Hi Erik, I wouldn't have sent you this message if you wouldn't mention Buffalo. My grandfather Shaye Bargman's mother was Haye Rishe Shapiro from Kalenkevitch, Belarus, but Minsk appears in his husban

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There was an ephimeral attempt of Jewish agricultural colonization in Uruguay but this description suits to the many colonies of the Jewish Colonization Association founded by Baron Moses Hirsch in th

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Sheive is the Yiddish name of my grandmother, from Hebrew Bat Sheva (Betsabe) Daniel Bargman

#names #romania #yiddish

You mean: -Galitzianer; -Spanish province of Galicia - in fact an authonomous region in Spain. They speak a language (not a dialect): Gallego, mutually understandable with Castellano (Spanish), no nee

#general

IT's not a coincidence: both places, spanish Galicia and polish Galitzia were inhabitated by Celtic tribes in the past, with the root GAL as an ethnic marker, see also: PortuGAL, Galia (latin for Fran

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In those times Syria was a general not precise area of the Levant, more than a political concept, and it could include Palestine - within the Otoman Empire

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