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Vol. 9, No. 2 Electronic Distribution February 2002 GG Matters JRI-Poland 2 Coordinator’s Column 8 1929 Polish Business Directory Project Shelley Kellerman-Pollero Howard Fink 2 From the Editors’ Desks Town indexes are complete Edward Goldstein & Eva Rosenn 9 The Great Galician Indexing Race Stylistic guidance to our authors Mark Halpern Town Updates An update Feature Articles 3 Drohobycz AD Website Valerie Schatzker 11 Open Sesame Did you know about the Galician oil industry? William F. “Fred” Hoffman 3 Kolomyya Using the SEZAM database in the Polish State Alan Weiser Archives Reports on interesting research 14 Capitalists and Rabbis 4 Lvov Edward Gelles Errol Schneegut Genealogy of a prosperous Galician family 4 Rzeszow 16 Galicia 1880 Eden S. Joachim Bronislaw Gustawicz Excerpts from Gazetteer Slownik Geograficzny 5 Krakow Królestwa Polskiego. Judy Wolkowitch Marriage & Banns indexing and other matters 20 Highlights of Galician History Suzan Wynne 6 Przemysl A timeline of significant events Barbara Yeager 22 A Visit to Galicia 6 Przemysl Census Data Saul Lindenbaum Barbara Yeager A visit brings out mixed feelings Inferring census information from historical writings Jews in Haller’s Army 8 Tarnobrzeg For a forthcoming article in The Galitzianer I would Gayle Schlissel Riley appreciate hearing from anyone who has information on the above subject. The Editor ([email protected]) Mark Your Calendars 22nd International Conference on Jewish Genealogy August 4 to 9 Sheraton Center Hotel, Toronto See Coordinator’s Column on page 2 of this issue Coordinator Column From the Editors’ Desks Shelley Kellerman Pollero Edward Goldstein I have a potpourri of things to share with you. First, Eva Rosenn let us welcome our new Treasurer, GG member As we write this column we have just completed ed- Sylvia Gordon. A former bookkeeper residing in iting all the other articles in this issue. In each case, Wantagh, NY, Sylvia is actively researching her the first thing we have had to do was to convert the Galician roots and subscribes to the Galicia and Jew- submitted copy to the format you see printed here. ishGen Discussion Groups. Many of you make the conversion job relatively It continues to be a successful year for Gesher easy for us … and we thank you. You submit your Galicia. Over 45 new members have joined for 2001- article as an attachment to an email. You pay atten- 2 and there are 881 subscribers to the Galicia Discus- tion to punctuation and paragraphing. You don’t put sion Group. Over 125 members have opted for elec- double spaces after a period. Your quotation marks tronic delivery of The Galitzianer, and 22 paid their are in the right spots. Converting such copy takes a GG dues using PayPal. few minutes and is a pleasure. Research opportunities continue to expand. We Some of you, however, write your copy in the thank GG member Mark Halpern, AGAD Indexing body of emails. This copy is not a pleasure to convert. Project Manager for JRI-Poland, and to GG members It is fussy work and takes time. who head fundraising projects to index AGAD and We realize that not everyone has the latest word other Galicia records. Kudos to Howard Fink and processing software, but, if you have it and know how Stanley Diamond of JRI-Poland, to JewishGen, and to use it, we will be forever grateful to you if you ad- to our own Roni Seibel Liebowitz for getting Phase here to the following guidelines (if you don’t we’ll One (Towns) of the 1929 Polish Directory online. See accept it any way you can get it to us): Howard’s article in this issue. Ø Submit articles in Word or ASCII, preferably as The GG web site will soon host the Galicia Given an email attachment. Names Data Base, created by Professor G. L. Ester- Ø The Galitzianer is not a scholarly journal. Attrib- son, listing Hebrew, Yiddish, local, and European ute information and quotation sources within the secular given names used by Galicia Jews from 1795- body of the text, not by footnotes. 1925 and the corresponding vernacular names Ø If convenient, use the following format settings: adopted by European emigrants to other countries. Times New Roman, 11 pt for body text; Arial, 8 Visit the main JG web site from which all 15 of the pt for website and email addresses; Arial, 16 pt GNDBs can be accessed: bold for titles of articles; Arial, 9 pt bold for www.jewishgen.org/databases/GivenNames/. authors’ names; line spacing at Exactly 13 pt. Preparations for the 2002 Toronto AJGS Confer- Ø While we acknowledge the Editor’s techno- ence are well underway, and GG Member Peter Jas- wizardry, charts, tables, figures, photos, and maps sem, Program Chairman, plans a wide variety of ses- are preferred in final format. sions, including Galicia. Plan to attend the GG annual Ø Italicize all foreign language words and translate meeting, Birds-of-a-Feather session, and Galicia net- them into English. working! Save the dates—August 4-9, 2002. Details Ø Write place names as they are in the Gesher will be available soon at www.jgstoronto.ca. Galicia Family Finder, followed by the Yiddish We’d like to recognize long time GG member name if relevant. Do not to use diacritical marks. Phyllis Goldberg, an inspiration to many in the Jew- Ø Italicize titles of books; put titles of articles in ish genealogical community. Phyllis’ dedication and quotation marks. service to GG, to JewishGen’s Yizkor Book Transla- Ø Please double-check spellings, particularly of tion Project (YBTP), to the JGS of Greater Washing- names and foreign words, and punctuation. The ton, and as a volunteer at the U.S. Holocaust Memo- Associate Editor has an eagle eye, but often the rial Museum have been exemplary and unwavering copyediting gets lost in cyberspace. for years. In her Mielec and Kolbuszowa YBTP work We thank you in advance … and our families thank and her hunt for Galicia materials at the USHMM, you. Phyllis has always exuded warmth and spirit, always positive, even in the face of devastating personal and family illnesses. We salute you, Phyllis Goldberg! 2 Drohobycz AD Website Kolomyya Valerie Schatzker Alan Weiser ([email protected]) The Drohobycz Administrative District web site has Our Kolomea Research Group (KRG) membership recently been linked to Shtetlinks and can be seen at: continues to grow. Our 59 members reside in the www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Drohobycz/ USA, Canada, Israel, England, Sweden, Switzerland, The site may be of interest to all Gesher Galicia Scotland, Italy, United Kingdom, Poland, and Aus- members, even those who have no personal genea- tralia. Some are somnolent, some active. logical interest in this area, because it contains written We failed to meet our 75% AGAD pro- and visual material of general interest to students of ject/Kolomyya funding contribution goal by Decem- Jewish history in this part of the world. A detailed ber 31, 2001 in order to obtain a 25% donation from history of Galicia with emphasis on the history of the an anonymous benefactor. We are trying to get this Jews in this area has been included and will be ex- benefactor to extend the deadline. panded as more material is found. We have several ongoing research projects but The most remarkable aspect of the Drohobycz due to various personal commitments and illnesses Administrative District southwest of Lvov is the his- progress has been slowed. The research questions un- tory of the development of the oil industry, which in der study remain: the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early Ø Who were some of the victims of the Holocaust in part of the twentieth contributed significantly to world Kolomyya and what were the circumstances of oil production. This industry, as you will see from their murders? KRG member Paul Auster contin- the web site, was founded and developed by the Jews ues his translations of German-language docu- of this region. ments of war crime hearings. A few new postings Our site is far from complete. In the next couple of months material will be added about the town of have been made to our web site under Holocaust Boryslaw, where the most productive oil fields in Facts. Only reports on those surnames of interest Galicia were located. Boryslaw, dirty, muddy, stud- to KRG members are being posted. ded with oil derricks and reeking of petroleum, was Ø What clues may be provided about our forebears an oil town in every sense of the word, a town of by their surnames? KRG member Saul Zeichner quick riches and sudden losses, many poor oil work- continues researching this question. The mean- ers and a few wealthy owners. ings of new surnames added since our last report The photographs and most of the information on have been added to our web site. the petroleum industry for these web pages were sup- Ø What happened to the Kolomyya Jewish ceme- plied by Alex Sharon, an engineer who was born in teries that existed prior to W.W.II? No new in- Boryslaw and who works in the oil industry. Without formation has been obtained since our last report. his generous help, these pages could not have been The information on hand will be posted on our realized. web site probably in late January or February For further information on the petroleum industry 2002. Research of this question including infor- in this area, see also the Yizkor book site where two mation on where Jews from the Kolomyya area books are in the process of being translated. One, by are currently being buried will continue.