I think those numbers are pretty good. 10% of Americans don't have a high school diploma or GED. Less than 40% have a bachelors degree. Less than 3% of Americans are Jewish. Ignorance of history exten

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See: https://www.segal.org/name/index.html David Rosen Boston, MA

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The name "Segel" is said to have also been an honorific sometimes added to surnames of rabbinical-levitical families. Is anyone aware of the tradition surrounding the use of it? -Ari Dale

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Thanks so much for this very detailed response. It does seem possible that Reizl could be Rose. She did live on Henry St at one point, so very possible that she could be related to the person at 100 H

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Birth, marriage, and death records for Zhitomir are in the archives in that city. The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem has film of birth records through 1907. Alex Kr

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I went to school in New Jersey in the 50's and there was very little taught about World War II and later. I guess they made the ridiculous assumption that since it was relatively recent we all knew ab

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Prof. Lipstadt hits the nail on the head when she states: "These lessons remain relevant today in order to understand not only anti-Semitism, but also all the other 'isms' of society. There is real da

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regarding Odessa - there are index files (in Cyrillic) posted by Alex Krakovsky at https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/Архіви/ДАОО/39/6 regarding Zhitomir - there are index files (in Cyrillic) posted by Al

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There are currently virtually no records from Volochysk in the JewishGen Ukraine database, outside of a handful of people listed in the Vsia Rossiia business directory and a few cases of people from V

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In addition to Kherson having been a gubernia in southern Ukraine, it is a city that was the capital of the gubernia. Odessa is a city that was in that gubernia.

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If Elaine's ancestors came from New East Prussia, the area around Konigsberg, now Kaliningrad, she would have been on the borders of the Suwalki Lomza gubernias in NE Poland which used to be in Lithua

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Karen, Volochys'k https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1058702 Pidvolochys'k https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1051014 The towns are only one mile apart.

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Looking for any records of my Pevsner family, grandfather Gershon and his son Mordecai . Mordecai and his brothers owned a department store there which was burned down in a program in the early 1900 s

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Looking for Yaakov Rotem (or relative) Yad Vashem testimonial reporter who reported murders of Wilder family members from Lwow. Nina Talbot, Brooklyn, NY

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Also, perhaps this is the way the clerk wrote a capital I, and made a capital L with a longer leg, but we would need to examine more of her or his work to confirm it. BTW, I don't think the Kabakiers/

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Hi Judy, Let me try to reply to your questions: 1) Is there likely to be any correspondence about this case? There was correspondence in 1906 because the file is indexed in an index to correspondence.

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Often a capital I appears in transliterations, because the name was pronounced Yacovitch. The Anglicized name was Jacovitch or Jacobitch, or similar. From there, the capital I was mistaken for a lower

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In September 2019, one of my researchers, made a visit to Bar Ukraine and purchased a newly released book on the history of Bar written by Bar historian Mikhail Kupershteyn. The original book is writt

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I don't agree that the example cited is a distortion in any way. Perhaps include those who thought 20 million in those who were aware of the magnitude of the disaster - but if the question is, "how ma

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My mother said her mother's family came from Latvia - they were Litvaks after all. She thought Litvaks came from Latvia. Of course, her family weren't from Latvia at all (as far back as I could go), b

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