Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce the release of the December 2016
issue of the Galitzianer. The major articles in this issue are:

Research Corner - Tony Kahane
Images of Dynow - Nina Talbot
Opening of the Space of Synagogues - Marla Raucher Osborn
Progressive Synagogue in Lwow - Julian J. Bussgang
Brody: Physical Places of Memory - Boerries Kuzmany
Tarnopol's Lost Son - Michael Haas
Discovering Karol Rathaus - Lev Deych
Map Corner - Jay Osborn
Samuel del Campo: Chilean Sugihara - Jorge E. Schindler
WWII Rubber Farms in Galicia - Stephen Denker

Much of the information on the Gesher Galicia website is accessible to
all. A subscription to the Galitzianer, though, is a benefit of membership
in Gesher Galicia.

For more information on how to renew or join Gesher Galicia, please go
to: http://www.geshergalicia.org/membership/

We hope you will enjoy the latest issue of the journal.

Andrew Zalewski
editor@...
http://www.geshergalicia.org/

Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce the release of the December 2016
issue of the Galitzianer. The major articles in this issue are:

Research Corner - Tony Kahane
Images of Dynow - Nina Talbot
Opening of the Space of Synagogues - Marla Raucher Osborn
Progressive Synagogue in Lwow - Julian J. Bussgang
Brody: Physical Places of Memory - Boerries Kuzmany
Tarnopol's Lost Son - Michael Haas
Discovering Karol Rathaus - Lev Deych
Map Corner - Jay Osborn
Samuel del Campo: Chilean Sugihara - Jorge E. Schindler
WWII Rubber Farms in Galicia - Stephen Denker

Much of the information on the Gesher Galicia website is accessible to
all. A subscription to the Galitzianer, though, is a benefit of membership
in Gesher Galicia.

For more information on how to renew or join Gesher Galicia, please go
to: http://www.geshergalicia.org/membership/

We hope you will enjoy the latest issue of the journal.

Andrew Zalewski
editor@...
http://www.geshergalicia.org/

Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce the release of the December 2016
issue of the Galitzianer. The major articles in this issue are:

Research Corner Tony Kahane
Images of Dynow Nina Talbot
Opening of the Space of Synagogues Marla Raucher Osborn
Progressive Synagogue in Lwow Julian J. Bussgang
Brody: Physical Places of Memory Boerries Kuzmany
Tarnopolâ??s Lost Son Michael Haas
Discovering Karol Rathaus Lev Deych
Map Corner Jay Osborn
Samuel del Campo: Chilean Sugihara Jorge E. Schindler
WWII Rubber Farms in Galicia Stephen Denker

Much of the information on the Gesher Galicia website is accessible to
all. A subscription to the Galitzianer, though, is a benefit of
membership in Gesher Galicia. For more information, please go to:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/membership/

We hope you will enjoy the latest issue of the journal.

Andrew Zalewski
editor@...
http://www.geshergalicia.org/

Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce the release of the December 2016
issue of the Galitzianer. The major articles in this issue are:

Research Corner Tony Kahane
Images of Dynow Nina Talbot
Opening of the Space of Synagogues Marla Raucher Osborn
Progressive Synagogue in Lwow Julian J. Bussgang
Brody: Physical Places of Memory Boerries Kuzmany
Tarnopolâ??s Lost Son Michael Haas
Discovering Karol Rathaus Lev Deych
Map Corner Jay Osborn
Samuel del Campo: Chilean Sugihara Jorge E. Schindler
WWII Rubber Farms in Galicia Stephen Denker

Much of the information on the Gesher Galicia website is accessible to
all. A subscription to the Galitzianer, though, is a benefit of
membership in Gesher Galicia. For more information, please go to:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/membership/

We hope you will enjoy the latest issue of the journal.

Andrew Zalewski
editor@...
http://www.geshergalicia.org/

I had an uncle, Reverend Boruch Smus, who was a Chazzan in England. I have
a letter written to him by his mother, Hannah (nee Kadis) in which she
states "you had a precious father (Mendel Leib) , Itzikl the Alchanane was
your father's uncle." Boruch Smus was born in Proskurov in 1899.

I wondered if anyone could tell me where I could find information about
Rabbi Spektor's siblings and a genealogy.

Thank you,

Judy Wolkovitch
Los Angeles

I had an uncle, Reverend Boruch Smus, who was a Chazzan in England. I have
a letter written to him by his mother, Hannah (nee Kadis) in which she
states "you had a precious father (Mendel Leib) , Itzikl the Alchanane was
your father's uncle." Boruch Smus was born in Proskurov in 1899.

I wondered if anyone could tell me where I could find information about
Rabbi Spektor's siblings and a genealogy.

Thank you,

Judy Wolkovitch
Los Angeles

We remember Professor Dov Levin (1925-2016), eminent scholar and historian
of Eastern European Jewish Communities who passed away in Jerusalem. A
survivor of the Kovno Ghetto and Fulbright Scholar, he devoted his life to
recording the memories of the destroyed communities of Eastern Europe.

Among his many works, he was editor of the Hebrew work Pinkas ha-kehilot;
entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet
ha-olam ha-sheniya: Latvia and Estonia (Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities:
Latvia and Estonia) published in Jerusalem in 1988.

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Pinkas_latvia/pinkas_latvia.html

We now have English translations of Professor Levin's chapters on:
The History of the Jews of Latvia
And the communities of:
Aizpute, Jaunijelgava, Jelgava, Krustpils, Liepaja, Piltene,
Riebeni/Silajani, Subata, Talsi, Tukums, Valdemarpils, Vilaka and Viski

If any of our members have further translations of this work or would like
to assist in our effort to translate the remaining 112 community histories
please contact me privately.

May Professor Levin's memory be a blessing.

Paul Cheifitz,
President, Jewishgen Latvia SIG

We remember Professor Dov Levin (1925-2016), eminent scholar and historian
of Eastern European Jewish Communities who passed away in Jerusalem. A
survivor of the Kovno Ghetto and Fulbright Scholar, he devoted his life to
recording the memories of the destroyed communities of Eastern Europe.

Among his many works, he was editor of the Hebrew work Pinkas ha-kehilot;
entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet
ha-olam ha-sheniya: Latvia and Estonia (Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities:
Latvia and Estonia) published in Jerusalem in 1988.

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Pinkas_latvia/pinkas_latvia.html

We now have English translations of Professor Levin's chapters on:
The History of the Jews of Latvia
And the communities of:
Aizpute, Jaunijelgava, Jelgava, Krustpils, Liepaja, Piltene,
Riebeni/Silajani, Subata, Talsi, Tukums, Valdemarpils, Vilaka and Viski

If any of our members have further translations of this work or would like
to assist in our effort to translate the remaining 112 community histories
please contact me privately.

May Professor Levin's memory be a blessing.

Paul Cheifitz,
President, Jewishgen Latvia SIG

I want to thank all the Jewishgenners who suggested reasons for the
difference between the rendering of the names Shapiro and Shapira.
It can be a bit more complicated now because I see in additional documents
that they had a name KOZAKEVITCH, which is different >from my ancestral name
of KAZAKEVITCH.
My gut feeling in these two cases is that we are talking about two different
families in each case that are actually unrelated. If I get additional
clarifications on these things I will hopefully update the forum.
Thanks,
David Goldman
NYC

I want to thank all the Jewishgenners who suggested reasons for the
difference between the rendering of the names Shapiro and Shapira.
It can be a bit more complicated now because I see in additional documents
that they had a name KOZAKEVITCH, which is different >from my ancestral name
of KAZAKEVITCH.
My gut feeling in these two cases is that we are talking about two different
families in each case that are actually unrelated. If I get additional
clarifications on these things I will hopefully update the forum.
Thanks,
David Goldman
NYC

Jeff Malka wrote:
Are there searchable city directories for Manhattan, NY for the years
1900-1910? Where would I find them?

The New York Public Library has them in its digital collections:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters%5Broot-collection%5D=f7533140-3179-0134-f53a-00505686a51c&keywords=new+york+city+directories&year_begin=1900&year_end=1910&
(MODERATOR http://tinyurl.com/z2rtswv)
Deborah Blankenberg (JewishGen ID #613395)
Lodi, CA
Researching BLOCH/BLOCK (Germany to New York and Missouri),
BLINDER (Russia to New York via France), KUSHER/KUSZER (Poland
to New York via France), GOLDSCHMIDT (Germany)

Jeff Malka wrote:
Are there searchable city directories for Manhattan, NY for the years
1900-1910? Where would I find them?

The New York Public Library has them in its digital collections:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters%5Broot-collection%5D=f7533140-3179-0134-f53a-00505686a51c&keywords=new+york+city+directories&year_begin=1900&year_end=1910&
(MODERATOR http://tinyurl.com/z2rtswv)
Deborah Blankenberg (JewishGen ID #613395)
Lodi, CA
Researching BLOCH/BLOCK (Germany to New York and Missouri),
BLINDER (Russia to New York via France), KUSHER/KUSZER (Poland
to New York via France), GOLDSCHMIDT (Germany)

I know my question cannot be answered with certainty, but, I would appreciate any
insights Genners can provide on the likelihood of "Rudla Leja" being the same
person as "Frajda Leja" in the following context:

~I was told my GGM's Hebrew name was "Frajda Leja", a cousin and myself both carry
this as our Hebrew name in her memory. Her gravestone shows only her American
name, Lena.
~What I believe is her passage record to the US in 1890 shows "Fradel KAHN", born
about 1861.
~Her marriage license nine months later shows "Fanny COHN", daughter of "Barnett
COHN" and "Sara not non".
~The birth of her first child in the US shows her first name as Lena (which she
used going forward) and born about 1857. (This birthdate is an outlier,
subsequent US records show birth dates 1861-1869).
~Documents for her children's marriages sometimes showed their mother's maiden
name as COHN and sometimes as KAPLAN.
~Her 1945 death ctf shows Lena's parents as "Jacob KAPLAN" and "Sarah GERBER".
~ Her first born son was named Jankel>Jacob.
~ Her second son was named Morris.

I do not know exactly where my GGM came >from but I have two potentially relevant
birth records >from Ciechanowiec (about 80 km southwest of Bialystok) which is a
town closely associated with a family with ties to my own.

The births are for two daughters born to "Berko Jankielowicz KAPLAN" and "Sura
Moszkovna", both births registered in 1865. One is for "Gulka" born 1855 and the
other for "Rudla Leja" born 1858.

A family with (unknown) ties to mine includes "Gutka" born about 1856 according to
her passage record in 1900. Her death ctf (likely completed by her youngest son
born in the US late in life) shows her parents as "Morris COHEN" and "Sarah
FARBER".

I have been unable to find any other primary documents, so.... what are the odds
that sisters "Gukla" and "Rudla Leja" born to Berko, son of Jankiel and Sore,
daughter of Moszko are the Gutke and Frajda Leja I know? Am I reaching too far or
is there too much of a thread through all of these names to ignore?

All opinions and suggestions welcome, Lena is surrounded by a very solid brick
wall.
Sherri Venditti

I know my question cannot be answered with certainty, but, I would appreciate any
insights Genners can provide on the likelihood of "Rudla Leja" being the same
person as "Frajda Leja" in the following context:

~I was told my GGM's Hebrew name was "Frajda Leja", a cousin and myself both carry
this as our Hebrew name in her memory. Her gravestone shows only her American
name, Lena.
~What I believe is her passage record to the US in 1890 shows "Fradel KAHN", born
about 1861.
~Her marriage license nine months later shows "Fanny COHN", daughter of "Barnett
COHN" and "Sara not non".
~The birth of her first child in the US shows her first name as Lena (which she
used going forward) and born about 1857. (This birthdate is an outlier,
subsequent US records show birth dates 1861-1869).
~Documents for her children's marriages sometimes showed their mother's maiden
name as COHN and sometimes as KAPLAN.
~Her 1945 death ctf shows Lena's parents as "Jacob KAPLAN" and "Sarah GERBER".
~ Her first born son was named Jankel>Jacob.
~ Her second son was named Morris.

I do not know exactly where my GGM came >from but I have two potentially relevant
birth records >from Ciechanowiec (about 80 km southwest of Bialystok) which is a
town closely associated with a family with ties to my own.

The births are for two daughters born to "Berko Jankielowicz KAPLAN" and "Sura
Moszkovna", both births registered in 1865. One is for "Gulka" born 1855 and the
other for "Rudla Leja" born 1858.

A family with (unknown) ties to mine includes "Gutka" born about 1856 according to
her passage record in 1900. Her death ctf (likely completed by her youngest son
born in the US late in life) shows her parents as "Morris COHEN" and "Sarah
FARBER".

I have been unable to find any other primary documents, so.... what are the odds
that sisters "Gukla" and "Rudla Leja" born to Berko, son of Jankiel and Sore,
daughter of Moszko are the Gutke and Frajda Leja I know? Am I reaching too far or
is there too much of a thread through all of these names to ignore?

All opinions and suggestions welcome, Lena is surrounded by a very solid brick
wall.
Sherri Venditti

Thanks to everyone who sent me hints about getting my ggg's naturalization
papers. I was able to connect to the person I needed at the genealogy desk
of DHS U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Sheryl

Sheryl Stahl

Suwalki (RAKOVSKI, OKRAGLINSKI,) Wizajni (RAKOVSKI) Kalvarja (FRIEDMAN, SUWALSKI),
Odessa (STESSEL) Pervomaysk (STESSEL) Grzymalow (LANDAU) Kolomyya(STAHL,
SCHMERTZLER) Chernivtsi (STAHL)

Thanks to everyone who sent me hints about getting my ggg's naturalization
papers. I was able to connect to the person I needed at the genealogy desk
of DHS U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Sheryl

Sheryl Stahl

Suwalki (RAKOVSKI, OKRAGLINSKI,) Wizajni (RAKOVSKI) Kalvarja (FRIEDMAN, SUWALSKI),
Odessa (STESSEL) Pervomaysk (STESSEL) Grzymalow (LANDAU) Kolomyya(STAHL,
SCHMERTZLER) Chernivtsi (STAHL)

When we're looking to identify a town, Soundex searches are a great
help, but they don't always yield the right answer. And I think our search
for "Satischitz" is one of those instances.

Without also doing a wild card search, it's possible to miss some
possibilities. In this case, a good possibility is Zalishchyky, Ukraine,
which was Zaleszczyki, Galicia, in the days of the Austrian Empire, and
Zaleshchik to Yiddish speakers. That shtetl was about 30 miles >from
Borszczow (Borshchiv) and the name Apfelbaum occurred there. See
the Ellis Island database, JewishGen's JOWBR and Family Finder,
Ancestry (immigration and naturalization records, draft registrations),
and JRI-Poland for Apfelbaums and Appelbaums with connections to
Zaleszczyki.

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills NY
genmaven@...

When we're looking to identify a town, Soundex searches are a great
help, but they don't always yield the right answer. And I think our search
for "Satischitz" is one of those instances.

Without also doing a wild card search, it's possible to miss some
possibilities. In this case, a good possibility is Zalishchyky, Ukraine,
which was Zaleszczyki, Galicia, in the days of the Austrian Empire, and
Zaleshchik to Yiddish speakers. That shtetl was about 30 miles >from
Borszczow (Borshchiv) and the name Apfelbaum occurred there. See
the Ellis Island database, JewishGen's JOWBR and Family Finder,
Ancestry (immigration and naturalization records, draft registrations),
and JRI-Poland for Apfelbaums and Appelbaums with connections to
Zaleszczyki.

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills NY
genmaven@...