Online Journal
Online Journal
Editor: Judith Shulamith Langer-Surnamer
Caplan
The Old Wooden Shule in Shkudvil
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The LitvakSIG
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General guidelines:
We are interested in articles which are of broad interest
to members of the LitvakSIG. Please refer to the LitvakSIG
Goals and Objectives on our website for more details. We are
particularly interested in articles which increase our understanding of the
historical, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual forces, which
affected the lives of our ancestors, particularly during the seventeenth,
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
A variety of articles
are sought. Feel free to consult with the
editors before writing articles.
Please e-mail contributions in plain text (.txt) or Word document (.doc) format to the Online Journal Editor, Judith Caplan.
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Table of Contents By DateMarch 2008 - Restoration of the Jewish Cemetery in Yurburg (Jurbarkas) January 2008 - The Life and Times of Ellen and Jacob Cohen: 1870-1950 December 2007 - What's in a Name? The Problem of Name Changes in the Search for Family Roots November 2007 - Memorials for Lithuania Shtetls in Cholon, Israel March 2007 - Sveksna: Our Town January 2007 - Letters from Gelvan - A New Development by Geraldine (Faigeh Gisseh) Adelman Powers Volper October 2005 - About “Surinamers” Who Are Not from Suriname - A Search from Shoe Box to Internet August 2005 - On the Front Line in Lithuania in 1915 Narratives of Jewish Eyewitnesses Part 2 by Anatolij Chayesh May 2004 - Speech by Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein at the Annual Yom Hashoah CeremonyNovember 2003 - Anna Weinstein Recalls Life in Kelem (Kelme), by Bob Weiss October 2003 - Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam, Russian Poet (1889-1938), by Vitaly Charny October 2003 - Visiting the Telsiai Jewish Cemetery by Aleksandrs Feigmanis August 2003 - An Interview with Woolf Zasman by Mary Kropman June 2003 - Box-Tax Paperwork Records by Anatolij Chayesh June 2003 - Commitment to Remember - A Book Review by Debbie Berliner June 2003 - Life in the Shtetl of Shnurel - the Memoirs of Mary Hellen Herr Bernhard. February 2003 - Joniskis Area Jewry by Jurgita Matuliene December 2002 - Designing a Uniquely Personal and Genealogically Oriented Litvak Menorah by Judi Langer-Surnamer Caplan November 2002 - My Mother's Letter by Raja Schiff Shlom-Berkman November 2002 - Balys Buracas - Lithuanian Photo Exhibit July 2002 - Lithuanian Jews on Postage Stamps: Ben Shahn 1898-1969 by Vitaly Charny June 2002 - Lithuanian Jews on Postage Stamps: Isaak Levitan 1860-1900 by Vitaly Charny April 2002 - The Genocide of the Jews by Neringa Latvyte – Gustaitiene April 2002 - Urban Voters 1905-1912 by Anatoliy Chayesh April 2002 - Unmarked Lives by Joanne Soroka March 2002 - A Jewish Life Under the Tsars book review by Ira Leibowitz February 2002 - Excerpts from the Rosen Legacy by Claire L. Datnow November 2001 - The Zeimelis Jewish Cemetery by Barry Mann November 2001 - The Vievis Jewish Cemetery by Harold Perloff October 2001 - My Childhood in Trishik. The following eyewitness accounts of life in the shtetl of Trishik in the 1870's and 1880's are excerpts from MeeZichronoti, the MEMOIRS of ITA HERSCH who was born ITA MELAMED, in 1871, in Trishik (Tryskiai), and who died in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1958. September 2001 - Return to Serei by Chana Rosen August 2001 - On the Front Line in Lithuania, 1915: Stories of Jewish Eyewitnesses, by Anatolii Chayesh, translated by Gordon McDaniel. August 2001- LitvakSIG was proud to co-sponsor, along with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, the appearances of Vitalija Gircyte, Head Archivist of the Kaunas Regional Archives, Laima Tautvaisaite, Director of the Vilnius Lithuanian State Historical Archives, and Galina Baranova, Head Archivist of the Vilnius Archives, at the IAJGS Conference in London, July 8-13, 2001. To read their highly informative talks you have only to click on the name of each individual archivist. July 2001- Letters from Gelvan by Gerry (Faigeh Giseh) Adelman Powers Volper July 2001- Visiting the Jewish Cemetery of Zemaiciu Naumestis by Dr. Aleksandrs Feigmanis, e-mail aleksgen@mailcity.com March 2001- From Here To Kovno: For Upper West Side Documentary Filmmaker, Search for Grandfather’s House Leads to Family Revelations. Susan Josephs Staff Writer, The Jewish Week. October 2000 - Revisiting Roots in Lithuania by Hedy Pagremanski Page July 2000 - Litvaks and the Founding of Brandeis University by Steven Weiss July 2000 - From Yerushalayim d'lita by Debbie Berliner June 2000 - What Rite or Ritual for Prayer Was in General Use Among the Jews in Lithuania? by Shalom Bronstein June 2000 - Jewish Craftsmen in Kaunas Gubernia, from the Standpoint of Genealogy and Local History (According to Materials in the Saint Petersburg Archives) by Anatolij Chayesh May 2000 - The LitvakSIG Poetry Page May 2000 - The First Martyrs in Our Village of Telsiai 1914 -1918 by Velvel Zev Noy - The following is a first-hand account of the German invasion of Telsiai in 1914, as narrated by Velvel (Zev) Noy (1908 - 1993) who was born in Telsiai, Lithuania. May 2000 - Visiting Leckava Jewish Cemetery - Over 150 names found in the Jewish Cemetery in Leckava, Lithuania. April 2000 - Litvaks and Their Calendars or How to Navigate Between the Torah Portion and the Hebrew, Gregorian, and Julian Calendars by Jacob Bleadon. March 2000 - Book review by Joost van Beek, LITUANIE JUIVE 1918-1940. Feb 2000 - The Expulsion of the Jews from Lithuania in the Spring of 1915: A description of political events preceding and accompanying the expulsion of Jews from the western part of Kovno Gubernia, based on the periodical press of 1914-1915, the stenographic minutes of the State Duma, and publications primarily from the interwar period by Anatolij Chayesh. Dec 1999 - The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum 10th Anniversary. Thank you letter from Deputy Director, Rachel Kostanian. Dec 1999 - An Eye Witness Series Article #4. List of Jews in Kelme, compiled by Mrs. Emilija Valanciene, April 8, 1988. Translation by LitvakSIG. Dec 1999 - An Eye Witness Series Article #3. The Jews of Uzventis in 1941. This is a list of Jewish People, compiled in 1977, by Mrs. Stases Butkeviciene from the town of Uzventis. Translation by LitvakSIG. Nov 1999 - An Eye Witness Series Article #2 . Glimpses of History: Jewish Organizations in Kelme by Vaclovas Rimkus, "Biciulis," December 16, 1992. Translation by LitvakSIG. Nov 1999 - An Eye Witness Series Article #1. Following the Traces Left by Fascist Killers, by Mary Javno-Voronova, Siauliai, 1960. Translation by LitvakSIG. July 1999 - What Does a Litvak Look Like? by Judith Shulamith Langer-Surnamer Caplan. How many of you have ever wondered what a LITVAK looks like? May 1999 - Afrikaner Yidishe Tseitung Article by Ada Green. This Yiddish-language weekly newspaper published in Johannesburg from 1942 to 1971, ran a series of pictures that were taken in Lithuanian shtetls before World War II. Apr 1999 - South African Landsmanshaftn Records by Ada Green. Apr 1999 - Visiting The Jewish Cemeteries in Kaisadorys and Zasliai by Aleksandrs Feigmanis. Dec 1998 - Jewish Genealogical Resources at the Kaunas Regional Archives, presented at the 18th Annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy July 13th, 1998 in LA, California, by Vitalija Gircyte. Apr 1998 - Never Judge an Archival Collection by Its Description or, Never Judge a Book by Its Cover: The contents of YIVO's Lithuanian Communities of the Interwar Period Collection by Deena A. Berton. Mar 1998 - Excel, Schmexcel, Dig Up Those Relatives! by Barry Spinak. When you have identified 100 likely relatives on the 1858 Revision List, how do you know they are really your relatives? PDF Download |
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