This book was published in at least two *different* editions, the
first in 1940 and the second in 1941. A couple of European libraries
have also cataloged the title with a 1942 publication date, but I
cannot verify whether there is really a third edition or not.

According to WorldCat:

The 1940 edition can be found in the U.S. at Yeshiva U., Library of
Congress, and U. of Illinois.

The 1941 edition can be found at Harvard.

The National Library of Israel has both 1940 and 1941
editions.

The Bavarian State Library has cataloged editions >from 1941 and 1942.
Other libraries in Europe also have various editions.

I have the 1941 book in my own personal library collection. A
researcher once emailed me a barely legible scan of a particular page,
which he later informed me was >from the 1940 edition, and asked if I
could provide a better copy. When I looked up the page number, it was
a completely different page; the image I was looking for did not
appear anywhere in my book. This discrepancy led me to realize that
the 1940 & 1941 editions were not identical.

I'm willing to bring my copy to the IAJGS conference in DC next month,
so that between the Resource Room & the Library of Congress there
would be access to both editions.

Bob Friedman
Brooklyn, NY

On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:53:04 -0700 (PDT), Andras Koltai wrote:

I have the book at home [but] no matter how helpful the book is, finding=

=20

somebody in it is a nightmare. First it lists people according to =

cities, but=20

then there are another few thousand names mostly, but only mostly in=20
alphabetical order. And the pictures are even more messy.

However, Janos Bogardi has included the names in his database under=20
www.radixindex.com, in the RadixRef section. So what I always do is that=

I check=20

the name first in this (alphabetical) database. If I find it there, I =

check the=20

book....Still - just a few weeks ago I was looking for 2 people who are=20
mentioned on Radix as listed in the book and I just could not find them.

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:57:49 -0700, Vivian Kahn wrote:

It appears that much of the published information about Jewish service =20
in WWI is >from the the book published in Budapest in 1941 by Hegedus =20
Marton called "The Golden Album of Hungarian Jewish soldiers : In =20
memory of the world war 1914-1918". Title in Hungarian is A magyar =20
hadviselt zsidok aranyalbuma : Az 1914-1918-as vilaghaboru emlekere / =20
szerkesztette

According to WorldCat, the only copy in the US is in the Harvard =20
Library. There is also a copy in Israel and, presumably, the book is =20
also available in Budapest.

If anyone knows of other copies in the US, please contact me off-=20
list.

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:07:31 -0700 (PDT), Beth Long wrote:

TThe "Aranyalbuma" is available at the library of the Hungarian Military=

Museum here in Budapest.

The Sepsiszentgyorgy page of the book is does appear in the book "Zsidok=

Haromszeken" by Feder Zoltan.=20

However, there is no Markus(z) mentioned on it.

This book was published in at least two *different* editions, the
first in 1940 and the second in 1941. A couple of European libraries
have also cataloged the title with a 1942 publication date, but I
cannot verify whether there is really a third edition or not.

According to WorldCat:

The 1940 edition can be found in the U.S. at Yeshiva U., Library of
Congress, and U. of Illinois.

The 1941 edition can be found at Harvard.

The National Library of Israel has both 1940 and 1941
editions.

The Bavarian State Library has cataloged editions >from 1941 and 1942.
Other libraries in Europe also have various editions.

I have the 1941 book in my own personal library collection. A
researcher once emailed me a barely legible scan of a particular page,
which he later informed me was >from the 1940 edition, and asked if I
could provide a better copy. When I looked up the page number, it was
a completely different page; the image I was looking for did not
appear anywhere in my book. This discrepancy led me to realize that
the 1940 & 1941 editions were not identical.

I'm willing to bring my copy to the IAJGS conference in DC next month,
so that between the Resource Room & the Library of Congress there
would be access to both editions.

Bob Friedman
Brooklyn, NY

On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:53:04 -0700 (PDT), Andras Koltai wrote:

I have the book at home [but] no matter how helpful the book is, finding=

=20

somebody in it is a nightmare. First it lists people according to =

cities, but=20

then there are another few thousand names mostly, but only mostly in=20
alphabetical order. And the pictures are even more messy.

However, Janos Bogardi has included the names in his database under=20
www.radixindex.com, in the RadixRef section. So what I always do is that=

I check=20

the name first in this (alphabetical) database. If I find it there, I =

check the=20

book....Still - just a few weeks ago I was looking for 2 people who are=20
mentioned on Radix as listed in the book and I just could not find them.

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:57:49 -0700, Vivian Kahn wrote:

It appears that much of the published information about Jewish service =20
in WWI is >from the the book published in Budapest in 1941 by Hegedus =20
Marton called "The Golden Album of Hungarian Jewish soldiers : In =20
memory of the world war 1914-1918". Title in Hungarian is A magyar =20
hadviselt zsidok aranyalbuma : Az 1914-1918-as vilaghaboru emlekere / =20
szerkesztette

According to WorldCat, the only copy in the US is in the Harvard =20
Library. There is also a copy in Israel and, presumably, the book is =20
also available in Budapest.

If anyone knows of other copies in the US, please contact me off-=20
list.

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:07:31 -0700 (PDT), Beth Long wrote:

TThe "Aranyalbuma" is available at the library of the Hungarian Military=

Museum here in Budapest.

The Sepsiszentgyorgy page of the book is does appear in the book "Zsidok=

Haromszeken" by Feder Zoltan.=20

However, there is no Markus(z) mentioned on it.

Thanks for all the responses! Apparently there are several names spelled
that way, because people are giving me different responses. Perhaps
that's why another genealogist in my family, had several alternate english
spellings written down for his name. I will go with Nuta, because the
immigration record for his daughter, claimed the father's name was Nute.
It's still new one for me!

On a gravestone, a relative's father's name is spelled Nun Tet Ayin.
His English name was Nathan, but how would the Hebrew name be
pronounced? Nette?

Mark London
Natick, MA

Thanks for all the responses! Apparently there are several names spelled
that way, because people are giving me different responses. Perhaps
that's why another genealogist in my family, had several alternate english
spellings written down for his name. I will go with Nuta, because the
immigration record for his daughter, claimed the father's name was Nute.
It's still new one for me!

On a gravestone, a relative's father's name is spelled Nun Tet Ayin.
His English name was Nathan, but how would the Hebrew name be
pronounced? Nette?

Mark London
Natick, MA

Thank you to everyone who responded to my request. As always, you were all
very helpful.I am hopeful now that I will be able to get the information I need.

Sarah Rebecca Levinson
Montrose, PA, USA

Thank you to everyone who responded to my request. As always, you were all
very helpful.I am hopeful now that I will be able to get the information I need.

Sarah Rebecca Levinson
Montrose, PA, USA

If anyone has ordered online articles >from back numbers of the New York
Times (1928), I'd appreciate contact with them off-list.

Thanks

Robert Fraser
Perth, Western Australia

If anyone has ordered online articles >from back numbers of the New York
Times (1928), I'd appreciate contact with them off-list.

Thanks

Robert Fraser
Perth, Western Australia

Under a tri-part agreement between Jewish Records Indexing - Poland,
JewishGen, and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw),
the "town pages" for all 3 organizations are now linked.

JRI-Poland's "Your Town" pages now include links to both the towns
in the JewishGen "Communities Database" and the Museum's
"Virtual Shtetl" pages for the same towns -- and vice versa.

Researchers can locate information about surviving records for their
town on the JRI-Poland website and then click on links to partner
websites to obtain historical information and statistics about the town
as well as follow links on those sites to other independent sources

As an example, see the following Lublin "Town" pages on the websites
of the 3 independent organizations in this cooperative arrangement:

JRI-Poland "Your Town" pages:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/town/lublin.htm

JewishGen Communities:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~community~-514340

Museum of Jewish History Virtual Shtetl pages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

www.jri-poland.org/to-vshtetl.htm?city=Lublin&link=http://www.sztetl.org.
pl/en/city/lublin/


The JRI-Poland website and database http://www.jri-poland.org/index.htm
contains an index to more than 4 million records of the Jewish presence
in Poland -- mostly birth, marriage and death records >from more than
500 towns.

JRI-Poland is an independent non-profit tax-exempt organization
under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Under
special arrangement, the JRI-Poland web site <www.jri-poland.org>,
mailing list, and database are hosted by JewishGen. JRI-Poland
data is displayed on JewishGen.org for the benefit of researchers
and through contractual agreement.

Stanley Diamond, Executive Director,
for the Board of JRI-Poland

Under a tri-part agreement between Jewish Records Indexing - Poland,
JewishGen, and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw),
the "town pages" for all 3 organizations are now linked.

JRI-Poland's "Your Town" pages now include links to both the towns
in the JewishGen "Communities Database" and the Museum's
"Virtual Shtetl" pages for the same towns -- and vice versa.

Researchers can locate information about surviving records for their
town on the JRI-Poland website and then click on links to partner
websites to obtain historical information and statistics about the town
as well as follow links on those sites to other independent sources

As an example, see the following Lublin "Town" pages on the websites
of the 3 independent organizations in this cooperative arrangement:

JRI-Poland "Your Town" pages:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/town/lublin.htm

JewishGen Communities:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~community~-514340

Museum of Jewish History Virtual Shtetl pages
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

www.jri-poland.org/to-vshtetl.htm?city=Lublin&link=http://www.sztetl.org.
pl/en/city/lublin/


The JRI-Poland website and database http://www.jri-poland.org/index.htm
contains an index to more than 4 million records of the Jewish presence
in Poland -- mostly birth, marriage and death records >from more than
500 towns.

JRI-Poland is an independent non-profit tax-exempt organization
under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Under
special arrangement, the JRI-Poland web site <www.jri-poland.org>,
mailing list, and database are hosted by JewishGen. JRI-Poland
data is displayed on JewishGen.org for the benefit of researchers
and through contractual agreement.

Stanley Diamond, Executive Director,
for the Board of JRI-Poland

Enclosed is a press release issued by Jewish Galicia and Bukovina
(JGB), a Jerusalem-based association for the study and
preservation of Galician and Bukovinian heritage, about the
upcoming fieldwork expedition to Pidhaitsi, Ukraine. We are
currently exploring the option of adding volunteer researchers
and laypersons to the fieldwork team. If you are interested in
joining such a team, please contact JGB at
JewishGalicia@....

Learning and Preserving: Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Forming
Team for Documentation Research in Pidhaitsi, Ukraine,
Summer 2011

Galicia and Bukovina, two adjacent picturesque and serene
regions in East-Central Europe, hold a special place in the
history of the Jewish people. Throughout the generations, >from
the 13th century up until the Holocaust, many Jewish
communities lived and prospered there and achieved cultural
greatness and demographic might. The Jews of Galicia and
Bukovina contributed significantly to the shaping of Jewish
culture of Europe and beyond. Rabbis and philosophers, mystics
and preachers, writers and industrialists, politicians and painters,
actors and researchers- developed Jewish life in the small cities
and towns of Galicia and Bukovina that has created an entire rich
and multicolored civilization drawn >from the traditional Jewish
legacy and the unprecedented encounter (both in scope and
depth) with the Gentile culture and Austrian, Polish, Ukrainian,
and Russian surroundings. This unique culture is now gone. It
was completely destroyed during the Holocaust and has been
forgotten through the years of the Soviet rule. The Jewish legacy
of Galicia and Bukovina was disconnected >from the geographic
area in which it developed and its few remains were scattered
among different organizations and institutions: Academia,
museums, yeshivas, and Hasidic dynasties in Israel and around
the world.

Returning the culture of Galician and Bukovinian Jewry to the
modern cultural discourse was the vision behind the initiative of
the nonprofit organization Jewish Galicia and Bukovina to send
research teams to the area. Groups of students >from Ukrainian
and Russian universities, under the supervision of Israeli
researchers >from the Hebrew University, have already gone to
small towns in West Ukraine including Ivano-Frankivsk
(Stanislaw), Solotvin, and Nadworna, as part of the two teams our
NGO arranged during 2009 and 2010. A unique team will be
leaving in this coming summer- composed of students >from the
Hesder Yeshiva "Siach Yitzhak" (Efrat) and students >from
Ben-Gurion University along with students >from the university of
St. Petersburg. This diverse team, which unites the dialogue
between the religious world and the academia, as well between
the Western and Eastern European cultures, correlates
wonderfully with the uniqueness of the Jewish culture of Galicia
and Bukovina.

The team, in which 15 participants (8 >from Israel and 7 >from
Russia) will take part, will be working in one of the most
important Jewish sites in Galicia - the town of Pidhaitsi. More
than 4000 Jews lived in the town at the end of the 19th century
and they constituted the majority of the population. The Jewish
community was known already in the 15th century, and during
the 16th century the author of the "Masaat Binyamin" book,
Rabbi Binyamin Aharon, who was a student of the Rama and the
Maharshal, served in the town's rabbinate for 40 years.

The team's activity will concentrate mostly in Pidhaitsi's Jewish
Cemetery - one of the largest and oldest in the area. Under the
guidance of the Israeli art researcher, Dr. Boris Chaimovitz >from
the Hebrew University, the delegates will describe and document
the cemetery, unveil the antique gravestones which have sunk
into the ground over time, and decipher and document the
inscriptions. In addition, the team will document the Jewish old
quarter of the town and the town's old synagogue which was
built in the late 16th century, and despite the longstanding
neglect still holds its beauty. The team's findings will be
uploaded to Jewish Galicia and Bukovina's publicly accessible
website (www.jewishgalicia.net) after being analyzed and
processed by our researchers.

Oren Haber
Jerusalem, Israel
Reply to: <JewishGalicia@...>

Enclosed is a press release issued by Jewish Galicia and Bukovina
(JGB), a Jerusalem-based association for the study and
preservation of Galician and Bukovinian heritage, about the
upcoming fieldwork expedition to Pidhaitsi, Ukraine. We are
currently exploring the option of adding volunteer researchers
and laypersons to the fieldwork team. If you are interested in
joining such a team, please contact JGB at
JewishGalicia@....

Learning and Preserving: Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Forming
Team for Documentation Research in Pidhaitsi, Ukraine,
Summer 2011

Galicia and Bukovina, two adjacent picturesque and serene
regions in East-Central Europe, hold a special place in the
history of the Jewish people. Throughout the generations, >from
the 13th century up until the Holocaust, many Jewish
communities lived and prospered there and achieved cultural
greatness and demographic might. The Jews of Galicia and
Bukovina contributed significantly to the shaping of Jewish
culture of Europe and beyond. Rabbis and philosophers, mystics
and preachers, writers and industrialists, politicians and painters,
actors and researchers- developed Jewish life in the small cities
and towns of Galicia and Bukovina that has created an entire rich
and multicolored civilization drawn >from the traditional Jewish
legacy and the unprecedented encounter (both in scope and
depth) with the Gentile culture and Austrian, Polish, Ukrainian,
and Russian surroundings. This unique culture is now gone. It
was completely destroyed during the Holocaust and has been
forgotten through the years of the Soviet rule. The Jewish legacy
of Galicia and Bukovina was disconnected >from the geographic
area in which it developed and its few remains were scattered
among different organizations and institutions: Academia,
museums, yeshivas, and Hasidic dynasties in Israel and around
the world.

Returning the culture of Galician and Bukovinian Jewry to the
modern cultural discourse was the vision behind the initiative of
the nonprofit organization Jewish Galicia and Bukovina to send
research teams to the area. Groups of students >from Ukrainian
and Russian universities, under the supervision of Israeli
researchers >from the Hebrew University, have already gone to
small towns in West Ukraine including Ivano-Frankivsk
(Stanislaw), Solotvin, and Nadworna, as part of the two teams our
NGO arranged during 2009 and 2010. A unique team will be
leaving in this coming summer- composed of students >from the
Hesder Yeshiva "Siach Yitzhak" (Efrat) and students >from
Ben-Gurion University along with students >from the university of
St. Petersburg. This diverse team, which unites the dialogue
between the religious world and the academia, as well between
the Western and Eastern European cultures, correlates
wonderfully with the uniqueness of the Jewish culture of Galicia
and Bukovina.

The team, in which 15 participants (8 >from Israel and 7 >from
Russia) will take part, will be working in one of the most
important Jewish sites in Galicia - the town of Pidhaitsi. More
than 4000 Jews lived in the town at the end of the 19th century
and they constituted the majority of the population. The Jewish
community was known already in the 15th century, and during
the 16th century the author of the "Masaat Binyamin" book,
Rabbi Binyamin Aharon, who was a student of the Rama and the
Maharshal, served in the town's rabbinate for 40 years.

The team's activity will concentrate mostly in Pidhaitsi's Jewish
Cemetery - one of the largest and oldest in the area. Under the
guidance of the Israeli art researcher, Dr. Boris Chaimovitz >from
the Hebrew University, the delegates will describe and document
the cemetery, unveil the antique gravestones which have sunk
into the ground over time, and decipher and document the
inscriptions. In addition, the team will document the Jewish old
quarter of the town and the town's old synagogue which was
built in the late 16th century, and despite the longstanding
neglect still holds its beauty. The team's findings will be
uploaded to Jewish Galicia and Bukovina's publicly accessible
website (www.jewishgalicia.net) after being analyzed and
processed by our researchers.

Oren Haber
Jerusalem, Israel
Reply to: <JewishGalicia@...>

The synagogue in Klimontow has been restored and locked. Does any body know
how can I find the keys and go inside ?

The cemetery in Klimontow was destroyed completely. Some breakages of tomb
stones were collected in the corner of the cemetery. Does anybody have
pictures of the cemetery before and right after the war ? Or is there any
record left of the graves ?

Amickam Goldwasser

The synagogue in Klimontow has been restored and locked. Does any body know
how can I find the keys and go inside ?

The cemetery in Klimontow was destroyed completely. Some breakages of tomb
stones were collected in the corner of the cemetery. Does anybody have
pictures of the cemetery before and right after the war ? Or is there any
record left of the graves ?

Amickam Goldwasser

Dear All,

I have the book at home and would be glad to check out people in it for you with
some restrictions. This is because no matter how helpful the book is, finding
somebody in it is a nightmare. First it lists people according to cities, but
then there are another few thousand names mostly, but only mostly in
alphabetical order. And the pictures are even more messy.

However, Janos Bogardi has included the names in his database under
www.radixindex.com, in the RadixRef section. So what I always do is that I check
the name first in this (alphabetical) database. If I find it there, I check the
book. This is what I would suggest to others, too. Then if the person is
indicated to be in the book according to the Radix database, I would check him
up for you. Still - just a few weeks ago I was looking for 2 people who are
mentioned on Radix as listed in the book and I just could not find them :(. Some
250 pages with thousands of names in a mess.

Kind regards,
Andras Koltai
Budapest, Hungary

Dear All,

I have the book at home and would be glad to check out people in it for you with
some restrictions. This is because no matter how helpful the book is, finding
somebody in it is a nightmare. First it lists people according to cities, but
then there are another few thousand names mostly, but only mostly in
alphabetical order. And the pictures are even more messy.

However, Janos Bogardi has included the names in his database under
www.radixindex.com, in the RadixRef section. So what I always do is that I check
the name first in this (alphabetical) database. If I find it there, I check the
book. This is what I would suggest to others, too. Then if the person is
indicated to be in the book according to the Radix database, I would check him
up for you. Still - just a few weeks ago I was looking for 2 people who are
mentioned on Radix as listed in the book and I just could not find them :(. Some
250 pages with thousands of names in a mess.

Kind regards,
Andras Koltai
Budapest, Hungary

It appears that much of the published information about Jewish service
in WWI is >from the the book published in Budapest in 1941 by Hegedus
Marton called "The Golden Album of Hungarian Jewish soldiers : In
memory of the world war 1914-1918". Title in Hungarian is A magyar
hadviselt zsidok aranyalbuma : Az 1914-1918-as vilaghaboru emlekere /
szerkesztette

According to WorldCat, the only copy in the US is in the Harvard
Library. There is also a copy in Israel and, presumably, the book is
also available in Budapest.

If anyone knows of other copies in the US, please contact me off-
list. I'd also be grateful for look-ups about Markus Deszo, born
about 1870, son of Sarolta Kohn. HIs birthplace is not known but he
was living in Sepsiszentgyorgy, Hung. (Sfantu Gheorghe, Rom) in 1913.

Vivian Kahn, Oakland, California

Hi Everyone,


I encountered a place listed on the ALD when searching one of my Rakhmans

from Salakas, Lithuania. It stated that he was registered in Tyltyshskaya

volostj. I used the shtetl finder as well as the town finder but nothing
came up.

Does anyone know if there is another spelling variant for this place?
Could it be somewhere else(not in Lithuania). I even tried googling
the place and got nothing. If anyone can help out, I'd be most
appreciative. Thank you.

Maria Krane (Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA)
Researching: KATZ,RAKHMAN, RIMER In Salakas, Lithuania
RAKHMAN in Svir, Belarus
KREIN/KREYN/SHULDINER in Vegery and Zagare, Lithuania and Riga, Latvia
KERBEL/METZGER in Kaunas, Lithuania
HOFFMAN in New York, Massachusetts, and Maine
RIMER in Maine and Massachusetts
KREIN/KREYN in New York

It appears that much of the published information about Jewish service
in WWI is >from the the book published in Budapest in 1941 by Hegedus
Marton called "The Golden Album of Hungarian Jewish soldiers : In
memory of the world war 1914-1918". Title in Hungarian is A magyar
hadviselt zsidok aranyalbuma : Az 1914-1918-as vilaghaboru emlekere /
szerkesztette

According to WorldCat, the only copy in the US is in the Harvard
Library. There is also a copy in Israel and, presumably, the book is
also available in Budapest.

If anyone knows of other copies in the US, please contact me off-
list. I'd also be grateful for look-ups about Markus Deszo, born
about 1870, son of Sarolta Kohn. HIs birthplace is not known but he
was living in Sepsiszentgyorgy, Hung. (Sfantu Gheorghe, Rom) in 1913.

Vivian Kahn, Oakland, California

Hi Everyone,


I encountered a place listed on the ALD when searching one of my Rakhmans

from Salakas, Lithuania. It stated that he was registered in Tyltyshskaya

volostj. I used the shtetl finder as well as the town finder but nothing
came up.

Does anyone know if there is another spelling variant for this place?
Could it be somewhere else(not in Lithuania). I even tried googling
the place and got nothing. If anyone can help out, I'd be most
appreciative. Thank you.

Maria Krane (Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA)
Researching: KATZ,RAKHMAN, RIMER In Salakas, Lithuania
RAKHMAN in Svir, Belarus
KREIN/KREYN/SHULDINER in Vegery and Zagare, Lithuania and Riga, Latvia
KERBEL/METZGER in Kaunas, Lithuania
HOFFMAN in New York, Massachusetts, and Maine
RIMER in Maine and Massachusetts
KREIN/KREYN in New York