I have been able to find what professions were common in the early 1900s in the Siauliai district of Lithuania, based on the Jewish bank records that are for the town. The 1910-1913 bank records are m

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Hi Brianna, My father Oscar/Usher Harast was born in 1902 in Dumbraveni, Soroki, Bessarabia/Russia/Romania, now Moldova. He had said that they owned an inn which had been in the family for several gen

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Here are two examples from Yizkor books that describe occupations https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/sopotskin/sop024.html https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/slutsk/slu041.htm Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD

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Many Yizkor books have chapters on this very subject. Unfortunately, for those towns you named that have books, I did not see one. Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD

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Many City Directories are online at genealogyindexer.org. Although they don’t indicate an individual’s religion, you could use first and/or last names to make a logical guess, then see their occupatio

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Hello, I am interested in learning about the types of employment opportunities available for Jews in the Pale of Settlement. I know that in some areas Jews were not permitted to serve as civil servant

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New Bucharest Cemetery Records Project (ca. 1930-1980) I'm excited to announce that the JewishGen Romania Research Division has acquired images of the seemingly complete burial register of Bucharest's

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Hello, I am searching for Esther Penn (1895) + Harry Goldenberg (1890) family and also Leo Levine (1892) + Rachel Prasker (1897) family. They are from Romania / Lithuania / Polin / Belorus. Their chil

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Peter, This page from The U.S. Embassy in Romania has detailed information: Disposition of Remains Report for Romania https://ro.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/death-of-a-u-s-citizen/disposition-r

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My sister was buried in Romania, and I would like to see if I can bring her remains to the US. Does anyone have any experience on this topic or words of advice on how to go about this. Thanks in advan

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Hello Alberto, thanks for your post. Do you know who was Yitsik Ber in Khotin? was he a carpenter? We have a record from Bessarabia Business Directory of 1924 where BER, Itsko from Khotin is listed as

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Dear friends. I'm looking for any information, birth, marriage, death or other certificate, record or cemetery information on the following ancestors. Searched by name and cemetery records on Jewishge

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The JewishGen Romania Research Division has started a Facebook group. I will be sharing updates on our progress (and requests for volunteers) there. We're looking forward to good commentary, mutual as

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Hi, ask the relevant archives. Janet Furba, Germany

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The Iasi Archives have entered into the Romanian Archives' online catalogue an index of birth records from 1865-1913 (solely the name, date of registration, and index number). We have extracted the fi

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The Galanta affair very briefly: When the Rav of Galanta, R' Shimon Friedman passed away in 1891, his son-in-law R' Moshe Feldman was serving as Dayan. He was appointed to be Rav by supporters a few y

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In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invaded Russia, my Aunt Chana escaped from Czernowitz with a unit of the Komsomol in the direction of Vinitsa, never to be heard from again. I would appreciate co

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Hi group, My late great uncle, Josef Maier Stauber, b. 1909 (parents Lazar Stauber and Czipre/Tipora Stauber), from Viseu De Jos (Also Visso) was married to Marta/Mindel Fischman b. ~ 1910 (parents Ye

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Greetings, Per public information, Mr. Shraga Tzevi Levi lives at 2 Torat Chesed Street, Jerusalem. His land line phone number is +972 2 622-9783 This is a link to a summary of the book you mentioned:

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I am looking for information ( email address and/or phone number of Mr. Shraga Tzevi Levi who was living in Jerusalem in the Torat Chesed Street. He wrote a book about a Din Torah ( Galanta) and I wou

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