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Re: Potato Latkes...are you Litvak or Galitizianer?
#galicia
#lithuania
judieson@...
Sourcream was a mainstay in my childhood,for anything,but in particular for latkes and for blintz souffles. But it was the pronunciation of the word latkes which differentiated Galizianer from Litvak. In our home, it was latkuhs ...our maternal side was from Hungary/Czech Republic and perhaps Saatmar; our paternal side was from Lomza Gybernia,Poland..two styles of Yiddish. In the home of a cousin by marriage, it was latkees. Delicious, regardless. Judie Cynkus Rice searching Schwartz/Weiss/Klein/Gross/Ungar;Cynkus/Cinkiewicz/Windenberg/Bundendepr
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Re: LIVERPOOL HOPE PLACE SYNAGOGUE Book re 1836 to 1930.
#unitedkingdom
#records
crjos
With apologies for diverting the thread, this article implies that Jews in North Wales were generally buried in Liverpool or Manchester.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/jewish-burial-ground-first-north-2748167
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Summer issue of AVOTAYNU
#announcements
Gary Mokotoff
The Summer issue of AVOTAYNU is at the printer this week. A large number of subjects are covered by the 12 articles that appear including city directories, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Arolsen Archives, American Jewish Yearbook, Bremen as an emigration port, and more.
One type of article that I enjoy that appears from time to time in AVOTAYNU is an overall survey of genealogical research in a specific country. The Summer issue has such a six-page article on family history research in Finland. You may not have Finnish ancestors, but this article might describe a resource that you never considered that might exist in your countries of ancestry.
In addition to the 12 articles, there are the usual columns: From Our Contributing Editors, U.S. Update, Ask Dr. Beider, Brick Walls, Book Reviews (two reviews) and From Our Mailbox.
The complete Table of Contents is at http://avotaynu.com/2020SummerPage01.pdf.
Additional information about AVOTAYNU is at https://www.avotaynu.com/journal.htm.
Gary Mokotoff
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JGS Librarians BOF
#jgs-iajgs
Michelle Sandler
My name is Michelle Sandler MLS and I ran the JGS Libraries BOF. I am going to create a master list of all Jewish Genealogy Societies that still have Libraries.
I need to know the name of the Jewish Genealogy Society
The name of the current Librarian and their contact information (Email)
How many books are in your library.
What Library Catalog software you use.
What Library classification system you use (ex Library of Congress, Dewey, Elazar or Weine etc.) Location of your Library
Hours your library is open
When your library is staffed
Weather you allow checkout of materials or not
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Re: "Holy Silence" Documents Vatican's Role in the Holocaust
#announcements
#holocaust
Louis777@...
Thank you for the reference. I just watched the film. It is a brilliant, thought provoking, sometimes heart-wrenching, documentary that makes you think deeply and wonder at the same time.
I would call it is masterpiece.
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Re: Potato Latkes...are you Litvak or Galitizianer?
#galicia
#lithuania
Joan Parker
I forgot about sugar... we did too, applesauce and as in other posts...bananas and sour cream still one of my favorite noshes to this day. Joan Parker Past President/Archivist JGS of Greater Miami, Inc. 1) GOLDBERG/ GOULD, GOODSTEIN/GUDSTEIN, BERGER, GERBER/CRAWFORD, JAGODA-Lipno, Plonsk, Plock, Poland-Russia; Warsaw, Poland-Russia; Galveston, TX; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY, Portland, OR, Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA. 2) PARKER/PINKUS, WINOGRAD, (GERSHO-BEROVNA?)., R0SEN, -Brest (Litovsk), Belarus; Grodno, Russia; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY. WEISS, NEIKRUG, DEL PINO--Brooklyn, NY. RABWIN--Hollywood, CA, Salt Lake City, UT. CLAYTON-California. 3) GELFAND, KRITZOFF, KATZ, TROCK --Berezin/Bresin, Kodima, Minsk, Belarus, Bronx, NY, Miami and Miami Beach, FL.
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Re: looking for Annette Kaufman related to Haskel's from Suwalki in Lithuania/Poland
#lithuania
#poland
Barbara Kenzer
No, But I wish they did. My family from Suwalki is: Simon Block Schuster Nathan Nechowitz Kowarsky Thanks Barbara Kenzer
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:33 AM <rmbotwin@...> wrote: Re: Suwalki
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Re: Help with identifying a town off of a census
EdrieAnne Broughton
This is hopefully a hint for deciphering cursive on documents, like the census. If you have trouble with one line, try reading the whole page, paying attention to how familiar names are handled by the enumerator on the document. This is what the good transcribers have done (there are lots of transcribers who don't do this). After you figure out how to read this person's scrawl, then go back to the troubled line. If it's still unclear, try another page. After a while of learning to do this, you too can volunteer to transcribe images. FamilySearch is always looking for good transcribers and you don't have to be LDS. They are always looking for people who read other languages. I've found the work to be very satisfying and the USA 1950 Census is going to drop next year.
EdrieAnne Broughton, Vacaville, California
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EdrieAnne Broughton
My granddad who was a schneider by trade carried his sewing machine on his back from Lithuania to Hamburg earning the money for his passage and his trip as he walked from town to town. I went away to college in the 1960s. Among my things was my mother's old Singer featherweight portable. I made money for college with that machine. Not many whole garments but I did do repairs and even a few refittings. Glad to know I was carrying on a long tradition. I made more that way than I would have as a student employee of the university.
EdrieAnne Broughton, Vacaville, California
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skyejaz@...
Looking for the Sapotnisky and/or Mostkoff family from the Slutsk/Minsk area. Great-grandfather Leibe Mostkoff married Chaya Sapotnisky. They had five children: (Motl, born about 1877,married Dvoira Portnoy); Israel (born about 1878, married Chifra Boruchovitch); Isodore (born about 1888, married Annie Frank); Hinde (married a Charchas or Kharaks) and Keili (married a Rubin Iscovitch). I would guess from the children’s date of the children’s births, that Leibe and Chaya were born about 1850. All of the children, with the exception of Hinde, emigrated to Mexico and the United States. Israel Mostkoff and Chifra Boruchovitch (daughter of Nachman Boruchovitch and Pesha Polak) married about 1904 and had five living children, four of whom also emigrated to Mexico (Abram, Leibe, Mikhail and Dvoira, known in Mexico as Abraham, Luis, Miguel and Dora). Tanya remained in Russia and married Iosef Baskin. Israel’s death certificate (as well as his children’s marriage certificates) lists his name as Mostkoff- Sapotnisky /Zapotnisky) and that he was from in Minsk. We have obtained a copy of a Russian memoir written by Tanya Mostkoff Baskin that is rather detailed about this family including names and places as well as other relatives of the family- but nothing is mentioned about the Saptonisky family. The family lived on Sadovaya Street in Slutsk Belarus at least until Chifra, Leibe, Mikhail and Dora emigrated in 1928. Tanya was the only child of Israel and Chifra to remain in Russia. Tanya mentions her paternal grandparents Leibe (Mostkoff) and her grandmother “Haya”, although she was much closer to her maternal grandparents- Nachman and Pesha and wrote more broadly about Nachman, her aunt Malka. and her cousins (although I’m not sure if it’s maternal or paternal cousins she’s writing about). She did write about her cousins Masha and Nina Bunin, whose father apparently was killed by bandits.The Pinkas of Slutsk mentions such a disaster, with several men having been killed in the robbery on the way to Minsk. The Sapotnisky name is baffling and I’m having trouble finding records that match with Chaya. I also don’t know if she had any siblings so searching for other family members is difficult. Jewishgen has entries for Sapotniskys in/near Novogrudok/Minsk, but I’m not aware if any of these Sapotniskys may be related. . Where should I go from here? Saptoniisky doesn’t appear to be that frequent (although spellings differ). I’d appreciate any suggestions on how to locate any branches of the Sapotnisky family (or even the Mostkoff family prior to their arrival in Slutsk).
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Re: Potato Latkes...are you Litvak or Galitizianer?
#galicia
#lithuania
Louis777@...
My mother (z"l) was pure Litvak and we grew up eating potato latkes with sour cream. If Litvaks were supposed to eat latkes with applesauce, she didn't know that
or used the sour cream only to please my father (z"l), who was pure Ukrainer. I doubt it that, though, because he was strictly a meat and potatoes man and I can't recall him ever eating the latkes, even on Chanuka! Oh yes, my mother, who spoke fluent Russian as well as Yiddish and English, always spoke of "borshch" rather than "borsht." Borshch is the Russian pronunciation. My father understood Russian more than he spoke it, but he and my mother used Russian, when they spoke of things the kids were not supposed to understand. We kids spoke English and Yiddish.
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Shalom and Ester SCHLOSSER
#poland
dubflower@...
Hello all,
I'm researching my ggf and ggp family and I can't seem to find any more information going further back in the family line. So all I know is that Shalom and Ester Schlosser (daughter of Arie Israel) lived in Bialystok where they had 5 children: Yasha, Leon, Sonia, Liza (who then became Aliza) and Roza. Sonia died at the age of 18, Leon got married and had a son (Abrasha) but they were murdered during the Holocaust. Yasha had two daughters. And Aliza and Rosa moved to Israel with their mother Ester at the late twenties afaik. All this data was provided to me by my mother and her sister, Aliza's daughters. Ester died in Israel in 1939. I'd be truly grateful for any kind of information I can get on the family and will truly appreciate any kind of help. For more information, feel free to DM me. Regards, Nieve G. France
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Autograph book from 1945 Theresienstadt
#general
#holocaust
#events
Coral
Mænni Ruben was a young Danish violinist from Copenhagen when he and his family were taken to the Nazi ghetto/camp Terezin near Prague.
The autograph book opens in April 1945 and is filled with greetings, drawings and pieces of music, the tone is one of hope and optimism.
The Zoom launch brings together local and international presenters including Mænni’s nephew in Israel and the Director of the Terezin Memorial in Prague.
Please join us Thursday, August 20 at 11 a.m. PDT
Join us for an online launch of the exhibit and website.
Coral Grant P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail
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ViewMate translation request – Russian to English
#translation
paulmoverman@...
I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I really would appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83741 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Paul Moverman Milford, NH, USA
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ViewMate translation request – Russian to English
#translation
paulmoverman@...
I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I really would appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83763 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Paul Moverman Milford, NH, USA
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ViewMate translation request – Russian to English
#translation
paulmoverman@...
I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I really would appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83788 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Paul Moverman Milford, NH, USA
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translation request – Russian to English
#translation
paulmoverman@...
I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I really would appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83789 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Paul Moverman Milford, NH, USA
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Re: North Adams, Massachusetts - early Jewish settlers
#usa
Deanna Levinsky <DEANNASMAC@...>
Strong, Hewat was founded in 1898. It was a very large fabric mill and
employed 400 workers in its hay day (the owners were Scottish). I would imagine this created spin-offs for other jobs and businesses which attracted Jewish workers/businessmen. This area had power from the Hoosac River, there were other mills but Strong Hewat produced wonderful wool fabrics, they closed in the mid 1960s-selling the property to the Kaplans. Deanna Mandel Levinsky Long Island, New York -- Deanna M. Levinsky, Long Island, NY
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Re: Potato Latkes...are you Litvak or Galitizianer?
#galicia
#lithuania
Susan Megerman
My mother's family came from Suchowola near Grodno (Poland/Russia) and we had applesauce and sometimes sour cream but sour cream on bananas always. I still like bananas, but now with yogurt. I have many kugel recipes, but would love yours.
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In search of descendants of POSTERNAK family from Zhitomir
#ukraine
rhonda.post@...
While working with a researcher in Zhitomir, Ukraine we have discovered the names of my husband's great grandfather's family.
Our Louis Post was born in Zhitomir in 1876 as Luzer POSTERNAK which is also spelled as PUSTERNAK. He was the son of Kotel POSTERNAK born around 1838 and Chaya Moshkova Vinokur. We just learned our Louis was one of 10 children, 7 of them lived past the age of 3. I am looking for descendants of the following siblings. If any of these names are on your tree, please send me a message: 1. Ios POSTERNAK(born 1867) married Shifra FLEISHMAN and they had 6 children: * Chava-Tsipa Posternak born 1896 * Avraam Posternak born 1898 * Mendel Posternak born 1903 * Mesya Posternak born 1904 * David Posternak born 1909 * Faytel Posternak born 1910 2. Mariam-Chasya POSTERNAK born 1869 3. Yuda-Leib POSTERNAK born 1872 4. Arye POSTERNAK born 1873 married Hinda Kimelblat and had 6 children * Chasya Posternak born 1900 * Ena Posternak born 1902 * Ruvin Posternak born 1904 * Sura Posternak born 1907 * Sheyndl Posternak born 1910 * Lifsha Posternak born 1913 5. Yakov POSTERNAK born 1885 6. Ruchel POSTERNAK born 1890 Rhonda Post Silver Spring, Maryland rhonda.post@...
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