@Passenger Arrival Records, 1883-1954: All print is very small and hard-to-read. A catalog restrictions have been lifted on access to name describing microfilm publications of passenger indexes to passenger arrivals and passenger and arrivals, crew lists and indexes may be obtaj-ned crew lists in the custody of the National Ar- for free from the Publication Sales Branch (NEPS) , chives. The Immigration and Naturalization National Archive's, Washington, DC 20408. Service (INS), at the request of the Archives, agreed to the release of Passenger Arrival Rec- NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: For the first time in ords, 1883-1954, previously subject to a 50-year seven years, the Central Research Library on Fifth restriction. The agreement opened 6055 rolls of Avenue -- the building with the lions in front -- microfilm to researchers, making a total of is open on Thursdays, beginning Jan. 6, 1983. 11,746 rolls of INS microfilm available. Of The Central building, which houses several special special interest is the Index (Soundex) to Pass- collections of interest to genealogists (such as enger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, the Jewish Div., Local History and Genealogy Div., July 1, 1902-Dec. 31, 1943 (microfilm publication and Map Div.), will be open from Monday through no. T621), comprising 756 rolls. The cost for a Saturday. set, at $17 per roll, is only $12,852 -- and the

JEWISH GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: An Introductory Checklist with Annotations

Ellen R. Murphy

INTRODUCTION virtually every field of Jewish study. HEBRAICA AND JUDAICA IN The Hebraic script titles are in the physical THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS custody of the Hebraic Section, which was estab- lished in July, 1914 as the Semitic Division to In the early part of this century, between serve as a separate administrative unit responsi- the years 1912-1920, the Library of Congress (LC) ble for supervising the acquisition and organiza- acquired from Ephraim Deinard, the well-known tion of Hebraic materials. The Section is cur- book-dealer and bibliographer, a collection of rently housed in the Library's John Adams Building, some 20,000 Hebrew volumes. This collection, room 1006, which also contains a small but vital part of which was donated to the Library by Jacob reference collection covering all fields of Juda- H. Schiff, the New York philanthropist, formed ica in various languages. In addition, we main- the nucleus of the Library's holdings in Hebraica tain two National Union Card Catalogs for Hebrew and Judaica which today are world-renowned in and Yiddish, respectively. Each of these catalogs scope and richness. This is a fitting development comprises a title catalog arranged alphabetically inasmuch as Deinard himself original 1y envisioned by vernacular title and a combined romanized au- the Library of Congress as a storehouse of Hebra- thor and subject catalog. Generally, the title ica rivalling the collections in the great li- catalogs reflect the Hebraic Section's holdings braries of Europe. only, while the author-subject catalogs also re- The Deinard collections, extremely rich in flect the holdings of the approximately fifty the traditional fields of Jewish learning includ- libraries in the United States which have reported ing Biblical exegesis, rabbinical literature, their acquisitions to us over the years. At pre- liturgy, etc., also covered all of Haskalah liter- sent, there are some 643,000 cards filed into ature. The high quality of holdings in these these catalogs. A separate National Union Catalog areas has been maintained over the years. At the of Microforms is also available. It is arranged same time, the Library's responsibilities to the in two parts, author and title. Congress and Executive agencies, as well as the The Judaica (non-Hebraic) holdings are inte- American academic community, dictated that we ac- grated into the Library's general collections and quire widely in all fields pertaining to the State access to them can be gained through the Main of Israel, its government and society, as well as Catalog housed in the Main Reading Room. This the Holocaust, Yiddish literature and contemporary catalog is arranged in an alphabetic sequence of Hebrew literature. Today, the Library has some authors, subjects and romanized titles for books, 120,000 volumes of Hebrew, Yiddish and cognate pamphlets, and periodicals cataloged through 1980 languages such as Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian and in most languages; there is also a separate card Ladino, including an extensive serial collection. catalog for periodical titles. English-language The Library also has a preeminent collection of works that were cataloged by LC starting in 1968 Judaica in various western languages, which spans (somewhat later for French, German, etc.) may be

TOLEQOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 3 searched on-line in the Library of Congress Com- Section 10 likewise covers the towns, cities and The following checklist is meant to serve as very thoroughly discussed in Zachary Baker's puterized Catalog (LCCC) . Adjacent to the Main other places within a state. Section 11 covers a very brief introduction to the Library's rich "Memorial books as sources for family history" Catalog is a Computer Catalog Center, equipped the ethnic or religious groups which settled in a Judaic and Hebraic collections and to the genea- and "Bibliography of Eastern European memorial with a number of computer terminals and printers. particular state and includes Jews. logically-related materials available within these books: updated and revised1'--both published in Printed instructions explaining how to use them Another catalog of importance is the family vast holdings. Inasmuch as the checklist contains TOLEDOT (vol. 3, nos. 2-3, pp. 3-43). are avail-able, and reference librarians are also name index which contains cards for the approxi- only 50 titles, it certainly can make no pretense With a few exceptions, the focus of the on duty there if you need further assistance. mately 25,000 genealogies in LC. The value of at being even moderately comprehensive! Rather, checklist is on non-English-language materials. When searching for a Hebrew or Yiddish work, this catalog is that it covers not only the U.S. the list is a sampling of items that I have found (The exceptions include, by and large, bibliog- it is best to consult the Hebraic Section's cata- but other countries as well, although Eastern to be--or readers have reported to be--helpful to raphies which refer to foreign-language sources.) logs rather than the Main Catalog. (And after Europe is not all that well represented. the beginning genealogist, as well as to the more There are several reasons for this. First, for searching the Section's catalogs, if you still It should be pointed out that while all the seasoned researcher. Hopefully, these titles the majority, a search for ancestors will take can't find what you're looking for, or aren't sure cards found in these two catalogs are also filed will lead the reader to many others. It should you back mainly to Europe, North Africa, etc., whether LC owns the work, don't hesitate to con- into the Main Catalog, there are often items be pointed out that a very large percentage of and the relevant materials are of course not in sult one of the staff members.) The reason for about a town or family which are contained in the the items listed here probably are available at English, but in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, French, this is that we hold a great number of uncataloged Main Catalog but not the LHGG catalogs because other major research and university libraries, etc. Secondly, where English-language materials works for which records have been prepared that they are not strictly of a genealogical or histor- and even if you do not live near one, you may do .exist or for information on American Jews or are available only in the Hebraic Section's cata- ical nature. For example, a biography about a still be able to get the items--in most cases-- Jews from other English-speaking countries, it logs. The Main Catalog will indicate LC's cata- family would not find its way into the family through inter-library loan. Thus, the checklist will be relatively easy to identify needed English loged holdings only, and you may be missing out name index. Thus, it is always good to check the can be helpful to those who are not able to use titles in library catalogs or bibliographies, and on a great number of important titles, especially Main Catalog in the course of the research. The the Library of Congress resources. there should be no trouble using the titles once older rabbinic works. On the other hand, when LHGG Section should not be bypassed, however, be- The checklist grew out of a speech which I they have been located. Since this is not usually searching for non-Hebraic titles, one should use cause the catalogs bring so much material tog.ether delivered before the Jewish Genealogy Society of the case for Hebrew, Yiddish and other foreign- the Main Catalog and the computers. The Hebraic conveniently, and there are other indices, cata- Greater Washington in May, 1981. The presenta- language titles, I have decided to concentrate on Section does maintain a very incomplete Judaica logs and reference materials which also may be of tion originally dealt with three groups of mate- bringing these items to light, and to spend some card file arranged by author, but this cannot be interest. Before starting a search there, it is rials corresponding to the three broad areas of time in the annotations describing what you can relied on to give up-to-date and comprehensive best to consult the mimeographed Guide to the research that the Jewish genealogist generally find in the source and how to use it. information on LC ' s non-Hebraic holdings . LHEG catalogs or the reference librarians. needs to investigate. Many people begin by try- A word about the entries: They are grouped ing to identify the town in Europe or elsewhere by subject and then arranged alphabetically by LOCAL HISTORY AND JEWISH GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS from which their ancestors came. Then, they try author. The form of the author's name is that GENEALOGY HOLDINGS to get some historical and background information which has been established in the catalogs of the The Hebraic Section's catalogs, the Main on these localities. Finally, they move on to Library of Congress. The Hebrew or Yiddish titles The Library's Local History and Genealogy Catalog, the computer files and the LHEG catalogs, Section (LHGG), which concentrates on sources for materials which might contain specific informa- are given in transliteration along with an English in conjunction with one another, will put you in tion on their families or individual relatives. translation supplied either in the book--these the U.S. and its subdivisions, may also be an im- touch with vast amounts of LC materials that portant place to visit, particularly when doing In this checklist, I have concentrated on appear in parentheses ( )--or given by me or could be of potential use in your genealogical items in the last category which include the fol- another source--these appear in brackets [ 1. research on the American branches of a family. research. LC does not own such primary genealog- Many of the genealogies and local histories which lowing: I. Bibliographies--helpful in leading The language of the foreign titles is designated. ical materials as census records, birth and death LC holds, however, concentrate mostly on smaller you to further sources. 11. Biographies--provide The LC' call number is also given. Since most of registers of European towns, etc., but it does best coverage for rabbis, authors, scholars and the titles are in the custody of the Hebraic Sec- towns and cities, and on the earlier years of the have many, many relevant secondary materials. A U.S., approximately up to 1850. Therefore, it is other prominent figures often at the local level. tion, you will generally find the abbreviation great many items can be uncovered through a check unlikely that anything would be found about rela- Biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias, anthol- "Hebr" or "Hebr Ref1' after the number. The latter of the catalogs, for example, under the subject ogies and periodicals are covered. Individual means the volumes are shelved in Hebraic's refer- tives who arrived in the U.S. beginning with the heading JEWS IN. subdivided by country, region period of mass Jewish immigration starting in .. biographies are not. 111. Bio-bibliographies-- ence collection and can be taken from the shelf or city and further subdivided by topic, e.g. list bibliographic details for books published directly by the reader. The former means that about 1880, or who settled in the large urban history, political and social conditions, biblio- areas. If a family, however, did arrive here within the geographical or chronological param- the title is housed in a separate stack area and graphy, etc. Also, it is frequently helpful to eters surveyed and also provide biographical data must be retrieved by a Hebraic Section staff mem- earlier than 1880 or moved to a small town or search in the catalog directly under the name of city, it may be important to consult the catalogs on the authors included. The biographical infor- ber. No designation after the call number means a particular town or region, because you may find mation is usually not as complete as in a straight that the books are housed in the Library's general and indices of the Local History and Genealogy published vital records which include Jewish fam- Section. biographical work (just as in the biographical collections and must be requested in the Main ilies, or general local histories that contain in- materials the bibliographic details are often in- Reading Room or the Thomas Jefferson Reading Room. The one catalog which is most pertinent is formation on the Jewish population, that were not the U.S. Local History Shelflist. It is arranged complete), but they are helpful nevertheless if entered under the JEWS IN... subject heading. you have been unable to locate the individual alphabetically by state and then subdivided into In addition, if you think that your relative 11 subject sections. Five of the sections would elsewhere. IV. Miscellaneous items. might have written a rabbinic work or authored a Geographical sources were omitted entirely, WenR. Muhphy A Sevtiuh Redehence LibUnin be most relevant. Section 3, collected biograph- a search of the catalogs under personal memoir, and historical and background materials were ex- the Heb&c Sec;tian 06 the Libmy ad Canghun . ies and genealogies, covers an entire state and his or her name may give you a pleasant surprise. includes not only general "who's who1' material cluded unless they contained biographical infor- W. Munphy heceived hen R. A. in ffebhew dhom Such volumes themselves are also sources of gene- mation. These materials were very amply covered Bnaokeyn CaReege in 1971. She &a hoLh a Man- but also collections of wills, marriage records, alogical information. The author's preface or census indices, etc. Section 8 covers the coun- previously in TOLEDOT by Zachary Baker in his tm in Libmy Science dh~mthe State Univmay dedication in the book can often yield genealogi- articles "Eastern European 'Jewish Geography1: ad New Yonk at Albany, and a Mankm in J&h ties and regions of a state, arranged alphabeti- cal information about his family. Also, rabbinic cally, and includes not only local histories but some problems and suggestions" (vol. 2, no. 3, S;tudie~(wah a concevr;Dtation in ffebnew LLteha- books, e.g., were usually published with approba- pp. 9-14) and "More Eastern European 'Jewish Ge- tuhe] dnom Raetimone ff ebhew College. She hehidu also published local vital records, e.g. tombstone tions, written by rabbis, scholars or leaders of inscriptions, wills, land records, marriage rec- ography'" (vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 2-5). Similarly, in BeLhenda, Mahyhnd uLi;th heh huh band, nan and the community, which supplied a kind of copyright I have excluded all mention of Yizkor books even ,two goLddAinh. Addnun: HebncLic Sechbn, Libmy ords, Bible records, etc. Section 9 includes the notice and/or pre-censorship of the text. These, same kind of materials for the largest cities though they might conceivably contain data on a od Conghun, Wabkington, VC 20540. too, often contain valuable genealogical nuggets particular family, because this topic was also within a state, such as New York or Boston, and about the writer's ancestors. TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 CHECKLIST invaluable tool. According to the preface, the specific individuals arranged alphabetically by 9. Stahl, Abraham emphasis is on local histories. Biographies the biographeels name. Also extremely import- Yahadut ha-mizrah, sefarim homer hazuti I. BIBLIOGRAPHIES and family histories are covered, although no ant is the chapter on local history which con- ve-orkoli [Oriental Jewry, books, visual and exhaustive search has been made for these tains about 600 items subdivided according to audio-visual material]. Jerusalem, Misrad ha- A. GENERAL titles. Preference has been given to English a) regions, b) provinces, c) departments, d) hinukh ve-ha-tarbut, 1976. 78 p. Hebrew. 1. Shunami, Shlomo and "longer" works. The bibliography is ar- communities (arranged by name of locality, then 26373.A85882 Hebr Ref author). There is an author/title index (for Bibliography of Jewish Bibliographies'. ranged alphabetically by author and there is a Covers North Africa, and the Middle and Far anonymous works) and a subject index. Hebrew 2d. edition enlarged.- Jerusalem.. Mames- Press. combined locality, personal name and subject East with separate chapters for specific coun- I 1965. xxiv, 997, xxiii p. titles are listed in the entries in Hebrew char- index. Note well: Under the generic subject 1 tries. Within each country, the list is subdi------Supplement. Jerusalem, Magnes Press, acters, in romanized form, and in French or headings such as bibliographies, biographies, vided by subject. Of particular interest are 1975. xi, 464, xvi p. etc., not all the titles seem to be listed, English translation. the units on history, memoirs, biographies and 26366.S52 1965 Hebr Ref so you should check the main entries for other bibliographies. There is no author or title Germany This monumental compilation of bibliographies relevant items. index so the reader must go directly to the in virtually every area of Jewish study, and in 6. Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany subject unit concerned. Fortunately from this many languages, includes sections on Jewish his- 4. Singerman, Robert Katalog . Hrsg. von Max Kreutzberger standpoint, there are not many listings, since tory arranged according to country; biography Jewish and Hebrew Onomastics, a biblio- unter Mitarbeit von Irmgard Foerg. Tiibingen, the titles are not arranged in any particular graphy. New York, Garland, 1977. 132 p. and bio-bibliography with approximately 111 en- -- Mohr, 1970. xii, 637 p. German. order. A nice feature of this work is a list- 26824.S5 Hebr Ref tries in both volumes combined arranged in units 26373 .G3L44 Hebr Ref ing in Hebrew of institutes in Israel that deal on family biographies, personal biographies, and If, in the course of your genealogical research, with the culture of Oriental Jewry. Included 7. Yearbook. London, East and West Lib- ' are 11 institutes concerned with history. genealogy; and bibliographies of the writings of you wish to gather information on the signifi- rarv. v. 1- 1956- , individual authors. (The arrangements within cance of your family name in the hopes that it each section are according to the nature of the will shed some light on, e.g., your ancestors1 Spain and Portugal material--sometimes it is logical, alphabetical origins or occupations, this source should be For materials on German Jewry consult the s- 10. Kayserling,-- Meyer- or chronological.) The language of the entries consulted. It covers popular and scholarly -log of the Leo Baeck Institute's library and Biblioteca Espanola-Portugueza-Judaica varies according to the language of the titles works that deal with the etymology, history and archives. The first volume in a planned series ...selected with a prolegomenon by Yosef Hayim listed. Each volurile has a Hebrew title index folklore of Jewish and Hebrew personal names, of seven, it includes an annotated listing of Yerushalmi. New ~ork,Ktav, 1971. xxxii, 272 and a combined English subject and romanized 450 genealogies and personal memoirs in unpub- but purposely excludes unpublished indices, P. 26373.S7K22 Hebr Ref name index. lists, registers and directories of names that lished manuscript form or in privately printed editions that are owned by the Institute. The This is a reprint edition of Kayserlingls Bib- B. GENEALOGICAL AND RELATED TOPICS do not contain at least some onomastic discus- - sion. The bibliography is divided into 22 sec- entries are arranged alphabetically by author lioteca which he published in 1890 after col- 2. Meyer, Herrmann M. Z. tions covering general literature on names, and indexed by author, family and individual lecting, for over 30 years, titles of Spanish Bibliographia Genealogica Judaica, a Biblical names, the ancient Near East, the Gre- names covered in the annotations. Also try the and Portuguese books and manuscripts by and brief introduction to pedigrees and other co-Roman period, the Koran, Rabbinical litera- Institute's Yearbook, each volume of which con- about Jews (although he did not see many of the sources of Je~ish~genealogy.Jerusalem, 1942. ture, names in divorce documents, names of tains a bibliography of post-war publications titles he listed and relied on other biblio- 21 leaves. women, Jewish names in Europe, North Africa, on German Jewry. The emphasis is on the current graphical descriptions as the source of his in- 26374.B5 M4 Hebr Ref the United States and South America, and indi- year but retrospective material is also includ- formation). He included authors who were pro- vidual names. Each topic is subdivided accord- ed. There is a section on autobiographies, fessed Jews as well as Marranos, and listed all This is a supplement to the bibliography of ing to reference works, dictionaries, encyclo- memoirs, letters and genealogies. This biblio- of the individual's works in Spanish, Portuguese pedigrees and family histories contained in pedias, monographs and periodical literature. graphy is separately indexed for authors, sub- or Latin regardless of subject matter. This vol. 9 of Jewish Encyclopedia (New York, 1901 In addition, Singerman indexes Norbert Pearl- jects and publishers. Twenty-five volumes have bibliography is arranged alphabetically by sur- That list mentions a few privately ed.). rothts column on Jewish names which appeared in appeared through 1980. name and interspersed among the names of the printed works, but the bulk of it consisted of the Indianapolis weekly Jewish Post a;;d Opinion authors are also names of rabbis and printers approximately 575 Jewish family names for which from Sept. 7, 1945 to Sept. 24, 1976. Three North Africa and Middle and and other figures who, though they did not write there are separate articles in the Jewish Ency- thousand names are indexed. There is also an Far East (Oriental Jewry) anything in Spanish or Portuguese, had the same Meyer added 400 items to sup- clopedia (JE). index to .authors, selected subjects and indi- surnames as those who did. Each entry contains plement thc~material as well as a substantial 8. Attal, Robert vidual names found in the bibliography proper. some biographical information as well as biblio- list of local histories and reference works, ~ahaduttsefon-afrikah, bibliografiyah graphical descriptions of the titles. Unfortu- fLes Juifs dlAfriaue du Nordl [Jews of North mainly in German. .-- - nately, there is no subject or title index. C. SELECTED COUNTRIES AND REGIONS Africa, bibliograihy]. ~erukaiem,Makhon ben Kayserlingts Biblioteca in its original form Zvi, 1973. xxxiv, 248 p. Hebrew and French. 3. Regenstein, Janice Mendenhall France was an extremely valuable work because it of- Jewish genealogy worldwide, annotated 26373.A32A72 1973 Hebr Ref 5. Blumenkranz. Bernhard fered a panoramic view of Ibero-Jewish literary bibliography of books on Jewish local history This reprint edition contains additions Bibliographie des juifs en France Contains 5,741 entries on North African Jewry output. and other subjects of use to genealogists. in general and the Jewish communities of Libya, and corrections to Kayserlingls work, and adds Wichita, Family Heritage Institute, 1981. [Bibliography of Jews in France]. Toulouse, ~douard-~rivst,1974. viii, 349 p. ~rench: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco in particular. other material on Ibero-Jewish bibliography, 79 p. Included are citations to biographies and family thus enhancing the value of the original work 26366. R44 26367.F7B52 Hebr Ref histories. The entries in each section are sub- even further. This bibliography is based on "books and per- divided by language--French in one group and A multi-lingual (foreign language titles are 11. Singerman, Robert transliterated), comprehensive listing of his- iodicals available in Paris in March, 1973" and Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Judeo-Arabic in an- - The Jews in Spain and Portugal: contains between 4,000 and 5,000 entries on ev- other. The titles in each group are then ar- torical, genealogical, biographical and biblio- a biblioera~hv. New York. Garland, 1975. xiv, graphical material, with brief annotations. To ery aspect of Franco-Jewish life. Relevant is ranged alphabetically by the author's name. the chapter of biographies containing approxi- Anonymous titles are separately listed chrono- 364 p. my knowledge, this is the first attempt to list 26373 .S7S55 Hebr Ref all the materials relevant to the genealogist mately 320 entries. It contains a section of logically according to the date of publication. in one bibliography, and while it is by no means collected works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, There are place, person and topical indices in Contains over 5,000 items on the Jewish presence complete or totally accurate, it is still an anthologies) and a section of works devoted to Hebrew and French. TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 in Spain and Portugal from antiquity to the. pre------2d ed., New York, 1905. 72 p. are also listed separately in the Otsar, their Volumes 5-7 are the most relevant to the geneal- sent day, but coverage does not extend to Jews respective entry numbers are provided for ease ogist. Volume 5 covers the years 940-1492, expelled from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s DS115 .E355 Hebr of cross-checking. The name index is arranged that is the period from the end of the Geonic and their descendants in the Old and New Worlds. 16. -----Hakhme Yisrael be-Amerikah [Israel's by Hebrew surname, but the alphabetization is era until the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The material on Spain and Portugal is listed scholars in America]. New York, 1903. 112 p. quite confused. The work is riddled with Volume 6 covers the years 1492-1648, from the separately and each bibliography is divided by (vol . 5 of Dor rabanav) . Hebrew. errors--both basic informational errors as well expulsion to the slaughter of the Jews by subject and then arranged alphabetically by au- DS115.E354 Hebr or as typographical and editorial ones. Neverthe- Chmielnitzki and the Cossacks during the Polish thor's name. The reviews of a particular work Micro Orien Hebr 719 less, the sheer volume of information provided peasant uprising in the Ukraine in 1648. Vol- are listed below it. There is a combined au- makes this work a valuable source that should ume 7 covers the years from 1648 until the 17. -----Supplement. Sefer le-toldot Yisrael thor, subject and title index. Of particular not be overlooked. beginnings of the Hasidic movement (1760) . interest are the sections on biography (about be-Amerikah [History of the Jews in America]. New York, A. H. Rosenbern.- - 1917. 58 col. Each volume shows through a series of maps and 150 entries for Spain and 125 for Portugal) and graphs the succession of generations of geonim, the material on 15 Jewish communities in Portu- Hebrew. BM750. E48 Hebr Entsiklopediyah le-toldot hakhme Erets- heads of Yeshivot, poskim, poets, cabbalists, gal. 18. -----Dorot ha-aharonim [Recent generations]. Yisrael (Encyclopedia of the sages of Eretz Is- -rael). Jerusalem. ha-Makhon le-heker verushala- preachers, astronomers, historians and philoso- New York, A. H. Rosenberg, 1913. 3 vols. phers. There is one giant map that shows all 11. BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY yim, 1974-1978. 3 vols. Hebrew. Hebrew. DS115.E36 Hebr BM750.G39 Hebr Ref the individuals in all the countries. Other A. PERIODICALS -----2d ed., Brooklyn, 1936-1941. 3 vols. maps are more specialized and are confined to Covering the Geonic period until 1940, the work Hebrew. DS115.E36 Hebr one country or to one rabbinical school. In 12. Archiv fiir jiidische Familienforschung. contains biographical entries for the rabbis, addition, there are family trees of great sages. Vienna, 2 vols. 1912-1917. German. Ben Zion Eisenstadt published a whole series of judges, teachers, heads of Yeshivot and emissar- The reason for using maps instead of written Those Hebr Ref useful guides on the rabbis, scholars, writers, ies of the Jewish community in Palestine. lists is to make it easier, according to the born in Palestine who ultimately settled in the A total of five issues appeared containing preachers, heads of Talmudic academies, etc., introduction, "to find the name place and per- Diaspora, as well as those born outside of Pal- articles and genealogical tables on various in Europe and the.United States, mostly for his iod of each sage and his relation to his prede- contemDorarv ~eriod. He ~ublisheda 5-volume estine who later settled there, are included. families. Also relevant is the bibliography in . cessor and those who followed him, the relations Political and business leaders are not included. vol. 2 (no. 1-3) by A. Freimann, "Bibliographie work entitled Dor rabanav ve-sofrav between between sons and fathers and pupils to their The entries are arranged alphabetically by He- der StammbZume jiidische Familien" [Bibliography 1895 and 1903. The first four volumes covered teachers and to those who later became heads of Europe and contained over 300 entries arranged brew first name and subdivided by patronymics, of Jewish family pedigrees]. Contains refer- dynasties." The names which appear on the maps in four separate alphabetic sequences by Hebrew middle and last names. There is a Hebrew name ences to 47 individual family genealogies and are also included in a separate list of scholars surname. The fifth volume, separately entitled index for each volume, arranged according to pedigrees as well as references to several for each volume (arranged alphabetically by Hakhme Yisrael be-Amerikah, covered the United last name or patronymic, with a cumulative in- multi-family works. first name) which contains brief bio-biblio- States and contained 200 biographies along with dex in volume 3. The third volume also con- graphical descriptions. Each volume is well 13. Jiidische Familienforschung. Berlin, no. portraits. A supplement to this fifth volume tains a section of additions and corrections. indexed with varying combinations of place, 1-50 (in 14 vols.). 1924-1938. German. was issued in 1917, and was called Sefer le- A helpful feature: After each entry Gelis name, title and subject indices. toldot Yisrael be-Amerikah. It contained 110 cites the source consulted, and gives a complete entries. A second edition of the Dor rabanav, listing of the citations to these sources. 23. Kohn, Naftali Jacob An important periodical devoted to German-Jew- published in New York in 1905, covered Europe Otsar ha-gedolim [Encyclopedia of ish genealogy, with articles on families out- 21. Gottlieb, Samuel Noah and America and contained 215 entries. Further Sages]. Haifa, 1966-1969. 9 vols. (Volumes side of Germany as well. Fifty issues appeared. Sefer ohale-schem. Pinsk, Be-defus M. uvdates of the Dor rabanav were vublished under 3-9 published in Bnei Braq.) Hebrew. M. Glauberman, 1912. xlvi, 560 p. BM750. K63 Hebr Ref B. SELECTED OCCUPATIONS the title Dorot ha-aharonim and appeared in BM750 .G6 Hebr Ref three volumes in 1913 arranged by the Hebrew General Contains international coverage of rabbis in surname, with a second edition ahpearing in the Gives biographical and genealogical .information the period 589-1589. The entries are fairly 14. Wininger, Salomon late 1930s similarly arranged. on contemporary rabbis in Europe, Asia, Africa, detailed giving an account of the life, family Groise jiidische national-biographie. the Americas and Australia. It includes about 19. Friedman, Nathan Zebi history, achievements and books authored. Czernowitz, Druck Orient, 1925-1936. 7 vols. 1500 names and arranges them according to coun- There are seven volumes arranged in one alpha- Otsar ha-rabanim (Rabbi's Encyclope- try, subdivided by town. The entries include a DS115 .W5 Hebr Ref dia). Bnei Braa. Arrudat Otsar ha-Rabanim. betical sequence according to Hebrew first name nice touch--the rabbi's local address. Happily, and then subdivided as in the Otsar [19], ac- An international biographical dictionary of there is a place name index since the arrange- Jews which covers the Middle Ages to the twen- BM750 .F3 1975 Hebr Ref cording to patronymics, etc. The index is ment by country makes it somewhat difficult to identicallyto volume. arranged but subdivided according tieth century, although there are a few entries Gives international coverage from 970 to 1970. use, particularly for Europe, if you are not from earlier eras, as well. The work was pub- Despite its title, the work covers more than certain of the political boundaries that exist- lished in seven volumes, including one complete just rabbis and includes other religious func- ed in Europe in 1912. 24. Lewin, Isaac alphabetical listing and two supplements, one tionaries, e.g. religious teachers and preach- complete and one finished through the name Fink. 22. Halperin, Raphael ers, religious judges, presidents of religious Atlas ets hayim. Bnei Braq, Hekdesh The number of entries as touted on the title courts, heads of Talmudic colleges and Hasidic pages varies from volume to volume and ranges Ruah Yaakov, 1978-1981. 5 vols. Hebrew. rabbis. The encyclopedia consists of 20,000 BM750.H34 Hebr Ref from 8,000 to 13,000. entries arranged alphabetically by first name, BM750. L44 Hebr Rabbis, scholars and and within that group subdivided alphabetically Another monumental work of potentially great Concentrates on European religious leaders, religious figures by patronymics, e.g. Isaac by Abraham, middle interest to the genealogist because of its mainly Hasidic rabbis who perished in the Holo- names and last names. A typical entry includes unique arrangement is the Atlas ets hayim. 15. Eisenstadt, Ben Zion caust. Contains 368 biographies arranged in the following information: name, father's name, Only five volumes (vols. 3-7) have been pub- three separate alphabetical sequences, according Dor rabanav ve-sofrav [Generations of father-in-law, birth and death dates, very lished in this projected 10-volume series rabbis and authors]. Warsaw etc., 1895-1902. to Hebrew first name, etc. There is a cumula- short description of accomplishments, resi- called Toldot Am Yisrael [History of the Jewish tive index in volume 7 arranged by last name. 4 vols. Hebrew. dences, books authored and finally names of sons People], which aims to cover the entire span of DS115.E354 Hebr or and sons-in-law. If the relatives mentioned history from the creation to the present time. Micro Orien Hebr 719 TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 and Yahadut Lita [33] did for Lithuania, but is 25. Rozman, Shlomo ters He-Het (in vol. 2) corresponding to H, Ch, Palestine and Israel Rashe gulat Ariel. Brooklyn, Zikhron W and a.few Ss, Zs and one Dz. The work is ar- not nearly as comprehensive. Nevertheless, in- kedoshim, 1977-1979. 2 vols. Hebrew. ranged by last name in Hebrew, or first name if cluded in this brief political, social and cul- 34. Tidhar, David BM750. R68 Hebr a surname was not used. There is a name index tural history are biographies and memoirs of Entsiklopediyah la-halutse ha-yishuv in Hebrew that includes personal and family various Latvian Jews, and there are also de- u-vonav [Encyclopedia of the pioneers and Volume 2 of this work contains 22 in-depth bio- scriptions of several towns. Captioned photos builders of the Yishuv]. Tel Aviv, Sifriyat graphies of rabbis and scholars, mostly in Hun- names, but the index in volume 2 only contains the names of people for whom there are no bio- are also included. There is a Hebrew name index Rishonim, 1947-1971. 19 vols. Hebrew. gary and Czechoslovakia, who perished in the and a list of illustrations. DS125.3.A2T5 Hebr Ref Holocaust. Not all of these names are included graphical entries. Each volume also includes a in Eleh ezkerah [24], so in a sense it is a - list of last names which gives the Yiddish, He- b Lithuania An important work for you to consider if your supplement to that work. brew and Roman spellings for each name (the relatives made their way to Palestine. It cov- list in volume 2 gives the page numbers on 32. Lite (Lithuania). New York, Jewish ers the period from 1700 until the present and Lithuanian Cultural Society, 1951-1965. 2 vols. 26. Shputts ri.e., Sputzl,-. David which the last names appear). describes often in substantial detail the lives ~eferShnot dor va-dor she1 eedole t Yiddish. Volume 2 published in Tel Aviv by I. " 29. Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher liter- of people in many walks of life who contributed ha-Torah ve-sarehah (Generations of our sages). L. Peretz Ferlag. DS135. L5L5 Hebr to the development of the Yishuv or Jewish set- Brooklyn, 1980. 168 p. atur (Biocrra~hical. -& dictionary of modern Yiddish literature). New York, Congress for Jewish Cul- A political, economic and cultural history of tlement in Palestine and Israel. Included are BM750.S397 1979 Hebr Ref ture, 1956-1981. 8 vols. Yiddish. Lithuania from the Middle Ages through the Holo- bankers, manufacturers, scientists, teachers, caust period. The work contains dozens of bio- educators, farmers and founders of moshavim and A listing of Jewish historical figures. leaders.' PJ5152.L4 Hebr Ref rabbis aid scholars from the timeYof &eation graphies and personal memoirs of famous and not kibbutzim, writers and journalists, lawyers, to approximately the year 1840 (according to A monumental work on the creators of Yiddish so famous Lithuanian Jews and also chapters on judges, doctors, government officials and other literature worldwide, from the mid-19th century birth date), arranged in chronological order Lithuanian Jewry in the Diaspora. There is de- assorted communal workers. The entries in each to the present time. There are about 7,000 en- according to the Hebrew calendar, and subdivided scriptive material on many towns, and maps and \ volume are arranged alphabetically by the Hebrew tries arranged alphabetically by the author's by historical period. There are also sections captioned photos are included. Volume 1 has a last name and are often accompanied by portraits Yiddish surname. Each entry contains a bio- on various rabbinic dynasties which enumerate combined Yiddish name and place index, while Each volume contains a cumulative index for the the rabbi, his descendants and students. For graphy of the author (some in great length and volume 2 indexes names and places separately. present and previous volumes. A similar cumula- detail) interspersed with lists of works penned each individual listed, birth and death dates Both volumes have lists of illustrations. tive index arranged by occupations was published by the author in book and periodical form, in in volumes 1-3 but was unfortunately discontin- are given as well as books authored and other original Yiddish and Yiddish translations. 33. Yahadut Lita (Lithuanian Jewry). Tel pertinent information. The Hebrew name index ued. Translations of the author's works into other Aviv, Am ha-sefer, 1959-1972. 3 vols. Hebrew. is arranged according to the same breakdown by languages are also included. At the end of Volume 2 published in Tel Aviv by ha-Agudah le- Poland period or rabbinic dynasty as in the text, but each entry is a list of works (usually in Yid- Ezrah hadadit le-yotse Lita be-Yisrael. within each section the names are arranged al- 35. Horowitz, Hersh dish) about the author and his writings. There DS135.L5Y3 Hebr Ref Le-toldot ha-kehilot be-Polin [History phabetically by Hebrew first name. Generally, are no author or title indices. the descendants of a particular rabbinic leader This is a very comprehensive work on the history of the communities in Poland]. Jerusalem, Mosad are not included in the index (the students C. SELECTED COUNTRIES AND REGIONS of the Jews in Lithuania. The first volume ha-Rav Kook, 1978. 20, 560 p. Hebrew. covers the advent of Jewish settlements in Lith- BM750.H63 1978 Hebr Ref are), so to find such a person in the text you Europe must already know from which dynasty he uania, beginning in the 15th century, and ex- This source is arranged according to the Jewish descended. 30. Federbusch, Simon tending to 1918, the end of World War I. Volume town name. bout 100 towns are included (there Hokhmat yisrael be-malarav eyropah 2 covers the period in which Lithuania was an 27. Stern, Abraham are entries at the end of the volume for a few (Science of Judaism in Western Europe) . Jeru- independent nation, 1919-1941. There was a pro- non-Polish towns also) and within each town, ~eferMelitse Esh. Jerusalem, Stern, salem, M. Newman, 1958-1965. 3 vols. Hebrew. jected volume on the Holocaust in Lithuania but 1974-1975. 3 vols. Hebrew. biographical information is listed for the pro- Volume 3 has title: Hokhmat yisrael be-eyropah that did not materialize. The third volume in- minent personalities. Unfortunately, there is BM750.S812 1974 Hebr Ref stead is divided into two parts. The first is (Jewish studies in Europe). no name index so there is some difficulty in A three-volume work, originally published in DS113 .F4 Hebr a biographical encyclopedia of sorts containing using the work. in one section approximately 600 entries for the 1930s and reprinted with new material, it Volumes 1 and 2 contain biographies of well- contains almost 2,000 entries for medieval and religious and scholarly figures, and in a second United States known Western European scholars of Judaica. section over 900 entriks for individuals involv- modern rabbis and scholars. The work is ar- 36. Shavintsy, Joseph Coverage is limited to those who passed away ed in secular pursuits. All those included were ranged in a somewhat unique way, according to Anshe ma',aseh by Joseph ben David between 1914 and the contemporary period. The either born or worked most of their life in the the months and days of the Hebrew calendar and third volume covers European scholars (not con- (Schavinsky) , vol . 1 (Men of Deed) . Tel Aviv, then lists the rabbis whose yahrzeit or anni- Vilna, Kovno or Grodna regions of Lithuania. Maasef Yisrael, 1964. 320, 63 p. Yiddish. fined only to Western Europe) from the 19th The entries, arranged by Hebrew surname in two versary of death falls on a particular day. DS151 .A2S53 Hebr Ref century until the present day, excluding those alphabetical sequences, contain biographical There is a Hebrew name index arranged according scholars who are still alive. The three volumes to the first name, etc. and bibliographical information, and some are Contains 200 portraits of Jewish and Zionist contain 117 full-length entries arranged in seD- accompanied by portraits. The second part con- leaders, writers and artists who live in the 28. Wunder, Meir arate alphabetical sequences according to the tains brief histories of about 350 Lithuanian Diaspora, mostly in the U. S. The sketches are Meorei Galicia (Encyclopedia of Gali- author's Hebrew surname. In addition, volumes Jewish communities and usually lists the promi- based on interviews with the biographees and cian rabbis and scholars). Jerusalem, Makhon 1 and 3 have separate chapters with shorter en- nent figures (rabbis, etc.) in each town. Vol- thus contain their own reminiscences as well as le-hantsahat yahadut Galicia, 1978-1981. 2 t.ries for numerous other scholars. Volume 3 has umes 1 and 2 also contain biographical sections impressions of the author. Biographical data vols. Hebrew. BM750.W83 Hebr Ref a cumulative Hebrew name index. which give in-depth portraits of several promi- such as birth date, place of birth, names of Two volumes have been uublished so far. These Latvia nent individuals (these people are covered a parents, children, occupation, etc. are scat- give biographies, in varying lengths, of rabbis second time in the briefer sketches of volume 3), tered haphazardly throughout the entry and are 31. Yahadut Latvia, sefer zikaron [Latvian and many other names are mentioned as well sometimes lacking altogether. Nevertheless, in approximately 225 Galician communities be- Jewry]. Edited by Benjamin Lubotzky. Tel Aviv, ginning in the year 1772, and include last throughout the volumes. Each volume has a sep- this source contains information on people who Igud Yotze Latvia ve-Estonia be-Yisrael, 1953. arate name index (the index for volume 2 is a would not ordinarily be found in the standard names which start with the Hebrew letters Aleph- 458 p. Hebrew. DS135.R93L32 Hebr Dalet (in vol. 1) corresponding to the letters combined place and name index) arranged by He- encyclopedias and biographical dictionaries. A, E, I, 0, U, B, G and D, and the Hebrew let- The author tried to do for Latvia what -Lite [32] brew surname,. TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, 3 10 TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 NO. Most of the articles are in Yiddish, but a num- cluded 40,000 titles (an estimated 13,500-18,000 under the title Shem ha-gedolim me-erets Hagar cular town in Europe. This guide serves as an ber of the entries have been translated into of which were Hebrew) arranged by the author, [Shem ha-gedolim of Hungary] and included Hun- index to the societies that were functioning in English and appear in a separate section. For alphabetically in the romanized form. The He- garian rabbinical scholars, authors and works 1938 in New York (where obviously the largest the Yiddish entries, there is a Yiddish surname brew titles are listed in Hebrew characters and from the earliest time to the present. The number in the country existed). While many of index and an English surname index. There is there is a Hebrew title index. first two volumes included biographical infor- these societies have disbanded, the information an additional Yiddish surname index of writers mation on 1700 authors arranged alphabetically. contained here can still be of use to the gene- and artists--some of the names in this index . 40. Ghirondi, Mordecai Samuel Each letter of the alphabet was divided into alogist. In addition to a group of articles on appear in the general name index as well, but Toldot gedole Yisrael u-geone Italyah two sections--one for deceased authors and one various aspects of landsmanshaften, the follow- some do not. The translated articles are in-- [History of the scholars of Israel and the sages for contemporary authors. A third volume in- ing directories are included: 1) Yiddish roster b dexed in a separate English surname index. of Italy]. Trieste, Tipografia Marenigh, 1853. cluded 700 bibliographic entries. The two sup- of organizations (and addendum) arranged accord- 376 p. BM750.G45 Hebr Ref plements included were originally issued in ing to the Yiddish town name. The entries usu- 111. BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIES - --- - Index. Lowenstein, Leopold. Register Kisvarda in 1935 and 1941 and separately enti- ally give the address of the society's headquar- + tled Shem ha-gedolim me-erets Hagar [The New 37. Azulai, Joseph David zu Neui-Ghirondi Toldot eedole Yisrael. r19141. ters, name and address of the secretary, the Shem ha-gedolim of Hungary] and Shem ha-gedolim Shem ha-gedolim. Edited by Isaac Ben- date on which the society was established, its ha-shelishi me-erets Hagar [The Third Shem ha- aim and other facts about the membership. jacob. Jerusalem, 1969. 2 vols. Reprint of A combination of two bio-bibliographical works 2) gedolim of Hungary]. These supplements listed A list of family circles arranged according to the Vilna, Rom, 1852 ed. on Italian authors and scholars: Mordecai names and addresses of rabbis, community lead- Yiddish family name. Entries provide the same 27070.A862 Hebr Ref Ghirondi's Toldot gedole Yisrael (with 831 en- ers and scholars. type of data as in 1. 3) A list of societies tries) and Graziadio Neui's Zekher tsadikim le- Originally issued in four volumes, the Shem ha- for which no information is available. 4) Brief verakhah (with 507 entkes). Ghirondi's son 43. Walden, Aaron gedolim gave biographical information on more English directory which provides the name of the published the two works together in 1853, plac- Shem ha-gedolim he-hadash [The New than 1300 authors and bibliographic information society and the name and address of the secre- ing his father's text on the right hand iihe of Shem ha-gedolim]. Jerusalem, 1964165. 2 vols. on more than 1300 works, from the Geonic period tary. 5) Yiddish bibliography of the society's the book and Nepi ' s work (including M. Ghiron- in 1. Reprint of the Warsaw, Goldman, 1879 ed. and up to but not including the author's own publications including a section on the publish- dits additions and corrections to Nepi) on the Hebrew. 27070.W3 Hebr Ref generation. Azulai's work is extremely valuable ed constitutions of various societies arEanged left hand side. The entries of both works are because it is a major or in some cases the only This work was intended by Walden to be an up- according to town name, and a section on the arranged alphabetically by Hebrew first name. source for many works, especially manuscripts date to the Shem ha-gedolim by Azulai [37]. He souvenir journals and other publications, A separate Hebrew surname index, Register zu simi- that are no longer in existence. The same is claimed on the title page that he would include Nepi-Ghirondi Toldot gedole Yisrael, was pub- larly arranged. For each of the latter titles, true of the work as a source of biographical a brief description of contents is given. lished by Leopold Lowenstein in 1914 and made German, Polish, Russian and Spanish scholars There information for many authors. The work is sel- that flourished since Azulaifs day. In actual- is a Yiddish name index (keyed to names mention- ective, however. Apparently, Azulai included Toldot much more useful. The entry numbers in the index consist of an Arabic numeral referring ity, he provided biographies on every major ed in the articles) and a Yiddish organization only those authors that he liked or considered Hasidic leader starting with the Besht, and in- index alphabetically arranged. important. Also, true to his stated purpose, to the page and a number in Hebrew characters referring to the entry number. (Two sets of cluded many Hasidic tales. All in all, there he concentrated mostly on the codifiers. In were 1500 biographies arranged in one section IV. MISCELLANEOUS TITLES the Benjacob edition the authors are listed in such numbers means that the individual is listed in both works.) One word of caution: The text (called "Ma 'arekhet gedolim") in Hebrew alpha- one Hebrew alphabetical sequence (according to 46. Kagan, Berl of Toldot was published in Rashi script and may betical order by first name, and 1450 biblio- Hebrew first name) entitled "Ma arekhet ha-ge- Sefer ha-prenumerantn (Hebrew subscrip-. be difficult to read. graphic entries arranged in a second section tion lists). New York, Library of The Jewish dolim" and the titles in a second sequence (called "Ma'arekhet sefarimv) alphabetically by Theological Seminary of America and Ktav, 1975. called "Ma'arekhet ha-sefarim." 41. Lippe,- - Chaim D. Hebrew title. Bibliographisches Lexicon. Wien, Ver- xx, 384, xii p. Yiddish and Hebrew. 38. Ben Naim, Joseph lag von D. Lowy, 1881-1889. 2 vols. German. 44. Zeitlin, William BM496.8.K33 Hebr Ref Malkhe rabanan. Jerusalem, 1975. 27070 .L76 Hebr Ref 126, 23 leaves. Reprint of the Jerusalem, The subscription lists contained in many rabbin- Defus ha-maarav, 1931 ed. Hebrew. ----- 2d. edition. Wien, C. D. Lippe, 1899. ic works which were published in the last 200 years contained the names of people in various BM750.B39 1975 Hebr xxxii, 496 p. 27070.L77 Hebr Ref 27070.247 Hebr Ref cities who helued the author aav1. for the costs This work concentrates on the lives and works Lippe published this work in order to provide a This became an almost complete record of Hebrew of publishing his work. The lists themselves of North African (primarily Moroccan) rabbis bibliographic tool for the Jewish book trade. literature from the time of Moses Mendelssohn, were generally arranged by town with the names and scholars. Divided into two parts in the In reality, he produced a major source for the 1729-1786, the father of the German Haskalah listed below them in Hebrew or Yiddish spelling. tradition of the Shem ha-gedolim 1371, the first history of Jewish literature in the 19th centu- movement, until 1880 for the first edition of Some lists contained not only the name, but the section contains biographical material (arranged ry. The first edition was published in eight the work and 1890 for the second. The second profession, the organization he was associated by author's Hebrew first name) and the second fascicles between 1.879 and 1881, and contained edition contained more than 3500 titles. It with and the address. Others mentioned rela- section, entitled "Kevod melachim," concentrates &bout 1150 Hebraic and several thousand Judaic was arranged alphabetically by author in roman- tives of the individual. About 70 to 75 percent

on bibliography (arranged alphabetically by He- titles. Volume 1 of a second edition published ~f ized form and there was a Hebrew title index of the works containing lists are indexed in brew title). in 1899 contained more than 900 Hebraic and and author index. Hebrew subscription lists. The books indexed 2000 Judaic titles. Both editions were arranged 39. Fiirst, Julius are listed in alphabetical order along with the alphabetically by author's romanized name, with 45. Federal Writer's Project date and place of publication. The piace index Bibliotheca Judaica. Leipzig, Hebrew title indices. Di idishe landsmanshaften fun New York W. Engelmann, 1849-1863. 3 vols. in 2. German. lists all books - via entry number - in which (Jewish landsmanshaften of New Yorkl . New York, the particular community appeared in the sub- 27070.F95 Hebr Ref 42. Schwartz, Sigmund L. Peretz Writer's Union, 1938. -397 p. I'. scription lists. There is a list of about 2000 Shem ha-gedolim le-gedole Hungaryah Yiddish. F128.9J5F5 Hebr Ref This source was intended to list all Hebraic and rEncyclopedia of Hungarian sages1 . Brooklyn, names of subscribers who were prominent person- Judaic titles published up to and including Landsmanshaften were the Jewish mutual aid so- alities, e.g. rabbis, well-known scholars and 1840. In actuality, there were many omissions 27070. S4 Hebr cieties organized during the periods of mass laymen. For the other names, and all told there and the work was riddled by many other defects. Jewish immigration to the U. S. They were es- are about 350,000 names in all the lists com- Nevertheless, it still remains a useful tool The basic portion of this work was originally tablished to fulfill the social, cultural and bined, you have to do the checking yourself, but particularly for German Judaica. The work in- published in three parts from 1913 to 1915 economic needs of the immigrants from a parti- it may be well worth the effort if you wish to

TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 TOLEPOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 identify a relative listed in a certain town or junction with the New York Times Oral History gives brief biographical data for each of the , as well as additions in their supplements fol- to gain what other information may be contained Program. Parts I, I1 and I11 of the series are individuals, which is very valuable in and of lowed Wachsteints format. They included only there. probably of most interest to you. Part I, en- itself. At the end of the list (in v. 12) there published wills and excluded manuscripts, and titled "Jewish Communities," contains 261 inter- are the following Hebrew indices: 1) according provided biographical data with each entry. 47. Jewish Agency for Palestine. Search Bureau views on different topics pertaining to Jewish to year of will (chronologically arranged), 2) Yaari also provided a separate small list of for Missing Relatives. communities worldwide. Examples are Lithuanian according to Hebrew place name, 3) family name wills for those who perished in the Holocaust. Pinkas ha-nitsolim (Register of Jewish Jewry between the two world wars, or the Jewish index. Rivkind and Yaari who supply corrections survivors). Jerusalem, 1945. 2 vols. in 1.' community in Minsk. Part 11, llWorld War 11, the English. D810.545315 Hebr or Holocaust, resistance and rescue," pertains to Micro Orien Hebr 159 the Holocaust and various topics that revolve These two l.ists are comprehensive but by no around the experience of Jews in different coun- THE JEWISH FAMILY FINDER means complete or wholly accurate. The lists tries, rescue efforts, etc. (Includes 438 in- terviews .) Part 111, "Zionism and Israel, " has are based on the registrations conducted by the The editors of TOLEDOT invite its readers Max BORSUK (1920s New York). (3) Has had any ex- 397 interviews covering significant episodes in local Jewish councils after the war. Many peo- to make inquiries about their research to the perience whatsoever doing genealogical research modern Jewish history and the establishment of ple failed to register at all, others registered more than one thousand Jewish genealogists who in the Ukraine, here or there. Israel. Topics include the antecedents of the with many different councils in the hopes that read our journal. State of Israel, this would increase their chances of being the history of the Yishuv, For $5.00, we will print your 25-word an- 82-5 Ralph N. BAER, 1250 ~ourthSt. SW, Apt. 707, youth movements, culture and education, and bio- located by relatives. The first list contains nouncement containing the surnames, towns or Washington, DC 20024 --- Seeking information on 60,000 names and is arranged according to groups graphical projects. other information that you might wish to include (all from Germany) BAER from Malsch (Kreis Karls- of survivors, e.g. Polish Jews liberated from Parts I and I1 are indexed in Oral history guide, in your inquiry. Your name and address are ruhe, Baden), GUNZENHAEUSER from Memmelsdorf in Bergen Belsen, Jewish survivors in East European 1 and Part I11 is indexed in Oral history guide, listed free of charge. For announcements of Unterfranken and Binswangen, MAIER from Rohrbach towns, etc. Various bits of information are 2. In the guides, the interviews are arranged more than 25 words, an additional 204 per word bei Heidelberg, and CAHN from Orsoy am Rhein. given with each name including date of birth, by topic and within each group alphabetically by should be added. Also GRUENEBAUM from Gambach in Oberhessen, HESS- last place of residence, profession, father's interviewee's name. The language of the inter- To avoid inaccuracies, please type or print DOERFER from Ottensoos , HOFHE IMER from Butt enhaus- name, etc. The second list covers Polish sur- view is indicated along with the reel or fiche your announcement. Indicate surnames in CAPITAL en, and SCHMIDT and HIRSCHMANN from Grosskrotzen- vivors only. It contains 58,000 names (the number. In addition, LC cataloged the micro- letters, as we do in the listings, in order to burg. listing for S is incomplete) and gives the name fiche of Part I1 and the catalog cards for these distinguish them from place names. and place of last registration only. entries are reproduced in the Guide in numerical Send your check along with the wording of 82-6 Mrs. Maurice BALL, 1458 San Ysidro Dr., 48. Wachstein, Bernhard order of the fiche (the order is largely alpha- your query to: TOLEDOT, 155 East 93 Street, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 --- Abraham & Anna TABACH- Mafteah ha-hespedim [Index of eulogies] . betical). The Hebraic Section, which holds the Suite 3C, New York, NY 10028. NIK lived and were manufacturers of men's shirts, Vienna, 1922-1924. 4 parts in 1 vol. Hebrew. film for Parts I and 111, and the fiche and film New York City. Had 3 sons. Origin? Louis KLEINER, 26374 .B417 Hebr Ref for Part 11, maintains an author listing of the later became KLENER, settled Springfield, MA. Both fiche and a shelf list arranged by microfiche came about 1900. Yale FELhW, Springfield, MA. Another source for names of prominent rabbis, number. A word about the transcripts themselves. 82-1 Marcel J. APSEL, c/o Renee APSEL, 250 E. scholars and laymen often on the local level is They are typewritten, sometimes on odd scraps 39 St., New York, NY 10016 or Marcel J. APSEL, 82-7 Sandi BAMBERGER, 7041 N. Fairchild Cir., the Mafteah ha-hespedim, a list of eulogies or of paper, and the text is not in final form Helenalei 18, Bus 11, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium --- Milwaukee, WI 53217 --- Seeking descendants of funeral orations which were separately published but is laden with editorial corrections and the Looking for descendants of the PNE YEHOSHUA Zachary/Zachariah/Isach EPSTINE/EPSTEIN b . 1818 or appeared in another work. ernh hard Wachstein like. All in all, they are hard to read. (Rabbi Jacob YEHOSHUA BEN ZEVI HIRSCH FALK, 1680- Behrenfurt, Germany, emigrated 1844 with brother published the list in four parts beginning in 1756), and of Rav Israel ABERBACH of Lemberg (2 Abraham to Aurora, IN. Wife Mary BERNSTEIN. 1922 and based it on the holdings of the Israel- 50. Wachstein. Bernhard 1830-1850), and all descendants of ABERBACH (Lem- Children: Solomon, Ferdinand/Frederick, Moses. ~afteahha-tsevalot [Index of wills] itische Kultusgemeinde Library in Vienna. Each . berg, Rohatyn and surroundings) and APSEL (Dolin- list is arranged alpl~abeticallyby Hebrew first In: Kiryat Sefer, v. 11 (1934-35), pp. 235-244, any, Rohatyn, Chodorow and surroundings). 82-8 Sandi BAMBERGER, 7041 N. Fairchild Cir., name and the entry usually indicates the date 372-383; v. 12 (1935-36), pp. 98-108. Contains Milwaukee, WI 53217 --- Seeking descendants of on which the eulogy was given, the town in which 180 entries. Hebrew. 82-2 Louis ATKIN, 61 Westminster Rd., Rochester, Leopold GRADWOHL b. 1833 Hochfelden, Alsace. Wife the person lived and the book which contained ----- Supplement. Rivkind, Isaac. "Shiure NY 14607 --- Seeking relatives and information Sarah FRANK b. 1845 Maryland. Children: Clara the eulogy. Each part has a separate name and sefer ...le-mafteah ha-tsevalot." In: Kiryat for Leib ATKIN born Ekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk) SOMMERFIELD, Henrietta EPSTEIN, Albert, Ferdinand, place index in the vernacular, a list of cross- Sefer, v. 13 (1936-37), pp. 502-504. Contains 5 May 1874. Also relations of Morris KORPECK born Ernestina. Resided Virginia, Washington, DC. references from the Hebrew place names to the 8 entries. Hebrew. Lomza, Russia 20 Sept. 1895. Also relations of vernacular ones, and a list of books which also 82-9 Sandi BAMBERGER, 7041 N. Fairchild Cir., -----Supplement. Yaari, Abraham. "Tosefet Minnie KUSHNER and Rose SALTZMAN. cited the place and date of publication. All Milwaukee, WI 53217 --- Seeking descendants of these indices are cumulated in the last part. le-mafteah ha-tsevalot." In: Kiryat Sefer, v. 82-3 Heidi AUERBACH, 401 W. Channel Rd., Santa George JEHLINGER/GELINGER b. 1836 Germany. Wife 34 (1958-59), pp. 381-387. Contains 80 entries 49. Oral history guide; a bibliographic Monica, CA 90402 --- Rybnitse: GOLDBERG. Kishi- Freida BEINBERGER. Children: Bertha BAMBERGER, Hebrew. nev and Harbin: AUERBACH. Kiev, Pereyaslav, Charles, Harry (Portland, OR), Mrs. H. BUGHEIM listing of the memoirs in the micropublished' 26367. K57 Hebr collections. (New York Times Oral History Pro- Minsk: ARLUCK. Ekaterinaslav, Gotchinishob: (Garden City, KS) . Resided Ohio, Illinois. gram). Glen Rock, New Jersey, Microfilming Wachsteinrs original work contained a listing FARBER. Krivoye Ozero, Bielaya Tserkov, Uman: DUCHOWNY. Krivoye Ozero: KURLAT. Ovidiopol, Corpbration of ~merica,19761i979. 2 volsT of published wills, both ethical and general, 82-10 Arye BARKAI, 1777 Grand Concourse #11N, that appeared in Hebrew or were translated to Ackerman: SPIEGELMAN. Troitskaya, Volochansk: Hebr Ref Bronx, NY 10453 --- Searching for:'PALESTER, Hebrew. They are arranged according to the He- RECHTMAN. Paris: DOKOVNE, IMBERT. Memoirs often yield genealogical information REINES from Tarnow; DUDELSAK (Yiddish for "bag- brew first name of the testator. Many of the pipew), OLEICH (OLECH), MORSEL, LOBERFELD,' LAUB- and one important source for memoirs are the wills cited were originally contained in one of 82-4 Heidi AUERBACH, 401 W. Channel Rd., Santa ERFELD from Galicia; SCHNABL, owner of cafe in interviews with individuals conducted by the several anthologies. For these, Wachstein gives Monica, CA 90402 --- Would like to hear from any- one who: (1) Has information on the Jewish commu- Pohalice, near Brunn (Brno), Czechoslovakia, Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew only the citation to these sources. If the nity of Harbin, Manchuria (in the 1920s). (2) 1920s. University. The transcripts of these interviews wills were not contained there, he cites one or Has information on whereabouts of photographer were published in microfiche and film in con- more editions of the will. In addition, he TOLEVOT/VOL. 4, NO. 3 TOLEVOT/VOL. 4, NO. 3 7 5 82-11 Harriet BASKIN, Hammond House Rd., Valhal- 82-18 Rita BOTWIN, 219 E. Broadway, Long Beach, 82-25 Marla COHEN, 377 Cornwall St., Hartford, line); Isaac, deceased Scranton, PA 6 Feb. 1926; la, NY 10595 --- Any information: Berel (Baer) CA 90802 --- Seeking CARR, FISHER, KOWALSKY, SOL- CT 06112 --- Looking for descendants of Itzhak(?) Ferdinand, deceased Stockholm 7 Sept. 1940; Elise, GREEN, vicinity Kiev possibly Podolyia Gubernya, ENZ, YUDKOFF -Tartak, Suwalki, Poland; Yachon LEWIN (COHEN?), Aaron LAPIDUS, Vilna; KOZAK or deceased Stockholm 16 June 1940 (Johanette) . children Eva (Nathan SAMUEL), Elka (Alice) (Itha- KLEIN, sons Rachmiel, Tevya, Abraham -Lahoisk, SORBLUM (ZAURBACH) from Kutno, Poland; GLICKMAN mar FEINSTEIN), Polly (Pearl) (Barnet RODEN), Russia; Florence and Joseph SHAPIRO, children Bes- (HOROWITZ?) from Riga; COHEN (GIVENTHAL?) from 82-33 Naomi BARD FELLER, 5 Knox PI., Dix Hills, Morrie (Annie) , Harry (Kate FEINGOLD) , Philip, sie and Herschel - Minsk, cousin Morris SNYDER, Odessa. NY 11746 --- Seeking information on FELLER from Joseph (latter 2 died California, others lived. Philadelphia; brothers Louis (Arya Leib) and Beryl Isai (formerly Jass y) Rumania. Edward FELLER London, Cardiff). Berells niece, Libba (Jacob SHAPIRO of Tellechan; Leo and Bailla NIDICH, chil- 82-26 Walter COHEN, 3221 Cherry La., Austin, TX (Jahudah) married Yetta ALPEROVITZ (?spelling) SNYDERMAN): children Herman (Gussie), Kate (Her- dren Phillip (Pinchas) and Mary (Merel) -Minsk. 78703 --- Searching for families from Kovno Guber- NYC ca. 1895. Theater doorman's union and suspend- man LUBIN), Anne (Harry BINDER, Woodbine or Vine- nia, Lithuania, the towns of Upynas (Upina), Taur- er union. Brothers Harry FELLER and Albert S. . land, NJ pharmacist), Eva (Herman BENSON), Rose 82-19 Rita BOTWIN, 219 E. Broadway, Long Beach, age (Tavrig, also it was Taurogen, East Prussia FELLER of Forward. (Samuel ROSENBLUM) , Claire (Harry?), Sylvia (?) , CA 90802 --- Seeking Yakov and Rachel SILBERMAN at one time), Silale, Raseiniai (Rossein), Jurbar- Harry (Rose) - all Philadelphia area. Cousins (ZIMMERGUS), children Nathan and Sam - Kaltian, kas (Yurburg) , Kraziai (Krez) , Batakiai (Bettick), 82-34 Naomi BARD FELLER, 5 Knox Pl., Dix Hills, to GREENS: AUSLANDER, Nathan Sheva (Sonia), Moses Russia; Chenach Zvi BOTWINICK, children Sima, Is- family names of DAN, DANN, DEN, DENN, DON, DUNN, NY 11746 --- Seeking information on SCHMILOWITZ, or Morris (tlussy) (Sarah), Philip (Sonia), Itzik aac, Chia Ruchel - Minsk; Morris David BOTWINICK, etc;, SOLOMOVICH, SOLOMON, LEVITAN, ZECHMAN, Leah Rifka d. 28 Feb. 1934, Milwaukee, WI. Father Laib (Isaac Louis), Fanny (Frances). wife Marry WOLFF (sister Rebecca WOLFF FOX), chil- YASHOLOVICH. David, mother Faygel, husband Barrel1 SCHMILOWITZ dren Willie, Max, Minnie, Rochelle - Minsk. of Halai and Batashem, Rumania. Daughters Clara 82-12 Harriet BASKIN, Hammond House Rd., Valhal- 82-27 Martin COHN, 12 Berry Hill La., Bethpage, (Chaya) BARD, Rifka KAUFMAN, Yetta KAUFMAN, Bran- la, NY 10595 --- Any information PRESS/PERES/ 82-20 Rita BOTWIN, 219 E. Broadway, Long Beach, NY 11714 --- Seeking information of: Rabbi Simeon ya MOSKOWITZ, all of Milwaukee. PERESS, Ekaterinaslav: Either Yussel or wife Riv- CA 90802 --- Seeking Schmuel Lazar GUREVITZ, chil- Yehuda KAHN, LIPSHITZ, Yagotin, Russia (60 miles ka had sibling whose son Zechariah had daughter dren Herschel, Isadore, Sloimek - Minsk or Boris- east of Kiev); HOCHMAN-Kamenetz-Podolsk, Russia; 82-35 John A. FRANCKEN, 47 Bramber Rd., London Leah (HIRSCHOVICH), who had son Aaron - Leeds, ov; Chaim Yankel LAPIDES, wife Gittle, children SCHNEIDER-Satanov, Russia; GLAZER/GLASER/GLASSER- ~12'9ND,England --- Seeking descendants of fami- England. Their children Yitzchak (Ruchel) and Lena, Srool, Aaron, Anna, Isaac, Sara, from Krem- Kozova, Austria (between Lvov and Ternopol) ; lies STERNAU, LOEWENBERG, WUERZBURGER, ROMBERG, probably 3 others. One son and one daughter were nitz, cousin Minnie LAPIDES GREENSPAN, cousin BLEIER-Brzezany, Austria (between Lvov and Terno- OSTWALD, HEYMANN and CALMEN from Westphalia, Ger- MD1s. Yitzchakls children: Berel (Julius Bernard, Simon HALPERN of Toledo. pol); UNGERLEIDER-Hungary; KLEIN-Nagykallo, Hun- many, and LEFFMANN family from Viersen, Germany. tailor, Atlantic City)(Fanny POLLACK), Moishe gary. (Machle), Chaika (Moishe GARFINKEL, poet-tailor, 82-21 Melinda BRONTE, 1511 San Ysidro Dr., Bev- 82-36 Arthur GLICKMAN, 427 Golden Isles Dr. #11F, Argentina), Yechiel (Yussel) , Chana Frayda (Tan- erly Hills, CA 90210 --- Searching for information 82-28 Charlotte CURLIN, P.O. Box 847, Weimar, CA Hallandale, FL 33009 --- Need info. ELLISON family chen LITICHEVSKY) - Philadelphia. on the following surnames: BRODSKY (Ukraine), 95736 --- Looking for ancestors and descendants .of Russia and Bronx - Louis, Sara, Anne, Rachel, DRUCKER (Holland) , DRUCKKER (Holland) , DUBOWY of Isaac ALTMAN and Theresa SEIDENBERG from Bav- Lena. Sara inarried Meyer WEINSTEIN. Daughters 82-13 Harriet BASKIN, Hammond House Rd., Valhal- (Tarnopol e) , DUBOWI E (Tarnopol e) , DUBOVI (Tarno- aria, Germany. Came to New York 1854, then to San Laura and Madeleine ALLISON (professional name). la, NY 10595 --- Seek information BASKIN, Moishe pole) , HART (England) , KEMPINSKI (Kempen, Kepno Francisco 1860. Madeleine married Herschel DEUTSCH. Daughter (Vilna) - one son to southern USA, one to Cleve- - Poland), KRELL (Galicia) , NORINSKY (Ukraine), Antonia SCHUMAN . land, one to NY jewelry store Bronx or Brooklyn, POLAK (Kepno, Poland), SPEYER. 82-29 Carole G. EARLY, 379 "0" St. SW, Washing- another Noter (Nathan) married Rivka - their chil- ton, DC 20024 --- Seeking information on ISEMAN 82-37 Gladys GLASER GOULD, 16427 Plummer St., dren: Shloime, Simcha, Isadore, Benjamin, Rose. 82-22 Peter STERN BUCKY, 5 Horizon Rd. #2002, of Baden, Germany; KAHN/KOHN of Stebbach bei Ep- Sepulveda, CA 91343 --- Seeking WAGSHAL/WAGSHUL/ Simcha remained Russia. Rivkal s family probably Fort Lee, NJ 07024 --- Looking for STERNs - pinger, Germany. All settled in South Carolina WAKSHUL/WAGSCHAL/WAKSZUL/WAKSZOL/VAKSHALL kin, wealthy florists who changed name to DOLGIN. looking for relatives, acquaintances or ances- about 1850. Also Sol MORRIS of Milwaukee, born Kielce province. Ostrowiec: Ruchel, midwife; tors of my grandfather Eugen STERN. Eugen STERN 1858; GERBER originated in Lithuania, settled in daughter Basia; son Rochmil Moishe, Talmudic 82-14 Harriet BASKIN, Hammond House Rd., Valhal- (1860-1928) lived Magdeberger Str. & died Babels- Providence, Rhode Island about 1890; and OSCAR scholar (~1840-1894). Ozarow: son Sirl, shoe- la, NY 10595 --- Seek information COHEN, Samuel berger Str. in Berlin, Germany. He married Ger- of Riga, Latvia. Settled in DC area. maker. Drilch: son, a baker. Also, grandson (Tschepovsky) . His children: Moishe, David (Leah), trude LACHMANN about 1892, had my father Dr. of Chil, rabbi. Children of Libeh GOLE?.qBIOWSKI and Jacob, Fanny (Sol BASKIN), Joseph (Rose), Jenny Juris. Franz STERN (1894-1960) & my aunt Hilda 82-30 Bruce A. EPSTEIN, MD, 9005 Baywood Park Rochmil Moishe (Golda, Shmuel, Zvillin, Naphtali, (Isadore GOLUB), Irving (Molly) - Joseph and Jenny STERN (1894-1940). Both also lived in Berlin. Dr., Seminole, FL 33543 --- Seeking information Avrom, Itzik, Rosa, Priva, Parul) lived 1860s - were twins. Any leads relative to STERNs would be greatly on EPSTE IN (Glusk, Russia) , LIFSHITZ (Kaseritz, 1940s. appreciated. Russia), SABLOVITZ (Janova, Lithuania), STEINDLER 82-15 Franz J. BIERMANN, 4609 Drummond Ave., (Bechin, Austria), WEISBLAT (Raflafk or Odessa, 82-38 Gladys GLASER GOULD, 16427 Plummer St., Chevy Chase, MD 20815 --- Data incl literature: 82-23 Peter STERN BUCKY, 5 Horizon Rd. #2002, Russia), MERTZEL (Caslav and Tabor, Bohemia). Sepulveda, CA 91343 --- Seeking GOLEMBIOWSKI kin, Lazarus MORGENSTERN 1783-1853 of Joseph and (?) Fort Lee, NJ 07024 --- Looking for LACHMANNs - All information appreciated and gladly shared. Kielce province: Bodzentyn, Brezezev, Dabrowa, FRAUENFELD, KairlindachlBavaria, ca 1810 married looking for relatives and ancestors of Joseph Opatow, Ostrowiec, Wierzbnik. Children of Sura Fanny 1787-1867 of Jakob MORGENSTERN and Merla Abraham LACHMANN (ca. 1826-1886), who was born 82-31 Cindy ESTERHOLDT, 233West 4350North, Og- and Velvel GOLEMBIOWSKI (Shifra, Tzivya, Berel, LOEB, Buechenbach/Bavaria, and ancestry. in Lobsens and lived in Berlin, Germany. He den, UT 84404 --- Seeking relatives of Lena Libeh, Edith, Yankel) lived 1830s - 1920s. married Jenny (ALEXANDER) LACHMANN and had four BLUEMENTHAL, born about Oct . 1858 Courland, Lith- 82-16 Franz J. BIERMANN, 4609 Drummond Ave., ' children, Eugen, Paul, Leo, and my grandmother uania. Immigrated to Poland, then to London. Mar- 82-39 Marvin J. HELLER, 1028 E. 28 St., Brooklyn, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 --- Data incl literature: Gertrude. Leo had two children, Gunter and Rudi ried Isaac ROSENBURG or MALUMED. Six children, NY 11210 --- Seeking information families HELLER, , Jakob MAAS 1783-1863 of Joseph and Regina, both LACHMANN, and Franz, my father, was born to Ger- one named Lily who came to America in about 1921. DORFLAUFER, FOGELHOOD (VOGELHUT), and KOENIGSBUCH died 1814, and wife Judith 1782-1852 of Wolf trude. Any leads relative to LACHMANNs would be Looking for cousins in San Francisco and Phila- from Briegel (Brzesko) area, between Cracow and ISAAC, Dolgesheim/Rheinhessen, and ancestry, or greatly appreciated. delphia. Tarnow, Galicia. relation MAAS family Frankfurt 18th cent. 82-24 Michael A. CLEIN, P.O. Box 432110, South 82-32 Julian FALK, 2131 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, 82-40 Marvin J. HELLER, 1028 E. 28 St., Brooklyn, 82-17 Franz J. BIERMANN, 4609 Drummond Ave., Miami, FL 33143 --- Searching for the CLEIN fam- PA 15219 --- Searching family of Caroline GREEN- NY 11210 --- Seeking families PELTZ (PILCHMAN in Chevy Chase, MD 20815 --- Data incl literature: ily, lived in Akmene, Lithuania; Dublin, Ireland; BUN and Johanette ROSENFELD, wives of Israel the United States) from Poninka, Ukraine; BERMAN David GELDERSHEIMER 1774-1850, Bamberg/Bavaria Cork, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; At- FALK, born Meudt, Germany 5 July 1823. Known from Brezna gubernia, Volin, Ukraine; PERLITZ of Jakob GELDERSHEIMER and Merla SIMON, and lanta, GA; Columbus, GA; Miami, FL. children: Adolph, deceased NY 31 Dec. 1935 (Caro- (BERLITZ) and PEARLMAN (PERLMAN) from same area. ancestry. TOLEDOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 TOLEDOT/VOL. 4, NO. 3 87-41 Beth HOOVER, Calle Bosque de Ombues #6, Prussia); Abraham BRAND, Lithuania. Descendants ien-Koszyrski, or Kovel. Also LUPU, from Turgl- 82-66 Barbara M. MILLER, 160 Denise Dr., Hills- Col. Bosques de las Lomas, Mexico D.F., Mexico --- immigrated to U.S. in 1850s. Ocna and Moinesti, Romania. borough, CA 94010 --- Seeking information and de- Seeking information on ancestors and descendants scendants of Philip MILLER, from Vilna, migrated of Joseph Jacob FRANKEL of Grunstadt, Germany; 82-49 Marty KOPELOWITZ, 1036 E. Louisa Ave., W. 82-58 Daniel LYON, 1811 Four Lakes Ave. #1K, 1898, possibly with parents and sister Anna OTTEN- Rabbi Jacob FRANKEL, b. 1808 in Grunstadt, Phila- Covina, CA 91790 --- Searching for Marcu and Lisle, IL 60532 --- Any WAXLER, WEXLER, WECHSLER STEIN and brother' Robert MILLER(RUFKE) and brother delphia - son or grandson Joseph in construction Nathan KOPELOWITZ, Botosani, Romania; Cellia and from Koenigsberg, East Prussia-later Kiev, Berdi- who migrated to Nova Scotia. in N.Y. Also families of Henry HECKHEIMER, Ger- Ben KLING, Focsani, Romania; Max KIRSCHENBAUM, chev, Radomyshol, Rogev (Roshov) Russia. Also many, Baltimore; Rachel STATDECKER, Germany, Bal- Russia; Isaac and Jennie BUNDT, Lemberg (Lvov), SMERTANKO (V) , GALVIN, GELVEN, KRIMMER, KROCHMEL 82-67 Barbara M. MILLER, 160 Denise Dr., Hills- timore; Simon RAPPAPORT, Fuerth, New York; Emma Poland (Russia) . (KROCHMAL) from Dunilowicze, Glebokie, Postawy borough, CA 94010 --- Seeking information and de- NEYER, Landau, New York ca.1850; Benjamin or Simon Russia. LASLAND, LISLAND, LISLINE, LANSLINE, scendants of Louis and Dora HORWITZ, from Russia LYONS, b. England, and sons Alexander, Albert, Ed- 82-50 Arthur S. LEONARD, 247 E. 83 St., New LASILINE from Luknik, Lithuania (Telze area). via England 1881-83 and brother Barney HORWITZ, ward, all born New York. York, NY 10028 --- Any info. on ABRAMAIJTIS/ Information on sources for towns needed. Seeking Dave HORWITZ, Helen HORWITZ. Their children are: , ABRAMSON from Psherosly, Lithuania or Suwalki, CUTLER from Bessie WAXLER, in California. daughter Martha, Seymour and Gordon HORWITZ. 82-42 Judy IZEN, 208 Follen Rd., Lexington, MA Poland; POWIATOWSKI/COHEN or TUTULSKI/HARRIS from Descendants of LYON, Hagerstown, Maryland. 02173 --- Seeking information'and descendants of Suwalki. Also looking for MOVERMAN, KASTANETSKY 82-68 Eugene C. NOWICKI, 1373 Army Lake Rd., E. AIZICOVICH, SHAPOZNICK, SEMIEVITCH families from from Kamenet z-Podolsk and DOLINER, HERZOG from 82-59 Jane LITWIN LYSS, 1741 W. 19 St. #8B, Troy, WI 53120 --- Seeking information John Joseph lvilkomierz (Ukmerge) Lithuania. Also LEVIN' and Skala, Galicia. Lawrence, KS 66044 --- Seeking information/de- NOWICKI, lived ca. 1900 Kalwarya/Suwalki, NOVITZ- ISRAEL families from Dowig, Lithuania. scendants on Moshe and Tamara SEIFKIN (Riga), KY, NOVITZKIJ, VANUGAT, WANNAGAT, VANUGATIS, KON- 82-51 Lois WERTHEIMER LIPNIK, 17209 Westhampton, children David LITWIN, Fannie, Dvorah, Huddle. KOWNAYtHIATT, DURST, Hamtrack, Mich., Philadel- 82-43 Judy IZEN, 208 Follen Rd., Lexington, MA Southfield, MI 48075 --- Searching for descendants Yehudah and Batya KASDIN/KASHDAN (Krasne - Vilna/ phia, Bridgeport, Conn., Syracuse, N.Y. 02173 --- Seeking information and descendants of of Ben WERTHEIMER, founded WERTHEIMER Dept. Store, Minsk). Yitzchak and Leah GAMZ/S -E/U/UE/O/ON SLONIMSKY (Lida) , EVANSKY (Nova Yelna) , JACOBSON 617 W. 181 St., New York City. Born Baden or (Linden or Riga), children Nachum, Herman, Nach- 82-69 Richard A. ORKIN, 10005 Tikita PI., Toluca and SHWETZ (Kovno) , BUCHINSKY formerly KAHN and Bavaria, Germany 1830s or 1840s. man, Hugo, Irca, Fannie. Jacob and Chai Bella Lake, CA 91602 --- Seeking descendants of Zussman SHTERNER (Vilna) . RAPPAPORT (Kishinev or Odessa) , chi1dren Abraham, (James) FELDSCHER or FELDSER or FELTZER of Kour- 82-52 Logan M. LOCKABEY, 477 E. 19 St., Costa Aaron, Libby, Annie. land, Latvia, late 1800s. 82-44 Pennycandy JANSEN, 10701 Cedar Ave. #24, Mesa, CA 92627 --- Seeking information and rela- Bloomington, CA 92316 --- Seeking information on tives for SATKIN family (SOPKIN, SUTKIN, SADKIN) 82-60 Hymie MANKOWITZ, 7 Hill Rd., Emmarentia 82-70 Steven ORLEN, 436 S. 5th Ave., Tucson, AZ or connections with AARONSON/AARON family. Ar- New York, Florida, Los Angeles, New Jersey, De- 2195, Johannesburg, South Africa --- Seeking de- 85701 --- Seeking descendants of brothers or sis- rived from Palestine 1908-09, landed Ellis Island, troit. Originally from Vitebsk gyberna or scendants and/or informat ion on MANKOWITZ family ters of Shimon ORLEN, son of Moshe, born Vevia, New York, changed surname to AARON and later to Polotsk. Joseph, Sonja, Aaron, Sarah, Anna. of Pashvatine (Pasvitinys) and Joniskis (Janeshik) Lithuania 1852. Cattle-dealer, immigrated to ALLEN. Jacob (AARONSON) AARON owned a shoe busi- New York circa 1904-1908 ... maybe some remained. as well as information on these two villages. Holyoke, Mass. 1913. Husband of Minna KABATCHNIK, ness located at 14th Street and Halsted, Chicago, daughter of Abba. Ill. until 1924. 82-53 Logan M. LOCKABEY, 477 E. 19 St., Costa 82-61 Herb MAUTNER, 6507 Longridge Ave., Van Mesa, CA 92627. --- Seeking information and rela- Nuys, CA 91401 --- Seeking descendants of Helene, 82-71 David H. OSACHY, 6348 Ebdy St., Pittsburgh, 82-45 Pennycandy JANSEN, 10701 Cedar Ave. #24, tives for BLOCKOFF family (BLACKOFF, BLAGOV, Robert or Harold NEW, children of Joseph NEW, PA 15217 --- Seeking any information whatsoever Bloomington, CA 92316 --- Seeking information on BLOCHOFF) . Rosa, Sonja, Rachael, Abraham. Vi- born 1863, in Wabash, Indiana. on the following families, places: OSACHY (OSAD- or connections with ELIAS/ELIASH family. Hanna tebsk gyberna or Polotsk or possibly St. Peters- CHY), SOKOLOW (SOKOLSKY), Golovanevsk, Ukraine; Rivka ELIASjELIASH married Jacob AARONSON around burg. Married SATKIN family. Rosa to Los Angeles 82-62 Herb MAUTNER, 6507 Longridge Ave., Van UNGER, KASSEL, Lemberg (Lwow); GRUBER, RABINOWITZ, 1894. They had 6 children. Arrived U.S.A. 1908-09 circa 1910. Nuys, CA 91401 --- Seeking descendants of Hugo Jassy, Romania; DICKLER, SCHNEIDER, Tulchin, with Abraham, Molly, Esther, Mae (Minnie), Morris and Louise BRUNELL, or their children Grete and Ukraine. born Tel Aviv 1896-1907. Ruth born U.S.A. 1909. 82-54 Logan M. LOCKABEY, 477 E. 19 St., Costa Paul. Name changed from LILIENTHAL. Came to the Lived at 14th Street and Halsted, Chicago, Ill. Mesa, CA 92627 --- Seeking information and rela- U.S. from Kiistrin, Germany between 1900 and 1918. 82-72 M. PAKTER, Smaragd 4, 3641 XL Mydrecht, until 1924. tives of HEISSMAN family. Adolf, Waldemar left Holland --- Is looking for: PAKTER from Lithuan- Vitebsk, moved to Glasgow, settled in Los Angel- 82-63 Herb MAUTNER, 6507 Longridge Ave., Van ia, Poland and Russia; DURLACH(ER), ETTLINGER, es circa 1924. Waldemar married to Rose ? and 82-46 Sheree JOSEPH, 870 S. Hudson, Denver, CO Nuys, CA 91401 --- Seeking descendants of WOLFF WORMSER, MOEREL from Germany. And also looking Sarah PILIAVIN. Survived by Jack HEISSMAN and families (formerly known as BENLEVI) , from Zerbst , for information on Sara PAKTER from Holland who 80222 --- Seeking information about: Priluki, PILIAVIN family in Los Angeles. Bernburg or Dessau, East Germany (formerly An- went to U.S. in 1890. Russia; families WOLOWITZ, ZELKIN, PORT, GLASER, f halt). Have Zerbst microfilm (1792-1933) ; will DAVIS, MORRISON, GORSKY, PODOLSKI, JOSEPH (JOSEF), 82-55 Logan M. LOCKABEY, 477 E. 19 St., Costa share info. 82-73 Renee BOOKIN PARTELOW, 68-354 Indigo Ln., LITCHINSKY, Rabbi William GORDON. Mesa, CA 92627 --- Seeking information and rela- Cathedral City, CA 92234 --- Seeking information tives of Sasha PETROV, vaudeville dancer with 82-64 Nancy MAXWELL, 10299 Alder Ct., Rancho on following families and descendants : BOOKIN 82-47 Sheila KIEVAL, 730 Lincoln St., Baldwin, Orpheum Circuit circa 1905-1915. Possible con- Cucamonga, CA 91730 --- Seeking information/de- (also spelled BUCKIN) and ZARCHY from Vilna, Kov- NY 11510 Descendants of Solomon CUMMINS, of --- tact with BLOCKOFF or SATKIN. scendants of Israel BELKIN or BELKIND of Minsk, no, or Malaschick, Lithuania, or Austria; ZOLO- Los Angeles, Cal., formerly KAMINIK; Eugenia Russia. First wife Chayeh RIVA; second wife TAREFF and LEIBIN from Gomel, Russia (or area); SHAFRAN, of Bronx, N.Y.; Isaac and Manya OSTRO- Fanny (Fayeh) PADNOS (his niece). Had 9 children; FRIEDMAN, descendants of Rabbi CHODUCK; PARSOFF MOGILSKY, maybe MOGILL, of Philadelphia, Pa.; 82-56 Logan M. LOCKABEY, 477 E. 19 St., Costa one is Louis BELKIN who came to U.S. in 1910. and WOLKOFF families related to LEIBIN. Isadore MOGILL of L.A., Cal.; all of above former- Mesa, CA 92627 --- Seeking information on Vitebsk Also seeking information on Solomon Jacob PLISKIN ly from Belaya Tserkov. Also families named KIE- gyberna and Polotsk. Seeking information on and Bessie FINKELSTEIN, who lived in Manchester, 82-74 Herbert M. PLUMMER, 4827 Sudley Rd., Cath- VAL, KOVELMAN (LOVELMAN) , STARKER, and TASCHMAN. photographic studio BERMAN and BERNSTEIN in England before coming to U.S. in early 1900s. arpin, VA 22018 --- Searching for information and Will share info. Vitebsk or Polotsk. I have photos from these studios. Perhaps Marc CHAGALL was photographed descendants of Rabbi David RABINIWITZ, from Zosli, Lithuania. Made three trips to U.S. One arrived 82-48 Rosalie MARWIL MORRISON KOGAN, 3308 Glen- there. 82-65 Barbara M. MILLER, 160 Denise Dr., Hills- S.S. Pennsylvania, 14 July 1899, New York. Pass- moor Dr., Chevy Chase, MD 20815 --- Looking for borough, CA 94010 --- Seeks information and de- age paid by son Reuben RABINOWITZ who emigrated descendants of Selig MARWILSKY from Vistinetz, 82-57 Charlene LOUP, 2777 S. Elmira, Denver, CO scendants of Benish LANDESBAUM, probably from earlier. Lithuania; Schlomo SUSSMAN from Breslau (East 80231 --- Looking for ZINIUK, of Luibeshov, Kam- Tarnopol, settled N.Y.C. with Michael and twin brother about 1900. TOLEVOT/VOL. 4, NO. 3 82-75 Herbert M. PLUMMER, 4827 Sudley Rd., Cath- Rezekne, Latvia and families of GRUBER or KORACH, 82-93 Charles BEHREND SONNEBORN, 2750 Unicorn 82-102 Mark TEDESCHI, 22 Fishburn Rd., Galston, arpin, VA 22018 --- Searching for information and emigrated from Vilna, Lukatsch, Valena, Lublin. Ln., Washington, DC 20015 --- Seeking heirs of N.S.W. 2159 (Sydney), Australia --- Seeking in- family of Peter ANCHER, married Elizabeth RABINO- Solomon SONNEBORN who married Leah DITTENHOEFER formation regarding Rabbi Israel LIEBERSOHN (and WITZ in Zosli, Lithuania. Emigrated New York ca. 82-83 Gayle SAMUELS, 1 Highfield Cir., Mendham, (N.Y.) Richard LAUTERBACH; Melville and Lucille family) of Kolomyya, Galicia, who died between 1895, then to Des Moines, Iowa ca. 1902. Believe NJ 07945 --- Looking for any information on Mozyr, LAUTERBACH SOLOMON: Morton and Hazel KRONTHAL 1890 and 1910. Also seeking information on GANG, had family in New York. U.S.S.R. and Vashilifska, U.S.S.R. LAUTERBACH. RIZ, FUCHS and GERSHONOWITZ families of Poland.

82-26 Herbert M. PLUMMER, 4827 Sudley Rd., Cath- 82-84 Maury SCHLOSSMAN, 11002 Hammerly Blvd. 82-94 Charles BEHREND SONNEBORN, 2750 Unicorn 82-103 Theodore L. THAU, 336 Amherst Dr., Sali- arpin, VA 22018 --- Searching for information and #202, Houston, TX 77043 --- Seeking: MARGOLI(E)S, Ln., Washington, DC 20015 --- Seeking heirs of nas, CA 93901 --- Seeking information about fam- family of Louis SANDLER, believe from Balbirishuk, BERICK (Kobryn); LANT(ZS)CH, KOBESIAN, KERLSOD- Elkan LEIPZIGER who married Jeanette SONNEBORN ily of father, Max (Mordecai) THAU, born Ihrowice, Lithuania. Emigrated Shenandoah/Pottsville ca. SKY, MOSTVILISKY/MOSTVILL/MORRISON/MILLER (ash- (N.Y.). Moses, Marcus and Beatrice, Lewis (chil- near Tarnopol, Galicia, about 1880. His father 1884. Married Getel RABINOWITZ who emigrated miany, Vilna, N.Y.C., Jersey City, Rahway, N.J.); dren: Jeanette, Elwood, Beulah, Marcus) LEIPZIG- Moshe; mother Fanny (nee PAPARNIK) ; brother Avrum; 1886, then to Des Moines, Iowa 1887. Believe had KRUPMAN, SPECTOR, ZIPMAN/SINGER, SCHLOSSMAN, ER; Julius and Sophie LEIPZIGER SAYLES. sisters Surchie, Chimchy, Dworchy, Shimdele. brothers in Boston area. BLACK (Bazaliya, Teofipol) . 82-95 Charles BEHREND SONNEBORN, 2750 Unicorn 82-104 Rose VAINSTEIN, 2013 Medford Rd. #261, 82-77 Martha HARELIK POMERANTZ, 5717 Ridgedale 82-85 Robert SELDEN, 103 W. 74 St., New York, NY Ln., Washington, DC 20015 --- Seeking heirs of Ann Arbor, MI 48104 --- Seeking all informational Rd., Baltimore, MD 21209 --- Searching for rela- 10023 --- Looking for SELDOWITZ/SELDOVICH from Jonas SONNEBORN who married Helen SELIGMAN (N.Y.). sources (books in English, U.S. or Canadian lib- tives of BUZ: Manes (father), Ishaiah (grandfa- Berezin (between Minsk and Mogilev) . Also BEDRIN John A. SONNEBORN; Eve SONNEBORN KIRALY WENETT; raries) about city Soroki (Soroca) , Bessarabia ther), Pesseh Gittel (grandmother), Chaya, Chan- from Zhlobin (between Bobruisk and Gomel) . Otto and Carol MYERS; Osmund and Edna BENNETT (formerly Rumania, now Soviet Union), birthplace och. Cousins in America were BUZ: Ben, Gabriel LOEW. father (Nathan VAINSTEIN, born Soroki 1888 - died and Harry. Family originated in Zaslai, Lithu- 82-86 M. R. SELDON, 909 S. Fircroft St., West Baltimore 1961). Also seeking yeshiva informa- ania. European survivor in Israel is Paula BUZ- Covina, CA 91791 --- The family of Mark SCHMOOSKES 82-96 Charles BEHREND SONNEBORN, 2750 Unicorn tion, particularly Kishinev Seminary headed by GOZONSKY, 18 Max and Jessi Cohen St., Holon, Is- or SHMOOSKES, from Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk, born Ln., Washington, DC 20015 --- Seeking heirs of Rabbi Mordecai FRANKEL, where father received rael. Joseph BUZ, London. Meyer BUZ, Argentina 1893. Older brother, Edward (?) in Leningrad, Carrie SONNEBORN who married Isaac GUGGENHEIM ordination before emigrating (1907?) to Canada. (had 3 sons). another older brother Russian opera singer (bass). (N.Y.). Marjorie SPIEGELBERG m. Norman FRANK; William SPIEGELBERG; Eleanor JOSEPI-ITHAL BUTLER; 82-105 Ruth SPIVAKOVSKY VOORHIS, 10 Westcott 82-78 L. RAKOW, 15 Egerton Rd., London N16 6UE, 82-87 R. Brock SHAMBERG, P.O. Box 10-295, Anchor- Audrey JOSEPHTHAL LOWE; Carol HAAS JOHNSON. Bay, Brandon, Manitoba R7B 2V6, Canada --- Seek- England --- Will gladly accept and share any in- age, AK 99511 --- Seeking information on names ing any information on BASIAN, BAZIAN, BAZYAN, formation : RAKOW, BASLANISHKI (Russia) , RABINO- SHAMBERG, SHANBERG, SAKOLSKY, CEMNICK (TZMNICK). 82-97 Bruce SOSKIND, 404 Albemarle Rd., Brook- possibly from Kiev province, Ukraine. Also VITZ (Laukeve, Shad, Telz) , LUIK, LEVIAK (Lithu- Also locations in Grodnow province of Poland (Rus- lyn, NY 11218 --- Looking for information: SOS- PLACKSON, PLAKSON, PLAKSUN, PLAKSIN, SPIVAK, ania), SACKS (Lith ., S . Africa), HANEMAN (Memel) , sia), Jalowka, and Swislocz (Shlivitz). KIN(D) , SCHACHRAI (Minsk (Mogilev) , Russia) ; ZAYDE from Smela, Tal'noye, Lebedin, or Shpola DEUTZ (Panivetzs), BROWNSTEIN (Russia, Karpato- WECHSLER/IVEXLER (Radomyshl , Tarnow, Poland) ; and vicinity, Kiev province. Also PLAKSIDIS, russ), LUSTIG (E. Galicia), Elasar E. HOROWITZ 82-88 Barbara SINGER SHAPIRO, 3043 Chamberlain GRIEF (Hungary). Also Rabbi ALTER, the Gerer possibly from Kiev province or Greece. (Dolina 1880) , SNIJDERS (England, Holland) , DRUK- S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49508 --- Seeking descend- Rebbe of Poland. KER, SCHNUYF (Holland), PROSNITZ-KATZ, FISCHOF ants of Selig, Shaane, Abram, and Moshe BREGSTONE 82-106 Mrs. Kenneth WEBER, P.O. Box 4191, Ven- (Moravia, Hungary), Ber FRENK/FRANKL (Bratislava (Am. BREAKSTONE) lived about 1815 Poniemon-Kaunas 82-98 Miriam WEINER SOUTHARDS, 10363 N.W. 4th tura, CA 93004 --- Seeking information on Samuel 1850), KALISH (Galanta) , EISDORFER (Hungary), (Kovno), Lithuania. Also HORWICH, LIGHTSTONE, St., Plantation, FL 33324 --- Looking for RABKIN/ J. and son Israel A. ZIMBLER, Isher and Sheindele also similar spellings. and GOODMAN (Detroit) families. RAPKIN of Konotop/Semenovka, Russia; ADNOPOSOFF/ NEYER, Dobe COHEN, all from Brody. Also informa- . ADNOPOZ/ODNOPOSOV from Priluki, Russia; WINIKUR/ tion on Jewish community of Brody 1880s-1920. 82-79 Mark A. ROSEMAN, 21000 N.E. 28 Ave. #204, 82-89 Barbara SINGER SHAPIRO, 3043 Chamberlain WINOCUR from Sidilikov/Shepetovka, Russia; ROVIN/ Miami, FL 33180 --- Seeking information families S.E., Grand Rapids, MI 49508 --- Seeking informa- ROVINSKY from Faleshti, Russia; RETSHINSKY/RAZIN- 82-107 Richard J. WEINTRAUB, 101 Elinor Rd., ROSEMAN, AXELROD, LILIENFELD from Stryj, Stani- tion on SAMRICK-WAPNER-KOHN family. Emigrated SKY & ZOLOTINZKEY from Priluki, Russia. Also Newton Highlands, MA 02161 --- Seek information/ slaw, Borislaw, Lemberg, all Eastern Galicia. from Lomza, Poland late 1800s, early 1900s to desire info. on above towns. descendants: GELUDA (GILDAR, GILDER), ZILENCHIK, western Michigan. KAMINSKI (STONE): Markowo, Ostroleka, Nowogrod, 82-80 Louise ROSENBERG, 166 Castlereagh St., 82-99 Samuel STEARNS, 111 Perkins St., Jamaica Sczepankowo, Drogoshowo, Piatnice, Ushnik, Tar- Sydney, N.S.W. 2000, Australia --- Seeking de- 82-90 Mike SHERMAN, 1713 Highland Ave., Cincin- Plain, MA 02130 --- Wants information about Her- nowo, Ulisk, Pultusk, Rutki, Zambrowi, Kwjatko- scendants: Harris KNOPP, son of Abraham, born nati, OH 45210 --- Seeking information SHRIMAN, schel FRENKEL, merchant of Kiev around 1900, mar- Wjizno, Szelkowo, Ciechanow, Lomza gubernia, 1837, Chat, Poland. Married, England, 1857, FROMOWITZ, PIEZNUTEL (all Zamachover, Kiev); ried to Sara KENIGSBERG (Novogrod Volinsk), whose Poland. Ester Zyzel (Susannah) KENT, daughter of Abraham PRESSER, KLEIN (both Austria-Hungary); KRULIK sister, Etel, was my grandmother. Also about Joseph, born 1840, Karlish, Poland. Arrived Aus- (Rosow, Minsk); MASLAN (Timkovitz, Minsk); AUER- Moisei FRENKEL, member first Duma 1905; Emmanuel 82-108 Stephen M. WEITZMAN, 18 Botany Lane, tralia 1863. Yehoshua WEINGOTT, son of Harry and BACH, ZWERDLING, LINDER (all Zloczow, Lwow) . FRENKEL, author. Etel mar. Itzhak Simche STERN, Stony Brook, NY 11790 --- Seeks descendants or Celia (PINCHESKI), born 1838, Lodz, Poland. Jitomir. relatives of WE ITZMAN, WAITZMAN, KOPMAR (Bessar- Married, Poland, 1856, Fanny NELKEN, daughter of 82-91 Susan SHERMAN, 3918 Savannah Ct., S. San abia) , KABUZACKA, RUTCHICK, SHACHNIS (Volkovysk) , Julius (Yedel) and Conna, born Karluah, Poland Francisco, CA 94080 --- GREENBLATT, Marcus and 82-100 Mark TEDESCHI, 22 Fishburn Rd., Galston, and DAVIDSON (who settled in Alexandria, Egypt, 1833. Arrived Australia 1900. Esther. Cantor and mohel in Philadelphia c. 1900. N.S.W. 2159 (Sydney), Australia --- Searching for ca. 1904). Chi'ldren: Ida (married Mr. GERMAINE in N.Y.C.); any genealogical or other information on TEDESCHI, 82-81 Murray J. ROSENBLUTH, 4601 Williamsburg Louis; Max (pharmacist, moved to Pittsburgh); DINA, FALCO, RIMINI , DEBENEDETTI , LEON1 and TREVES 82-109 Stuart M. WIEDER, 223-04 Manor Rd., Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45215 --- Information on Mor- Theresa; Otto (dentist, moved to Johnstown). families, all of northern Italy. Will share info. Queens Village, NY 11427 --- Looking for persons ris ROSENBLUTH, to Philadelphia from Biharkeresz- researching the following areas or landsleit tes or Maramarossziget, Hungary, 1883. 82-92 Reid SIMMONS, 1519 Beacon St. #3, Brook- 82-101 Mark TEDESCHI, 22 Fishburn Rd., Galston, from: Horodec, Russia (BURSTEIN, GLOTZER, RABIN- line, MA 02146 --- Looking for LISS, BLECHER, N.S.W. 2159 (Sydney), Australia --- Searching for OWITZ 6 PELENSKY families); Sighet, Romania 82-82 Evelyn KAIROW ROSENN, 842 Eastfield Rd., HOCHBERG, PREMACK, KRONECK or KAPLAN from Kletsk any genealogical or other information on MANES, (WIEDER family) ; Trebusa (Terebes-Fe j er-Patak) , Westbury, NY 11590 --- Seeking families of OSBAND or Siniavka (Shenofkeh) or surrounding villages LEVISOHN, BLOCH, UHLMAN and FRIED families, all Ukraine (STOUBER & NEILINGER families). or SLOBOD, emigrated from Riga, Vitebsk, Dvinsk, (SW of Minsk, W of Slutsk). of Germany. Will share information. TOLEVOT/VOL. 4, NO. 3 I TOLEVOT/VOL. 4, NO. 3 82-110 Bruce ZATZ, 949 E. 105 St., Brooklyn, NY 82-117 Leslie E. BRODY, M.D., 17060 Tennyson MARGOLIN from Vileika; SCHNITT (SCZNYT) from Hengstfeld, Wuerttemberg; GOLDSMITH from Hain- 11236 --- Seeking PELTIN, KONOPKY, GORDON from PI., Granada Hills, CA 91344 --- Seeking informa- Harodok (Gorodok); PERSKY from Volozhin or Persaj; stadt, Baden; BAMBERGER from Schopfloch, Bavaria; Lomza, Poland (Grajewo, Stawiski, Jedwabno, Kon- tion on PROMISLAVSKY family of Berdichev or Nes- SWADE (SCHWEID) from Panavecyz; PUNER from Treipe; ADLER from Fuechtwangen, Bavaria. Will share. opky). Also ZATZ, WEISSMAN (possibly related to vhiz. Ancestors and descendants of Yeruchem Fish- KLEIN from Rosiori da Vede, Romania; STEINER from FISHBERG, SLAVIN, CORIN, GOLDBERG) from Medzhi- el PROMISLAVSKY, his son Elkanah PROMISLAVSKY, and Bucharest area. 82-130 Marion MEADE, 801 West End Ave., New York, bozh, Podolia, Ukraine. his children Beatrice, Abraham, Philip, Willie NY 10025 --- Seeking descendents and ancestors of and Joe. 82-125 Anna R. OLSWANGER, 177 N. Highland #909. Jacob Henry ROTHSCHILD, b.1851 Selma, Alabama, 82-111 Steve AXELRATH, 3379 W. Saratoga Ave., Memphis, TN 38111 --- Seeking information about settled in NYC 1865, d.1913 NYC. Children: Har- Englewood, CO 80110 --- Seeking information on- 82-118 Rivkah FINER, 5001 Reeds Rd., Shawnee Moshe OLSCHWANGER of Lithuania, father of Eliyahu old Marston, Bertram Charles, Helen, and poet these persons in New York City ca. 1900: Elias Mission, KS 66202 --- Seeking descendants of (Elias) OLSCHWANGER. The son Elias immigrated to Dorothy PARKER. Jacob's father: Samson J. b.1819 and Bessie HERSHFIELD, Charles and Hannah KAUF- Kasiel and Branflya (Breindl) (FIER) PYATYGORSKIY America with his wife and children about 1894 and Prussia, d.1899 NYC, son of Samuel & Yetta nee MAN, A1 OLENICK, Rachel and Samuel PHILLIPS, (? spelling), children Basia, Golda, Emmanuel of settled in St. Louis. BERNKOPF. Jacob's mother: Mary nee GRIESSMAN, Annie and Jacob SAMUELSON, Israel and Elsie Red Street, Kuznetsky Lane, Rovno, Poland. Emi- b.1824 Prussia, d.1894 NYC, dau. of Berlein & ROSENBAUM, Susan and Louis RUBINSTEIN, Rebecca grated to Argentina 1920s. Golda married Chaim 82-126 Dr. A. P. JOSEPH, 25 Westbourne Rd., Birm- Sarah. Jacob's siblings: Simon b.ca.1855, Sam b. and Joseph SMITH, Sarah and Israel GREENSTEIN, Tzvi MORACHNICK (? spelling), had daughter named ingham B15 3TX, United Kingdom - -- Great -grandf a- ca.1860, ,Hannah TIIEOBALD b.ca.1864, Martin b.ca. Rose and Abraham SAMUELS. Per1 . Branf lyals brother Yaacov (Jacob) FIER, ther, Joshua GLIEBERMAN, left Kiev area of Russia 1865. Americanized to FINER, was from Dubno, Poland, about 1890; settled in England; died Birmingham 82-112 Steve AXELRATH, 3379 W. Saratoga Ave., and came to U.S. early 1900. Basia married Yaa- 1942, aged 89. His brother(s) possibly settled in 82-131 Jerrie GROBSTEIN, 1962 Redondo Ave., Salt Englewood, CO 80110 --- Searching for families of covts son Meilich (Morris) FINER. They were my U.S. 1880-1920 but not known where. Seek their Lake City, UT 84108 --- I have found the following AXELROD (-RAD, -ROTH, -RAW) and WASSERBERG from grandparents. descendents. Name in England also GLEIBERMAN and names and addresses on some Jewish New Year's Drohobycz/Boroslaw, Galicia; HERSHFIELD from Su- GLOUBERMAN. cards sent to my grandmother Rebecca GROBSTEIN and walki in Poland, Utica N.Y. (1850s), Montana 82-119 Harry M. FOX, 75 Aberfeldy Cr., Thorn- my grandfather Abraham GROBSTEIN that I found in 82-127 Michael MILGROM, 14 Kalymna Grove, East (1870s), Texas (1880s) ; DAVIS in Texas (probably hill, Ontario L3T 4C3, Canada Looking for an old metal lunch box. If you have any informa- --- St. Kilda 3183, Victoria, Australia --- Looking Austin); Louis and Rosa HAHN in New York City, FUKSBRUMER, . FUKSBRUNER, KLAPPER, ZELIKOVITCH, tion on these people that knew my grandparents, for information about MILGROM, BREITERMAN/Warsaw, 1850 and afterwards. In Czechoslovakia ca. 1900, KREIGSILVER from the Zarnowiec (Jarnovietze) please write or call (801-466-1639) as I would , GREENBAUM, MARKS/Kutno, LEDERMAN, LEIBERMAN, COHN LOEWY (Teplitz) , POLLAK, BENESCH and STEINER Olkus z, Bendein (Bedzin) area. Also LEWENSZADT, like to know more about my grandparents: Simon /Yanov Podluska, AMEISLARSET/Shlumark ?, county (Klatteau) . In Kansas (1860) RINGOLSKY. LEWENSZTAT from Lipsko, Dzurkow. MARKUS, 403 Ellison St., Paterson, N.J. (1931 and of Kiev. 19321. Mr. & Mrs. H. MARCUS, 330 Georgia, Brook- 82-113 Roberta BERMAN, 5835 Kent Pl., San Diego, lyn, N.Y. (1927). Mr. & Mrs. I. ZLOBWCH (Oct. 4, 82-120 Mrs. Carl M. FREEMAN, 4601 Damascus Rd., 82-128 Marlene ESTERSON, 6515 Mira Vista Lane, CA 92120 --- Seeking information LAZNICKI, WOP- 1927). B. SLOBODIN, Trenton Station, N.Y., N.Y. Gaithersburg, MD 20879 --- Seeking any type in- San Diego, CA 92120 --- Seeking information, rela- NINSKI, WEPNER, GLADSTONE, DINOWITZ (Lomza, Po- formation on towns in Poland and Lithuania for B. SOBADIN, 1310 Morris Ave., Bronx, N.Y. (Sept. land) ; WAGNER, ISCHKOWITZ (Roman, Romania) ; tives of Judge Aron STEUER, Leopold STEUER, ISAAC- 6, 1926). B. PALLY, 44 Clifton St., L.os Angeles, family history; copies of photographs, geograph- SON, Sarah GROHS, Harold STEUER, Fannie KAUFMAN SCHOENHOLZ, SCHAINHOLTZ, CHAMIDES (Zalescheki, ical information, etc . Poland: Dokszyce (also Calif. (Oct. 6, 1927). Mr. & Mrs. A. SHYOWITZ, Galicia); BERMAN, GREENBERG, KAPLAN (Kiev or COOPERMAN, Nathaniel (Larry) KUSHNER (CUSHMAN?) , 81 Dayton Ave., Passaic, N.J. (1931). Mrs. Blima Dukszty, Doksica, Dokshitsy, Dokshitz); Dolhinow Herman KUSHNER, Arthur STEUER, Rachael STEUER Odessa); LICHTMAN, GROSSMAN, RUTINSTROF (Tarnopol). (also spelled Dolhinowo, Dolhinov, Dolginava, GOLDENBERG, 62 Market St., Passaic, N.J. Mr. Lynn SCHIFF; New York, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Zem- MARCUS, 330 Williams Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. (May 26, Dolginovo) . Lithuania: Kamaj e (also spelled plain. 82-114 Joseph BROD, 4111 Illinois St. #lo, San Kami, Kamajai); Utena (also spelled Utian) and 1927). Diego, CA 92104 --- Seeking information and Uzpaliai . searching for relatives: BROD, BRODA, BRODT, 82-129 Allan HIRSH, 11 Slade Ave. #710, Baltimore MD 21208 --- Seeking information on HIRSCH and Correction to 80-80 (in vol. 4,, nos. 1-2) Estelle BRODE (not BRODI, BRODY, BRODSKY) ; WALDES, NOKO- 82-121 Herman E. REITMAN, 53-28 Oceania St., LOWENSTEIN from Briedenbach, Hesse; OTTENHEIMER GUZIK, 108-24 71 Ave., Forest Hills, NY 11375 --- LO (Portuguese origin); WOHRIZEK, WOHRYZEK, VOHR- Bayside, NY 11364 --- Need information regarding from Bonfeld, Wuerttemberg: FELDENHEIMER from The name SEGNER was incorrectly listed as SEYNER. YZEK-all originally from Bohemia, some later Vi- Isaac, Sylvia, and Frederick (Froim Yidel) REIT- enna, descendants of Baron Don DIEGO (DIOGO) (MO- MAN (ROTMAN, ROITMAN), also WIDERMAN, WIEDERMAN SES) LOPES PEREIRA D'AGUILAR, 18th cent. (Spain, residing in Warsaw (1850-1880), in Krakow (1908- Portugal, Holland, England, Vienna, Bohemia - 1915), in Hamburg, London, Liverpool (1880-1915). also Bohemia AGULAR), families LOPES/LOPEZ, PER- THE RUSSIAN CONSULAR COLLECTION AT THE EIRA, PEREYRA, also FEREIRA, AGUILAR, AGUYAR, AVE- 82-122 Laurence IMERMAN, 29060 Franklin Hills Dr. PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF CANADA: Genealogical Implications LAR, originally from Portugal and Spain - later #204, Southfield, MI 48034 --- Seeking information locations Holland, England, Belgium, Hamburg, on IMERMAN and variants - IMMERMAN, IMMERMANN, EM- Zachary M. Baker Vienna, France, Bohemia. MERMAN. Known origins -- Courland, Latvia, Danzig but seeking anyone with similar name. TNTROVUCTTON immigrants, he contacted the Russian consular au- 82-115 Leslie E. BRODY, M.D., 17060 Tennyson Recently Lawrence Tapper, an archivist with thorities in Canada to verify that he had ful- PI., Granada Hills, CA 91344 --- Seeking informa- 82-123 Eileen LYONS POLAKOFF, 240 West End Ave., Canada's Public Archives, was thumbing through filled his Russian military obligations. He was tion on BRODY (BURDE) family, Grodno, ancestors New York, NY 10023 --- Seeks descendents of Lieb- the card index to the Archivesf collection of asked by the Montreal consular staff to provide and descendants of Raphael HA-LEVI, and his chil- er,and Pessil (SAMUELS) SCHWARTZ and Louis and Russian consular documents when he came across documentary evidence that he was who he claimed dren Ruben, Emma, Leo, Schmeul, Alter and Wolfe Martha (BISGAIER) SCHWARTZ (from Radomysl, Gali- the name, "Teper, Leib." Out of curiosity he to be and that he had already served in the Rus- (also spelled BRAUDE) . cia); their children Bluhma and Benjamin married pulled out Leib Teper's file and to his surprise sian army; the result was this dossier. 1870, came to NYC 1888. Lieber remarried in NYC found a small dossier, in Russian and English, For over sixty years these documents gathered 82-116 Leslie E. BRODY, M.D., 17060 Tennyson and wife had twins when he was 75. Lost siblings pertaining to his grandfather. The file included dust, first in the Montreal consulate, later in Pl., Granada Hills, CA 91344 --- Seeking informa- of Benjamin: Mike went to Milwaukee, had son Her- postcards from the old country, a questionnaire, the former Imperial Russian Embassy in Washington, tion on ARONOWITZ family, Suwalki. Yehuda Leib man; Bessie went to California. an affidavit, and several snapshots. and finally--until 1980--in the U.S. National Ar- ARONOWITZ returned to Poland in 1930s from Dixon, Leib Teper--Lawrence Tapper's namesake-- chives' Suitland, Maryland storage facility. At Ill. Moshe SAPOZNIK from Pinsk, arr. Chicago 1932. 82-124 Bernard I. MARGOLIS, 6629 E. Calle Cava- had immigrated to Canada from Bessarabia in 1914, that point, roughly 100 archival boxes containing lier, Tucson, AZ 85715 --- Researching families and during World War I, like thousands of Russian the records of the former Russian consulates in TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 TOLEDOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 2 3 Montreal and Vancouver were transferred to the Still, significant gaps in the consular doc- siers that the Russian consulates-in-exile in nominal files, in large part because of their Public Archives of Canada, where their contents uments' coverage of Russian immigrants do exist. North America created on these individuals. genealogical value. are still being sifted through and indexed. Robert Gordon has indicated two overlapping cate- After the Bolshevik Revolution the Russian The Ottawa archivists have found ample evi- Before arranging to have these consular docu- gories of immigrants where coverage is relatively consular personnel in Canada became Canadian dence of the methodical thoroughness with which ments sent to Ottawa, Robert S. Gordon, head of weak: pre-1905 immigrants and already-naturalized civil servants; consequently, the consulates can the Russian consular personnel, trained in the the Public Archives' Manuscript Division, paid a Canadians and Americans. The latter category, in be said to have turned into arms of the Canadian traditions of a Germanic bureaucracy, gathered visit to Suitland. As he looked over the raw . particular, would have had no need to approach government. Meanwhile, their confrsres in the their material. When an immigrant approached the files in the National Archives1 warehouse, he was the Russian consulates for passports, or to regis- United States were paid out of private funds, consulate, the authorities asked for--and-- kept-- struck by their tremendous genealogical value.- ter with Russian authorities in compliance with probably gathered among "White1' Russian exiles in personal documents such as photographs, birth "My God," he remarked to his guide, "1 -know these Russian civil and military regulations. In the Europe. Gradually, as the consulates closed, the certificates, passports, affidavits, and family people!I1 Tapper Is subsequent discovery of his case of the Canadian consulates--which did not documents that they had accumulated over the years correspondence. Some of this supporting documen- grandfather's file reinforced that impression. come into existence until after 1900--the largest were concentrated. Thus, the Montreal consular tation--such as birth certificates--though col- Not only that: The Canadian materials are just chunk of the documents was generated during World material was sent to the Boston consulate after lected as late as 1922, actually dates from the the tip of the iceberg. Gordon estimates that War I, when Russia called on its expatriated 1922, and later to New York; by the early 1930s 19th century. In addition to this type of docu- close to 2,000 archival boxes containing the rec- nationals to register for military service. True, the documents generated by the various consulates mentation, the files normally contain a completed ords of the Russian consulates in such American many immigrants simply ignored the call; these had all been sent to the former Russian Embassy questionnaire (usually in Russian, though some- centers of Jewish immigration as New York, Chica- individuals obviously are not included in these to the United States, in Washington. During the times in English) which describes the immigrant's go, Philadelphia, and San Francisco (among other case files. On the other hand, immigrants facing summer of 1933, the Hoover War Library (now the personal history, including his age, ethnic ori- cities) are still sitting in the National Ar- the prospect of being drafted into the Canadian Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace) gin, religion, marital status, place of birth or chives1 warehouse, awaiting the day when they, army voluntarily contacted the Russian consul- at Stanford University arranged to take delivery Russian residence, date of departure from Russia too, might be organized and indexed. ates, in order to establish that they had already of a large portion of the Russian Embassy docu- or arrival in Canada, port of entry, places of The implications of this discovery--or redis- served in an allied (i.e. the Russian) army. ments, presumably those of a politically signifi- residence after immigration, military service, covery, as we shall see-- are only now becomzg Given their historic aversion to Czarist author- cant nature . and relatives and dependents. From this it should apparent. Genealogists whose families originated ity, presumably only those Jewish immigrants with In November of' the same year, the Roosevelt be clear that both the processed Canadian and the in areas currently belonging to the Soviet Union a pressing need to contact the Russian authorities Administration recognized the Soviet Union. But unprocessed American collections represent a gold have long had to confront the likelihood that would do so. Immigrants seeking to establish the night before the Soviets took possession of mine of genealogical data. their research would reach a dead end, owing to their identity for the purpose of becoming natu- the old Russian Embassy, the U.S. Army mounted a the Soviet government's non-cooperation in fur- ralized, or individuals threatened with possible feverish operation to spirit away the 500 remain- PROCESSING THE COLLECTlON nishing relevant genealogical data. Documentation military conscription- -either by Russia or by Can- ing crates of documents to the Washington ware- The processing of such a collection is by no on Russian Jewish families has therefore had to be ada (or the United States)--were most likely to house where they were to reside for fifteen years. means a routine matter. The Public Archives staff sought elsewhere--through personal contacts within approach the Russian consulates. Therefore, the After World War I1 custody of this collection was had to devise and carry out detailed procedures extended families, through immigration-related consular documents represent a self-selecting, if transferred to the National Archives. However, for the nominal case files in their possession. documents generated on this side of the Atlantic, large sample of the Russian (and Russian-Jewish) that agency was not able to do much more than These procedures deserve to be described in some through North American vital records, and occasion- immigrant population of North America. store them, and the consular collection as a depth, for if the much larger collection of consu- ally through memorial books--but = through offi- whole might never have been unearthed had they lar documents that is still in the U.S. is to be cial documents emanating from the old country. A BRI EF ff TSTORY OF Tff E COLLECTION not been accidentally noticed at the Suitland processed, considerable thought needs to be given (The Mormons1 Genealogical Society of Utah has The first Russian consulates in the United warehouse by a visiting Canadian scholar during to who will do the processing of these documents, only a few microfilm reels of records for scatter- States were established in the 1860s. Consequent- the mid-1970s. He brought the existence of the exaxy how they will be processed, where--if ed Jewish communities in territories east of the ly, the chronological scope of the consular docu- Canadian consular documents that comprised part elsewherxhan the National Archives--they will present Polish-Soviet boundary; virtually all of ments' coverage of Jewish immigration to the U.S. of this collection to Robert Gordon, who then be kept, and how-- much money will be needed to these are for Lithuanian Jewish communities.) should prove to be greater than is the case with made arrangements to have them sent to the Public carry such a project to completion. The experi- But now a backdoor to Russian records has Jewish immigration to Canada. The consulates in Archives, in Ottawa. ence of the Public Archives can help to answer been cracked open, and while only a portion of the both countries operated as normal offices of the [Further information concerning the Russian these questions. Russian Jewish immigrant population is covered, Imperial Russian government until March 1917, and Embassy records may be found in John H. Brown, The preliminary stage of the Public Archives' nevertheless for the first time there is the pos- from March to November 1917, of the Provisional "The Disappearing Russian Embassy Archives, 1922- processing of the consular documents consisted of sibility of finding out more about one's Russian Russian government. After the Bolshevik Revolu- 49," PkoLogue: Jouhnd 06 &e Nation& Akckive~, sorting the raw collection, and separating out the ancestors from an authentically Russian source: tion their juridical status became murky, given vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 1982, pp. [4] -13. ] documents pertaining to each individual. These The former Russian consulates in North America. the fact that neither the United States nor Great were then put into separate file folders, which The vast dimensions of this collection can Britain (which still bore the responsibility for THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES' HOLVlNGS were given unique accession numbers. As the ar- be grasped more clearly if one realizes that the conducting the bulk of Canada's overseas foreign The Canadian consular collection consists of chivists examined the files they established the Public Archives in Ottawa are processing an esti- relations) recognized the new regime. From 1918 two series: Roughly 11,000 nominal --case files on subjects' formal names, as represented on official mated 11,000 individual case files and that the until 1922 in Canada--a bit later in the case of individuals, and some 5,000 subject files. The documents, and made cross-reference cards to these volume of the unprocessed material remaining in at least some of the consulates south of the bor- latter deal with such matters as charities, depor- names from any alternate names that appeared in the U.S. is almost twenty times that of the Cana- der--the Russian consulates operated as arms of tations and extraditions, military recruitment; the supporting documents. For example, Lawrence dian material. In other words, over 200,000 case the no-longer existing Czarist government, and family breakdowns, criminal activities, estates Tapper's grandfather's surname, as recorded in his files on individual Russian immigrants--perhaps former Russian nationals continued to approach and inheritances, and internment of Russians, file, was not only Teper but also Tepperman. A half or more of whom were Jewish--need to be put these quasi-consulates for verification of iden- among other topics of a policy nature. The nomi- cross-reference from Tepperman to Teper therefore in order and indexed. Since these files usually tity. The files reflect the changed political nal files have largely been processed, though as appears in the index to the collection. Each contain information on parents, spouses, or sib- circumstances, since many of the postwar immi- of February 1982 several boxes of passports had cross-reference also includes the subject's file lings, perhaps as many as one million names appear grants came from the newly independent states of yet to be sorted through and added to this series. number, for quick reference purposes. in them. The Russian consular material that has Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. The subject files will be processed after indexing The cross-reference cards thus contain a min- remained in American hands most likely includes Passports that the new "successor states" issued of the nominal files is finished. When the consu- imal amount of information: Alternate form of several hundred thousand names of Jewish subjects to emigrants before their departure from Europe lar collection arrived in Ottawa, the Public Ar- name, official form of name, file number. How- of the Czar. during the postwar years became part of the dos- chives decided to give priority to processing the ever, more detailed information was entered onto

TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 TOLEVOTIVOL. 4, NO. 3 a ---main index card for each file. Eventually these As of February 1982 the index entries and main cards will be interfiled with the cross-ref- the cross-references had not yet been interfiled. erence cards and the public will have direct ac- But the basic work on the nominal case files had cess to- this card catalogue. Duplicate index been completed: The tedious work of sorting the cards will be pasted onto each file folder, and raw documents, setting up files, creating index an in-house inventory, arranged according to the entries and cross-references. The next stage accession numbers on the files, will be set up. calls for finishing the index to the nominal for control purposes. files, and processing the subject files. The Briefly the main index cards contain the - subject files will not be indexed in the same following information (see illustration) : manner as the nominal files have been. Rather, 1. Surname a finding aid to the collection as a whole will 2. Given name(s), followed by patronym (the be compiled. Information on individuals mention- heading for each main index card is the name of ed in the subject files will be integrated with the individual as established from official the index to the nominal files, either through Russian records) setting up new index cards or through adding the 3. Indication that the name was transliterated subject file location as a "see also" reference from the Cyrillic alphabet to already existing index cards. Processing of 4. Sex the subject files will probably be a slower oper- 5. Year of birth ation than processing of the nominal case files 6. Region and place of birth has proved to be. Finally, with the index to 7. Marital status the nominal case files completed and with the 8-13. Declared religion (H [no. 111 = Hebrew) compilation of a finding aid for the subject, 14. Indication that the file contains photographs files, the entire collection will be microfilmed 15. Indication that the file contains information and a copy sent to the National Archives. The on the subject's family public will have direct access to the index, the 16. The number of items in the file finding aid, and the microfilms. 17. Indication that information on the subject is Direct access to the collection is still re- also available in the Immigration and/or War- stricted, because work on it has not been com- related correspondence pleted. However, the Public Archives is ready to 18. Description of the types of documents in the search the consular files upon request. Inquir- collection, as indicated by the following symbols : ies must be specific, however, and obviously must A = affidavits and various other certificates of be confined to Russian immigrants who lived in identity, C = correspondence, E = employment rec- Canada. Inquiries should mention not only rela- ords, F = photographs which are not glued to tives' names, but their approximate years and another document (e.g. such as a passport), M = places of birth as well. These and any other ad- military service records, P = passports, Q = ques- ditional details are important because of the tionnaires, T = travel documents, 0 = other docu- high probability that different immigrants bore ment s the same name. Write to: Manuscript Division, 19. File number Public Archives of Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Canada KIA ON3.

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