Of interest to Litvaks; article mentions towns of Taurage, Sudarg and Panminklas and Leonard

Was this Mendes related to Rev. Pereira Mendes of the Birmingham, England Synagogue. His name shows up in the following publication listed on JewishGEN UK:Provincial Jewry in Victorian

I am searching for data on a great uncle who immigrated to Palestine in the 30s, bought land in Palestine, but returned to Grodno after his father died in 1937. Needless to say, he was murdered

That's an interesting and thoughtful conjecture, Nancy. Also the thought about a connection with Prussian Jews is a good one. Part of my family came from Courland, which was part of Latvia at the

English Translation of Bivolari Yizkor Book? The Jewish Gen website indicates that there is a Yizkor book for Bivolari, Romania, entitled Ayaratenu Bivolari, or Our Town Bivolari. It seems to

Jewish farm school “Eydelman,” founde 1900 in Minsk. I believe my Grandfather, David Pyenson (Paenson in cyrillic or Paiensohn in yiddish) graduated from this school in Minsk in1904 prior to his

Yonatan, Can you give us the a source for this word in one of Bialik's writings in the original language he used? Was it Hebrew or Yiddish? -- Alan Shuchat Newton, MA

I can put you in touch with Sorin Goldenberg, a researcher that we used to find birth/death/marriage records for our family in Neamt, Roman & Darabani. His colleague Luc Radu is very active on the

Hello I need help finding information about Rojl (Rosa) Barinstein, born in Podolia, Russia, May 6, 1988. Her parents Etzek (Isaac) Barinstein (1877) and her mother Sure (Sara) Noejovich (1877)

I also had ancestors, on my father's side, who fled Spain or Portugal for the Netherlands. Regrettably, however, their next move was to Poland. I'd be very interested to learn more about the history

Ideas where I might find out more information, class lists, etc. I believe my grandfather David Pyenson (Paenson in Cyrillic or Paiensohn in yiddish) graduated from this school in 1904 prior to his

My grandmother, three of her sisters, and their parents walked from Odessa (now Ukraine) to Rotterdam (family name at the time FAVILYUKIS) around 1920 - a little passed the time you mentioned but

Cercle de Généalogie Juive (www.genealoj.org) has indexed thousands of pages of documents relating to Ottoman Jews in France during WW1 - those documents are held at the French Archives

Shura is a common form of Alexander in Russian, and u merges into i in most of Eastern Yiddish. No connection to the modern name Shira = song, just a coincidence. Phillip Minden

Husbands grandfather told a tale of not wanting to go into the army in Poland so he ate a whole bunch of bananas and it distended his stomach so much he looked deformed and they wouldn't take him. I

My Great Great Grandfather and Grandmother are Abraham Rosenzweig and Rebecca Solomon. Rebecca's Naturalization Records reflect that they were born in Votkana on May 16, 1850 and December 15, 1860,

The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) announces its 40th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be a virtual conference for the first time, held Aug.

Hi Mark, Might be Ventspils, Latvia. Alternate names: Ventspils [Latv], Windau [Ger], Vindava [Rus], Vindoi [Yid], Windawa [Pol], Ventspilis [Lith], Vindavi [Est], Wentspils, VindauRegion:

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82469 Document is from the

In Polish, nou nd often end in -a in the nominative case. Israel's does not mean son of Israel, it means Izrael. Mal e and female names both end in -a. Israelowicz means son of Israe l. My tablet