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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#belarus
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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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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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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
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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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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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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#poland
#yizkorbooks
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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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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For those interested in
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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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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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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#yizkorbooks
#ukraine
In curating these weekly Yizkor book excerpts, I have come across numerous accounts of pained Jewish parents, facing death for themselves and their families, who would put children in the keeping of a
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In curating these weekly Yizkor book excerpts, I have come across numerous accounts of pained Jewish parents, facing death for themselves and their families, who would put children in the keeping of a
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#ukraine
#yizkorbooks
“Leah Tziger [née Pinchuk] is a chapter from the Yizkor book of Rafalovka in the Ukraine. It is the story of a young girl’s struggle to survive after she and her family went into hiding and escaped th
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“Leah Tziger [née Pinchuk] is a chapter from the Yizkor book of Rafalovka in the Ukraine. It is the story of a young girl’s struggle to survive after she and her family went into hiding and escaped th
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#yizkorbooks
#poland
The “Ancient Tombstone According to Legend” is an origin story of the founding of a Jewish settlement for Jews where, once, only one Jew had lived in solitude “like a juniper in the wilderness.” The l
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The “Ancient Tombstone According to Legend” is an origin story of the founding of a Jewish settlement for Jews where, once, only one Jew had lived in solitude “like a juniper in the wilderness.” The l
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#lithuania
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A section of the Yizkor book of Švencionys, Lithuania is titled “Heroism.” It contains the accounts of “the Jewish heroes from the region about the daily battle they fought in the ranks of the various
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A section of the Yizkor book of Švencionys, Lithuania is titled “Heroism.” It contains the accounts of “the Jewish heroes from the region about the daily battle they fought in the ranks of the various
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#ukraine
One of the childhood memories of Pinchas Sherlag was sitting on a bench next to the stove in his family’s small, cramped house looking at something on the floor in front of him wrapped in linen. “I ob
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One of the childhood memories of Pinchas Sherlag was sitting on a bench next to the stove in his family’s small, cramped house looking at something on the floor in front of him wrapped in linen. “I ob
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Bruce Drake
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Central Death certificate database from Israel in English is available?
Who do you direct the request to?
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Who do you direct the request to?
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the Jewish Gen Facebook page
#ukraine
#yizkorbooks
“Iziya’s Story,” an except from the Yizkor book of Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy (Akkerman), Ukraine, is exactly what it says it is: a story that the namesake of the title is telling to a group of people of
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“Iziya’s Story,” an except from the Yizkor book of Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy (Akkerman), Ukraine, is exactly what it says it is: a story that the namesake of the title is telling to a group of people of
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
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“On the day of the liquidation, as though heaven sent, there arrived a peasant acquaintance, Vasil Vaika from Kozmatch, to save me and my child.” So begins the account of Chana Weinheber-Hacker from t
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“On the day of the liquidation, as though heaven sent, there arrived a peasant acquaintance, Vasil Vaika from Kozmatch, to save me and my child.” So begins the account of Chana Weinheber-Hacker from t
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
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“Black clouds never carry good omens, especially not for us Jews.” So ends “A Hot Summer Day Before the Storm,” a chapter from the Yizkor book of Rachov-Annapol, Poland. The scene it paints is that of
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“Black clouds never carry good omens, especially not for us Jews.” So ends “A Hot Summer Day Before the Storm,” a chapter from the Yizkor book of Rachov-Annapol, Poland. The scene it paints is that of
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
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The Sabbath has arrived, and in these troubled times, I found this excerpt about the celebration of the day and its loving description of shtetl life comforting, and a reminder that there were happy d
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The Sabbath has arrived, and in these troubled times, I found this excerpt about the celebration of the day and its loving description of shtetl life comforting, and a reminder that there were happy d
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Bruce Drake
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#poland
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“To this day, the last laugh of our dear, sweet children echoes in my ears …” This is a heart-breaking account by Helen Kajman of events that culminated in a prison cell in Bialystock in 1943, aptly t
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“To this day, the last laugh of our dear, sweet children echoes in my ears …” This is a heart-breaking account by Helen Kajman of events that culminated in a prison cell in Bialystock in 1943, aptly t
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Kowel
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This won't be of specific help to the people who inquired here about ancestors in Kovel, but if they haven't seen it, here is the KehilaLinks page I created for the city https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.
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This won't be of specific help to the people who inquired here about ancestors in Kovel, but if they haven't seen it, here is the KehilaLinks page I created for the city https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#yizkorbooks
#poland
“The epidemic was halted thanks to the supervisory efforts of the authorities over hygiene and meticulous cleanliness, as well as to the fact that no person was permitted to travel from city to city w
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“The epidemic was halted thanks to the supervisory efforts of the authorities over hygiene and meticulous cleanliness, as well as to the fact that no person was permitted to travel from city to city w
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Prohibition Bootleggers and Sacramental Wine photo
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You can find the photo in this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/books/review/jews-and-booze-becoming-american-in-the-age-of-prohibition-by-marni-davis-book-review.html
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You can find the photo in this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/books/review/jews-and-booze-becoming-american-in-the-age-of-prohibition-by-marni-davis-book-review.html
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Prohibition Bootleggers and Sacramental Wine photo
#usa
It's in the digitized New York Public Library collection. I wish I could remember the search terms I used to find it, but it was long ago.
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It's in the digitized New York Public Library collection. I wish I could remember the search terms I used to find it, but it was long ago.
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Bruce Drake
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Prohibition Bootleggers and Sacramental Wine photo
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Prohibition-era photo on Lower East Side
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Prohibition-era photo on Lower East Side
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