Infants were often buried in an allocated section of a cemetery. The back section represents the least expensive plots in many cemeteries (poor families couldn't afford better locations). If the child

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Herz is the Yiddish for deer, but not in German (Hirsch is the German for deer). To the question whether Naphtali and Herz are the same name, they are the same because the symbol for the tribe of Naph

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Herz is the Yiddish for deer, but not in German (Hirsch is the German for deer). To the question whether Naphtali and Herz are the same name, they are the same because the symbol for the tribe of Naph

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Solomon, The two are the same name. Herz is Yiddish and German for "deer". Naphtali was a son of biblical Jacob. The tribal symbol for Naphtali is a deer because Jacob described him as "a hind let loo

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Solomon, The two are the same name. Herz is Yiddish and German for "deer". Naphtali was a son of biblical Jacob. The tribal symbol for Naphtali is a deer because Jacob described him as "a hind let loo

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Babies who died 100 years ago of usually had a gravestone. It often was much smaller than that for an adult. Many of these were not of the now more familiar, durable granite, but often of sandstone, l

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Babies who died 100 years ago of usually had a gravestone. It often was much smaller than that for an adult. Many of these were not of the now more familiar, durable granite, but often of sandstone, l

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I don't know if it was the "usual thing", but this naming was done for the daughter of my granduncle when his wife died in childbirth in Galicia in 1890. I imagine you'll be hearing of many similar an

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I don't know if it was the "usual thing", but this naming was done for the daughter of my granduncle when his wife died in childbirth in Galicia in 1890. I imagine you'll be hearing of many similar an

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Katelman is a surname. Some of my extended family have that name. Joseph Hirschfield Portage, MI HIRSCHFELD, HERSZFELD, BUXBAUM, BUCHSBAUM, LINDENBAUM - Skwarzawa, Gliniany, Sielec Bienkow, Jaryczow N

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Katelman is a surname. Some of my extended family have that name. Joseph Hirschfield Portage, MI HIRSCHFELD, HERSZFELD, BUXBAUM, BUCHSBAUM, LINDENBAUM - Skwarzawa, Gliniany, Sielec Bienkow, Jaryczow N

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Multi-layer burial plots at the ancient Prague cemetery resulted cemetery to expand to accommodate new burials. Halakhic law requires that Jews must not destroy Jewish graves or remove the tombstones.

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Multi-layer burial plots at the ancient Prague cemetery resulted cemetery to expand to accommodate new burials. Halakhic law requires that Jews must not destroy Jewish graves or remove the tombstones.

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I'm guessing that the Lublin marriage was a civil ceremony and the religious ceremony didn't come until later when a rabbi was available. Joseph Hirschfield Portage, HIRSCHFELD, HERSZFELD, BUXBAUM, BU

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I'm guessing that the Lublin marriage was a civil ceremony and the religious ceremony didn't come until later when a rabbi was available. Joseph Hirschfield Portage, HIRSCHFELD, HERSZFELD, BUXBAUM, BU

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My mother told a similar story of beheading, this time in Poland. She didn't witness the act, but saw the headless body in Brest-Litovsk of a robbed man, probably Jewish, who had come for a visit >fro

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My mother told a similar story of beheading, this time in Poland. She didn't witness the act, but saw the headless body in Brest-Litovsk of a robbed man, probably Jewish, who had come for a visit >fro

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According to Rabbi Shmuel Shorr's book on Jewish names Gnendel derives It is an amuletic name meaning that the baby girl should have a long life. Joe Hirschfield Portage, MI USA HIRSCHFELD, HERSZFELD,

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According to Rabbi Shmuel Shorr's book on Jewish names Gnendel derives It is an amuletic name meaning that the baby girl should have a long life. Joe Hirschfield Portage, MI USA HIRSCHFELD, HERSZFELD,

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One common reason is that they arrived in London after their ship to New York had sailed. Delays in travel can result in stays like you describe until funds can be arranged because a new ticket must b

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