Never heard that name before and I am Dutch speaking. But in the Netherlands you find sometimes names based on very local traditions. I can learn every day. Marcel Apsel Antwerpen, Belgium

Thanks, but nothing to suggest any Dutch connection - just coincidence. Harvey Kaplan

Thanks Makes me think that my great aunt Ray/Rachel may have had Chasha as a middle name in Hebrew and been called that as a child. No one around now to ask. Harvey Kaplan

I don’t agree that Chasele is a diminutive of Chana; it should be Chanele or we should have somebody who has problems to pronounce an n; another very doubtful explanation might be that there were

Don’t forget that Jewish children from the 19th century onwards had gentile names for civilian authorities and Jewish names for internal Jewish communal use and for boys especially a necessary name

A diminutive of Channa should be Cahnele. Marcel Apsel Antwerpen, Belgium

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Whilst the question implies that Chashele is a Lithuanian derivative there is a Dutch name I believe Hashele which means 'little egg' Could there be any connection? Regards David Barrett

My great great grandfather’s sister in law was named Chashe; looks like a diminutive of that… Sharon F. Yampell Voorhees, NJ USA GenealogicalGenie@...

Harvey, You asked about the given name Chashele for someone born in 19th century Lithuania. According to Alexander Beider’s A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names, Khasele is a Yiddish variant of

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You are doing so many good deeds by searching for people at Beth David. I can barely find my own grandparents, even though I’ve been there many times. The groundskeepers have worked very hard

My first thought was that Chashele was Haskiel, a man's name. But you want it to be a woman's name. Women often did not have a Hebrew name, but only Yiddish and / or secular names. One of my 2g

Thanks - but don't think so. I'm wondering if it is a diminutive of Channa - which still wouldn't fit in with the family names - who knows? Harvey Kaplan

Many of us have come to depend on the JewishGen Latvia database as a source for tranlated vital and 1897 census records. As you probably know,the Latvian State Historical Archives' Raduraksti website

There is a Hebrew name Chasha which exists among the ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem Chashele is a diminutive form of the name. Jules Feldman Kibbutz Yizreel

Harvey, It might be a diminutive of Chasya Marcel Apsel Antwerpen, Belgium If you don’t remember me, I think we had together Friday night dinner in 2018 at the Warsaw Seminar together

Hi Richard, What name are you looking for? I am pretty good at finding elusive relatives. What street did they live on in 1930? -- Maryellen Tobiasiewiczfamily from: Bielsko-Biala powiat

Is it not perhaps Chavala -- .חבלה Although the Hebrew meaning of the name Chavala is "life", in Yiddish it sometimes also meant "a little bird" I think. I'm no expert but I can see possible

Jeffrey, The evidence of progressive correctness comes from the various large areas I have worked, for example, the Frankfurt and Prague and Vienna Jewish communities. I know it is hard for people