"Every year material on Jewish history is presented at exhibits in cooperation with Jewish, literary and historical museums. A documentary presentation was organized in May 2007 for the 160 participants of the Klezmer Festival Tour (Unger Travel, Toronto, Canada) at the Odessa Historical Museum. Some special databases were created, for example, name indexes of the Odessa’s Jews in the 1897 All-Russian Census; the Odessa Board for Small Business, 1894–1918; a family register. Name and thematic catalogues on Jews also were updated [CD in Russian]."

[https://avotaynuonline.com/2007/10/jewish-history-as-reflected-in-t...]

If you know how to purchase a copy of the name index on CD, please reply publicly. If you have a copy of this CD and would be willing to find the street names/page numbers for me, please reply privately and I will give you the given names.  I have the 1907 Odessa death certificate for the matriarch. She was registered in Moletai (Lithuania). At least one son and multiple adult grandchildren were living there in 1897 but later emigrated.

The Odessa Historical Museum said it does not have a copy of this name index. Avotaynu has not replied to my query. I don't know how to reach anyone who organized or was part of the Klezmer Festival Tour of 2007.

Thank you for any help you could give me,

Roberta Jaffer
robertajaffer@...
Massachusetts

My late father told me that my great grandparents, Shmuel Krevoshay (sounds like) and Anna Volman were killed in pogroms following WWI. Their daughter (maiden name Scheina Krevoshay) came to the U.S. in 1914; according to her ship's manifest she came from "Berezin." I have been trying to find any records of their deaths in the pogroms near there, after WWI. I have looked in (and contributed to) the historical records of the Berezino KehilahLinks website (https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Byerazino), and have found eyewitness accounts listing the victims of several of these pogroms, but, thus far, have not found any records which mention my great-grandparents. If anyone knows anything about these pogroms, or about my great-grandparents, or about the Krevoshay/Volman families in Berezino, please let me know. I'd be extremely grateful.

Dan Chernin

dchernin@...

• Frank, thanks for getting the Cyrillic characters up here so everyone can see them. I agree they do not sound alike, but we are mainly dealing with how someone wrote them, someone who, as Odeda noted, may not have been an expert. Even here as you have typed them out, the two words are the same length (unlike in English) and have the first three characters identical.  Some people's handwriting trails off partway through a word, and I can picture some kind of squiggle that could be misread. Can we see an original?

At 09:12 23/11/2021, ab12cohen@... wrote:

Surely the only method common to all or most Jewish religeous
groups of deciding whether someone is a Jew is whether their mother
was accepted as a Jew. If the father was Jewish and the mother was
not then the child would not usually be accepted as Jewish even if
he/she considered he/she was.

Proof of the mother's Jewish state would be verifiable by a ktsubah
(hers or her mother's) or burial in a Jewish cemetery.

There is no scientific evidence, and it doesn't depend on what a
person 'feels'.
Alan Cohen

Not so

Nowadays Reform congregations - and I believe Israel in the
Law-of-Return - use the "Nazi definitions" where the paternal line of
descent is Jewish

I still believe that the bottom line is "the person who says they are
Jewish is...."
That does not mean that ALL Jews will acept it. There will be an
argument - and that, in itself, is Jewish

David Lewin
London

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96047

In Russian:

Посад Рожан и Посад Чижев

#23

Состоялось в посаде Чижев 1-го марта 1905 года в 9 часов утра.  Явились лично Лейзер Веторж, домовладелец, 54-х лет и Пейсах Суравич, (не ясно), 56-и лет, оба жители посада Чижев и объявили, что сегодня был заключен религиозный брачный союз между Мошком Мойжеш, холостым, 19-и лет, сыном Герша-Бера и Ривки, урожденной Смоленской, родившимся и живущим в посаде Рожан с Элькой Дзбанек, девицей, 18-и лет, дочерью Меера и Хинки-Суры, урожденной Котлярек, родившейся и живущей в посаде Чижев.  Браку этому предшествовали троекратное оглашение в Рожанской и Чижевской синагогах - 11-го, 18-го и 25-го декабря прошлого года.  Дозволение присутстствующих лично при заключении брака и сего акта родителей новобрачных заявлено словесно.  Новобрачные заявили, что предбрачный договор между ними заключен не был.  Религиозный брачный союз был совершен равином Чижевского религиозного округа Шмулем-Давидом Завлодавер.  Акт сей по прочтении равином новобрачным и свидетелям, ими и нами подписан. Прочие лица заявили, что писать не умеют.

Равин Шмуль-Давид Завлодавер

Лейзер Веторж

Пейсах Суравич

Содержащий акты гражданского состояния       Подпись

Translated into English:

Posad Rojan and Posad Chizhev

# 23

It took place in Posad Chizhev on March 1, 1905 at 9 am. Leizer Vetorzh, a homeowner, 54 years old, and Peisakh Suravich, (not clear), 56 years old, both residents of the Chizhev posad, appeared personally and announced that today a religious marriage was concluded between Moshko Moyzhesh, single, 19 years old, the son of Gersh-Ber and Rivka, nee Smolenskaya, who was born and lives in Posad Rozhan with Elka Dzbanek, a maiden, 18 years old, daughter of Meer and Khinka-Sura, nee Kotlyarek, who was born and lives in Posad Chizhev. This marriage was preceded by a three-fold announcement in the Rozhan and Chizhev synagogues - on the 11th, 18th and 25th December last year. The permission of the parents of the newlyweds who are present personally at the conclusion of the marriage and this act is declared verbally. The newlyweds said that the prenuptial agreement between them was not concluded. The religious marriage union was accomplished by the rabbi of the Chizhev religious district, Shmul-David Zavlodaver. This act, upon reading by the rabbi to newlyweds and witnesses, was signed by them and by us. Others said they could not write.

Rabbi Shmul-David Zavlodaver

Lacer Vetorzh

Peisakh Suravich

Containing acts of civil status Signature

Surely the only method common to all or most Jewish religeous
groups of deciding whether someone is a Jew is whether their mother
was accepted as a Jew. If the father was Jewish and the mother was
not then the child would not usually be accepted as Jewish even if
he/she considered he/she was.

Proof of the mother's Jewish state would be verifiable by a ktsubah
(hers or her mother's) or burial in a Jewish cemetery.

There is no scientific evidence, and it doesn't depend on what a
person 'feels'.
Alan Cohen