunately, the same is not true of the Nazi looted books in Belarus.
The focus is on 1.2 million volumes the Nazis plundered which went from
France to Germany to Silesia where the Red Army took them as "spoils of
war". This includes about 500,000 books taken >from French Jewish families
and institutions.

The Soviets sent 54 railcars to Minsk where they have remained. Many of the
books were found by the Soviets in Berlin so called "trophy-Brigades of the
Red Army which picked up cultural property in occupied countries. Many of
the French books were stored alongside the books the Nazis plundered from
Belarus. The books remained in Minsk an not mentioned until the falloff
Communism. Many of the French books were taken >from prominent families'
private libraries and are first editions, many of them signed.

There have been discussions between the French and Belarus and other
countries, including the Claims Conference who seeks restitution for those
who lost property or art. Belarus will not discuss restitution, as Belarus
lost nearly all they had in the war. Belarus is willing to discuss
"transfers and exchanges of publications."

The Claims Conference created a website on the looted books and the Minsk
collection which can be accessed at:
https://www.errproject.org/looted_libraries_fr.php the article contains a
link to the list which is at:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/mnr/RBS/T_7.pdf

To read more about this see: http://tinyurl.com/ybphcr7s
Original url:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-the-trail-of-books-stolen-by-the-nazis-15016
87602?mg=prod/accounts-wsj

The Wall Street Journal is a subscription newspaper. However, if you place
the title of the article On the Trail of Books Stolen by the Nazis," into
Google you will be able to read the article.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

I am helping a family with their research. This is what they have given me:

Boris [Borukh] Bostomsky

Born in Vilnius, Lithuania 30 November 1895

Died in Johannesburg, South Africa 31 March 1979

Married Millie Froom

She was born in Papile in Lithuania 4 March 1903

She died in Johannesburg, South Africa 11 August 1977

My query:

What were the names of Millie Froom's parents?

Bubbles Segall

I am helping a family with their research. This is what they have given me:

Boris [Borukh] Bostomsky

Born in Vilnius, Lithuania 30 November 1895

Died in Johannesburg, South Africa 31 March 1979

Married Millie Froom

She was born in Papile in Lithuania 4 March 1903

She died in Johannesburg, South Africa 11 August 1977

My query:

What were the names of Millie Froom's parents?

Bubbles Segall

Thanks to all the member of this group and my own extended family who
have sent me information on Rabbi Jacob DOLGENAS and my wife's
extended family JAROZALIMSKI. everything was very useful.

Shabbat Shalom
Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

Thanks to all the member of this group and my own extended family who
have sent me information on Rabbi Jacob DOLGENAS and my wife's
extended family JAROZALIMSKI. everything was very useful.

Shabbat Shalom
Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

Dear fellow RavSIGers:

Just a quick correction of a typo. I meant to say that Rabbi Icyk
SZULZYNGIER of Opatow must have been born around 1735, not
1755.

Heshel Teitelbaum
Ottawa.

Dear fellow RavSIGers:

Just a quick correction of a typo. I meant to say that Rabbi Icyk
SZULZYNGIER of Opatow must have been born around 1735, not
1755.

Heshel Teitelbaum
Ottawa.

In a letter written after 1971 but talking about some time before this
I would guess 1965 to 1970. My great aunt writes that she spent three
summers in Poland with her great friend Dr. PISTNER. I have tried to
find info about this Doctor and have been unable to. I was hoping the
doctor might have family who know my aunt and would able to tell me
somethings about her. Dose any one know of Dr. Pistner >from Poland or
how I might find more information on the Doctor.

Thank you for your help in this matter
Moshe Schaeffer
Jerusalem

In a letter written after 1971 but talking about some time before this
I would guess 1965 to 1970. My great aunt writes that she spent three
summers in Poland with her great friend Dr. PISTNER. I have tried to
find info about this Doctor and have been unable to. I was hoping the
doctor might have family who know my aunt and would able to tell me
somethings about her. Dose any one know of Dr. Pistner >from Poland or
how I might find more information on the Doctor.

Thank you for your help in this matter
Moshe Schaeffer
Jerusalem

Two years ago I had 3 male relatives take the Y-DNA test at
FamilyTreeDNA to add proof to my paper trail which indicated that the
three identified branches had a recent common ancestor. 2 of the
Zweighaft males matched perfectly on 37 markers and the 3rd on 36 of
37. While this was great news, little did I suspect that there might
be an additional surprise awaiting. Two years later, at the recent
IAJGS 2017 conference in Orlando, the Zweighaft surname popped up on
Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull's slide in his talk on famous rabbinical
lineages. 'Zweighaft' was one of 18 surnames in the FamilyTreeDNA
database whose DNA matched that of the three pedigreed
Katzenellenbogen descendants.

(for background on Dr. Paull's earlier study see
http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2016/03/y-dna-genetic-signature-ethnic-origin-katzenellenbogen-rabbinical-lineage/).

I am at a loss as to how to proceed >from here. My knowledge of Y-DNA
analysis is rudimentary at best and I never seem to advance my
understanding much by perusing the learning resources on
FamilyTreeDNA. I'd very much appreciate any suggestions of other
resources I could use to get up to speed on analyzing DNA, Y-DNA
projects, haplogroup studies, terminology, etc. - books, online
classes, blogs, social media groups, etc. I have so many questions -
for instance, my brother closely matches 2 of the testers used in Dr.
Paull's 2016 study, but they are identified as haplogroup J-L823 and
my brother as J-M267. They all are identified as descendants of the
Katzenellenbogen rabbinical dynasty. Thanks very much.
Susan Zweighaft
Falls Church, VA

Two years ago I had 3 male relatives take the Y-DNA test at
FamilyTreeDNA to add proof to my paper trail which indicated that the
three identified branches had a recent common ancestor. 2 of the
Zweighaft males matched perfectly on 37 markers and the 3rd on 36 of
37. While this was great news, little did I suspect that there might
be an additional surprise awaiting. Two years later, at the recent
IAJGS 2017 conference in Orlando, the Zweighaft surname popped up on
Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull's slide in his talk on famous rabbinical
lineages. 'Zweighaft' was one of 18 surnames in the FamilyTreeDNA
database whose DNA matched that of the three pedigreed
Katzenellenbogen descendants.

(for background on Dr. Paull's earlier study see
http://www.avotaynuonline.com/2016/03/y-dna-genetic-signature-ethnic-origin-katzenellenbogen-rabbinical-lineage/).

I am at a loss as to how to proceed >from here. My knowledge of Y-DNA
analysis is rudimentary at best and I never seem to advance my
understanding much by perusing the learning resources on
FamilyTreeDNA. I'd very much appreciate any suggestions of other
resources I could use to get up to speed on analyzing DNA, Y-DNA
projects, haplogroup studies, terminology, etc. - books, online
classes, blogs, social media groups, etc. I have so many questions -
for instance, my brother closely matches 2 of the testers used in Dr.
Paull's 2016 study, but they are identified as haplogroup J-L823 and
my brother as J-M267. They all are identified as descendants of the
Katzenellenbogen rabbinical dynasty. Thanks very much.
Susan Zweighaft
Falls Church, VA