Jews of Cuba 1920s #hungary #latinamerica #records #photographs #general
Please spell out organization names rather than give acronyms. Thank you!
Synagoga Beth Shalom
Calle I Esq. 13, Vedado, Ciudad de la Habana, CP 10400, Cuba.
Tel: (537) 832 8953, Fax: (537) 33 3778
E-mail: beth_shalom@... or
patronato_ort@...
I believe the main contact person would be Adela Dworin, but I cannot guarantee the currency of the contact person.
I hope you can locate the Cuban archives holding such documents, because there are many descendants of Cuban-Ashkenazim in the USA who would be interested.
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Adam Cherson, NY, NY
Benyakonski, Kherszon, Rubinovich, Solts, Grodsinski, Levine, Cohen, Kaplan, Lubetski, Karchmer, Horwitz, Rabinovich, Zussman (Lida, Voronova, Dieveniskes, Konvaliski, Smarhon, Vilna)
Genomics Publications and Presentations: https://independent.academia.edu/AdamCherson
'Patronato' is the vernacular name given to the new Ashkenazi synagogue, built I'm guessing sometime in the 1950s, and it is the largest on the island. I don't think the Patronato is comparable to a landsleit because it serves the entire Ashkenazic community, regardless of origin, whereas landsleit organizations tend to focus on specific towns or regions. In Cuba, Jews were either Polacos (Poles) or Turcos (Turks), corresponding to Ashkenazim and Sephardim. The Sephardim mostly arrived during the WWI era and the Ashkenazim during the interwar years. I recently learned that the earliest Jewish community on the Island consisted of Jews from the USA who came during the Teddy Roosevelt era. I believe the cemetery at Guanabacoa is on land formerly held by US Armed Forces during Roosevelt.
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Adam Cherson, NY, NY
Benyakonski, Kherszon, Rubinovich, Solts, Grodsinski, Levine, Cohen, Kaplan, Lubetski, Karchmer, Horwitz, Rabinovich, Zussman (Lida, Voronova, Dieveniskes, Konvaliski, Smarhon, Vilna)
Genomics Publications and Presentations: https://independent.academia.edu/AdamCherson
My father immigrated to the US via Cuba in the 1920’s. He left from Liverpool on the Victoria of the Pacific Steamship Navigation Company. From Cuba he entered the US via Tampa on the S S Cuba owned by the Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Company. His address in Havana is given as Centro Maccabeo.
Debra Kfare Price
Researching Kfare, Kvar, Konovitch, Chunowicz
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Bob Silverstein
bobsilverstein@...
Elk Grove Village, IL
Researching Kaplan (Krynki, Poland) Tzipershteyn (Logishin, Pinsk, Belarus), Friedson/Fridzon (Pinsk, Cuba, Massachusetts), Israel and Goodman (Mishnitz, Warsaw, Manchester).
People tracing Jewish roots in Cuba should approach the archives of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The following article provides what I believe is an unbiased history, shines on an overall view and provides hints and cautions regarding sources. https://www.
Meryl Blau Menon
Researching Blau, Weinstein, Cunea, Segall, Lobell
I emailed the Patronato (in Spanish) asking about immigration records but there was no reply. I did see that Facebook has a page for the Patronato but the information about it is sketchy. I tried posting on that but nothing happened. I don't think the contact person mentioned in this discussion group for the Patronato is the contact anymore (I used the organization's email address, not a person's).
There are articles out there about the Cuban Jews but they speak generically about the immigration experience and don't provide clues to where there may be data. I've tried researching the potential ports of embarkation (Bremen, Hamburg, etc.) but so far no luck. None of the major genealogy portals have their names as immigration ship passengers. The portal called Cubagenweb only has Havana disembarking passenger lists from ships prior to 1900s. I've also looked at collections of Cuban newspapers, most notably the major publication El Diario de la Marina, which is digitized but not indexed so that one cannot search within the collection nor within each edition.
If disembarkation lists are lost, I have to believe that embarkation lists still exist somewhere. However, it's been like searching for a needle in a haystack. I wish some of the scholars or leaders of the Jewish community could take up the search for the 1920s. Many of those Jews immigrated twice in their lifetimes (1) out of Europe in the early 20th century and (2) out of Cuba in the 1960s mostly into the U.S.
Eugenia Bachert
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Adam Cherson,NY, NY
Benyakonski, Kherszon, Rubinovich, Solts, Grodsinski, Levine, Cohen, Kaplan, Lubetski, Karchmer, Horwitz, Rabinovich, Zussman (Lida, Voronova, Dieveniskes, Konvaliski, Smarhon, Vilna)
Genomics Publications and Presentations: https://independent.academia.edu/AdamCherson
There are so many of us looking for Jewish immigration into Cuba that there's got to be a way. I'll continue looking at ports in Europe.... As I said previously, I wish some of the major Jewish organizations dedicated to preservation of information would jump in to help us! If any of you are on here, let me know what you think.
Eugenia Bachert
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Adam Cherson,NY, NY