I have found the name of a relative in the Volozhin (also spelled Valozhin, present-day Belarus) Yitzkor book -- but unfortunately this section of the volume has not been translated. My knowledge of Y

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Dear Genners, I am working on my mother's family whose name was HAKOHEN or KAGANOVICH (various spellings) in Rakov and Volozhin (presentday Belarus). I have traced my mother's grandfather -- Avram Aki

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Dear Genners, I am working on my mother's family whose name was HAKOHEN or KAGANOVICH (various spellings) in Rakov and Volozhin (presentday Belarus). I have traced my mother's grandfather -- Avram Aki

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Dear Genners, I am working on my mother's family whose name was HAKOHEN or KAGANOVICH (various spellings) in Rakov and Volozhin (presentday Belarus). I have traced my mother's grandfather -- Avram Aki

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Dear Genners, I am working on my mother's family whose name was HAKOHEN or KAGANOVICH (various spellings) in Rakov and Volozhin (presentday Belarus). I have traced my mother's grandfather -- Avram Aki

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I am researching my great-grandfather, whose name in Yiddish was Avram Akiva HaKohen -- or in Russian Kaganovich or Kahanovich. I believe he attended the Volozhin Yeshiva in the 1870s. I have come upo

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I am researching my great-grandfather, whose name in Yiddish was Avram Akiva HaKohen -- or in Russian Kaganovich or Kahanovich. I believe he attended the Volozhin Yeshiva in the 1870s. I have come upo

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I am researching my family (HaKohen in Yiddish, Kaganovich in Russian), Cohenim scribes who were associated with the great Yeshiva in Volozhin. I have read (in Yaffa Eliach's "There Once was a World")

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I am researching my family (HaKohen in Yiddish, Kaganovich in Russian), Cohenim scribes who were associated with the great Yeshiva in Volozhin. I have read (in Yaffa Eliach's "There Once was a World")

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I am researching my family (HaKohen in Yiddish, Kaganovich in Russian), Cohenim scribes who were associated with the great Yeshiva in Volozhin. I have read (in Yaffa Eliach's "There Once was a World")

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I am researching my family (HaKohen in Yiddish, Kaganovich in Russian), Cohenim scribes who were associated with the great Yeshiva in Volozhin. I have read (in Yaffa Eliach's "There Once was a World")

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I am researching my mother's family (Cohenim) which had a tradition of Torah scribes going back several generations. I'd love to hear from others who have scribes in their family trees. I know there i

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I am researching my mother's family (Cohenim) which had a tradition of Torah scribes going back several generations. I'd love to hear from others who have scribes in their family trees. I know there i

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My great-grandfather was an extremely religious Jew who emigrated from Russia to Madison Street on the Lower East Side in 1909. I am trying to find out which synagogue he belonged to. I am aware that

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My great-grandfather was an extremely religious Jew who emigrated from Russia to Madison Street on the Lower East Side in 1909. I am trying to find out which synagogue he belonged to. I am aware that

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Some of my family members who lived in Lithuania (then Poland) in the 1920s and 1930s went to a resort town near Vilnius (then Vilna) for medical/spa treatments. They wrote to relatives in Israel abou

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Some of my family members who lived in Lithuania (then Poland) in the 1920s and 1930s went to a resort town near Vilnius (then Vilna) for medical/spa treatments. They wrote to relatives in Israel abou

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I have found my ancestors on the 1910 census -- they lived in a building at 195 Madison Street on New York's Lower East Side. The building had 16 units, numbered on the census >from 277 to 292. My fam

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I have found my ancestors on the 1910 census -- they lived in a building at 195 Madison Street on New York's Lower East Side. The building had 16 units, numbered on the census >from 277 to 292. My fam

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My ancestors arrived on Ellis Island on June 1, 1909 and moved to a tenement house on Madison Street (NOT Madison Avenue) on the Lower East Side, near Henry and Allen streets. I'm wondering how they w

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