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Re: Are "Muni" and "Munya" nicknames? For what name?
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Mary Clare
The famous actor Paul Muni, in his personal life, went by the nickname Muni or Munya. His real name was Meshilem Weisenfreund, and his family was from Galicia.
Mary Clare Austin, TX
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Help translate from RUSSIAN the last few letters of my Grandfather's collection
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kesspark@...
Would you be able to translate this letter written in RUSSIAN to English in ViewMate? I would be incredibly thankful! https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/responselist.asp?key=88644 TIA, Rachel Park 535R2
KESSLER - Starokonstantinov, LURIE - Buckah, Belarus, Latvia, Vilnius, Minsk; ALPERT - Minsk, Vilnius; SACHS - Odessa; DUBNICK - Minsk KEILES - Vilnius, Lodz; NAGIN(SKY) - Poltava; DUBIN(SKY) - Poltava; TSIGAR - Vilnius; Giguzin - Vilnius;
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New and Updated Databases on IGRA’s Website
#announcements
Elena Bazes
The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new and updated databases on its website. There are now over 1,900,000 records available in our databases. With each release we provide a variety of records to our collection. A preview of the release is available at
New Databases Founders - Hadera 77 listings
Israel State Archives
Voters Knesset Pardes Hana 1936 - 1939 1942 - 1944 3,250 listings Pardes Hana-Karkur Archives
Taxes - Pardes Hana 1941-1947 Pardes Hana-Karkur Archives
Orders of Deportation - S/s Darien II 1945 Israel State Archives
Lakarov Ulerahok ("To the Near and Far") Newspaper January 24, 1946 Yad Vashem
Voters Petah Tikva Surrounding Area 1946 Petah Tivka History Archives & Museum
Updated Databases
Jerusalem 1947 Census – Jewish Community (partial) Israel State Archives
Marriages and Divorces Zikron Ya’akov 1929 - 1951 Zikron Ya’kov Historical Archives
Marriages and Divorces Petah Tikva 1932-1933 Petah Tivka History Archives & Museum
Before viewing and searching the databases, please register for free on the IGRA website:
Please note, the IGRA databases are searchable to all registrants. The search results page is also available to all registrants. Additional details regarding most databases are available only to paid IGRA members. Certain exceptions exist due to requests of the specific archives.
To view/search the databases, go to the database tab on the website.
Elena Biegel Bazes IGRA Publicity Chair
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Re: Birth record from The Netherlands
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N. ARONSON
From my experience with Dutch records, the 100 year rule means that records are only open for viewing after 101 years.
I found however 13 people with the surname Krakowsky travelling from Rotterdam up till 1920. perhaps you find any relatives among them https://stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/zoek-en-ontdek/stamboom/zoeken-op-personen/?mistart=220&mivast=184&mizig=100&miadt=184&milang=nl&misort=an%7Casc&miview=tbl&mizk_alle=Krako*sky N. Aronson Manchester UK
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Re: Translate from Hebrew to English
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binyaminkerman@...
I believe the name is Yaakov Yosef ZILBER BLATT (interestingly written as two words)
-- Binyamin Kerman Baltimore MD Researching: KERMAN Pinsk SPIELER Lodz, Zloczew, Belchatow SEGALL, SCHWARTZ Piatra Neamt
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Re: gravestone
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binyaminkerman@...
Here is buried
Our dear father Reb David son of Reb Yitzchak Died 4th of Sivan 5696 Reb is a title meaning Mr and doesn't signify being a Rabbi. Binyamin Kerman Baltimore MD
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The Steinfeld family from Libau (Liepaja) in Latvia. Research
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My name is Dag Steinfeld. My great grandfather, Moses Steinfeld, was born in Libau, Latvia in 1853. (Some documents may indicate 1852 and in Grobin which is more or less a part of Libau or Liepaja ). He left his family, mother, father sisters and brothers in 1879 and moved to Sweden. There he met Dora Gittelson (born in Suwalki). Soon thereafter they married. During the following years they got several children. My grandfather, Jacob Benjamin, was one of them (born in Sweden in 1886). In 1891 the family moved to Norway. During Holocaust a big part of my family was murdered.
I am about to publish a book about my family from 1879 until 1979. I know nearly nothing about my family in Latvia who stayed there and remained there after Moses left. Neither do I know if Moses had family in Sweden when he arrived there in 1879. Can anybody give me information about my family in Latvia and Sweden, who they were and what happened to them? Dag Steinfeld
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Peter Wollinski
Hi
On 17 August 1938, NSDAP decreed that Jewish people with specific "non Jewish" first names had to by 1 January 1939 add either “Israel” or “Sara,” to their given names.
It is understood that those people who had to add an additional first name had to travel back to the place they were born to register the change. Is this information correct? Did this occur in all cases or could the affected people just send a form to the particular registry?
What about those people who were born in Prussia prior to WW1 and migrated to say Berlin after WW1 but prior to the former Prussian area coming under the sovereignty of Poland. Where did those people have to register their name change in Berlin?
Your thoughts will be greatly appreciated
Peter Wollinski
Australia
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GIDON LEV
I am looking for any information about Hans (1915-1997) and Fritz (1912-1956) Loew and their family who emigrated from Dueren/Germany in the 30's to Meddlin/Colombia
Thanks in advance. Gidon Lev Givatayim/Israel Searching Loew, Faber and Fuerst Family from Germany
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gravestone
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pathetiq1@...
Could someone please translate this tombstone?
Thank you in advance! -- Giannis Daropoulos Greece
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Re: Vienna Austria genealogist
#austria-czech
Hello Lynn,
I am a professional genealogist based in Vienna: https://genealogyaustria.com Kind regards, Johann Hammer
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ViewMate Translation Request - Polish (Death Certificate, Radom, 1853)
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Hello, Dear JewishGen Colleagues,
I've posted a Death Certificate - in Polish - of Leybus ROYZENMAN, who died in Radom in 1853, and would appreciate extracting any personal information about him as possible (birth place, age at death, parents' and spouse names, etc.). It is on ViewMate, https://www.jewishgen.org/view Thanks in advance! Arnon Hershkovitz, Israel arnon.hershkovitz@...
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Shimona Kushner
I hope someone can help me. Yesterday I was looking at this site (I think) and saw an announcement of a book about the Jewish history of Byelaya Tserkov, Ukraine, which came out in English (the original was in Russian). It seems to cover the whole history from the first Jewish settlement onward. Stupidly I did not write down the name of the book or the author and, of course, cannot find it now. Does this ring a bell to anyone? I will be very grateful if someone can answer me directly to my e mail. I thank you greatly.
Shimona Yaroslavsky Kushner
shimona@g.technion.ac.il
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Re: Are "Muni" and "Munya" nicknames? For what name?
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Jules Levin
It seems to me that the logical name would be Menachem, which is a
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popular Chabad name and could be added as a secondary name to honor someone. Jules Levin, Los Angeles
On 4/7/2021 6:08 PM, Ellen Slotoroff Zyroff via groups.jewishgen.org wrote: Myself having known a man from Galicia with the nickname "Muni," I
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Re: One Man's Story of being Fostered in Friesland during WW2 - For readers of Dutch
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Ed Vogel
My mother, born Flora Heinrich, was also saved by a family in Friesland, Jakob and Klasiena Hamstra. She'd been hidden elsewhere previously, but spent the most time with them, and that is where she was at the end of the war. It's hard to imagine the courage it took to take in a young Jewish child, especially because their own children who were at risk as well. My mother put them up for Righteous Among the Nations. It came through, but not until after Jakob and Klasiena had died. My brother, sister and I were at the presentation, which was made in Toronto, as they'd emigrated to Canada. We couldn't meet Jakob and Klasiena, but we did meet several members of this wonderful family.
Ed Vogel
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Re: Copying Hebrew text from a PDF into a Translation tool - OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Help Request
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Thank you all very much for your input and some really wonderful ideas! I'll give a status report here for those interested in the topic now and for the record.
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Re: Are "Muni" and "Munya" nicknames? For what name?
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mvayser@...
Alexander Beider's reference lists Shloyme as the full name for Munya and Mun'ka.
Mike Vayser
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Re: Are "Muni" and "Munya" nicknames? For what name?
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Gary Gershfield
Munya was the name of my paternal great- grandfather.His full name was Munya Meir Gershfeld. I have seen it also spelled Munia and Monia.
My paternal ancestors came from the village of Druzhkopol, which was located in the Volhynia gubernia in present day Ukraine.
Gary
Gary Gershfield
Forest Hills,NY
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Passweg family in Zurich
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Neil Rosenstein
Trying to make contact with the family of Eva Passweg, nee Lerner, who
posted pages of Testimony for her grandparents in Zurich in 2003. Neil Rosenstein Moderator note: Please reply privately
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Re: Are "Muni" and "Munya" nicknames? For what name?
#names
Ellen Slotoroff Zyroff
Myself having known a man from Galicia with the nickname "Muni," I just looked him up to see whether I could determine whether "Muni" was a colloquial form of some Yiddish middle name added to his main given name "Yisroel/Israel." A My Heritage note entered next to the given name, "Israel" (Yisroel), of this energetic, handsome man whom I met several times and who had been a very close teenage friend of my late father-in-law, might give a hint of one possibility of the name "Muni" in Galicia. They both grew up in Zabootiv, Ukraine. (At that time, Sniatyn, Galicia, Austrio-Hungarian Empire). and they both had the given name "Yisroel." They were both huge soccer fans and played a lot of soccer together as young men. The "Muni" we knew would have been born a few years before 1920, since he was a few years older than my father-in-law. The two "Yisroels" had an unanticipated, emotional reunion, in the late 1940s in Minnesota. There is a local newspaper article about that reunion. I'll try to track it down it down and post it. Maybe it has mention of his nickname's origin. The person in charge of his My Heritage record writes that the name "Muni" is taken from that of "a Czech footballer." So if our Muni had that nickname prior to WWII, it should be possible to research who the famous "Muni" Czech soccer player was. There is also the possibility that he assumed the nickname "Muni" after WWII in England. If so, we can look for the "Muni" soccer player during that period. By the time he came to the U.S. after marrying in England, he was informally known as "Muni." Ellen Slotoroff Zyroff ezyroff@... On Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 10:33:46 AM PDT, sjgwed via groups.jewishgen.org <sjgwed=aol.com@...> wrote: "Muni" or "Munya" are the first names for someone (a lawyer) from Skalat. The last name is Lempert or Lampert - which are my family names. They are written in the Skalat Memorial Book, which was published recently, by JewishGen. Are "Muni" and "Munya" nicknames? For what name? Susan Gordon LEMPERT, SCHOENHAUT - Skalat BIALAZURKEr - Zbaraz -- ZOLOTOROV (Chernigov, Ukraine; Kiev, Ukraine); SLOTOROFF (Kiev, Ukraine) CHARKOVSKY or SHARKOVSKY(Ukraine); LEVINE (Ukraine and Minsk, Belarus); GLUSKIN (Ukraine) LIMON (Berestechko, Volynia, Ukraine) TESLER (Horochiv, Volynia, Ukraine) ZYRO (Zabolativ, Ukraine) TAU (Zalolativ, Ukraine) PISTERMAN (Ukraine) ROTH / ROT (Ataki, Bessarabia, Moldova) BLAUSTEIN (Chernigov, Ukraine or Minsk, Belarus)
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