International Conference to Mark the Departure and Exile of the Jews from Arab Countries With the war in Gaza, please join us for a conference showing the #Sephardic view – Jews displaced from Arab countries at this amazing conference Monday, May 20, 2024 10 am to 4 pm Touro University, 1602 Ave J, Brooklyn, NY Sponsors; Dahan Center at Bar Ilan University Ben Zvi Institute Sephardic Heritage Project Touro University Speakers include Prof Michael Lasker, Haim Saadon, Ben-Dror Yemini, Sarina Roffe, Dr Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, Dr Stanley Urman, Dr Henry Abramson and presentations by students from Hillel Yeshiva Preregistration required due to security Register at https://bit.ly/EXILEDFROMARABLANDS Free event includes lunch Sarina Roffe sarinaroffe@... Brooklyn, NY

I have available to me a family tree drawn up by a cousin of mine many years ago. One of the entries is for a cousin who was “killed by Hitler” and who was married to a “lady rabbi.” I believe that this cousin lived in Yakovlevo (current Belarus). My understanding is that the Jews in this area were sent to the Drohitchen ghetto. I have tried to obtain information about him but to no avail. Also I didn’t think that there were “lady rabbis” at that time.” I would be interested in learning about how I could find out information about him. Does anyone know if there were female rabbis during that time? Thank you. Alice Greenburg Forsythe Boise, Idaho

Are there any Civil records of Jewish Grodno from lets say 1870 - WWII? I noticed that the Yad Vashem Shoah Victims DB has a Census List from 1939. I am researching the family of Shmuel Draishpil circa 1831- Ite _____circa 1832. (source: JG.org/ NHAB Grodno/24/7/94486v-487. their son Berel Draishpil (Source:JG.org/ Grodno Gubernia 1912 Voters List ID# GROa0639) married Rachel Raffel maybe Raffelovitch. They had one daughter Sonia born in 1910 in Grodno. Are there any records that cover the gap between the Revision Lists of 1858 and the 1912 Voters lists? thank you -- Shimon Sporn of Beit Shemesh, Israel Researcher # 57380 Perl, Margolies, Itzkowitz, Lehrer families from Kisvarda, Fenyeslitke, Ustilug, Leher- Rozenberg families of Hrubieszów Galicia Edmondton, London Sporn families of Marosorozfalu, Rusii Munti, Saszreghin, Kajla, Besztercze-Naszod Abraham & Stuhlman families from Pecsetszeg & Kozarvar

Way back in 2013 I corresponded with Bert Bevis about our Begun family from Pinsk and surrounding area. He sent me his tree but I was not able to connect the dots. I found that he is related to me through a second cousin by DNA and I would like to contact him. His old email address is no longer valid. So I am asking for the your help in contacting Bert Blevins anyway I can. Thanks to all. Diane Jacob’s Somerset NJ Moderator note: Please respond privately _._,_._,_

If you use the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (JGSGB) Facebook pages, but you are NOT a paid member of the JGSGB, we would be pleased if you could undertake our current JGSGB Facebook Users Survey, so that we can get an idea of your interests, and improve our services. If you have already filled in the JGSGB Members Survey as a current or recently lapsed member (ran during March/April 2024), please do not undertake the Facebook Survey. We will be making comparisons between the two. Many thanks, -- Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK SERWIANSKI/SERVIAN/SERVER & KARPOWITZ, Sejny, Augustow & Liverpool, also USA CEGLARSKI, Suwalki & ABRAHAMS/ABRAMS, Manchester, Birmingham & St Louis; SIEGEL, Chicago, GUTTENBERG, Rajgrod & GRAHAM, Hull, Grimsby & Sheffield; PLOTNOVSKY, Raczki, Mariampole & Hull; BRIN/BROWN & RUBINSTEIN/BERENSTEIN, Vishtinetz & Edinburgh, Newcastle & Manchester

Dear Genners, While chasing down a couple in the 1950 US Census, I found them living at the Hotel Walton in Manhattan, New York. It took me a moment to understand the numbering system, because the first column included both the street number followed by the hotel room number. At the top of the page, the enumerator had written for another couple "Married but have separate rooms in [the] hotel (1107-–701). I think this is a first for me in many years of genealogical research. Enjoy! Jeremy Jeremy G Frankel formerly Edgware, Middlesex, England now Johnson City, Tennessee, USA Searching for: FRANKEL/FRENKEL/FRENKIEL: Gombin, Poland; London, England GOLDRATH/GOLD: Praszka, Poland; London, England KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania; London, England; NY, USA LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland; London, England PINKUS, Poland; London, England PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland; London, England; NY, USA

The IAJGS Stern and Stedman award application process is open. The deadline for all grant nominations is June 1, 2024, 7 pm EDT. https://www.iajgs.org/awards/rabbi-malcolm-stern-grant/ has information about the grants including links to the criteria. https://www.iajgs.org/stern-stedman-grant-nomination-form-2/ is a link to the nomination application. For any questions and to submit the nominations, please use grants_committee@.... Barbara Hershey, Chair Alex Calzareth Leigh Dworkin

I am new to online JewishGen, used to get the magazine 20 years ago. My family from Kalischen, Poland, named David Kreitman, immigrated sometime in the 1900, the 20's or 30's. I know a sistger did immigrate to America and settled in Charleston, SC. A brother stayed and survived the holocaust and remarried a woman and had a child in a DP camp in ?Germany named Haya Kretiman. They moved to Israel. The reason I am researching this is I plan to be in Brazil later in this year of 2024. I saw a reference to a Brazilian immigrant data base in an earlier group discussion. If i do get some records can anyone help to translate? Eleanor Edelstein

My ancestor, David Caro, is listed in the 1878 directory as working at 749 Washington Street in Boston MA. In the 1879 directory, he is listed as working at 765 Washington. Did his store move, or did the street numbers change? Is it possible to know? Emmett Katz Massachusetts USA

Jews have been present in North Africa for more than 2,000 years. Moroccan Jewish oral tradition claims that they originated in the Holy Land. Some European historians and travellers of the 19th and early 20th centuries thought that they were mostly natives – Berbers – who converted to Judaism. Another hypothesis is that part of Morocco's Berber population descends from former Jews who converted to Islam. Some of the Moroccan Jews, the Toshavim, have been living in Morocco since ancient times, others, the Megorashim, came to Morocco after having been expelled from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 15th century. What are the ancestral origins of Moroccan Jews? The study on the Y chromosome of nearly 250 Moroccan Jewish men carried out as part of the Avotaynu DNA project will try to answer this question. It will be supported by an empirical comparison of the ethnic origins of Moroccan Jews and those of Ashkenazim and non-Jews from Morocco. Raquel Levy-Toledano is a French MD, PhD, Sephardic Jew, born in Morocco and very much involved in research on Moroccan Jewish genealogy. She is a board member of the Cercle de Généalogie Juive where she leads the North African group, a co-administrator of Avotaynu DNA, the founder of a genealogy society, NAJMA (Nos Ancêtres Juifs Marocains et Algériens) and of the Généalogie des Juifs Marocains Group on Facebook, and a volunteer curator at Geni.com. Because there are few sources and documents on Moroccan Jews, to promote Moroccan Jewish genealogy, she set up a Facebook group encouraging the close to 10,000 members to built their tree and to collaborate on Geni. This allowed the group to build a tree of more than 350,000 profiles on Geni. Join us on Sunday 12 May 2024, at 11am in LA, 2pm in NYC, 7pm in London, 8pm in Paris/Amsterdam, 9pm in Jerusalem, and 6am the next morning in Sydney. Patrons are invited to join us live on Zoom. Everyone else is welcome to join us on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/SephardicGenealogyAndHistory (and please remember to subscribe to the channel). ------------------------------------------------------------ Support Bevis Marks Synagogue! Yet again, developers are seeking planning permission to build a high rise building over Bevis Marks, putting the historic synagogue into shadow, totally changing the atmosphere and experience. A functionary of the Corporation of London stated that the large number of messages from all over the world were an influence on their previous rejection of a planning application. If you haven’t yet written, please do so. This is the Protect Bevis Marks websitehttps://protectbevismarks.co.uk/ The website doesn’t mention the Corporation of London’s City Plan 2040 (https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Services-Environment/City-Plan-2040. pdf) which several times references that special consideration and protection must be given to the setting and surrounding of Bevis Marks synagogue. It would be helpful if you could reference City Plan 2040 in your objection to the development. Don’t forget to quote the planning application reference: 24/00021/FULEIA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- 5 Centuries of 5 Italian Jewish Families If you missed George Sacerdote’s talk on Five Centuries of Five Italian Jewish Families, or want to watch it again, it is available here: https://www.youtube.com/live/5BkEsJ0YoQ8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Library of Sephardic Presentations The Sephardic Genealogical Society now have over 130 talks on Sephardic genealogy and history freely available to all at: https://www.sephardic.world/sephardic-world Best wishes, David Mendoza and Ton Tielen Sephardic Genealogical Society https://www.sephardic.world/

I have a few dozen paper Avotaynu magazines from 1984-1992. They need a new home so let me know if you are interested. Just pay the postage and they are yours. Not a complete run but lots of good information -- Emily Rosenberg Oakland, California KESNER in Amsterdam, London, Chicago STODEL in Amsterdam, London, USA KAWIN in Suwalki and Poland RUBINSKY in Suwalki and Poland

Dear All, I'm helping a family to search about their past in Belgium. The SZTAYNBERG family came from Poland to Belgium and we got 2 quite large files from the Belgium archive for SZTAYNBERG as foreigners. The 74 pages contain information about the parents, addresses, working place and more. They lived in Brussels-Forest. Their only child was Isaac Mejer born 1925 in Radomsk, Poland, they arrived in Belgium in 1927 and based on the documents went to Switzerland in 1943, came back and immigrated to Israel in 1945. We are asking if there are any databases to look for any evidence of the child studies/schools, groups outside of school etc. Appreciate any lead or advice. Thx Zvika Oren Israel

Hi all, I’ve been working periodically with a Ukrainian genealogist named Alex Belous since before the war. Over the years, we have also become friends, and he recently launched a website, so I just wanted to put in a plug for him. He is smart, diligent, trustworthy and knowledgeable about genealogy. He is also fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English, German and Polish, and his fees are affordable. Like many Ukrainians, his life has been adversely impacted by the war, which forced him to move from Kharkiv (city) to Kharkiv Oblast. But he has the experience and know-how to help you find your ancestors and if you’re looking for genealogical, DNA or long-form translation help, he’s a lovely person and worth talking to. If you’re interested in exploring his services, his website is ukrainegen.com, and he can be reached through there. Lydia Zabarsky New York

A 95-year-old Holocaust survivor whose entire family was lost learns she has three living first cousins. A Holocaust orphan lives her entire life without knowing her true identity. Four years after her death, the woman's daughter is finally reunited with her biological family thanks to a DNA test. A child survivor of Theresienstadt finally learns the identity of his unknown father. This talk will detail some of the amazing and unexpected Holocaust reunions Jennifer Mendelsohn has helped orchestrate through a blend of dogged paper trail research and careful DNA analysis. In 2022, Mendelsohn co-founded the DNA Reunion Project at the Center for Jewish History, a first-of-its kind effort to provide free DNA testing to Holocaust survivors and their children. Now called "The Holocaust Reunion Project," this project has tested over 1000 survivors and enabled scores of successful connections. In this presentation, Mendelsohn shows how genetic genealogy can benefit the Holocaust survivor community, with examples of how DNA has provided closure and led to heartwarming reunions. Jennifer Mendelsohn is a sought-after genealogist who specializes in helping Eastern European Jewish families shattered by the Holocaust reclaim their history. Her journey began in 2013, when she reunited her husband's grandmother—a Polish Holocaust survivor who had lost her entire immediate family and most of her extended family—with three living first cousins she had never known. Since then, she has worked on scores of cases, solving complex family mysteries using a blend of traditional and genetic genealogy. Her sleuthing was featured in the 2019 bestseller Inheritance by Dani Shapiro. In 2022, she co-founded the DNA Reunion Project at the Center for Jewish History, which seeks to promote DNA testing as a tool for helping Holocaust survivors find family. Mendelsohn is also known for the innovative use of genealogy as a tool for activism. She created the viral hashtag #resistancegenealogy, which uses genealogical and historical records to fight disinformation and honor America’s immigrant past. The project received international media attention, including being featured on CNN.com, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and Yahoo News. A native Long Islander now based in Baltimore, Mendelsohn serves on the board of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland and is the administrator of Facebook's Jewish Genetic Genealogy group, with over 10,000 members worldwide. Prior to her work as a genealogist, Jennifer spent many years as a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in countless publications including People, Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Time, and Tablet. In addition, she is the author of a children's book and helped fashion guru Carson Kressley pen his New York Times best-selling mens' style manual Off the Cuff. The program will take place on-line via Zoom. For more information and to register go to https://www.mnjgs.org/event Questions can be emailed to MNJGS at https://www.mnjgs.org/contact Members are free, non-members $5. Payment can be made at https://www.mnjgs.org/support-us -- Liba Casson-Nudell Minneapolis, MN Researching: NOTKIN from Minsk, Hlusk, Gomel, Zlynka and CASSON/CHAZANSKI from Nemencine, Vilnius

Jewish Genealogy SIG meeting May 14 2024 1-2:30 PM ET (Other time zones: https://tinyurl.com/32hbysvd)) Note: All are welcome for Free! Zoom room will open about 1 hour before the start time. Please join when you can, recording starts at Start time. If you think others would benefit from the topics below, please feel free to distribute this email to your society members, friends, and frenemies!! All are welcome to join the fun. If you are new to the group, please send the following info: name, email, location, phone number to genresearch13@yahoo. Without this info you will not be admitted to the meeting or will be removed. Hi All, Zoom link - NO RSVP - just come and bring a friend! June 14 at 1-2:30 pm Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85653533651?pwd=cDdyM1YySm5xamhlR28zb0VLSHJnQT09 Meeting ID: 856 5353 3651 Passcode: June14 Topic: What Extensions and apps to you use to increase your productivity and efficiency in your genealogy/genetic research? We will be reviewing the ones I am currently using (around 25), in this meeting. This is a long list and we may not cover all of them The list and links are below for your review and use. If you have a favorite that is not on the list, please send me the name and link to the extension/app/etc, so I can add it to the list. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tVfkgzuc1ielsQ_lV8Dq_f7uDyqrIZvbPkRoBcqydhs/edit?usp=sharing Look forward to seeing you all…………. If you are new to the group, please send the following info: name, email, location, phone number to genresearch13@yahoo -- Regards, Arthur Sissman Jewish Genealogy SIG of Collier/Lee Co FL genresearch13@... genresearch13 @yahoo.com (TO see the email and other links in proper format - Please log-in to the group - Top Right Corner of this page!) 954-328-3559 Join our FB page at Jewish Genealogy SIG: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hellojewishgen Genealogy Wise page: http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/ArthurSissman Researching: ZISMAN/ZYSMAN/ZUSMAN (Belarus); TELESHEVSKY (Belarus); CHANUTIN, (W. Russia), BRODY, (Hungary); FRIEDMAN, (Hungary); GRAUBARD, (Romania/Ukraine), AARONSON (Romania/Ukraine) TimeZoneConverter. https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/

I'm seeking for research purposes descendants of Fischel (or Fishel) Perelman or perhaps Perlman. Born in Brest-Litovsk (possibly in 1918) to Manes, in 1947 he was living in Minsk. His father Manes perished in the holocaust as well as his sister Sara and some of her family who were living in Brest. There were two other siblings. one had no children, the other - apart from a birth certificate no info is known about him. Any info about him or his descendants are welcome. Thank you, Yael Levine Jerusalem ylevine@...

I am requesting translation of a Yiddish letter on View mate at https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=107003 Thanks. -- Susan Watchman Phoenix, Arizona USA

Can anyone translate this Russian extract from a Latvian death record for me? See the following ViewMate image: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=107028 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate posting (or to me personally by e-mail). Thanks for your input! Roy Ogus Palo Alto, California roy.ogus at outlook.com

Russian-to-English translation of the birth records for October, the year 1844, Jewish community of the town of Mogilev-Podolsky, Podolsky gubernia (region) Translation of the birth records being done free of charge Comments of the author of the translation 1) in this message, 12 birth records of girls and 18 birth records of boys, who were born in Mogilev-Podolsky in October, the year 1844; 2) hopefully someone identifies a relative and finds the record joyful; 3) birth records of children, who were born in January were posted April 11; 4) birth records of children, who were born in February were posted April 12; 5) birth records of children, who were born in March were posted April 13; 6) birth records of children, who were born in April were posted April 14; 7) birth records of children, who were born in May were posted April 27; 8) birth records of children, who were born in June were posted April 28; 9) birth records of children, who were born in July were posted April 30; 10) birth records of children, who were born in August were posted May 3; 11) birth records of children, who were born in September were posted May 6; 12) birth records for November, 1844 translated into English and posted soon. ================== October, the year 1844 Nr. 83 (female) date of birth: October 4, 1844 name of child: Etia parents: father - Abramko, son of Manus, PAVLOVSKY mother - Rivka, daughter of Gersh Leyba ZELDIS Nr. 123 (male) date of birth: October 4, 1844 name of child: Yankel Volf parents: father - Borukh, son of Berko mother - Gitlia, daughter of Itsko BARG Nr. 124 (male) date of birth: October 4, 1844 name of child: Moyshe Gersh parents: father - Usher Zeylik, son of Moshko, BEYDER mother - Sura, daughter of Moyshe Gersh Nr. 125 (male) date of birth: October 5, 1844 name of child: Toyvia parents: father - Nusin, son of Shaya, GOSIATIN?/GASIATIN? mother - Sima, daughter of Zeylik Nr. 126 (male) date of birth: October 7, 1844 name of child: Yoel parents: father - Moshko, son of Abram, SOLTSMAN mother - Khaya Gitlia, daughter of Idel [surname illegible] Nr. 127 (male) date of birth: October 8, 1844 name of child: Shulim parents: father - Moshko, son of Gershko, POVERMAN mother - Golda, daughter of Gershon Nr. 84 (female) date of birth: October 10, 1844 name of child: Rukhlia parents: father - Itsko Mendel, son of Elye mother - Estra, daughter of Shmul Nr. 128 (male) date of birth: October 10, 1844 name of child: Elimeylekh? parents: father - Sukhar Gersh, son of Abram, YURISTA mother - Khantsia Dvoyra, daughter of Borukh Nr. 129 (male) date of birth: October 11, 1844 name of child: Volf parents: father - Leyba, son of Khaim [surname illegible] mother - Dobrish, daughter of Mortko Nr. 130 (male) date of birth: October 11, 1844 name of child: Itsko parents: father - Duvid, son of Moshko KISIL mother - Maryam, daughter of Meyer Nr. 85 (female) date of birth: October 11, 1844 name of child: Menikha parents: father - Aron Nekhemye, son of Itsko Borukh, MENIKHIS mother - Khaya Feyga, daughter of Mortko Nr. 131 (male) date of birth: October 12, 1844 name of child: Leyzor Mekhel parents: father - Borukh, son of Meyer, AYZINBERG mother - Ita, daughter of Khaskel GLUZMAN Nr. 132 (male) date of birth: October 12, 1844 name of child: [a name] Shmul parents: father - Moshko, son of Elye, KOTLIAR mother - Ginendel, daughter of Srul Yankel Nr. 133 (male) date of birth: October 13, 1844 name of child: Leyvi parents: father - Duvid, son of Yontel, SHNAYDER mother - Sura Khaya, daughter of Shlioma Nr. 86 (female) date of birth: October 13, 1844 name of child: Genia parents: father - Ide--? [name illegible], son of Moshko, SHATS mother - Leya, daughter of Eyber Nr. 87 (female) date of birth: October 14, 1844 name of child: Riva Perlia parents: father - Duvid, son of Berko, SATKOVETS mother - Tsivia, daughter of Zis Nr. 134 (male) date of birth: October 15, 1844 name of child: Itsek Leyba parents: father - Shlioma Moshko, son of Leyba, BELFER mother - Sura, daughter of Shapsa Nr. 88 (female) date of birth: October 18, 1844 name of child: Mindlia