Dear Sub-Carpathia Researchers,

The 35th IAJGS International Conference program for Jerusalem is now
posted to the conference web site.

A meeting of individuals with Jewish roots in Sub-Carpathia Ukraine will
be held:

Monday, July 6, 2015
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Location will be announced in your program.

I am available to meet with anyone individually during the conference.

Here is a link to the conference web site:

< http://www.iajgs2015.org/ > SEE Program, then Program & Schedule

I look forward to meeting you.

Marshall Katz
Sub-Carpathia SIG coordinator

Dear Sub-Carpathia Researchers,

The 35th IAJGS International Conference program for Jerusalem is now
posted to the conference web site.

A meeting of individuals with Jewish roots in Sub-Carpathia Ukraine will
be held:

Monday, July 6, 2015
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Location will be announced in your program.

I am available to meet with anyone individually during the conference.

Here is a link to the conference web site:

< http://www.iajgs2015.org/ > SEE Program, then Program & Schedule

I look forward to meeting you.

Marshall Katz
Sub-Carpathia SIG coordinator

RUTHEISER family >from Kiev

Unknown RUTHEISER, born in Kiev around 1850 and probably died there.
Rose his daughter b. in Kiev about 1881, arrived in 1889 (age 8) in
New York died in New York 3 November 1962. Married Benjamin
DALMATOWSKY (>from Minsk) in NY in 1905. Siblings, some possibly born
in Kiev, others in New York: Ethel, Herman, Frank, Ray, Bertha,
Gussie, Elliot, Harry. A different branch of the RUTHEISER family all

from Kiev: Jacob b. 1850 married Rachel. Their children: Morris

(Moses) (1879-1956) married Lena (Leice) Rudolph (b. 1887 in Austria);
Hannah b.1879 married Solomon Dubner (b.1886 in Russia); Harry
(1880-1961) married Minnie Berliant (b. 1884 in Russia); Sarah
(1883-1964) married Morris Cohen ((b. 1874 in Russia); and, born in
New York: Paul and Henrietta. (Please reply privately)



DALMATOWSKY (Dalmatouvsky) family >from Minsk

Benjamin, born in Minsk 9 August 1879, died in New York 1 September
1951. No record of parents or siblings. Arrived New York 1896 (age
17). Married Rose RUTHEISER in NY, in 1905. Children: Gertrud,
Herbert, Milton, Edith. (Please reply privately)

Susanna Easton

San Diego, California, USA

RUTHEISER family >from Kiev

Unknown RUTHEISER, born in Kiev around 1850 and probably died there.
Rose his daughter b. in Kiev about 1881, arrived in 1889 (age 8) in
New York died in New York 3 November 1962. Married Benjamin
DALMATOWSKY (>from Minsk) in NY in 1905. Siblings, some possibly born
in Kiev, others in New York: Ethel, Herman, Frank, Ray, Bertha,
Gussie, Elliot, Harry. A different branch of the RUTHEISER family all

from Kiev: Jacob b. 1850 married Rachel. Their children: Morris

(Moses) (1879-1956) married Lena (Leice) Rudolph (b. 1887 in Austria);
Hannah b.1879 married Solomon Dubner (b.1886 in Russia); Harry
(1880-1961) married Minnie Berliant (b. 1884 in Russia); Sarah
(1883-1964) married Morris Cohen ((b. 1874 in Russia); and, born in
New York: Paul and Henrietta. (Please reply privately)



DALMATOWSKY (Dalmatouvsky) family >from Minsk

Benjamin, born in Minsk 9 August 1879, died in New York 1 September
1951. No record of parents or siblings. Arrived New York 1896 (age
17). Married Rose RUTHEISER in NY, in 1905. Children: Gertrud,
Herbert, Milton, Edith. (Please reply privately)

Susanna Easton

San Diego, California, USA

IGRA released the first installment of information regarding the
Illegal Immigration period to Eretz Israel (Palestine) >from Europe and
North Africa. The information comes >from three sources:

Atlit Database Index - In cooperation with "Bintivey Ha'apala"
Clandestine Jewish Immigration Information and Research Center in
Memory of Admiral Mordechai (Moka) Limon we are posting a partial
index of their database. Their databases span >from the late 1930's
through a few years after the recognition of the State of Israel.

Deportation Lists 1939 - This database is composed of "duplicate"
lists found in a file of the British Police in the Israel State
Archives. It contains lists of people who were on 13 ships that were
captured in 1939. The database includes the names of 6,282. This
database includes scans of the document which are can be seen by
members of IGRA.

The Illegal Immigrants 1939 -1948 - The lists come >from a variety of
places - most are Jewish Agency offices, some elsewhere. All are
currently in the Central Zionist Archives. Some lists are in English
and some lists are in Hebrew, therefore there will be two databases
depending on the language of the original documents. This will be an
ongoing project over many years, with updates of additional names to
the database.

Please understand that each document has different kinds of
information available. One of the things that makes this addition so
interesting is that some people now appear in more than one document
dealing with immigration and at a different date. This allows the
development of a timeline for that period in their life. We are
working to quickly fix a problem where the name of the Ship is not
showing on the result page.

With these additions there are now over 440,000 lines of data available!

http://genealogy.org.il/AID/index.php

Rose Feldman
Israel Genealogy Research Association
http://genealogy.org.il
http:/facebook.com/israelgenealogy

Keep up to date on archives, databases and genealogy in general and
Jewish and Israeli roots in particular with
http://twitter.com/JewDataGenGirl

IGRA released the first installment of information regarding the
Illegal Immigration period to Eretz Israel (Palestine) >from Europe and
North Africa. The information comes >from three sources:

Atlit Database Index - In cooperation with "Bintivey Ha'apala"
Clandestine Jewish Immigration Information and Research Center in
Memory of Admiral Mordechai (Moka) Limon we are posting a partial
index of their database. Their databases span >from the late 1930's
through a few years after the recognition of the State of Israel.

Deportation Lists 1939 - This database is composed of "duplicate"
lists found in a file of the British Police in the Israel State
Archives. It contains lists of people who were on 13 ships that were
captured in 1939. The database includes the names of 6,282. This
database includes scans of the document which are can be seen by
members of IGRA.

The Illegal Immigrants 1939 -1948 - The lists come >from a variety of
places - most are Jewish Agency offices, some elsewhere. All are
currently in the Central Zionist Archives. Some lists are in English
and some lists are in Hebrew, therefore there will be two databases
depending on the language of the original documents. This will be an
ongoing project over many years, with updates of additional names to
the database.

Please understand that each document has different kinds of
information available. One of the things that makes this addition so
interesting is that some people now appear in more than one document
dealing with immigration and at a different date. This allows the
development of a timeline for that period in their life. We are
working to quickly fix a problem where the name of the Ship is not
showing on the result page.

With these additions there are now over 440,000 lines of data available!

http://genealogy.org.il/AID/index.php

Rose Feldman
Israel Genealogy Research Association
http://genealogy.org.il
http:/facebook.com/israelgenealogy

Keep up to date on archives, databases and genealogy in general and
Jewish and Israeli roots in particular with
http://twitter.com/JewDataGenGirl

IGRA has just released the first installment of information regarding the
Illegal Immigration period to Eretz-Israel (Palestine) >from Europe and North
Africa. The information comes >from three sources:

Atlit Database Index - In cooperation with "Bintivey Ha'apala"
Clandestine Jewish Immigration Information and Research Center in Memory of
Admiral Mordechai (Moka) Limon we are posting a partial index of their
database. Their databases span >from the late 1930's through a few years
after the recognition of the State of Israel.

Deportation Lists 1939 - This database is composed of "duplicate"
lists found in a file of the British Police in the Israel State Archives. It
contains lists of people who were on 13 ships that were captured in 1939.
The database includes the names of 6,282. This database includes scans of
the document which can be seen by members of IGRA.

The Illegal Immigrants 1939 -1948 - The lists come >from a variety of sources
- most are >from Jewish Agency offices, some >from elsewhere. All are
currently in the Central Zionist Archives. Some lists are in English and
some lists are in Hebrew, therefore there will be two databases depending on
the language of the original documents. This will be an ongoing project
over many years, with updates of additional names to the database.

Please understand that each document has different kinds of information
available. One of the things that makes this addition so interesting is that
some people now appear in more than one document dealing with immigration
and at a different date. This allows the development of a timeline for that
period in their life. We are working to quickly fix a problem where the name
of the Ship is not showing on the result page.

With these additions there are now over 440,000 lines of data available!

http://genealogy.org.il/AID/index.php

Keep up to date on archives, databases and genealogy in general and Jewish
and Israeli roots in particular with http://twitter.com/JewDataGenGirl

For more information:
Rose Feldman, Israel Genealogy Research Association
http://genealogy.org.il http:/facebook.com/israelgenealogy

Ellen Stepak, IGRA member in Israel estepak@zahav.net.il

IGRA has just released the first installment of information regarding the
Illegal Immigration period to Eretz-Israel (Palestine) >from Europe and North
Africa. The information comes >from three sources:

Atlit Database Index - In cooperation with "Bintivey Ha'apala"
Clandestine Jewish Immigration Information and Research Center in Memory of
Admiral Mordechai (Moka) Limon we are posting a partial index of their
database. Their databases span >from the late 1930's through a few years
after the recognition of the State of Israel.

Deportation Lists 1939 - This database is composed of "duplicate"
lists found in a file of the British Police in the Israel State Archives. It
contains lists of people who were on 13 ships that were captured in 1939.
The database includes the names of 6,282. This database includes scans of
the document which can be seen by members of IGRA.

The Illegal Immigrants 1939 -1948 - The lists come >from a variety of sources
- most are >from Jewish Agency offices, some >from elsewhere. All are
currently in the Central Zionist Archives. Some lists are in English and
some lists are in Hebrew, therefore there will be two databases depending on
the language of the original documents. This will be an ongoing project
over many years, with updates of additional names to the database.

Please understand that each document has different kinds of information
available. One of the things that makes this addition so interesting is that
some people now appear in more than one document dealing with immigration
and at a different date. This allows the development of a timeline for that
period in their life. We are working to quickly fix a problem where the name
of the Ship is not showing on the result page.

With these additions there are now over 440,000 lines of data available!

http://genealogy.org.il/AID/index.php

Keep up to date on archives, databases and genealogy in general and Jewish
and Israeli roots in particular with http://twitter.com/JewDataGenGirl

For more information:
Rose Feldman, Israel Genealogy Research Association
http://genealogy.org.il http:/facebook.com/israelgenealogy

Ellen Stepak, IGRA member in Israel estepak@zahav.net.il

Hi,

Vivian Kahn wrote about some resources available at JTS online...

In regards to: "Sod ha-Shem (Ritual of Circumcistion) and Record of
circumcisions in Egerszasz, Hungary 1856-1875", at
http://www.jtsa.edu/The_Library.xml I would appreciate suggestions for
people, institutions etc. who have the ability to translate, if just
slowly, the Hebrew text starting on page 74, seemingly very informal,
personal, maybe even shorthand of a sort...

With all due respect to the people of Egerszasz, this is actually for a
partly similar but much longer brit mallah record - late 19th century,
about 600 circumcisions in all - >from the area around Mezonyarad,
Hungary, a bit southwest of Miskolc. An in-law - the grandson of the
moyel - has the book and I am trying to create a proposal for its
translation, indexing... and having it photographed, so that it is
eventually searchable in JewishGen and its mirrors, with images at a
partner site.

But it first needs to be evaluated not only for legibility but to know
if it has clear dates in the Hebrew calendar and Hebrew name couplets
(Son ben Father...). It has no family names. However it looks amazing,
with that gold-yellow tint of wisdom in its 150 year-old pages. While a
full translation of every page is ideal, it seems like that we know the
general geographical area it may be adequate to only translate the dates
and names (including the sandak). With this info people could find their
ancestor or cousin and then download the page and have it fully
translated independently of JewishGen.

Thanks,
Todd Edelman
(near Los Angeles)

--
Todd Edelman
SLOW Factory

Voice/Text: 415 867 9843
Skype: toddedelman

edelman@greenidea.eu
www.greenidea.eu

https://www.facebook.com/Iamtoddedelman
http://twitter.com/toddedelman
http://de.linkedin.com/in/toddedelman

Hi,

Vivian Kahn wrote about some resources available at JTS online...

In regards to: "Sod ha-Shem (Ritual of Circumcistion) and Record of
circumcisions in Egerszasz, Hungary 1856-1875", at
http://www.jtsa.edu/The_Library.xml I would appreciate suggestions for
people, institutions etc. who have the ability to translate, if just
slowly, the Hebrew text starting on page 74, seemingly very informal,
personal, maybe even shorthand of a sort...

With all due respect to the people of Egerszasz, this is actually for a
partly similar but much longer brit mallah record - late 19th century,
about 600 circumcisions in all - >from the area around Mezonyarad,
Hungary, a bit southwest of Miskolc. An in-law - the grandson of the
moyel - has the book and I am trying to create a proposal for its
translation, indexing... and having it photographed, so that it is
eventually searchable in JewishGen and its mirrors, with images at a
partner site.

But it first needs to be evaluated not only for legibility but to know
if it has clear dates in the Hebrew calendar and Hebrew name couplets
(Son ben Father...). It has no family names. However it looks amazing,
with that gold-yellow tint of wisdom in its 150 year-old pages. While a
full translation of every page is ideal, it seems like that we know the
general geographical area it may be adequate to only translate the dates
and names (including the sandak). With this info people could find their
ancestor or cousin and then download the page and have it fully
translated independently of JewishGen.

Thanks,
Todd Edelman
(near Los Angeles)

--
Todd Edelman
SLOW Factory

Voice/Text: 415 867 9843
Skype: toddedelman

edelman@greenidea.eu
www.greenidea.eu

https://www.facebook.com/Iamtoddedelman
http://twitter.com/toddedelman
http://de.linkedin.com/in/toddedelman

Join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles at our next program:

Sunday, May 3 2015 - 1:30 PM

"The Secret Jews: History and Culture of the Crypto Jews" with Arthur Benveniste

American Jewish University
15600 Mulholland Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90077

In the 14th and 15th Centuries, Jews of Spain and Portugal were forced
to convert to Catholicism. Many families kept the knowledge of their
Jewish past for 500 years, transmitting it in secret to their children
and often continuing to practice Jewish rites covertly. Many of the
descendants of these Crypto-Jews are now seeking their Jewish
heritage. Mr. Benveniste's presentation will follow the history of
Spanish and Portuguese Jews, their forced conversion, the emergence of
crypto-Judaism, how it came to the Americas, and the discovery of
their Jewish background by many Hispanics in the Americas today.

Speaker:

Arthur Benveniste's parents were >from Rhodes and he is world-renowned
expert on Sephardic genealogy. In 1992, he was part of the Sephardic
Odyssey invited by King Juan Carlos to return to Spain to commemorate
the quincentennial of the expulsion of the Jews. On Tisha B'av of
that year we conducted the first Jewish religious service in the La
Blanca Synagogue of Toledo since 1391. In 1996 he was part of a group
that visited Crypto Jews and Jewish sites in Brazil. They made contact
with many formerly secret Jews who want to return to the religion of
their ancestors. In the years 1999 and 2000 Ihe traveled to the
island of Rhodes in order to observe Rosh Hashanah in the Kal de
Shalom, the oldest functioning synagogue in Greece and the one that
his mother attended when she was young. He is now working with a
group that is raising money to restore that synagogue and other Jewish
sites in Greece. In 2002 he was in Rhodes again for ceremonies
dedicating a memorial to the holocaust victims of the Dodecanese
Islands. He has been to Spain and Portugal four times in the last
twelve years, attending conferences, doing research and contacting
members of the Iberian Jewish communities. He has made to visits to
the village of Belmonte, Portugal where over 300 formerly secret Jews
have now come out to practice Judaism openly.

JGSLA members $5.00, guests $5.00. No reservations necessary.

If you want to learn more about Crypto-Jews, here is the link to Art
Benveniste's home page: http://home.earthlink.net/~benven/

Also, the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies: http://www.cryptojews.com/

Pamela Weisberger
Program Chair, JGSLA
Santa Monica, CA
pweisberger@gmail.com

Join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles at our next program:

Sunday, May 3 2015 - 1:30 PM

"The Secret Jews: History and Culture of the Crypto Jews" with Arthur Benveniste

American Jewish University
15600 Mulholland Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90077

In the 14th and 15th Centuries, Jews of Spain and Portugal were forced
to convert to Catholicism. Many families kept the knowledge of their
Jewish past for 500 years, transmitting it in secret to their children
and often continuing to practice Jewish rites covertly. Many of the
descendants of these Crypto-Jews are now seeking their Jewish
heritage. Mr. Benveniste's presentation will follow the history of
Spanish and Portuguese Jews, their forced conversion, the emergence of
crypto-Judaism, how it came to the Americas, and the discovery of
their Jewish background by many Hispanics in the Americas today.

Speaker:

Arthur Benveniste's parents were >from Rhodes and he is world-renowned
expert on Sephardic genealogy. In 1992, he was part of the Sephardic
Odyssey invited by King Juan Carlos to return to Spain to commemorate
the quincentennial of the expulsion of the Jews. On Tisha B'av of
that year we conducted the first Jewish religious service in the La
Blanca Synagogue of Toledo since 1391. In 1996 he was part of a group
that visited Crypto Jews and Jewish sites in Brazil. They made contact
with many formerly secret Jews who want to return to the religion of
their ancestors. In the years 1999 and 2000 Ihe traveled to the
island of Rhodes in order to observe Rosh Hashanah in the Kal de
Shalom, the oldest functioning synagogue in Greece and the one that
his mother attended when she was young. He is now working with a
group that is raising money to restore that synagogue and other Jewish
sites in Greece. In 2002 he was in Rhodes again for ceremonies
dedicating a memorial to the holocaust victims of the Dodecanese
Islands. He has been to Spain and Portugal four times in the last
twelve years, attending conferences, doing research and contacting
members of the Iberian Jewish communities. He has made to visits to
the village of Belmonte, Portugal where over 300 formerly secret Jews
have now come out to practice Judaism openly.

JGSLA members $5.00, guests $5.00. No reservations necessary.

If you want to learn more about Crypto-Jews, here is the link to Art
Benveniste's home page: http://home.earthlink.net/~benven/

Also, the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies: http://www.cryptojews.com/

Pamela Weisberger
Program Chair, JGSLA
Santa Monica, CA
pweisberger@gmail.com

Trying to make contact with the family of G15.8. Leah Rachel, nee
Heschel, perished in the Holocaust, married Samuel Feiner (who
remarried). Leah had a daughter, Gitel, married Asaf, residing in
Lakewood, NJ.

Neil Rosenstein

Trying to make contact with the family of G15.8. Leah Rachel, nee
Heschel, perished in the Holocaust, married Samuel Feiner (who
remarried). Leah had a daughter, Gitel, married Asaf, residing in
Lakewood, NJ.

Neil Rosenstein

Trying to obtain photos as jpegs of the earlier Rebbes
of this dynasty.

Neil Rosenstein

Trying to obtain photos as jpegs of the earlier Rebbes
of this dynasty.

Neil Rosenstein

Sarid, A. 2015. There was once a home: memories of the Lithuanian shtetls
published in the Afrikaner Idishe Tsaytung-African Jewish Newspaper, 1952-54.
Translated by Veronica Belling. Cape Town: Jewish Publications - South Africa,
Isaac & Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies & Research.

*

This collection of stories and anecdotes of life in early 20th century Lithuanian
shtetls, sourced >from the JOHANNESBURG Yiddish newspaper, Afrikaner Idishe
Tsaytung and brought to light for an English speaking audience, is a poignant
reminder for today?s South African Jewry of their Lithuanian ancestors. It is
also a monument to the sacred memory of those who perished at the claws of the
Nazi animal and so is a form of Yizkor Buch.

Most of the articles are authored by Mr. A. SARID but there are also articles by
a variety of others. The articles were presented as two series between 1952 and
1954.

Religious and secular life in the shtetl is revealed and described via articles
long and short. Some shtetls receiving more attention than others. There are
also a number of photographs where many may recognise names or even faces of once
Lithuanian families that have now become South African. There is a 7 page index
which includes many surnames found in the book.

The 26 Lithuanian and 4 Polish shtetls/towns discussed include Aniksht
[ANYKSCIAI], Birzh [BIRZAI], KELME (Lithuania), Kovarsk [KOVARSKUS], Krakinova
[KREKENAVA], Kupishok [KUPISKIS], Kurshan [KURSENAI], Linkova [LINKUVA], LODZ
(Poland), Oran [VARENA], OSTROLENKA (Poland), Plungian [PLUNGE], Ponevezh
[PANEVEZYS], Poshelat [PUSALOTAS], Poshvitin [PASVITINYS], Posvol [PASVALYS],
Radvilishok [RADVILISKIS], Rakishok [ROKISKIS], Rasin [RASEINIAI], ROZHAN (Poland),
Shavli [SIAULIAI], Shidlova [SILUVA], Telz [TELSIAI] (within entry for Poshelat),
Vashilkova [WASILKOV] (Poland), Vashki [VASKAI], Vilkomir [UKMERGE], Yanishok
[JONISKIS], Yanova [JONAVA], Yurburg [JURBARKAS] and ZHAGER. There is also a
picture each of people >from Vilna [VILNIUS] and Shatt [SETA].

In an article on Shidlova there is a depiction of a wedding that is inspiring and
heart-warming, what a wonderful experience it must have been! Some old-worldly
ways seem to have been lost in our modern times yet some things remain the same.

There is an article on the esteemed Rabbi Yosef KAHANEMAN z"l, the Ponevezher Rov,
who would visit South Africa in those times.

Rakishok is given an enchanting description, reputedly the only 100% Chasidic
shtetl of the predominantly Mitnagdic Lithuania. This is one for the Chabadniks
and Rakishokers to enjoy.

A tale I would highlight is the moral of, "Mote, the Grobe head", found in the
entry for the shtetl of Oran.

A particularly exciting find for me was the extraordinary description of an
individual, Reb Motel POGRIMANSKIS z"l, who was a legend at the Yeshivah I
attended in JOHANNESBURG. A Rabbi & Gaon of whom stories heard in Yeshivah are
here corroborated besides those that have been passed down >from Telz to CLEVELAND
to JOHANNESBURG. This is one for the Yeshivaniks and Telzers to enjoy.

This is truly a praiseworthy achievement of Dr Veronica Belling and her
supporters to have ably brought these articles to light.


Pesach Burke
Cape Town

Ordering information: Kaplan-Centre@uct.ac.za


*** This is the one-time mention of commercial availability that JewishGen
allows for -- Moderator

Sarid, A. 2015. There was once a home: memories of the Lithuanian shtetls
published in the Afrikaner Idishe Tsaytung-African Jewish Newspaper, 1952-54.
Translated by Veronica Belling. Cape Town: Jewish Publications - South Africa,
Isaac & Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies & Research.

*

This collection of stories and anecdotes of life in early 20th century Lithuanian
shtetls, sourced >from the JOHANNESBURG Yiddish newspaper, Afrikaner Idishe
Tsaytung and brought to light for an English speaking audience, is a poignant
reminder for today?s South African Jewry of their Lithuanian ancestors. It is
also a monument to the sacred memory of those who perished at the claws of the
Nazi animal and so is a form of Yizkor Buch.

Most of the articles are authored by Mr. A. SARID but there are also articles by
a variety of others. The articles were presented as two series between 1952 and
1954.

Religious and secular life in the shtetl is revealed and described via articles
long and short. Some shtetls receiving more attention than others. There are
also a number of photographs where many may recognise names or even faces of once
Lithuanian families that have now become South African. There is a 7 page index
which includes many surnames found in the book.

The 26 Lithuanian and 4 Polish shtetls/towns discussed include Aniksht
[ANYKSCIAI], Birzh [BIRZAI], KELME (Lithuania), Kovarsk [KOVARSKUS], Krakinova
[KREKENAVA], Kupishok [KUPISKIS], Kurshan [KURSENAI], Linkova [LINKUVA], LODZ
(Poland), Oran [VARENA], OSTROLENKA (Poland), Plungian [PLUNGE], Ponevezh
[PANEVEZYS], Poshelat [PUSALOTAS], Poshvitin [PASVITINYS], Posvol [PASVALYS],
Radvilishok [RADVILISKIS], Rakishok [ROKISKIS], Rasin [RASEINIAI], ROZHAN (Poland),
Shavli [SIAULIAI], Shidlova [SILUVA], Telz [TELSIAI] (within entry for Poshelat),
Vashilkova [WASILKOV] (Poland), Vashki [VASKAI], Vilkomir [UKMERGE], Yanishok
[JONISKIS], Yanova [JONAVA], Yurburg [JURBARKAS] and ZHAGER. There is also a
picture each of people >from Vilna [VILNIUS] and Shatt [SETA].

In an article on Shidlova there is a depiction of a wedding that is inspiring and
heart-warming, what a wonderful experience it must have been! Some old-worldly
ways seem to have been lost in our modern times yet some things remain the same.

There is an article on the esteemed Rabbi Yosef KAHANEMAN z"l, the Ponevezher Rov,
who would visit South Africa in those times.

Rakishok is given an enchanting description, reputedly the only 100% Chasidic
shtetl of the predominantly Mitnagdic Lithuania. This is one for the Chabadniks
and Rakishokers to enjoy.

A tale I would highlight is the moral of, "Mote, the Grobe head", found in the
entry for the shtetl of Oran.

A particularly exciting find for me was the extraordinary description of an
individual, Reb Motel POGRIMANSKIS z"l, who was a legend at the Yeshivah I
attended in JOHANNESBURG. A Rabbi & Gaon of whom stories heard in Yeshivah are
here corroborated besides those that have been passed down >from Telz to CLEVELAND
to JOHANNESBURG. This is one for the Yeshivaniks and Telzers to enjoy.

This is truly a praiseworthy achievement of Dr Veronica Belling and her
supporters to have ably brought these articles to light.


Pesach Burke
Cape Town

Ordering information: Kaplan-Centre@uct.ac.za


*** This is the one-time mention of commercial availability that JewishGen
allows for -- Moderator

Hi everybody,

I would like to invite all to our Bessarabia SIG Meeting at the conference
in Jerusalem. Our Special Interest Group covers region of former Bessarabia
Gubernia (Republic of Moldova, Kishinev as a capital, Akkerman, Izmail
districts in Odessa Oblast, and Khotin district in Czernovits oblast and
also a small area on the left bank of Dniester River, which is now part of
Republic of Moldova / Transnistria Republic (with towns of Tiraspol,
Grigoriopol, Dubossary, Slobodzeya, Rybnitsa, Kamenka).

The meeting is open to the public. It will take place on Wednesday, July
8, 11:15am - 12:30pm.

We will have a distinguished guest speaker Dr. Dan Korn, the President of
World Federation of Bessarabiam Jews, Member of the 16th Knesset, 2006,
Acting Chairman of the Chamber of Trade Israel-Moldova 1999-2015, researcher
of Jewish communities in cooperation with The Academy of Science, Kishinev,
Moldova 2002-2010.

Yefim Kogan
Bessarabia SIG Coordinator
Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany,
Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in
Galatz, Romania, KOGAN in Dubossary, Moldova, SRULEVICH in Shanghai, China

Hi everybody,

I would like to invite all to our Bessarabia SIG Meeting at the conference
in Jerusalem. Our Special Interest Group covers region of former Bessarabia
Gubernia (Republic of Moldova, Kishinev as a capital, Akkerman, Izmail
districts in Odessa Oblast, and Khotin district in Czernovits oblast and
also a small area on the left bank of Dniester River, which is now part of
Republic of Moldova / Transnistria Republic (with towns of Tiraspol,
Grigoriopol, Dubossary, Slobodzeya, Rybnitsa, Kamenka).

The meeting is open to the public. It will take place on Wednesday, July
8, 11:15am - 12:30pm.

We will have a distinguished guest speaker Dr. Dan Korn, the President of
World Federation of Bessarabiam Jews, Member of the 16th Knesset, 2006,
Acting Chairman of the Chamber of Trade Israel-Moldova 1999-2015, researcher
of Jewish communities in cooperation with The Academy of Science, Kishinev,
Moldova 2002-2010.

Yefim Kogan
Bessarabia SIG Coordinator
Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany,
Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in
Galatz, Romania, KOGAN in Dubossary, Moldova, SRULEVICH in Shanghai, China