I believe if you use the clippings verbatim and cite the publication, city, date and page you can use the clipping.

You may also want to acquire the book, "The Moses of Rovno" about a German who rescued Jews in that town, Fritz Graebe. His son owned an apartment that I lived in, and Mr. Graebe was honored by being

Gregory Engels <Gregory.Engels@...> asked about the daughters of Rose GORDIN (1885-1969) and Jacob ETKIN (1887-1953) of New York -- Annie LASTMAN (1909-1993), Florence ETKIN (1912-1975), Sylvia (Nov

Sorry to promote my own wares a little, but me new book The Kosher Capones, about Chicago's Jewish gangsters has a small bit about some gangsters who rob a supply of sacramental wine during

Does anyone have information regarding the Anschel Burial Society at Mach Pelah Cemetery in Ridgewood Queens New York. My Great Grandparents are buried there, and their origin was Bratslav Vinnytsa

I just wanted to say that children were sometimes enumerated in their parents' homes, and were also enumerated in other households or locations. The parents may have misunderstood the directions, or

Looking for family of Mordechai and Dvora Gorbach or Horwitz between 1860 and 1879/

Here is the contact to Zefys: http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/index.php?id=kontakt&L=1 Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Zeitungsabteilung im ehemaligen

My father, born in the United States to Lithuanian immigrants, was Kasile. If I could figure out for whom he was named, that would be a HUGE help! He liked the name Kasile but changed his first name

Revision Lists for Ostrog are available (depending on the year) in the Ostrog Regional Museum, and the Kiev and Zhitomir Archives. Some translations appear on the Krements KehilaLinks page on

JewishGen Education https://www.jewishgen.org/Education/ offers free videos, Value Added Workbooks (free to those who have given $100 in the past 12 months to the JewishGen General Fund), and online

Dear Genners, I'm about to have a book published - a fictional diary of my relative, Clara Philipsborn. One device of her diary is the inclusion of "clippings" from newspapers. I would like some

Halts Kamer, means in Yiddish wood chamber, or a room in where you keep wood, the saying is an old one in Yiddish, and not in German, the rest of the words would have been phrased different in German,

This translation is not correct, The meaning of the word אבי correctly means father of, and that’s why it was translated that way, but here it is part of the name, אבי גדור or אבי

Tracy, There is a record of this surname in the Russian archives. Please contact me via e-mail and we can discuss. Joel Ratner

From what i have discovered, Jews were not allowed to live in these cities in the 19th century. If the did it wss because they worked for a wealthy or politically or military family. Diane Jacobs

Rowno, a Memorial to the Jewish Community of Rowno, Volyn (Rivne, Ukraine) 50°37' / 26°15' Translation of Rowne; sefer zikaron Edited by: A. Avitachi, Former Residents of Rowno in

I am looking for location of any Ostrog Revision lists. Do they exist?? -- Rachelle Litt Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

We are being told that some humor would not go amiss during these trying times. This discussion (plus the recent topic of naming children after living relatives) reminds me of this tale: A man runs to

A better male "equivalent" for Nechama would be Nachum. Another reason for similar sibling names: There was an ancestor named Chayim. Descendants wanted to name their child after him, but the child