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New Book about Polish-Jewish Relations during WW II in Ciechanowiec area
#poland
Jrbaston
Those of you who attended the IAJGS Warsaw Conference in 2018, and especially
the JRI-Poland luncheon, will remember Ciechanowiec Mayor Miroslaw Reczko, who spoke at the luncheon on "Time for Serious Research into What Occurred in Polish Shtetlach During WWI," and additionally, on Jewish-Polish Relations from 1939-41 in the Southern Bialystok Region." Dr. Reczko has clearly done that serious research about which he spoke, and has just published the English translation of his book, “How the Devil Enlarged His Kingdom: Polish-Jewish Relations in One of the Polish Shtetlach During World War II,” which focuses mostly on Ciechanowiec but also contains information about what happened in many of the towns and villages during that period. This important book will be of interest to people with connections to Ciechanowiec and the surrounding area. In his tireless research preparing this work, Dr. Reczko was able to obtain previously unavailable documents, which provided new information for his book. The book is available at https://www.amazon.com/HOW-DEVIL-ENLARGED-KINGDOM-POLISH-JEWISH/dp/6203029408 Judy Baston San Francisco, CA, USA Susan Stone Stamford, CT, USA |
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Earlier today I was reading an article in the freely available Jewish Encyclopedia (https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1037-akiba-ha-kohen-of-ofen) and at the end of the article I saw this as the source of the information in the article:
Bibliography:
-- Adam Cherson -- Adam Cherson |
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Offering to take photos in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn
#photographs
#usa
Yehuda Rubin
I am available on a short term basis to photograph graves of your choice in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn. (Willing to do multiple graves of the same name, if you're not sure which one is your relative.) I will require plot numbers in order to find the grave, as there is no database online.
While I will do this for free should I be there for other purposes, a pay-what-you-wish fee is appreciated. I can be emailed at yehudazevrubin@..., should you have any questions. Yehuda Rubin |
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Re: Info on Jewish refugees in Central Asia during the War
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viferra@outlook.com
I was not able to obtain the article mentioned by Sherri Bobish using the link she provided, but if you enter the title Paradise Lost? Postwar Memory of Polish Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union into Google Scholar, the result has a link on the right to a downloadable PDF. This worked for me.
Vicky Furstenberg Ferraresi Belmont, CA, USA |
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Bruno Surname
#names
rickyramo@...
Hello, My name is Enrique Ramos. I am adopted and I am researching my biological family in Puerto Rico. The Brunos in Puerto Rico are one surname and live in the towns of Toa Baja, Toa Alta, Vega Baja, Vega Baja, all in Puerto Rico. They seem to have arrived from Italy, Portugal or Spain. Can somebody help me on information on any Bruno who travelled to Puerto Rico in the 1400 to the 1800? If anyone can help me I will truly appreciate it.
Enrique R. Ramos |
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Invitation to Zoom meeting: "Town Counsel: Finding Your Ancestor's European Town of Origin" with Emily Garber
#events
#jgs-iajgs
#announcements
Ben Kempner
The Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada (JGSSN) invites you to a Zoom meeting at 1:00 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) on Sunday, April 18: "Town Counsel: Finding Your Ancestor's European Town of Origin" with Emily Garber
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 you can pay $20 for a subscription to the 2021 series of outstanding speakers (see below). More detail can be found on our Meetings page. To become a member and sign up for the 2021 series, go to the Membership page.
Session Description:
One of the most important building blocks of Jewish genealogy research is determining our ancestors’ communities of origin, especially where those places are on today’s maps. Because records were (and are) often kept at local, municipal level or regional levels, successful genealogical research depends upon knowing our ancestors’ correct communities of residence. One cannot successfully jump the pond to Eastern Europe with one’s research until one has established location information from immigrant ancestors’ and relatives’ records in their adopted countries.
About Emily Garber:
An archaeologist by training (B.A., Vassar College; M.A., University of New Mexico), Emily Garber is a professional genealogy researcher, writer and speaker who specializes in Jewish genealogical research. She has researched both Eastern European and German Jewish communities and immigrants to the United States and Great Britain. She has toured family shtetlach (communities) and explored archives in Ukraine. JGSSN 2021 Lecture Series:
Become a member for $20 and attend any or all of the upcoming lectures - https://www.jgssn.org/membership.html:
 Ben Kempner Vice President, JGSSN |
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What’s in a name#names
Herman Salmenson
1:One of my assumed relatives is Levi Yitchak Bunim Zalmanson. Is Bunim a recognized name or does it have another meaning? Thanks in advance. |
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ViewMate translation request - Russian/Ukrainian
#translation
#ukraine
@mbserber
I've posted a record in Russian (or possibly Ukrainian) for which I need a translation. I'm looking for a literal translation of the entire document, if possible. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93059 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. -- Michael Serber Plymouth, Minnesota mbserber@... |
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Re: Does DNA prove that Jews are a race?
#dna
gomedoc@...
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors. Ayn Rand |
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Information on Maiden Names, Thank You
#ukraine
S.raskin@...
On Thu, Feb 4, 1999 at 01:53 PM, "molly gordy" <mgordy@...> wrote:
RASKIN (Ekaterinaslav).Have you found information about RASKIN in Ekaterinaslav. salmo raskin |
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JGSLI Virtual meeting on Sunday April 25 at 2:00 PM Eastern – Randy Schoenberg
#announcements
#education
#events
Bonnie Birns
Hello all! The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island is delighted to invite you to our April monthly meeting featuring our guest speaker, Randy Schoenberg.
JGSLI is extending the invitation to the broader genealogy community. We ask that you register in advance (see below). Please share with your friends! Sunday, April 25th, 2:00 PM, via Zoom Speaker: Randy Schoenberg E. Randol Schoenberg is the lawyer who successfully sued the Austrian government for the return of Gustav Klimt's Woman in Gold to its rightful owner. He will tell the remarkable story of Maria Altmann's battle for five Klimt paintings that the Nazis seized from her Viennese family during World War II. Randy ultimately brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court and prevailed. The legal battle was the subject of a successful Hollywood film starring Helen Mirren. Woman in Gold – a portrait of Maria’s aunt, Adele Bloch Bauer -- now hangs in the Neue Gallerie on Fifth Avenue. An avid genealogist since he was 8, Randy maintains huge family trees on JewishGen and on Geni, where he is a curator. He founded the Jewish Genealogy Portal on Facebook, which has over 20,000 members. A board member of JewishGen, he is co-founder and director of its Austria-Czech Research Division. There are two ways to join our meeting:
When: Apr 25, 2021 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
This webinar is free and open to the public.
I look forward to "seeing" you all then!
Bonnie Birns President, Jewish Genealogy Society of Long IslandJericho, Long Island, NY researcher #59766 |
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Re: Elin
#belarus
S.raskin@...
email s.raskin@... |
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Re: Does DNA prove that Jews are a race?
#dna
I found this question more disturbing than I anticipated. I don't mean to imply anything about the author or her intentions – they could be entirely innocent – but her question touches on some of the most sensitive and fraught points about Jewish identity I've come across. Skirting the earlier points about race being a social and/or artificial construct, which should provide a baseline understanding for our discussion, I want to highlight the particularly thorny question of Jewish identity. By Jewish law, tradition and practice, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew, whether their nearer relations lived in Ethiopia or China or Brooklyn or Aleppo. We are all one people (Yes, there are distinctions, divisions, biases and social advantages / disadvantages within the Jewish world but for our purposes I'm just addressing whether someone is or isn't a Jew.)
The notion that Ashkenazi Jews might be a race, and therefore distinct from the rest of the Jewish people is dismaying, to say the least. And I think that notion goes along with a trend where other people try to determine what defines a Jew. As already mentioned, these efforts haven't gone that well for us. Further, I can't think of a time where defining Jews as a race has resulted in any protections: yes, as religious adherents, an ethnic group, a nationality, we have sometimes been considered part of a protected class where those identities could not be used to deny us access to housing, education, employment ... And therein lies my main point, that Jewish identity as understood by Jews does not fit neatly into any category(ies) understood by others. And Jews as a race is the pigeonhole we should avoid most vigorously. I think this is important to keep in mind at a time when Nazis (nothing "neo" about them) march with signs "Jews won't replace us," and progressive organizations ban "white Jews" from their boards because they see us a privileged, and even some Jewish organizations begin to internalize that view, worrying whether we are diverse enough. (Representing 1% of the world's people, I bring diversity with me wherever I go.) We are all one people, sharing a single origin and tradition and I think that's a perspective we need to assert at every turn. Just because history has forced us into exile for thousands of years, living in every corner of world, where we've taken on different languages, dress, food, customs and even physical characteristics, we shouldn't forget that we are one people. To put this in the genealogical context, looking at what my family has undergone over the past 2 to 3 centuries, what they have done to survive, hunkering down through oppression and taking enormous risks to escape to a better life – sometimes successfully, sometimes not – and, even after reaching "the land of the free," finding ourselves barred from jobs, housing, education until my generation, I don't and won't accept being relegated to some arbitrary label by someone with a limited understanding of what being Jewish means. Lee -- Lee David Jaffe Surnames / Towns: Jaffe / Suchowola, Poland ; Stein (Sztejnsapir) / Bialystok and Rajgrod, Poland ; Joroff (Jaroff, Zarov) / Chernigov, Ukraine ; Schwartz (Schwarzman?, Schwarzstein?) / ? ; Rappoport / ? ; Braun / Wizajny, Suwalki, Poland, Ludwinowski / Wizajny, Suwalki, Poland |
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Moving Frequently Among Ukraine Towns
#ukraine
Herbert Lazerow
Some Jews in that part of Galicia were shenkers. They ran inns or taverns and, under lease from the local noble, had a monopoly of the making and selling of alcoholic beverages. It was common for these leases to be for the calendar year. The shenker might choose to move to another town because he received better lease terms there, or because the noble refused to renew the lease. Given what the weather was like at that time of year, there was a strong disincentive to move in the 19th century, that was often overcome by either opportunity or necessity.
Bert
-- Herbert Lazerow
Professor of Law, University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park, San Diego CA 92110 U.S.A.
(619)260-4597 office, (858)453-2388 cell, lazer@...
Author: Mastering Art Law (2d ed. Carolina Academic Press 2020)
-- 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) |
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Re: Rabbis in Belarus
#belarus
S.raskin@...
Could you please search for my great grand grandfather Naftali Gertz Raskin, who lived between 1840-1920 in Hotimsk, mogilev?
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Bessarabia New project - immigration to South America
#bessarabia
S.raskin@...
My ancestors came from Ekaterinoslav and Teleshti to Brazil, through JCA.
is it possible to search for their names in the archives? Salmo Raskin |
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What language are these two letters, posted on ViewMate written in?
#translation
kesspark@...
Please let me know what language these letters are written in. If you are able to translate them, I would be incredibly thankful! page one https://www.jewishgen.org/view page two https://www.jewishgen.org/view
Rachel Park 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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ViewMate translation request - YIDISH
#belarus
S.raskin@...
Subj: ViewMate translation request - YIDISH
Salmo Raskin |
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Understanding Lithuanian Revision Lists
#lithuania
Steven Granek
I am viewing a record of the All Lithuanian Revision List which contains my Orum family in Rokiskis. The The revision list is dated 1908. And there is a second instance of what looks like the same list but with an additional person (looks to be the female spouse of one of the brothers). For anyone that wants to see the record I simply searched for surname Orum and one of the things that came up was the LitvakSIG All Lithuanian Revision Database with 56 names. My family is the one with first person listed at Perets David Orum (and my grandmother Leah is listed last in the first instance and next to last in the 2nd instance).
I have marriage records from Lodz for one of the people listed - Freyda Orum - and the marriage took place in 1898. And I know she stayed in Pabianice as my Grandmother Leah joined her there (right around 1907 or 1908 - which means Leah was also probably not living is Rokiskis by the time of this ‘1908’ list). I have lots of corroborating evidence for this wedding and that it is the same person. Additionally, I am ALMOST sure (less sure than about the marriage) thet another of the people had already come to the US in 1906 Given those two things, can someone please help understand the 1908 revision list, what it is (it doesn’t seem it can be a census given what I know). Thanks in advance for any insights- Steve Granek |
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Re: NYC Cemeteries - Offering Mt Hebron
#photographs
#usa
You asked if Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn was safe to visit.
I have not been there for a number of years (since 2012), but I certainly found it safe to visit back then.
It is quite cluttered with gravestones, and not always easy to navigate. As it turned out, the office did not have records indicating all the family members who were actually buried in a plot together — I was happily surprised when I got there.
All the best,
Jay
Jay Paul
San Francisco, CA 94117
Researching: SUMBERG (Pilvishok/Pilviskiai, Lithuania), LANGERT (Pilviskiai & elsewhere in Suwalki gubernia); KAHN (Ranstadt, Germany), GOTTLIEB (Grebenau, Germany), PAVLOVSKIY / PAVLOVSKY (Mala Antonivka, Bila Tserkiv, Vasyl’kiv, Kyiv gubernia, Ukraine), LEVITSKIY / LEVITZSKY (Yasnohorodka, Vasyl’kiv, Kyiv gubernia), KOTLER (Vistytis, Suwalki gubernia, Lithuania; Traby, Belarus), LEIBSON (Lithuania), WOLF, SCHWARZ and STERN (presumed from Austro-Hungary).
-- Jay Paul, PhD San Francisco CA 94117 Researching: SUMBERG (Pilvishok/Pilviskiai, Lithuania), LANGERT (Pilviskiai & elsewhere in Suwalki gubernia); KAHN (Ranstadt, Germany), GOTTLIEB (Grebenau, Germany), PAVLOVSKIY / PAVLOVSKY (Mala Antonivka, Bila Tserkiv, Vasyl’kiv, Kyiv gubernia, Ukraine), LEVITSKIY / LEVITZSKY (Yasnohorodka, Vasyl’kiv, Kyiv gubernia), KOTLER (Vistytis, Suwalki gubernia), WOLF (Austro-Hungary). |
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