Yom Kippur begins Sunday evening. This excerpt from the Yizkor book of Podhajce, Ukraine about the observance of the holiest day of the year needs little introduction other than saying that its accoun

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I am looking for help for the Yizkor Books Project to work on placing material on the web. Lance Ackerfeld calls them "HTML's" This is a critical task to get newly translated material up on the Yizkor

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Thank you for this! my Gr-gr-grandmother's name was Hinda Podgaitz. She married Ephraim Friedman and they lived in Kopaigorod, Ukraine. I have always wondered if the last name Podgaitz meant that she

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In September 2019, one of my researchers, made a visit to Bar Ukraine and purchased a newly released book on the history of Bar written by Bar historian Mikhail Kupershteyn. The original book is writt

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Rosh Hashanah begins this evening, and here I bring you two excerpts from Yizkor books about the holiday, one from Gorodets in Belarus and the other from Podhajce in Ukraine. The sounds of the shofar

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While translating the Yizkor books of Przedecz and Gabin from Yiddish to English, we found references (in both books) about people sent to a forced labor camp called AMZE (aleph mem zayin ayin) אמזע W

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Shalom, Yes, it’s me and I’m back. For those who don’t know who this “me” is, my name is Lance and I have been volunteering within the Yizkor Book Project in various capacities from 1999 and from 2009

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This week’s excerpt, “Shabbosim, Holidays and Weddings,” from the Yizkor book of Klobuck, Poland is a charming snapshot of the arrival of the Sabbath — the women and girls hurrying to the baker with t

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I am extremely pleased to announce that a 878-page Staszów Memorial Book, an annotated English translation of the 1962 Yizkor book Sefer Staszow, has just been published and is available from JewishGe

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“When the month of Elul arrives, you immediately sense the special atmosphere that has enveloped the town, the atmosphere of the approaching Yamim Noraim, or Days of Awe.” So begins “On the Holidays,”

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Lizzie, Oh dear, straightaway, the divide in Anglo Jewry about who is a Jew is coming to the fore. Just so irrelevant to Lizzie at this point. Veronika, at least give accurate information. The address

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I am pleased to announce that Alexandre Crazover has taken over as the new translation coordinator for Balti Bessarabia: A Memorial of the Jewish Community. Current translations can be seen at https:/

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Dear Lizzy, 31st August 2020 I wonder, if I may politely suggest to you, please contact the London Beth Din: 020-343 6255---305 Ballards Lane London N3--Finchley-- Wishing you --Mazel and Brocho --and

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Hi Lizzy, Norwood Orphanage was at 38 Knights Hill, West Norwood in South London. There were (are?) several orphanages in Sevenoaks. This link will show you two homes in Sevenoaks as well as the Norwo

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This needs correcting The USA uses different words to the UK here - so I am UK terminology which you may have to "translate" There are two major streams in the observing of Judaism : "Orthodox" and "R

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You don't mention about how your descent is Jewish. Someone is only Jewish if they have maternal Jewish descent i.e. your mother's mother's mother etc. was Jewish. Otherwise you may have Jewish blood,

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I believe that this is now referred to as Norwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwood_(charity) and you would have to write direct to them to obtain , if I understand the law, any relevant informati

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contact info https://www.norwood.org.uk/ David Barrett

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hello everyone, i am looking for information on the Jews Orphan Asylum in a Kent. i have found out i am jewish after a family remember revealing ancestry.com data to me at age of 36. there are some hi

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In early April, the prisoners of Buchenwald could hear the distant sound of artillery from General George Patton's advancing Third U.S. Army, At about 2 p.m. on April 11, American tanks appeared in th

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