Yelisavetgrad/Elisavetgrod Family Pictures
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The BUDNECHANKOs (CHANKOs)
immigrated from Elizavetgrad to Philadelphia 4 Nov. 1904. This photo of Revel POBERESKY (1875-1961) and Louis CHANKO and their first four children was taken about 1906 in NYC, two years after their immigration.

Meyer Leib SIEBELEWSKY
The old man is Meyer Lebe Duvidovich SIEBELEWSKY (1833-1916), my 3x-great grandfather. He and his 2nd wife emigrated from Elizavetgrad to NY 21 Jan. 1903. This photo, taken in NYC about 1912/3, includes his granddaughter Althea BARSKY (b. 1911)

Pinia and Varvy POBERJESKY
The photo is marked on the front: "R. Ya. Bik, Ekaterinoslav, "To our beloved sister Katia and her husband and the children for everlasting memory, limitless love and devotion from always loving brother and sister, Pinia and Varvy, March 12 1900, on the wedding day." Printed: Photoshop Ekaterinoslav, Alexanders street, D. Shtrombera. (The man looks very similar to one in my collection taken in Geskis 3 years earlier, Katia¹s brother, P.I. POBEREJSKY. I also have photos of Peter and Vera vacationing at a beach near Paris, France, 1924). 6 1Z2 x 4 1Z4". Ekaterinoslav was a set of Jewish agricultural colonies 120 miles east of Elizavetgrad (home of my POBERESKYs), near modern Dnipropetrovsk.

Anna Moiseevna 1892
Two identical copies of this photo were found among the papers of my great, great-grandmother, Gittel "Katia" POBERESKY SIEBELEWSKY of Elizavetgrad. The back Russian inscription reads: "To Roman Gersha?ov? from (cousin? or spiritual sister?) Anna Moiseevna (daughter of Moise?), 12 of July 1892 year." Printed on the back: Moskovski Photoshop in Taganrog, on Petrovski street. 2 3/8 x 4 3/8"; Taganrog is in Rostov oblast on the Sea of Azov, near the extreme NE tip of Black Sea.
An Ethel GERSHOY b. abt. 1842/3 was the mother of Fanny GERSHOY FELDSTEIN (b. abt. 1869), a good friend of my SIEBELS ancestors in the Bronx. My great-aunt Edith SIEBEL BRODNEY's address book lists a Leo (& Ida) GERSHOY (Leo was the NYU scholar, 1897-1975) of 5 Minetta St., NYC and a Miss Eugenie GERSHOY of San Francisco, CA (1901-86) ­ famous artist. These GERSHOYs immigrated to NYC from Krivoi Rog, Ukraine (either 216 miles SE or 326 miles SSE of Kiev) in 1903.

Samuel, of Siebelewsky family?
to family friend RABINOVICH,
taken in Elizavetgrad around 1890?

Alexander Gumberg
(1887-1939)
This photo dates to about 1918, from Russia. The son of a rabbi, he emigrated from Elizavetgrad to NYC around 1910. He was close friends with my great-aunt Edith SIEBEL, and I have many letters from him to Edith dated 1911-17. In 1917 he returned to Russia as a trade agent. Many believe he became a Soviet spy. He was an adviser to American financial and business corporations, close friend to John Dewey and other prominent liberals, and a promoter of closer relations between Soviet Russia and the United Sates in the 1920s and 30s. The large manuscript collection at the Wisconsin State Historical Society includes correspondence with Lenin, Molotov and Trotsky. He is the subject of a sympathetic book, Alexander Gumberg and Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1933, by James K. Libbey.by Raymond Cannata

Help Identify please!
These next pictures are of relatives and friends from Elizavetgrad of Alter SIEBELEWSKY and his wife Katia POBERJESKY, but like many in our photo albums are not identified - Ray Cannata thinks that those searching for DASHEVSKY, SIEBELEWSKY, POBERJESKY and BUDNACHENKO relatives may recognize family members in this group. All were taken in Elizavetgrad studios and all were most likely taken in the 1890s.

Vitlina Studio January 1887 Unidentified Family/Friend of Alter and Katia (POBERJESKY) SIEBELEWSKY; taken at Vitlina Studio in Elizavetgrad

Family/Friend of Alter and Katia (POBERJESKY) SIEBELEWSKY

Family/Friend of Alter and Katia (POBERJESKY) SIEBELEWSKY

Family/Friend of Alter and Katia (POBERJESKY) SIEBELEWSKY

Katia (POBERJESKY) later SIEBELEWSKY
of the two women, the slender girl on the left is believed to be Katja by donor Ray Cannata

Family/Friend of Alter and Katia (POBERJESKY) SIEBELEWSKY

Max GORDON
aka Michael Lazar Ilyeshev GORDON
a photo of a painting, by the generosity of Linda Silverman Shefler

Sarah GORDON
a photo of a painting presented by Linda Silverman Shefler