Dear Genners, I am writing an article about the "yekke" doctors in Egypt. Slowly I discover that all the Jewish doctors in Egypt who studied in Germany are considered "yekkes", irrespective of their p

I would appreciate translation of this note from back of photo taken in Eichstatt in 1947. Thanks Relly Coleman

Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting Sunday, March 19 at 2:00 PM Eastern, In Person at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W 16th Street, NYC, or via Zoom The Kindertransports: The KTA, the 80th Year

Fordham University which is a Catholic Jesuit University on New York City, has a Jewish Student Organization. One of the their undergraduates received a grant to collect Bronx Jewish Oral Histories. “

Dear colleagues from JewishGen, I am the Grandson of Franz Rothschild from Bielefeld. I would like to get in touch with James Rothschild. Could you please send me his email adress? Thank you and best

Are the names Stysia and Tsiporah versions of the same name? I'm trying to align an entry for Stysia/Stisia in Ukrainian records with the name of my great-great-grandmother Tsiporah recorted in family

“Since we founded AVOTAYNU in 1984, the two of us have inaugurated many major Jewish genealogy projects. DoJR is the unprecedented, biggest, and most valuable project of all. In one way or another, al

Dear friends, Thanks to donations from many of you we have engaged with a translator for the Yiddish section of the Bielsk Podlaski Yizkor Book. Ted Steinberg, who has worked on other books for Jewish

Hello, I am looking for descendants of Louis ZAROW (born Leib TSAROVSKY) of Winnipeg. Louis/Leib was born ca1888 in Borshchagovka, in the Kiev region, and died in Winnipeg in 1959. Louis and his wife,

I was stuck on my 3rd great grandfather's parents but recently confirmed that Samuel Abrahams' parents were Marcus Abrahams/Abrams and Maria ? Abrahams/Abrams. Samuel died in England in 1849 of Choler

I need help researching the Ukrainian Database. Researching PIPKO and DUKELSKY (in Shpola and Zvenigorodka). Also KRUGLIAK and BRONSTEIN in (Gorodishche.) -- Patricia Solomon San Jose, California patw

Hello, I have for a long time been searching for the origin of a family Almoslino of sephardic origin. I thought that the letter AL in the beginning of the surname indicated a muslin connection and th

Here's an article/interview with Esther David, the author of "Bene Appetit: The Cuisine of Indian Jews" She has some very interesting insights into the Jewish community in India, as well as the culina

JGSIG March meeting Tues March 14 2023 1-2:30 pm ET. On Zoom RSVP https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter NOTE: Must be signed in to JewishGen for links to work!! JGSIG March meeting Tues March 14 202

Dear Sirs Would like to enter a genealogy question in the forum: Country: now Belarus then Russia Town; Prushan/Prushanna, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruzhany Name family: BIALLOSTERSKI Name he

Sunday March12, 2023 1-3 pm PT {Please note that Daylight Saving time begins this Sunday.) Zoom Meeting The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Presentation by – Jonathan Brent The Edward Blank

The man’s first name is Julian His birth date is January 2, 1955 His death date is November 21, 1989 Buried at Judah Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT I FORGOT TO WRITE DOWN HIS

Good morning, My family is from Lyubeshiv, Ukraine, a town that had a small Jewish population of 1888 at its peak and doesn't have much written materials that I could find. But I did find a YIzkor boo

Greetings Jewishgen community. I've posted a record from the 1897 Russian Empire census for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmat

Can someone please translate what is written on this envelope? Lauri Berlin Affrunti Berlin/Broderson/Bogach//Sternberg/Greenberg