In Sephardic religious practice, what is an escaba or escabas referring to? Does it mean prayer, or specifically a misheberach prayer? Is there another word for misheberach prayer in the Sephardic lit

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Try: https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/

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#USA #jgs-iajgs Introducing the newly-launched JewishGen U.S. Research Division - focusing on all time periods 1654 - present! Collaborating with JOWBR, the Memorial Plaques Database Project, the Seph

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Has anyone taken the “U.S. Religious Records Part 2” including Judaism, from the University of Toronto’s National Institute of Genealogical Studies? https://www.genealogicalstudies.com/ Any feedback o

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The two Google Drive documents are not hyperlinked. Please re-post. Local municipalities have been selling these Jewish cemetery and mass grave properties for years. What are the ramifications of this

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#earlyamerican Although the full text of this book is available online, and free, through the American Jewish Archives, I'm interested in obtaining a hard copy for my personal library as I embark upon

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No remote access to my knowledge. Wanted to let you know Ed Richard z'l passed away last summer. Ellen Kowitt Erie, CO

I have an ancestor Lea KAMINSKY born 1800 in Vistytis, Lithuania - an area just north of modern-day Suwalki, Poland border. She had two brothers, Leib and Elkan Sheye, that perhaps you descend from? I

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I have had great success working with local school teachers in both Lyubar, Ukraine and Chudnov, Ukraine. Although noted that these towns are further east in the former Novograd Volynsk and Zhytomir A

There are so many genealogy projects going on for the city and administrative district of Novograd Volynsk! #1) Significant progress has been made on translating the Novograd Volynsk Yizkor Book since

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Introducing the "Lyubar, Ukraine Revision List Indexing Project" < https://jewishfamiliesofostropol.com/lyubarmatrixindex> conducted by our friend and partner Deborah Glassman. Based in Washington sta

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Introducing the "Lyubar, Ukraine Revision List Indexing Project" < https://jewishfamiliesofostropol.com/lyubarmatrixindex> conducted by our friend and partner Deborah Glassman. Based in Washington sta

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KAMINSKY is a surname in my family from the small town of Vistytis in modern-day Lithuania. It is located just north of the Polish border near Suwalki and also across a lake from the modern Russian bo

Hi Rachel - Your Yizkor Book Project covers are beautiful. Any chance you will be creating one for the Novograd-Volynsk Yizkor Book I am project lead for? I live just south of you in Erie, Colorado. R

My first trip to Ukraine, the birthplace of my paternal grandfather, was over 20 years ago. I have written about and lectured to genealogists many times about my travel there in 1997 with my family, a

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My first trip to Ukraine, the birthplace of my paternal grandfather, was over 20 years ago. I have written about and lectured to genealogists many times about my travel there in 1997 with my family, a

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My first trip to Ukraine, the birthplace of my paternal grandfather, was over 20 years ago. I have written about and lectured to genealogists many times about my travel there in 1997 with my family, a

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My first trip to Ukraine, the birthplace of my paternal grandfather, was over 20 years ago. I have written about and lectured to genealogists many times about my travel there in 1997 with my family, a

#ukraine

I've posted a two-sided 1919 Police ID in Latvian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73179 http:/

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I've posted a two-sided 1919 Police ID in Latvian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73179 http:/

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