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I wish to appeal to the collective wisdom of list members to evaluate two recent findings to determine whether either or both belong to my mother’s maternal grandfather, Jacob Joroff / Yankl Zharov, a

I'm wondering if there are any records bearing on Jewish migration from Galicia to Austria (especially Vienna) during the First World War, when control of Galicia traded hands between the Austrian Emp

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