I learned that my great uncle emigrated from Jerusalem in 1878 based on a US passport application he filled out many years later. I have tried to find databases from the Ottoman era and Israel. The ap

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I am trying to contact Eitan Osnat and Eliahu Abram, both in Israel and both with Netvision emails. I cannot get an email through to either of them. Please contact me at lincanfamily@... if you

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Hello All; Can someone translate the Hebrew on this gravestone? It is the grave of the former rabbi of Botosani Romania, who immigrated to Tel Aviv and became a chief regional rabbi there in the 1950s

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According to their Hebrew web site, the phone number of the old Jewish cemetery in Jaffa is +972-3-7953600. When calling, there is an option to be directed to an English speaker. Hope this helps. ----

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Try finding Avnei Zikaron Chet (אבני זכרון ח) by Pinchas Graievski. It is a list of 805 burials in Jaffa Jewish cemetery. Unfortunately I didn't find it online. You can try Billiongraves: https://he.b

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Yes. You can check it with the Tel Aviv-Yafo Hevra Kadisha .

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Thank you - which Stampfers do you have? Rose (Rachel) nee Stampfer Rosen is buried in Los Angeles. Sharon Ann Dror SharonAnnDror@...

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I am looking for a genealogy researcher, Danny Rubinoff, who lived in Jerusalem 25 years ago. At that time he sent my father a letter regarding KRASSNER family history, which I recently found. I am lo

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Hello all. Yesterday I read that an ancestor, Moshe Steiner, (אברהם משה בן ראובן?) fell ill traveling from Hungary to the Holy Land and was buried in Jaffa. I know he was alive in Vienna in 1861 and w

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Sharon, There were STAMPFERs in the Los Angeles area. Do you have them in your tree? I took photos of some matzevot here. Regards,

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Hi there, I wanted to share with you I decided to write a letter to Mount of Olives looking for Leah (Stampfer) Manischewitz. They responded with the following links. BINGO - we found her AND her sist

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May 5, 2022 - 4 Iyar 5782 Dear JewishGen Community, Among the many virtues of placing family history information online, is coming across items of historical value. In honor of Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Israel

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Not all files are indexed. Did they immigrate legally? Maybe they entered as tourists. Worthwhile to check the IGRA collection every month or so to see if they show up in new records we upload.

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Many thanks for your help! On the Israel State Archives there are no citizenship files. Is there another way to get them? Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot

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National Archives will have a record of their Mandatory Citizenship file. If it exists. Israel Pickholtz

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Hello, I am looking for the family of my father's cousins. My father was Dawid WAJNMAN born in 1915 in Opole Lubelski from Szylia Ilia Mandel WAJNMAN and Ruchla Raizla MONKA My father had four brother

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I am trying to reconstruct the conditions of arrival in Palestine of my grandparents, Simon and Klara Hoffmann. They had obtained a visa in Kaunas from the Japanese consul Sugihara. Thanks to the Cent

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Hi Margarita, I suppose that Yad Vashem has scanned copies of the questionnaires submitted by Jeno and Armin Leicht which may be released and viewed onsite. But...Traditionally, a. Hungarian married w

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Additional information about the Lloyd Triestino shipping company, and specifically the ship Gerusalemme (formerly named Cracovia) can be found at the following link: https://www.theshipslist.com/ship

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The ship Gerusalemme (Jerusalem) belonged to the Lloyd's Triestino sailing company, and used to sail between the port of Trieste in Italy and the ports of Haifa and Jaffa in Eretz Israel (then Palesti

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