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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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 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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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 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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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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I am researching my family >from Rakov, in present-day Belarus. I visited Rakov, near Minsk, this past spring -- and we said kaddish on the site of the synagogue that was buried by the Nazis with much

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I am researching my family >from Rakov, in present-day Belarus. I visited Rakov, near Minsk, this past spring -- and we said kaddish on the site of the synagogue that was buried by the Nazis with much

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I am researching my family >from Rakov, in present-day Belarus. I visited Rakov, near Minsk, this past spring -- and we said kaddish on the site of the synagogue that was buried by the Nazis with much

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I am researching my family >from Rakov, in present-day Belarus. I visited Rakov, near Minsk, this past spring -- and we said kaddish on the site of the synagogue that was buried by the Nazis with much

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Dear Genners, I was with a group of friends last night and the subject of Yizkor books came up. I told them about the lists of those slain in the Holocaust published in each shtetl's book. One friend

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Dear Genners, I was with a group of friends last night and the subject of Yizkor books came up. I told them about the lists of those slain in the Holocaust published in each shtetl's book. One friend

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