Date
1 - 10 of 10
Kansas City Lithuania Jews #lithuania #usa
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Steve Chernoff
If any of you are familiar with the book by Anita Loeb - GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, I have been working on an update. The database currently shows 319 Kansas City area burials which listed Lithuania as place of birth. The actual number is surely much higher since many of the over 20,000 listings don't have a place of birth listed. There are indeed Goldbergs and Ginsbergs.
Steve Chernoff Researching CHERNER, MOROFFSKY, TULCHINSKY, SERNOFFSKY, NESSELROTH, GILDENSON, STEINHART, PIPKIN. |
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Lee Hover
Altho not a Litvak, my paternal GF came in through Galveston and went to KC (my maternal side is Litvak--the name is LAP(P)IN).
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howard sachs
Milton Litvak's family? I believe they came up from Galveston, when immigrants were diverted that way (Presumably "originally" from Lithuania} Howard Sachs
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Kenny
My father grew up in St. Joseph. His mother's sister from Minneapolis married Isadore Litvak from St. Joe. She was born in Roumania. He owned a pawn shop there and was killed in an armed robbery in the 50's. My grandmother was introduced to a friend of their's, Joe Kaminsky in St. Joe and she moved there to marry him. He was from Kischenev, Bessarabia.
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Kenny
While I have not personally met Calvin Trillon, his family was Very close to my father's in St. Joseph. His father had a grocery store there, as did my grandfather. The Trillons moved to KC before he was born. My father and his older sister Sookie were the same age and very close.
Later on they all relocated to Kansas City as the children grew up. My grandmother played bridge every week with his mother and Ed Asner's mother (another KC Jew). |
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Todd Cohn
Your best best is to take a look at the book by Joseph P. Schultz, Mid-America's Promise: A Profile of Kansas City Jewry.
Good luck! -Todd Cohn Boca Raton, FL |
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You don't specify whether you mean Kansas City, Kansas or Kansas City, Missouri. If you mean Kansas City, Missouri, then it's perhaps worth knowing or reminding that Calvin Trillin, humorist and writer for the New Yorker, was born and raised there. A shot in the dark, perhaps, but you might try to contact him and see what he may know.
-- Erika Gottfried Teaneck, New Jersey |
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Hi Ethan,
Thanks for your note. My Litvaks mostly
went to Chicago, but somehow a Chicago Goldberg met/married a
Kansas City Ginsberg. And one of the Ginsberg siblings married a
woman from Iowa and may have lived there for a while -- but the
Iowa/Nebraska border, not Des Moines. And the first Jewish
settlements in the KC area appear to have been in Leavenworth and
St Joseph, not Kansas City itself. I'm sure at the time it all
made sense, but sure wish my ancestors had kept notes.
Best,
JoAnne
While I have deep roots in Kansas City - back to Leavenworth during the Civil War - my earliest ancestors there were not Litvaks. My Litvak ancestors settled in Chicago and Des Moines. In Des Moines it is true that many of the early Lithuanian Jews came from the same area of Lithuania, from the area of Kalvarija, Pilviskiai, and Vilkaviskis. Today this is in southwestern Lithuania, near the Polish border. I don't know if they were all related, though it's quite possible. Among the Litvaks in Des Moines were some Ginsbergs, though I have no idea if they had relatives in KC.
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JoAnne Goldberg - Menlo Park, California; GEDmatch M131535
BLOCH, SEGAL, FRIDMAN, KAMINSKY, PLOTNIK/KIN -- LIthuania
GOLDSCHMIDT, HAMMERSCHLAG,HEILBRUNN, REIS(S), EDELMUTH, ROTHSCHILD, SPEI(Y)ER -- Hesse, Germany
COHEN, KAMP, HARFF, FLECK, FRÖHLICH, HAUSMANN, DANIEL -- Rhineland, Germany
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Ethan
While I have deep roots in Kansas City - back to Leavenworth during the Civil War - my earliest ancestors there were not Litvaks. My Litvak ancestors settled in Chicago and Des Moines. In Des Moines it is true that many of the early Lithuanian Jews came from the same area of Lithuania, from the area of Kalvarija, Pilviskiai, and Vilkaviskis. Today this is in southwestern Lithuania, near the Polish border. I don't know if they were all related, though it's quite possible. Among the Litvaks in Des Moines were some Ginsbergs, though I have no idea if they had relatives in KC.
Any questions, please let me know. Ethan Starr Washington, DC |
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Howard's post reminded me -- there's a theory that all early Kansas City Lithuanian Jews were related. Since I still have no idea what brought my Ginsberg ancestors to Kansas City, I'd love to connect with anyone who has 1800s KC/St Joseph/etc ancestry.
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JoAnne Goldberg - Menlo Park, California; GEDmatch M131535
BLOCH, SEGAL, FRIDMAN, KAMINSKY, PLOTNIK/KIN -- LIthuania
GOLDSCHMIDT, HAMMERSCHLAG,HEILBRUNN, REIS(S), EDELMUTH, ROTHSCHILD, SPEI(Y)ER -- Hesse, Germany
COHEN, KAMP, HARFF, FLECK, FRÖHLICH, HAUSMANN, DANIEL -- Rhineland, Germany
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