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JewishGen.org 28.11.2020

A LATVIAN CHANUKAH PRESENT - DAY 4 The Death of Morduch (Maks or Max) Halsman by Ann Rabinowitz In memory of my great uncle Max Hillman, who was born in Bauska, Latvia, and who started me on my genealogical research, which is so long ago now, I am posting a piece about Latvia every day throughout Chanukah. The posts will be about people, events, and daily life. These posts can also be viewed on the JewishGen Blog at: ...Continue reading

JewishGen.org 16.11.2020

As we commemorate the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, we are reminded of the importance of JewishGen's important work, and how critical it is to ensure that the rich legacy of our people will never be forgotten. Click the link below to hear testimony from Lore Zusman, who was born in Königsberg, Germany (today known as Kaliningrad, Russia). She describes her memories of the Königsberg Synagogue, Kristallnacht, and a book presented to her mother after the synagogue was destroyed on Kristallnacht in 1938. Click here: https://www.jewishgen.org/blog/?p=remembering-kristallnacht

JewishGen.org 15.11.2020

A LATVIAN CHANUKAH PRESENT - DAY 3 The Latvian Jew Who Composed the Lyrics for Hava Nagila by Ann Rabinowitz In memory of my great uncle Max Hillman, who was born in Bauska, Latvia, and who started me on my genealogical research, which is so long ago now, I am posting a piece about Latvia every day throughout Chanukah. The posts will be about people, events, and daily life. These posts can also be viewed on the JewishGen Blog at: ... https://www.jewishgen.org/Blog/ One of the new facts about Latvian Jews that I learned in my research in the Historical Jewish Press website was from the article in The Palestine Post, Sunday, August 21, 1938, Page 2, which featured the obit of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn. There were approximately 115-120 references to him on the site. He was born on July 14,1882, in Feliksberg (now Jurkalne), Latvia, and died on August 14, 1938, in Johannesburg, South Africa. A talented ethnologist and musicologist, he was known as a modern Jewish music pioneer and one of the primary individuals who brought Oriental Jewish music to the notice of the Jewish and general public. Idelsohn spent his formative years in Leipsig, Koenigsberg, and Berlin, and then went to Johannesburg, South Africa, before his productive stay in Palestine from 1905 to 1922. He then took a position at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1922 and then settled in America in 1932. He felt that the key to Jewish unity and survival lies in Jewish music and he did his best to promote that music in his studies and creations. His most famous accomplishment was the lyrics for Hava Nagila which was published in 1922. This song has become the favorite of the modern Jewish music repertoire and is known the world over. One can even hear it sung at athletic events such as England’s Tottenham Hotspurs games. In addition to Hava Nagila, it was Idelsohn, and his compatriot Eduard Birnbaum, who identified the melody of Chanukah’s traditional prayer, Ma-oz Tzur, as being related to a group of Protestant chorales and a German soldiers’ song. To learn more details about Idelsohn and his career, check out the following site: http://www.seligman.org.il/joffe_AZIdelsohn.html

JewishGen.org 09.11.2020

At the end of each week, we have been featuring excerpts from Yizkor books in JewishGen's archive. If you are not familiar with the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project, please click on this link: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/faq.html The Weekday Krinik, from the Yizkor book of that town in Poland, could probably also be titled A Day in the Life of a Shtetl since it resembles so many scenes described in other books. Dark gray smoke, in the early morning, rising from the hous...Continue reading

JewishGen.org 06.11.2020

*Free Webinar: Introducing the JewishGen Crypto Jewish Collection* We invite you to attend another free presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars, with our speaker, Genie Milgrom. Introducing the New JewishGen Crypto Jewish Collection... Tuesday, November 10, 2020 3:00 pm Eastern Time (New York) Advance Registration Required - Please Click Here! https://bit.ly/JGTalks-NewCryptoJewishRD After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about how to join the webinar. About the Talk: It has been extremely difficult for those trying to trace their ancestors back to the 14th and 15th centuries since, during the Inquisition, many Jews were forced to convert, change their names, and assume Christian identities in order to save themselves from death sentences. Many of these Jews were exiled from Spain and later from Portugal, and they scattered throughout Europe and Latin America. In this presentation, Genie Milgrom will describe the data she has spent more than 15 years compiling, and how it can be accessed through JewishGen. About Genie Milgrom: Director of JewishGen's Crypto Jewish Research Division Genealogist and Global Speaker on Crypto Jewish Genealogy Developed a method to trace Jewish Lineages from the 1400s Past President of the Society for Crypto Judaic Studies at Colorado State University Past President of the Society of Jewish Genealogy of Greater Miami President of Tarbut Sefarad Fermoselle in Barcelona Author of My 15 Grandmothers, How I found my 15 Grandmothers, Pyre to Fire and The Recipes of my 15 Grandmothers all available on Amazon in English and Spanish Some of the books have been translated to Hebrew, Yiddish and Farsi Speaker at the Knesset (Parliament in Israel) Speaker at the Press Box at the EU Parliament in Brussels Spoken Internationally in Spain, Portugal, Guatemala, Ecuador, Uruguay, Denmark, Argentina and many more countries Winner of the 2015 and 2018 and 2020 Latin Author Book Award Winner of the Literary Titan Silver award for the book, Pyre to Fire Questions? Please visit: https://bit.ly/JewishGenTalks-FAQs

JewishGen.org 06.11.2020

A LATVIAN CHANUKAH PRESENT - DAY 2 Latvian Jewish Immigration in 1924 by Ann Rabinowitz In memory of my great uncle Max Hillman, who was born in Bauska, Latvia, and who started me on my genealogical research, which is so long ago now, I am posting a piece about Latvia every day throughout Chanukah. The posts will be about people, events, and daily life. These posts can also be viewed on the JewishGen Blog at: ... https://www.jewishgen.org/Blog/ Following my Day 1 Chanukah Present, I am continuing my use of the Historical Jewish Press website to provide insight into the lives of Latvian Jews. Today, in Day 2, I am utilizing an article which was published in The Sentinel, Friday, June 27, 1924, Pg. 4. It is entitled Order Return of Immigrants to Latvian Homes. This article described the issues which Jewish immigrants faced in getting to America. Many of the details of this immigration period have not been discussed previously, especially by the immigrants. For those whose ancestors were part of this immigration, you may be learning of your relatives' struggles for the first time. Order Return of Immigrants to Latvian Homes Riga (J.T.A.) - The Latvian Government has ordered all emigrants temporarily in Latvia, unable to proceed to America, to return to Russia before June 20th. The Latvian Minister of the Interior refuses to permit the emigrants to stay, calling them undesirable as citizens. The steamship companies, which have maintained a colony of 1,600 Russian Jews in Riga since the closing of the Russian immigration quota last September, have notified the Latvian Government that they are not willing to pay further penalties in order to permit the emigrants to remain. According to figures obtained from the steamship lines there are 6,400 Russian Jews who already have received American visas and are waiting for the opening of the quota in July. Large colonies are awaiting at Riga, Kovno, Warsaw, Bremen, Hamburg, Cherbourg, Southampton, Bucharest, and Constantinople. Since this fills the quota for the next four years under the law, the Baltic States have informed their Consuls in Russia to refuse further transit visas for would-be emigrants.

JewishGen.org 02.10.2020

A LATVIAN CHANUKAH PRESENT - DAY 1 A Chronology of Events in Latvia, 1920-1923 by Ann Rabinowitz In memory of my great uncle Max Hillman, who was born in Bauska, Latvia, and who started me on my genealogical research, which is so long ago now, I am posting a piece about Latvia every day throughout Chanukah. The posts will be about people, events, and daily life....Continue reading

JewishGen.org 27.09.2020

Don’t miss the October issue of JewishGen News! Just follow this link: https://mailchi.mp/jewishg/jewishgen-newsletter-october2020 Articles include:... *Introduction by Avraham Groll *New Webinar - Translating Russian Documents *Family Tree of the Jewish People Update *Emmy-Winning Jewish Documentary *Yizkor Book Project Update *Education Report *Research Division Updates **Austria-Czech **Bessarabia **Latvia **United States *LitvakSIG Update *Museum of Jewish Heritage - Oral History Podcasts *Success! Story - A Hundred Year Journey Nancy Siegel Director of Communications JewishGen.org

JewishGen.org 22.09.2020

One of the obstacles faced by researchers involves translating documents from Russian or other languages. Fortunately, it does not require fluency in that language in order to extract the important information. In this talk, Dr. Alan Levine will describe strategies for doing this that require only knowledge of the alphabet and a few basic rules of grammar. This webinar has been organized by the JewishGen Bessarabia Research Division. Dr. Alan Levine was born in New York and r...eceived his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University. Somewhere along the way, he studied Russian for two years. Since 1983, he has been teaching mathematics at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. He got started researching his family in 2004. Some of his paternal grandmother's family (surname TETELMAN) came from Teleneshti and Kishinev. In 2007, he contacted Bob Wascou (z'l) about doing some translations of vital records from Russian. After Bob's passing, he began working for Yefim Kogan and the JewishGen Bessarabia Research Division. In his spare time, he conducts the choir at his synagogue (where, coincidentally, some of the Wascou family are members), plays piano and enjoys his grandchildren. See more

JewishGen.org 27.08.2020

We invite you to attend another free presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars, with our speaker, Dr. Alan Levine. Translating Russian Documents for the Non-Russian Speaker Wednesday, October 21, 2020... 2:30 pm Eastern Time (New York) One of the obstacles faced by researchers involves translating documents from Russian or other languages. Fortunately, it does not require fluency in that language in order to extract the important information. In this talk, Dr. Alan Levine will describe strategies for doing this that require only knowledge of the alphabet and a few basic rules of grammar. This webinar has been organized by the JewishGen Bessarabia Research Division. Dr. Alan Levine was born in New York and received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University. Somewhere along the way, he studied Russian for two years. Since 1983, he has been teaching mathematics at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. He got started researching his family in 2004. Some of his paternal grandmother's family (surname TETELMAN) came from Teleneshti and Kishinev. In 2007, he contacted Bob Wascou (z'l) about doing some translations of vital records from Russian. After Bob's passing, he began working for Yefim Kogan and the JewishGen Bessarabia Research Division. In his spare time, he conducts the choir at his synagogue (where, coincidentally, some of the Wascou family are members), plays piano and enjoys his grandchildren. Advance Registration Required! https://bit.ly/JGTalks-TranslatingRussianDocuments Please click the above link After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about how to join the webinar. Questions? Go to: https://bit.ly/JewishGenTalks-FAQs

JewishGen.org 16.08.2020

On this date in 1943, prisoners at the Sobibor Extermination Camp launched an uprising against their German and Ukrainian Guards. In total, about 300 Jews escaped. Of that group, about 50 lived to survive the war. Click the following link to read first-hand testimony from Dov Freiberg, a Holocaust survivor who was forced to serve as a 'cleaner' in Sobibor extermination camp, participated in the uprising, and then escaped into the forests of Poland. This is an excerpt from the book Sarid Sobibor, which JewishGen has translated into English: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Freiberg/fre009.html Click the following link to learn more about the Sobibor Extermination Camp: https://www.jewishgen.org/forgottenca/camps/sobiboreng.html

JewishGen.org 14.08.2020

*Update to the Family Tree of the Jewish People* JewishGen is pleased to announce a significant upgrade to the Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP), enabling the addition of 555 new family trees, representing 454,416 individuals. In total, the Family Tree of the Jewish People now includes 7,684 trees which represent approximately 8,642,345 individuals. While small in comparison to Family Tree collections at major commercial sites, the JewishGen Family Tree of the Jewish P...eople provides researchers with unique access to vital Jewish family history information that is available in no other facility. We encourage everyone to utilize this valuable resource that we hope will continue to grow on an ongoing basis. Improving the FTJP was labor intensive and required the navigation of many complex systems and processes. In this regard, please join me in expressing our gratitude to volunteers Gary Sandler (Director of Systems Administration) and Iris Folkson (FTJP, Support and IT Coordinator) for the dozens of hours they spent analyzing and upgrading our system, adding trees for the first time since in 2018, and ensuring that the FTJP can be updated on a monthly basis going forward. The FTJP can be searched by visiting: https://www.jewishgen.org/gedcom/ftjp.asp To submit a Family Tree, please visit: https://www.jewishgen.org/gedcom/

JewishGen.org 21.07.2020

Success! Family Reunited after 68 Years Say, Dad, Grandpa is Not dead? Reuniting the Family After 68 Years by Noah Isman Many people gathered at the border-crossing but the Russians did not let them pass. While they were waiting, and before Israel had a chance to find and join his father and brother, a German air raid started and the crowd dispersed, some running into a nearby forest and some exploiting the disorder to cross into the Russian zone. In the commotion David... and Henryk lost each other, never to meet again Noah tells the story of how his family became separated during the Holocaust, how some were murdered by the Nazis while others, unbeknownst to each other, managed to survive, and how the families reconnected after almost seven decades. Be inspired by this story on JewishGen’s Success! Stories webpage. You can access it from the About Us button on the website or by following this link: http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/ Nancy Siegel Director of Communications JewishGen.org