My great great grandfather, Yaakov Schnee was a chassidic rabbi in Bolechov, Poland. Although he had semicha, in all likelihood he did not lead a congregation. Yet, I am interested in knowing to what

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My husband's grandparents lived in Kopaigorod (yet often some of their records indicate Beltz). The family names are LEVOVICH and DATZ. Many thanks. Janis Datz

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Hello, Mr.Moishe Tannenbaum, 27th August 2020 I wonder, may I politely ask, did you read Dr Neil Rosenstein's " The Unbroken Chain --THIRD EDITION--chapter nine--page 722--725 ? I wonder, if you are c

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I have a (Hebrew) book called "Tel Talpiot: Ha'Ir Belz B'Tifartah" which has a list of 35 tombstones in the Belz cemetery. Feel free to email me privately with the names you are interested in. Shlomo

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Following are 2 links (Yiddish and Hebrew) with some information on R' Shlomo Boruch Tennenbaum. http://www.ivelt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=807395 http://www.otzar.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1693

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Several people have written to me about the song "Mein Shtetele Belz," so I am replying publicly about that. I know that song well and love it too. However, although it has come to be associated with

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I am some how related to R' Shlomo Boruch Tennenbaum, born in 1891 and married Chaya ?. He was a Dayin in Stropkov. I have names of his children (but I cannot verify that): Wolf, Eliezer, Binyomin and

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I cannot answer your question but I can empathize because we have similar issues with my own family. I want to mention the wonderful Yiddish song “Belz, mein Shtetele Belz.” I love that song! Peace, J

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The town of Belz, Ukraine (pre-WWII in Poland, pre-WWI in Galicia) is of course famous for being the seat of the Belzer hassidic rabbinical dynasty, and with the tombstones of the first, second and th

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Thank you, that is fascinating. I'm trying to understand the purpose - would the intentional twisting of the author's name for the title have been done to reflect some honorific title? I cant imagine

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Thank you for clarifying that. It is confusing because in addition to seeing it used as this Rabbi's surname in multiple sources, I do see it used as a surname in a lot of other records on JewishGen,

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A PDF of the short book is available at https://hebrewbooks.org/18. It is in the genre of rabbinic responsa. It seems highly unlikely to me that you would find am English translation as it is a specia

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The name is Uri David ben Yosef EFRON (the letter Peh is also pronounced Feh, and the title of the book is a play on the two sounds of this letter: in the name a Feh and in the title Peh.) Hope this h

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Aperion is NOT a name. It is a litter as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_(vehicle) The word is used to describe the exalt an individual ( who would have been important enpugh to be carried in

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Hello, I'm wondering if anyone has any additional information about this individual, his life or his family beyond the limited facts that I've been able to find so far on line. Rabbi Uri David Ben Yos

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You might find the book "Odessa--Genius and Death in the City of Dreams" by Charles King published in 2011 of interest. It has an extensive bibliography. Sheila Green Researching RUBINOVSKIY (Belarus,

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Jeremy, I also have the Katzenellenbogen lineage in my Lobbenberg Ancestry tree along with Grünhut, Auerbach, Luria and Horowitz families. in geni.com there is a surname button which lists about 1000

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Hello Jeremy, First I need to correct a typo in the earlier post: the second potential K'bogen haplogroup is E-M35 (not E-35). In this situation you want to obtain yDNA from a person(s) who is reasona

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Hi Adam, I've emailed my cousins to ask if they'd be willing to do DNA testing. Which is the most appropriate test in this case? I also checked Da'at Kedoshim (Eisenstadt, 1897), and it goes through t

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Dear Jeremy Lichtman, I think you've discovered a potential new branch of the Baal Knesset (https://www.geni.com/people/Rabbi-Yehezkel-Katzenellenbogen-Ba-al-Knesset-Yehezkel/6000000001037619159). If

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