Alexander Beider's last 2 name dictionaries covered regions with large Sephardic communities. Searchable indexes of these two books are now available at

Good Day, It is possible that the person who used LISS as a last name used their first to make it last, Liss is some kind of a short form for …. Elyse, Elisa, Elise etc. like in Jewish its

In researching the surname LISCHINSKY, I've found some of the families changing their surname to LISS. Eric Bloch Milwaukee, WI LISHCHINSKY (Belaya Tserkov, Vasilkov uyezd, Kiev giburnia)

Nancy, On the Ellis Island Database there is an Abram Lisser arriving 14 Nov 1900 from "Motow." Perhaps this is actually Motol? I've seen plenty of misspellings on passenger manifests. Take a look at

My grandmother, Sarah Leah Eisenberg, came from Chmielnik, near Kielce, in Poland. Her family had married twice into the Liss family of the same town in the 19th century. My father Max Goldfarb was in

Are you aware of the translated Yizkor Book on the town available from the Yizkor Books in Print project? https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_Buchach.html Joel Alpert, Coordinator of the Yizkor

Dear researchers, Here is an update for the Bessarabia Research Division projects for the month of March 2020. Bessarabian Databases. Updates: -- Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in June

While publication of Landsmen has halted and many of the other activities of the Suwalk-Lomza Interest Group have been temporarily placed on hold, its goals and efforts as described at

Dear Jenners I sent an email to the group a few days ago requesting the translation of 5 documents in Russian which I have uploaded on ViewMate. So far the response has been very limited and I am

I believe Rodelheim Press was Dyhernfurth, Silesia. My family, the Kroners were in publishing there. But I don’t know this book or the title. Did you look in Jewish Encyclopedia? You can search key

Morasha, the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois newsletter formerly edited by the late Peggy Morrow z"l and now edited by Dale Amdur, has won the first-place award for newsletters in the

Love this rendition of 1914 Europe...so revealing from a German perspective/ https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN767804341&PHYSID=PHYS_0001

The area around Buczacz during World War I was a battlefield for Russian and Austrian troops. Buczacz suffered more than most towns. During 1917, the fighting destroyed the Buczacz civil records

Sent from Mail for Windows 10 I was told there were fewer cases among Jews because they washed their hands before eating.

This is a revision to my original request regarding a specific FEUERLICHT family. I have been in touch with Ira Feuerlicht thanks to a member of this list. Unfortunately Ira’s ancestry does not

In 1799 Heidenreich and Baschwitz received a privilege from the Count of Solms-Rödelheim and founded an "oriental- und occidentalische Buchdruckerei" (oriental and occidental printing house) at

It was reported that my gfather, Abraham Rifkin, died of an overdose of quinine. He might have been in the UK during one of the outbrakes Does anyone know if that was used to treat typhoid -- Deanna

A huge Hungarian database containing hundreds of newspapers and millions of pages is now free for another ten days or so: arcanum.hu - you may try a search there. G. C. Kálmán

Kalev was the Yiddish name for Nagykallo, Hungary. It was formerly in Szabolcs megye (county) and is now Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg county. You can find out more about this place at

I have come across a list of Auschwitz survivors (mostly Polish) who at the end of July 1945 had been brought to Schwerin. The names themselves are already in Jewishgen, as Auschwitz survivors, but