Here's a shot in the dark ... my maternal grandmother was Dora Siegel from Seirijai, which is a shtetl in the Suwalki region. She emigrated to NYC in 1905, and married my grandfather Abraham Teiksler

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Thank you Jewishgen for the completion of the Suwalki Yizkor Book. It is a well-done book which I will purchase several for my family. My Siegel family (GF and GM) according to the 1920 federal census

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Does anyone know where I might purchase the SLONIM yiskor book in English? Alan Tapper. Sabaalan@...

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One of the bitterest divisions among the Jews of Eastern Europe — which persists among Jews to this day — was the clash of beliefs between the Hassidim and Zionists. The very religious were concerned

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I have posted a Russian travel document on ViewMate and would be very grateful for a translation of the Russian text and handwriting: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=82973 Plea

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I've posted a 4-sheet handwritten document in Russian, exceprted from the Yizkor Book from Nesvizh, Belarus, for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.j

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Two very different things loomed large in Zalman Wendroff’s memories of growing up — his hard-to-approach but awe-inspiring mother and the centrality of the family’s large samovar. (Wendroff went on t

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Thank you for sending this, Bruce. I always read your news about Yizkor book excerpts. The murdered of Kovel are being remembered, and Kaddish has been said many (many) times. How sad that none of the

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One of the most powerful Yizkor book passages I have read contains the words of Rabbi Nahum Moshele who spoke to a throng of Jews who were about to be slaughtered In Kovel (Ukraine). What he said was

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Yizkor Book Update - April and May 2020 by Binny Lewis Dear JewishGen Community, The JewishGen Yizkor Book Team has been very active in the past two months. Here are some highlights of what we have ac

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https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bivolari/Bivolari.html It looks like only the necrology on pages 153-156 is currently transcribed. More donations would have to be solicited to get more of the book tr

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https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bivolari/Bivolari.html

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English Translation of Bivolari Yizkor Book? The Jewish Gen website indicates that there is a Yizkor book for Bivolari, Romania, entitled Ayaratenu Bivolari, or Our Town Bivolari. It seems to indicate

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Occasionally, I come across a chapter in a Yizkor book that is a fable, and some have been about the devil trying to cause Jews to stray from their pious paths. This one, “The Devil was out of Work,”

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Can you please tell me where in the UK I can buy volumes 1and 2 of the Brest Litovsk book? Thanks Sent from my IPad.

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I'm very happy to say that after more than 10 years, the translation of the 1957 Tel Aviv edition of the Kovel Yizkor book is now complete, with all chapters loaded. Many thanks to Ala Gamulka whose t

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Alan: I see Byten as part of this database. Is this what you are looking for? https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor/ David Rosen Boston, MA

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Several years ago I submitted the necrology list from the yizkor book from Byten. The data was posted . It is not in the necrology lists today. Do I have to send them to you again

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Steve, FYI I have been translating a few sections which are almost ready. As follows: FROM: Nesvizh: History of the town and of the Jewish Community, from foundation until the destruction of the Secon

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I am pleased to announce that, thanks to the efforts of Rabbi Molly Karp, our translator, as well as a couple of very generous donors, we have been able to add dozens of newly translated pages of the

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