Our ancestor Nettie's name was Nestle..  Her Hebrew name was Nesheh or Nesia.

Irene Bowen
Silver Spring, MD, USA

I think I asked this before but have lost the information. How would I find lists of immigrants to Palestine from 1927 onwards? I am looking for possible survivors of my mother's birth family (she was adopted in Vienna), on the basis that her eldest sibling Josef Jakob Horoschowski was planning to emigrate from Vienna to Palestine in 1927, with one of his other sisters (possible Chaje Sarah b. 1910).
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Veronica Zundel, London
Searching descendants of Josef Jakob Horoschowski b. 1905 Drohobych

Found this via the 1851 census records. Hope someone knows how this works.
regards,
Ron Peeters
Ulvenhout (NL)

Herbert

In this instance US is not referring to the United States but the United Synagogue.

The United Synagogue is the largest group of synagogues in the United Kingdom. It was 150 years old last year. It is headed by the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis and has 66 modern orthodox synagogues under its umbrella, which for the U.K. makes it the largest Jewish synagogue body.

Marriage Authorisations were introduced and are still used today to confirm that a person is halachically Jewish thereby enabling them to marry in one of the United Synagogue’s synagogues.

Until 1966 these authorisations were issued for virtually all orthodox marriages within the United Kingdom irrespective of which body of orthodox synagogues was marrying the couple. In 1966 the Federation of Synagogues took over responsibility for marriages under its auspices.

It is testament to the system that it has been robust enough to serve Anglo Jewry for well over 140 years.

Richard Gilbert
Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire

Hello! I recently posted a few gravestones and a couple of memorial plaques, and the community was immediately and completely helpful with translating the Hebrew into English. Those translations really jump started my research and helped me discover additional gravestones and memorial plaques. I'm posting a total of 14 items below that I would greatly appreciate help with translating to English. I'm sorry for the large number of images and I don't mean to ask too much of the community or abuse your generosity. Thank you in advance for all your time and help!

• Abraham Fisher memorial plaque
• Arline Fisher memorial plaque
• Leo Fisher memorial plaque
• Pauline Fisher gravestone
• Pauline Fisher memorial plaque
• Sarah Fisher memorial plaque
• David Fisher gravestone
• Dora Fisher gravestone
• Dora Fisher memorial plaque
• Gussie Fisher memorial plaque
• Harry Fisher gravestone
• Harry Fisher memorial plaque
• Jacob Fisher memorial plaque
• Lawrence Fisher memorial plaque

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Chloë Kogan
Email: 802ben@...
Researching surnames:
Kogan, Fisher, Margolis, Bercovici

I have identified what may be my family group outbound from Hamburg on
the Argo in June 1879. A very helpful JewGen participant advised that
Argo was only a local boat that likely disembarked passengers at Hull
for train travel to Liverpool or other ports for the longer journey to
New York. The Hamburg records indicate the family had New York as a
destination, but that may only indicate that they had booked through
passage, not necessarily all on the Argo. . I cannot find any record of
them disembarking at Hull or emigrating from another port to the US, but
I am unfamiliar with UK records. Would disembarkation for through
travelers and subsequent departure from the UK have required recording
in UK immigration records? I'd appreciate any suggestions about what
records exist and where I should be looking for them.

An additional oddity: The family left Hamburg under the surname of
'Rinschek', but that name never appears again in any of the UK or US
immigration or post-immigration records I've looked at, ranging from
city directories to census reports.

Alan Reische

Manchester NH USA

a.reische@...

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada (JGSSN) invites you to a Zoom meeting at 1:00 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) on Sunday, March 21: “Why Did Our Jewish Ancestors Leave a Great Place Like the Pale?” with Hal Bookbinder.

 

To request a Zoom link, please complete this short form: Zoom Link Request

 

Members of JGSSN can attend for free.  Non-members can either pay $5.00 on the Donate page or pay $20 for a subscription to the 2021 series of outstanding speakers (see below).  Take a look at the lineup on our Meetings page. To become a member and sign up for the 2021 series, go to the Membership page.

 

Session Description:

 

Jews had lived in Western Russia (the Pale) for centuries. At the turn of the last, two million left. This talk discusses how the Pale came to be, life in it and why the mass migration occurred. It breaks its 120-year history into periods of creation, confinement, repression, enlightenment, pogroms and chaos. There is more to the story than the horrific violence at the turn of the 20th century.

 

About Hal Bookbinder:

 

Hal writes and lectures extensively on diverse genealogical topics, including border changes, migration, citizenship and practicing safe computing. He has identified over 4,000 relatives, tracing two lines to the mid-1700s in modern Ukraine. He has served as president of the IAJGS and has been honored with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Hal is a retired information technology director who continues to teach at the university level. He also directs a transition-to-work training program for individuals in addiction recovery. Hal and his family reside in the Los Angeles area. Check out his articles on safe computing at http://www.tinyurl.com/SafeComputingArticles. ​

 

JGSSN 2021 Lecture Series:

 

Become a member for $20 by clicking here and attend any or all of the upcoming lectures:



Ben Kempner 
Vice President, JGSSN

Had a typo in the last name - "Мария Паращак/Maria Parashchak"

Mike Vayser

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Herbert Lazerow
Professor of Law, University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park, San Diego CA 92110
lazer@...
Author: Mastering Art Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 2020)

It's "Мария Шаращак/Maria Parashchak"

Mike Vayser

Google translates from Ukrainian to English. Just copy and paste the words that need translation and it will do the rest.

Linda Gordon Higgins

Hi from Paris,
Dear Joyce,
Apart from our typical genealogy researches, you can find a lot on "your" Simon Kra and his family.

Unknown from me five minutes ago, I entered "Simon Kra " to search French Google : never forget Google at a search's start !

I found he had been an important book editor in Paris before 1939.
https://www.google.com/search?q=simon+kra&rlz=1C1NHXL_frFR689FR689&oq=simon+kra&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0l2j46j0l3j0i22i30l3.3169j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
As his children are named in these articles, we can be sure it's "your" Simon.

A full article had even  been written on him in French Wikipedia :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/éditions_du_Sagittaire
and you can access some others.
He wrote 2 or 3 books.
You can use direct translation to English if your French isn't ... nobody is perfect.

On another point, I checked French white pages : more than 150 persons are named "Kra"...
I search some others clues.

Khavershaft
Bernard Flam
Archives & history of Medem Center - Arbeter Ring (Bund / Workmen Circle of France)

I am curious if it is known if many Jews from Lodz moved to Germany, specifically Falkenstein, in the years after World War 1, and if so why.  I know of one relative of mine, named Ezra Russek, who moved there with his family.  There is another Russek who made the same move with her husband at around the same time, and I'm trying to establish if they were related, or if it was a common move and this is just a coincidence (it was a common name also, I recognize, but there are other facts that suggest a connection). 

Any information would be appreciated.

Thank you
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Peter Roussak
peter.roussak@...

Researching: 
RUSSEK, MITLER, JACOBOVITCH in Poland (Zloczew and Lodz); 
FREEDMAN, LEVY in Belarus, Lithuania (Grodno, Kovno); 
SHLOIMOVITZ, HERSCOVICI, POLSTER in Romania (Iasi)

I am looking for information on the shtetl called as Malaszewiec, Poland. It is near the towns of Terespol and Brest Litovsk. The map coordinates are 52*02' N, 23*32' E. When I search for Terespol, Poland on Jewishgen town locator, it appears on the map but it is not listed as a searchable town. My grandfather was born in Malaszewiec in 1902.  Where can I find information on the town or records of births and marriages?

Thank you,
Lynda Schnier
West Palm Beach, FL

Hi All,

I'm having trouble fully deciphering a signature on the back of a post card.  I believe it is in Russian, and the handwriting makes it difficult for me to discern the lettering.  Any thoughts or translation is greatly appreciated.  Pic is attached.

Thanks in advance!
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Amy Mitchell

Hi Joyce 

Did you look at the Archives de Paris online?
They have the birth, marriage and death records online.
http://archives.paris.fr/r/124/etat-civil-de-paris/
http://archives.paris.fr/r/284/etat-civil-a-partir-de-1860/

and also the census lists of 1926, 1931, 1936 are online.
http://archives.paris.fr/r/126/sources-genealogiques-complementaires/
http://archives.paris.fr/s/11/denombrements-de-population/?

Did you look at the Mémorial de la Shoah database about the deportation-lists from Paris-Drancy to Auschwitz?
http://ressources.memorialdelashoah.org/

Regards
Corinne Iten
Lucerne, Switzerland