Belarus SIG Newsletter
TRAVEL
- My visit to the Minsk archives (1/2015)
- Belarus - A Journey to the Past (2/2012) (Minsk, Brest, Kobrin and Pinsk)
- Back to Belarus: The Star on the Door, by Kathy Shenkin Seal (2/2009) (Iwye, Lida, Vilna)
- Visit to Smolyany, by Rabbi Andrew Baker (9/2008)
- A Follow up to “My Vitebsk”, by Esther (Herschman) Rechtschafner (1/2008) (Vitebsk)
- Follow-Up to “A Trip to Shereshev”, by Dr. Michael Lozman (6/2007)
- A Trip to Shereshev, by David Feldman and Martin Zafman (4/2007) (Shereshevo, Pruzhany, Grodno)
- My Vitebsk, by Esther (Herschman) Rechtschafner (3/2007) (Vitebsk)
- Hints of Jewish Life - What I Found in Ivenets, by Ruth Wilnai (5/2006)
- A Journey to Tolochin, by Yehuda Rothstein (3/2006)
- A Trip to Volkovsk, by Emma Tait (2/2006)
- Lost and Found in Belarus, by Myrna Siegel - Ivenets, Minsk (7/2006)
- A Visit to Belarus, the Baltics and Russia, by Sheldon Cohen (9/2005)
- A Visit to Four Villages, by Howard Gilman (3/2005)
- My Trip to Belarus, by Gail Haymovitz (22/2004)
- A Belarus Travelogue, by David Gordon (7/2004)
- Revisiting Belarus in Quest of the Late Pnina Modlin’s Family Roots, by Kelly Modlin (4/2004)
- My Family Trip to Belarus, by Jacob Arem (5/2003)
- Pnina and Avram - The Story Continues, by Kelly Modlin (12/2002)
- A Journey Home: Search for Family Roots Turns Revolutionary on the Internet, by Alan Scher Zagier
- Centerpiece: A Journey Home - An Immigrant’s Son, a Vanished Village, by Alan Scher Zagier
- Pnina and Avram’s Story (A reunion of brother and sister - after 58 years!), by Kelly Modlin (13/2000)
- To Baranovich and Back, by Eial Dujovny
- My Trip to Belarus, by Rav Eliyahu Tavger - Minsk, Borisov, Lepel, Vitebsk (4/2000)
- BACK TO BELARUS (A Visit to Kozanhorodok): A woman’s quest for her roots takes some surprising turns, by Natalie Rothstein -Pinsk
- Belarus in September: A ShtetlShleppers Trip to Minsk, 23 September - 1 October 1999 (5/2000)
- Visiting Ekaterinoslav (Dneiperpetroskov) (3/2000)
- A Visit to Belarus (Luninets, Lachva, Kozhanhorodok) (2/1999)
- Follow Up to A Trip to Shereshev, by Michael Lozman
- Finding our Family’s Mill in Belarus, by David M. Fox (15/2000)
GENERAL
- The Participation and Role of Jews in the Belorussian Militia, 1944-1953, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (8/2007)
- Antisemitism in the Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944: The Case of Belorussia, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (10/2006)
- Minsk Budget - 1877, translated by Vitaly Charny (4/2006)
- Albert Lapidus: My War Childhood - A Prisoner of the Ghetto and Partisan of World War II Remember, by Albert Lapidus (translated from the Russian by Irina Bindler) (1/2006)
- Did Cousin Rabinowitz Die in the Holocaust?, by Peter Landé (14/2006)
- The Holocaust of the Jews in Belorussia: A View from America, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph,D. (12/2005)
- Ghettos in the Gomel Region: Commonalities and Unique Features, 1941-42, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (11/2005)
- The Participation of Jews in Life in the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) in the Early Post-War Period, 1944-1954, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (7/2005)
- Archival Holdings in Belarus: Regional and District Holdings According to Chronological Period, by Dr. Oleg Perzashkevich (1/2004)
- Jews in Belorussian Public Prosecutor’s Offices, 1944 - 1956, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky (21/2004)
- The History of the Jews in Belorussia: Review of a New Book, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (20/2004)
- Literacy Among the Jews of Russia in 1897: A Reanalysis of Census Data, by Dr. Joel Perlmann (9/2004)
- 1912 Duma Voter Lists and Gubernskie Vedomosti: New Insights, by Shlomo Gurevich (8/2004)
- The Pale of Settlement: An Inseparable Part of Byelorussian History, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph. D. (6/2004)
- Social History and Genealogy, by Naomi Fatouros, Michelle Frager, Susan Rosenthall, Bill Schechter (9/2003)
- Holocaust of the Soviet Jewry: Filling the Information Gap, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (7/2003)
- A Demographic Profile of the Jews in Belorussia, 1939-1959, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (6/2003)
- Woodbine, New Jersey: A Restoration of History, by Joan Breslow (2/2003)
- English translations of material from three works / Jews in Belarus: From our Common History, 1905-1953, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky (13/2002)
- The Jewish Farmers in Belarus During the 1920s, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky (10/2002)
- Ilya Ehrenburg on the Holocaust in Belarus: Unknown Testimony, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky (9/2002)
- Struggle of Belorussian Jews for the Restitution of Possessions and Housing in the First Postwar Decade, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky (8/2002)
- Byelorussian Jewry and the Doctors’ Plot, 1953, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky (7/2002)
- Using Secondary Genealogical Records in Belarusian Archives (2/2002)
- Jews in Belorussia’s Judicial System, 1944 - 1953, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky (5/2002)
- Attempt to Erect Memorial to Holocaust Victims Blocked by Soviet Byelorussian Authorities, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky (6/2002)
- Memories Of School and Play During WWI And The Revolutions In Bobruisk, Belarus, and Podolia, Ukraine (7/2001)
- Groping Toward the Modern (19/2000)
- Recollections - Part 2: The Wall (18/2000)
- The East European Jewish Heritage Project (5/1999)
- Linking Genealogists to Jewish Communities in the Former Soviet Union (5/1999)
- More Records Uncovered in Minsk Archive (5/1999)
- Settlers in Yekaterinoslav Guberniya (5/1999)
- “A survivor’s story” Interview with a WWII survivor from Luninets, printed in “The Columbus Dispatch”, Ohio, (January 23, 1997) - reprinted with permission from “The Columbus Dispatch”. (2/1999)
- Growing up in White Russia (Belakoritz and Wolozyn 1912-1931) (2/1999)
- Delyatichi Between the two World Wars, by Ofer Cohen (5/2000)
- A Happy Ending, by Bill Schechter (23/2004)
- Family Secret (A Happy Ending, Part 2), by Bill Schechter (1/2005)
- How I found ShimShim
- Grandma’s Stories, by Barbara Musikar (19/2004)
MINSK
- Bogushevici Memories: Excerpts from Forty-five Years on the Block, The Autobiography of Abraham Zalman Cohen, by Abraham Zalman Cohen (1/2007) (Bogushevichil Igumen, Minsk)
- Bogushevici Memories: Excerpts from Forty-five Years on the Block, The Autobiography of Abraham Zalman Cohen, by Abraham Zalman Cohen (13/2006)
- Bogushevici Memories: Excerpts from “Forty-Five Years on the Block”, The Autobiography of Abraham Zalman Cohen, by Abraham Zalman Cohen (9/2006)
- Bogushevici, by Abraham Zalman Cohen (6/2006)
- A Guide to Research in the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk, by Neville Lamdan, D. Phil. (25/2004)
- Origin of Jewish Last Names in Turov, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D., Diaspora Research Center (12/2004)
- Borisov: A Mirror of the Holocaust in Belorussia, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (2/2004)
- BREGMAN families in Pinsk (9/2001)
- Minsk Ghetto: An Issue of Jewish Resistance (8/2001)
- My Vissotsky Family Of Pinsk (3/2001)
- RECOLLECTIONS, by Michael Goldberg Pinsk (16/2000)
- RECOLLECTIONS (Part 2), by Michael Goldberg - written in spring of 1990
- About Svislovitz (2/2000)
- Belarus in September: A ShtetlShleppers Trip to Minsk, 23 September - 1 October 1999 (5/2000)
- A website on Luninets and Kozhanhorodok Lyuban (Luban) in the 1880s Bobruisk, Minsk (5/1999)
- More Records Uncovered in Minsk Archive
- A Belorussian Border Shtetl in the 1920s and 1930s: The Case of Turov, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D.
GRODNO
- Diary of a Yeshiva bocher in 19th century Belarus (1/2012) (Grodno)
- Old Records Brought Two Grodno Survivors Together (Grodno)
- History of the Kobrin Synagogue, by Maxim Mill (3/2008) (Kobrin, Grodno)
- Once there was a small Shtetl named Lunna, by Ruth Marcus (9/2007) (Lunna Grodno currently in Bialystok Poland)
- Restoring the Shereshev Cemetery, by Celia Denov and Robert Bell (5/2007) (Shereshevo, Pruzhany, Grodno)
- The Story of Sarah from Ivatzevchi, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (2/2007) (Slonim, Grodno currently Iwacewice, Kossow, Polesie, Poland)
- A Belated Regret: The Sum Total of a Grodno Family, by Leib Reizer (12/2006)
- A Summer Incident, by Dr. Samuel Chani (8/2006)
- Lost and Found in Belarus, by Myrna Siegel Molchad (7/2006)
- The Kaplans from Belarus, by Dorothy Harper Minsk (13/2005)
- Rabbi Arye-Leyb ben Meyshe ber Shifman from Pukhovichi, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph. D. (8/2005)
- My Search for Family Roots in Sopotskin, by Steve Lipman (6/2005)
- Novogrudok: A Recovered Page in the History of the Holocaust in Belarus, by Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph.D. (5/2004)
- Slonim Synagogue Saved (1/2001)
- My Memoirs. From Palonkeh and Baranovichi, Belarus, 1904 to 1922, by Rubin Kaplan (1904-1990) (Novogrudok, Grodno) (5/1999)
- Our town Swir (10/1998)
- Recollections of Novogrudok (10/1998)
- Letters from Kleshchi today (10/1998)
- A Town with four names: - Recollections of life in Poland prior to World War II (21/2000)
- Brisk D’Lita (Brest-Litovsk) - An historical review of its joys and sufferings (20/2000)
- Delyatichi Between the two World Wars (12/2000)
MOGILEV
- The Nachum Rutstein Family of Tolochin, Belarus, by J.R. Rothstein (1/2020)
- Historical Overview of Jewish Tolochin, Belarus, by J.R. Rothstein (1/2020)
- The Poretzkyn Family in America: The First Generations, by J.R. Rothstein (1/2018)
- History of the Kobrin Synagogue, by Maxim Mill (3/2008)
- Re-Connecting The Mendelsons: The Journey From Mogilev (Belarus), Russia, To United States, by Sarah Greenberg (7/2007)
- Personal Memories of Seletz, by Bernie Lamb (11/2006)
- A Memoir, by Jack Ritzenberg (14/2005)
- The Rockets Red Glare, by David Fox (10/2005)
- Rabbi Arye-Leyb ben Meyshe ber Shifman from Pukhovichi, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky, Ph. D. (8/2005)
- Jewish Addresses in Rechitsa, by Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky (1/2003)
- The Rechitsa Pogrom (Oct. 1905) (6/2001)
- Memories from a childhood in Orsha, by Harry Kalkin (1898-1998) (Mogilev) (5/1999)
- “Bessie’s Letters” - The Story Behind The Story, Cholmich, Gomel (10/1998)
- Remembering Bobruisk, by Selik Sussmanovich Rosovsky (1893-1967) (5/2000)
VITEBSK
VILNA
FAMOUS PERSONS
- Jacob Rutstein (1878-1946) (2/2020)
- Boris L. Shaposhnik (1902 - 1985) (3/2002)
- Yehuda Pen and his Disciples of the Vitebsk Art School (4/2002)
- Leonid Mandelshtam, 1879-1944, by Vitaly Charny (2/2005)
- Arkady Raikin, 1911-1987, by Vitaly Charny (24/2004)
- Lazar Lagin (1903 - 1979), by Vitaly Charny (15/2004)
- Semyon Ariyevich Kosberg (1903-1965), by Vitaly Charny (14/2004)
- Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian actor, poet and folksinger (1938-1980), by Vitaly Charny (11/2004)
- Abram Brazer, 1892-1942, by Vitaly Charny (10/2004)
- Irving Berlin: He is American Music!, by Vitaly Charny (3/2004)
- Konstantin Shapiro (1840-1900), by Vitaly Charny
- Charles Bogin Memoirs
