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Re: Aramaic Translation Help!
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Dr.Josef ASH
o yes. This is Aramic.
the document is called "KeTUBA" - Marriage agreement. "on Tuesday 13 of Siwan (Hebrew calendar month ) year 5683 (~May-June1923) the groom Yosef Khaim son of reb (Mr) Shim'on Eliahu told to Bluma Dvora daughter of ... reb GUTMAN blessed memory...," And then - long text he promises that he will do for her..... It is read loudly during the wedding. Her mother keeps the ketuba. I don't think many Israelies can translate it today without the dictionary. Sure you can find it in internet, but the important information I could read as it is written in Hebrew. Josef ASH
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Looking for relatives of Abram Babin from Sloboda, Russia, cousin to my husband's grandfather Sam Schaje Dobrinsky/i Dobrin..
#russia
Marlene Dobrin <dobrins@...>
Looking for relatives of Abram Babin from Sloboda Russia, cousin to my husband's grandfather Sam Schaje Dobrinsky/i Dobrin. Abram was the cousin Sam was meeting upon his arrival to the US in 1914. I just learned about Abram Babin and can't wait to connect with his family tree. Marlene Kempner Dobrin - dobrins@... - Arizona USA Family names: KEMPNER, POKEMPNER, PAKEMPNER, MIRVIS, RIEF, WESTERMAN, MELMAN, SHEINKER, KRECHMER, LUNTZ, SACHS/ZOX, LITT, FLEISCHMAN, MEYERSON/MAROVICH, HILLMAN, KAMENETS, SEGALL, FRIEDMAN, DOBRIN, DOBRINSKY, SCHUMAN, ITKIN, FIRESTONE, FEIRSTEIN, FOREMAN, FUXMAN
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Sherri Bobish
Beth, Several NY (and one NJ) cemetery is searchable here: Searching the Cemetery Databases http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/erc-scdb.htm You can search NYC death cert index here: https://stevemorse.org/vital/nydeath-igg.html The cert will list name of cemetery. FamilySearch has transcriptions of some info of the NYC death certs: https://stevemorse.org/vital/nyvital.html?type=death Old digitized NY (and now other states) newspapers can be searched here: https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html You can search by name or address. Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ
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Translation from Yiddish
#translation
#yiddish
evnsenior@...
Hello, seeking translation of a short inscription on the back of a photo of my husband's great grandparents: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=83778.
Thank you, Evelyn Senior
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Katie Anderson
Hi Maggie,
I am interested in finding my Werner ancestors. My Grandfather Armin Werner Born 1886 Beel, Arad, Romania My great-grandfather Benjamin Werner Born in Derecske , Romania/Hungary. He married Sali Weber and Zali Salamary Any of these ancestors are connected to your Werner family? Thanks Katie Anderson
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Shalom.
Thank you very much. Seeking clarification: you wrote, "It is possible that 'mem-vav-hey' indicates that he had semicha, but that that he had a official position." Did you mean to write, "but not that he had an official position?" In other words, that mem-vav-hey could indicate semicha, yet, not an official position as a rabbi? Thank you very much. Shalom. - Tzvi Fievel
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JewishGen Yizkor Book Research Division Meeting
#yizkorbooks
Max Heffler
Hindsight being 20-20 I forgot to share at yesterday's JewishGen Yizkor Book Research Division Meeting two benefits I have experienced from volunteering:
1. When I started coordinating the translation of the Lita Yizkor Book and worked with a volunteer translator, I later found out his wife was my 5th cousins and we have been collaborating for well over a decade
2. When the conference was in Warsaw, I got to visit some ancestral towns. One of those towns had a Yizkor book, Serock, and my grandmother’s siblings’ families had written stories documenting their experiences during the war
Max -- Web sites I manage - Personal home page, Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society, Woodside Civic Club, Skala, Ukraine KehilalLink, Joniskelis, Lithuania KehilaLink, and pet volunteer project - Yizkor book project: www.texsys.com/websites.html
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YIVO Launches First Exhibition Online
#announcements
#lithuania
Jan Meisels Allen
YIVO launched the first exhibition of the YIVO Bruce and Francesca Cernia Slovin Online Museum which is free to see. The exhibit is interactive storytelling using hundreds of artifacts from the YIVO archives. The first exhibition features the life of Beba Epstein, a young girl born in Vilna, Poland now Vilnius, Lithuania in 1922. Her autobiography was written in 1933 and discovered in 2017. Go to: https://museum.yivo.org/
You will learn from her experiences about: Family dynamics Social changes that occurred between the mid 1800s and the early 1900s Vacations Schools and curriculums Jewish Vilna Summer Camps The world at the edge of war in the 1930s The Holocaust through Beba’s harrowing account Immigration to the United States
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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robinson@...
I've been searching Ancestry for the record of my late grandmother's second marriage. I found the record of her first marriage easily. But there is nothing under her name (Sarah Zimmer) (maiden name Thomashefsky) or her second husband (Frank Kaplan). I believe he was divorced, although I can't find that record either. They got together in the early 1920s. My question is: How complete are Ancestry's marriage records? Is it possible that marriage records are lost or misplaced? In the alternative -- and this seems unlikely to me -- how common was it for immigrants to simply live together in that period of time? She is a dearly beloved lady, but I have to ask the question. She was a widow with a small child, and Frank had three children.
Sherry Robinson, Albuquerque
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Re: Prysewiczuvna girls school in Lodz
#lodz
Krzysztof Witaszek
Hello
The school was
Gimnazjum żeńskie Janiny Pryssewiczówny
located at ul. Sienkiewicza 35 (in the year 1923). (Pryssewiczowna's Girls Gimnasium)
In the year 1934 or 35 it was bought by Tadeusz and Janina Czapczyńscy,
(New name of the school was: Prywatne Gimnazjum i Liceum Janiny Czapczyńskiej located at ul.Narutowicza 58)
I looked at "Szukaj w archiwach" site and there are no records for Pryssewiczówna school, but there is a rich documentation for Czapczynski's school.
They are located in the Lódź Archive (Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi)
It is possible that you will find something there for these individuals. Especially classroom diaries (dziennik lekcyjny) have many information about the students.
Regards
Krzysztof Witaszek
Lublin
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Re: Can anyone figure this surname out?
#names
Steven Usdansky
I vote for Rauchlese. Blowing up the image, it's clearly an "e" after the "l". There's no serif sticking up from the blob that is the last letter, so I don't think it's an "s"
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Re: translation from German
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Nicole Heymans
It's an affidavit saying David FRANKFURTER, son of married couple Josef L. FRANKFURTER and Kati KOLMAN, was born "here" (in Galanta) in 1848 in wedlock.
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Re: Origin of the name Brodsky
#ukraine
Udi Cain
My grandfather's grandfather Joel Meir CHAIKIN had a sister supposedly living in the same town where Joel's friend Rabbi Moshe Nachum Yerusalemsky. In a letter which was sent by Joel from Jaffa in 1898 Joel asked the rabbi to send an attached letter to his sister or to her daughter's husband Rabbi Shmuel Brodsky. A late cousin of my father told me once about a marriage of a CHAIKIN girl to the nephew of Laser Brodsky "The Sugar King".
Best wishes to all, Udi Cain (CHAIKIN)
I am pleased to invite you to my genealogy website:
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Re: Name of Marrero possibly Marrano from Puerto Rico. Possibly Jewish?
#names
#latinamerica
sjgwed@...
You might enjoy the memoir, The Forgetting River, by D. Carvajal, a (Catholic) who learned her family's history back to the Inquisition... until now. Unfortunately, her book does not have an index, so I could not see if your names were listed.
Also see my story, "One Italian's Secret History," published 2013 in the Forward. It's online. Susan J Gordon New York
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Re: Origin of the name Brodsky
#ukraine
patrice.markiewicz@...
Hello,
As an Historian, I am conducting researches upon Jews from Russia, Ukraina and Poland who emigrated toward Paris at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th one. I did have records related to Brodsky. Please, feel free to contact me. Patrice Markiewicz. Email: patrice.markiewicz@...
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Re: Burial Society at Mount Hebron Flushing, Queens, NY
#usa
An here's one more link to a resource that may be helpful on all manner of Jewish communal groups in NYC in the early 20th century:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforgottenbooks.com%2Fde%2Fdownload%2FJewishCommunalDirectory_10525959.pdf
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Translation of a Hebrew tombstone
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Reinier
I found a photo of a tombstone of one of my ancestors. She was called Hudya bat Tzudek HaKohen Friedman, and she died on 16 Sivan 5664 (April 1, 1904).
Unfortunately, the photo is not of good quality, and several parts of the tombstone are hard to read. Could anyone perhaps help decipher what it says? First line: ''This tombstone ....??.......'' Second line: ''An important woman .....??......'' And the other lines are also hard to read. Thanks for any help :) Reinier, The Netherlands <r.j.g.m.heinsman@...>
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Moishe Miller
Dear Group,
Would anyone have experience obtaining tombstone and cemetery information from Budapest, Hungary? My aunt, Teraizah/Alice Jurowicz died at 3 months, in Feb 1933, as per her attached Death Record from Budapest District VI. I suspect her birthdate was on or about Oct 20, 1932. The family was religious, so I think she would have been buried in the Kozma Street Cemetery. How can I obtain the detail at the cemetery and possibly a tombstone picture? Stay safe, Moishe Miller, Brooklyn, NY moishe.miller@... JGFF# 3911
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J Antrich
Yes... tailoring was a typical profession for Jews who arrived in Britain from Eastern Europe (my grandparents included). Related specialisms included cutter, trimmer, presser, finisher, machinist. As already mentioned, cutting was an essential job, and very skilled, both in the layout of the pattern on the cloth to minimise wastage and in the cutting itself - all done by hand and eye in the days before computers. The British magazine 'Tailor and Cutter, which ceased publication in 1972, represented the traditional approach: https://www.stewartchristie.com/the-tailor-cutter-remembered-by-eric-musgrave
But the innovators were often Jewish - think of Isaac Singer (sewing machines), Montague Burton, Cecil Gee, Moses Moss (Moss Bros), Mr (Michael) Fish, etc. etc. And today we still have the surnames Schneider, Schroeder (cf. shred), Portnoy, Kravetz, Szabó...
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Re: Burial Society at Mount Hebron Flushing, Queens, NY
#usa
There is a treasure trove of information about "landsmanshaftn (a mutual aid society, benefit society, or hometown society of Jewish immigrants from the same European town or region)" at Center for Jewish History in NYC. These mutual aid societies were mini B'na B'rith type organizations that maintained plots at local cemeteries in addition to offering welfare benefits to their member. Here are some helpful links for these organizations that share a common address in Manhattan:
Mt Hebron Cemetery has a searchable index on its website https://www.mounthebroncemetery.com/ that would allow you search on burial societies as well names. Hope this helps, Marshall Lerner West Chester, PA
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