Dear Genners,
Amoz Chernoff asked:

Would anyone know whether the name Basha or Bashe was generally a man's

name? The individual bearing this name came >from Belarus in the early
1900's.>>>>

My answer is: According my knowledge the male name Basha ( Beit - Ayin -
Shin - Alef ) is a nickname to the Hebrew name Dov. Dov mean in English a
bear. This name Dov is not a Biblical name but a name that come in use in
the Middle ages (10 or 11 century) the word Dov is wel mention in the Bible
as a bear but not as a name. I think that the name Basha come out >from the
nickname Bar ( Beit - Ayin - Reish) and >from Ber to Barish (Beit - Ayin -
Reish - Yud - Shin ). This names are nicknames to Yissaschar and Dov. It is
a discusion if Dov is a name on itself or a nickname to Yissaschar ,like
Jehuda Arie or Binjamin Zeev. I think that all this names are independent
names.

Conclusion: Dov = Ber = Barish = Barsh = Bash = Basha or Bashe.

The are more nicknames that ending with a Sh ,I give few sample:

Mordechai = Mordush
Abraham = Abrush = Avrus = Abush
Binjamin = Binush
Jehuda = Leib = Leibush
Menachem = Manish
Uri = Feibish

Please remember all this names are male names . We find the name Basha also
as a female name as a nickname to the Hebrew Biblical name Bat-Sheva.

Best regards

Ury Link
Amsterdam
Holland

KARPELES as as suranme or forename

Can any of our readers throw any light on the origin of this name and its
meaning if it has one ?

L Reich Manchester

I have recently found a relative in France who has family members (male)
whose first/given names are Igo and Halter.
Would anyone know the Jewish/Yiddish equivalents or the names that might
have been used in Eastern Europe for those names?
thankyou
Elaine Farran
Researching CHAMPANIER, FRISCH - Poland
GORENSTEIN, ZAMLER, KULMEISTEN, MUSKATBLATT - Austria/Poland/Ukraine

Can you tell us what information is actually included in one of those
SS-5 forms? Just curious.

Neil

I sent away for 4 SS-5's in July. Within a month, I received 3 of
them. The last one has not arrived as yet and I think my request must
have gotten lost somewhere. I mailed the 4 requests in 4 separate
envelopes with 4 separate letters and 4 separate checks to: SSA, Office
of Central Records Operations, Attention: FOIA Workgroup, PO Box 17772,
300 N. Greene St., Baltimore, MD 21290.

MODERATOR NOTE: JewishGen has an Infofile entitled "U.S. Social
Security Administration Records" avaialble at
<http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/us-ssa.txt>. In Section II.
Social Security Original Applications, you will find the answer.

Dear Genners,
Amoz Chernoff asked:

Would anyone know whether the name Basha or Bashe was generally a man's

name? The individual bearing this name came >from Belarus in the early
1900's.>>>>

My answer is: According my knowledge the male name Basha ( Beit - Ayin -
Shin - Alef ) is a nickname to the Hebrew name Dov. Dov mean in English a
bear. This name Dov is not a Biblical name but a name that come in use in
the Middle ages (10 or 11 century) the word Dov is wel mention in the Bible
as a bear but not as a name. I think that the name Basha come out >from the
nickname Bar ( Beit - Ayin - Reish) and >from Ber to Barish (Beit - Ayin -
Reish - Yud - Shin ). This names are nicknames to Yissaschar and Dov. It is
a discusion if Dov is a name on itself or a nickname to Yissaschar ,like
Jehuda Arie or Binjamin Zeev. I think that all this names are independent
names.

Conclusion: Dov = Ber = Barish = Barsh = Bash = Basha or Bashe.

The are more nicknames that ending with a Sh ,I give few sample:

Mordechai = Mordush
Abraham = Abrush = Avrus = Abush
Binjamin = Binush
Jehuda = Leib = Leibush
Menachem = Manish
Uri = Feibish

Please remember all this names are male names . We find the name Basha also
as a female name as a nickname to the Hebrew Biblical name Bat-Sheva.

Best regards

Ury Link
Amsterdam
Holland

KARPELES as as suranme or forename

Can any of our readers throw any light on the origin of this name and its
meaning if it has one ?

L Reich Manchester

I have recently found a relative in France who has family members (male)
whose first/given names are Igo and Halter.
Would anyone know the Jewish/Yiddish equivalents or the names that might
have been used in Eastern Europe for those names?
thankyou
Elaine Farran
Researching CHAMPANIER, FRISCH - Poland
GORENSTEIN, ZAMLER, KULMEISTEN, MUSKATBLATT - Austria/Poland/Ukraine

Can you tell us what information is actually included in one of those
SS-5 forms? Just curious.

Neil

I sent away for 4 SS-5's in July. Within a month, I received 3 of
them. The last one has not arrived as yet and I think my request must
have gotten lost somewhere. I mailed the 4 requests in 4 separate
envelopes with 4 separate letters and 4 separate checks to: SSA, Office
of Central Records Operations, Attention: FOIA Workgroup, PO Box 17772,
300 N. Greene St., Baltimore, MD 21290.

MODERATOR NOTE: JewishGen has an Infofile entitled "U.S. Social
Security Administration Records" avaialble at
<http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/us-ssa.txt>. In Section II.
Social Security Original Applications, you will find the answer.

Dear JewishGenners.

While compiling my book about my family (mainly Chaikin), I found two post
cards >from Lausanne, >from 1908, written by my grandfather's cousin, Paulina
Wolodarski.
The post cards were written in Russian, but near her signature, there exist
a second signature, in Hebrew, Achiezer Tsirlin (Alef Chet Yud Ain Zain
Resh - Tzadi Yud Resh Lammed Yud Nun).
There are two post cards, >from the same place and person but to different
people, both bears the same signature.
Paulina Wolodarski, was originally >from Yekaterinoslav (Denieperpretrovsk),
the Ukraine.
At 1908 she was about 20 years old.

Any clue? (also with regard to Wolodarski / y)

Regards >from El Kuds. Udi Cain.

Basha is the Yiddish pronunciation of the Hebrew name Batya

David and Tina Gurtler
Jerusalem, Israel
gurtler@netvision.net.il

From: "Tilford Bartman" <bartmant@earthlink.net>

Basche is a Yiddish first name for girls.
It was my grandmother's name in Belarus.
She became Berthe in Paris.

Micheline GUTMANN, Paris, France
http://asso.genami.free.fr

Would anyone know whether the name Basha or Bashe was generally a man's
name?

No, it's actually a woman's name. It's a transliteration of the Hebrew
name Bas-yah, meaning "daughter of God" (and pronounced Batya in modern or
sephardi Hebrew).

Jewish oral tradition (but not the Bible itself) gives the name of the
Pharaoh's daughter who raised Moses as "Bithia", a Graecized version of
Batya. The name Bithia was in fact used for this character in the movie
"The Ten Commandments" -- showing that the film's producer or director had
done their midrashic homework!

Judith Romney Wegner

Dear JewishGenners.

While compiling my book about my family (mainly Chaikin), I found two post
cards >from Lausanne, >from 1908, written by my grandfather's cousin, Paulina
Wolodarski.
The post cards were written in Russian, but near her signature, there exist
a second signature, in Hebrew, Achiezer Tsirlin (Alef Chet Yud Ain Zain
Resh - Tzadi Yud Resh Lammed Yud Nun).
There are two post cards, >from the same place and person but to different
people, both bears the same signature.
Paulina Wolodarski, was originally >from Yekaterinoslav (Denieperpretrovsk),
the Ukraine.
At 1908 she was about 20 years old.

Any clue? (also with regard to Wolodarski / y)

Regards >from El Kuds. Udi Cain.

Basha is the Yiddish pronunciation of the Hebrew name Batya

David and Tina Gurtler
Jerusalem, Israel
gurtler@netvision.net.il

From: "Tilford Bartman" <bartmant@earthlink.net>

Basche is a Yiddish first name for girls.
It was my grandmother's name in Belarus.
She became Berthe in Paris.

Micheline GUTMANN, Paris, France
http://asso.genami.free.fr

Would anyone know whether the name Basha or Bashe was generally a man's
name?

No, it's actually a woman's name. It's a transliteration of the Hebrew
name Bas-yah, meaning "daughter of God" (and pronounced Batya in modern or
sephardi Hebrew).

Jewish oral tradition (but not the Bible itself) gives the name of the
Pharaoh's daughter who raised Moses as "Bithia", a Graecized version of
Batya. The name Bithia was in fact used for this character in the movie
"The Ten Commandments" -- showing that the film's producer or director had
done their midrashic homework!

Judith Romney Wegner

I hope this might be useful for those searching UK
army info:

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British Army Records

The British Army units that served with the Chindits retained their normal
record keeping and administrative responsibilities, and the records are
archived in the Ministry of Defence.

The surviving records of all officers and soldiers who joined the British
Army and who were discharged after 1922 are stored in the Ministry of
Defence Record Office CS(R)2b at Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RS.
This includes territorial, volunteer, militia and home-defence forces
and some colonial forces. The MOD Record Office also held the WWI records
which have been progressively released to the Public Record Office over
the past five years. Information on the service records of the individual
may be obtained by application to: Ministry of Defence Records Office
CS(R)2, Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RF, United Kingdom.
{Telephone ++44 0208 573 3831}. They will send you an application form
that will require a search fee of BP 25 per person being enquired after.
Payment of the search fee does not guarantee a successful result. The MOD
now requires applicants to certify that they are the individual concerned
or their next of kin, together with a copy of the death certificate, as
appropriate. The form asks for details of the other kin between the
enquirer and the subject. This recent preoccupation seems to have arisen
out of concerns caused by the Data Protection Act 1999, required by
European Union legislation. There is reportedly a long delay in getting
the response, the result will now be a statement of service and not copies
of the original documents.

Miriam MARGOLYES
born in the UK
now in Santa Monica, USA

searching: MICHAELS, GOLDSMITH (London to USA)
INDICK (London) AMIEL (London)

My great great aunt Haia or Chaya daughter of Simcha Leib WIND and Mariam
of Braila, Romania married Marcu Pincu Leventer of Podu Torcului (now
Bacau county) in 1896. I believe that they settled in Podu Torcului. They
may have emigrated to the US. I am looking for decendents or any
information about them. If anyone has Leventer relatives in Podu Turcului,
Bacau County or Braila, I would be very interested in sharing information
with them.

Philip J. Leonard MD

Researching:
Braila - WIND, HORNSTEIN, ROSENTHAL, SPRINGER, SOMMER, ALBAHARI, LEVENTER,
KAUFMAN, SOLOMON, WEINSTEIN, JANKOWITZ, YANKOWITZ, FRIEDMAN, RABINOVICI
in Iasi -- ROSEN, BRAUNSTEIN, KLINGER, LIEBLING, GOLDENBERG, MARKOWITZ,
LEIBOVITZ, MOSKOWITZ, HERSHKOWITZ, LEVINSON, BERKOWITZ, BERKOVICI
In Bucharest -- GOLDENBERG, ZUKER, MOSKOWITZ, LAZARESCU,
In Botoshoni -- ZUKER

My great great aunt Ettel daughter of Simcha Leib WIND and Mariam of
Braila, Romania married Iancu Haim Kaufman >from Galatz in 1896. I believe
that they settled in Galatz. They may have emigrated to the US. I am
looking for decendents or any information about them. If anyone has
Kaufman relatives in Galatz, or Braila, I would be very interested in
sharing information with them.

Researching
Braila - WIND, HORNSTEIN, ROSENTHAL, SPRINGER, SOMMER, ALBAHARI, LEVENTER,
KAUFMAN, SOLOMON, WEINSTEIN, JANKOWITZ, YANKOWITZ, FRIEDMAN, RABINOVICI
in Iasi -- ROSEN, BRAUNSTEIN, KLINGER, LIEBLING, GOLDENBERG, MARKOWITZ,
LEIBOVITZ, MOSKOWITZ, HERSHKOWITZ, LEVINSON, BERKOWITZ, BERKOVICI
In Bucharest -- GOLDENBERG, ZUKER, MOSKOWITZ, LAZARESCU,
In Botoshoni -- ZUKER

Philip J. Leonard MD

I hope this might be useful for those searching UK
army info:

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British Army Records

The British Army units that served with the Chindits retained their normal
record keeping and administrative responsibilities, and the records are
archived in the Ministry of Defence.

The surviving records of all officers and soldiers who joined the British
Army and who were discharged after 1922 are stored in the Ministry of
Defence Record Office CS(R)2b at Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RS.
This includes territorial, volunteer, militia and home-defence forces
and some colonial forces. The MOD Record Office also held the WWI records
which have been progressively released to the Public Record Office over
the past five years. Information on the service records of the individual
may be obtained by application to: Ministry of Defence Records Office
CS(R)2, Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex UB3 1RF, United Kingdom.
{Telephone ++44 0208 573 3831}. They will send you an application form
that will require a search fee of BP 25 per person being enquired after.
Payment of the search fee does not guarantee a successful result. The MOD
now requires applicants to certify that they are the individual concerned
or their next of kin, together with a copy of the death certificate, as
appropriate. The form asks for details of the other kin between the
enquirer and the subject. This recent preoccupation seems to have arisen
out of concerns caused by the Data Protection Act 1999, required by
European Union legislation. There is reportedly a long delay in getting
the response, the result will now be a statement of service and not copies
of the original documents.

Miriam MARGOLYES
born in the UK
now in Santa Monica, USA

searching: MICHAELS, GOLDSMITH (London to USA)
INDICK (London) AMIEL (London)