News Archive

Additional Reading. New additions:
The Jews of Bessarabia from the Earliest Settlement. Translated by Ala Gamulka.

Databases. New additions:
1940 Kishinev Business directory.

Cemeteries. News:
Fire destroys part of Lipkani Cemetery. Recovery efforts underway. Please consider a donation to help.

Research Projects. Updated:
33. Family Search (LDS) catalogue microfilms on Bessarabia Jewish records

Research Projects. New additions:
36. Kishinev Doyna Cemetery.
37. Tiraspol Jewish Cemetery Indexing and Photographing.
38. Kishinev Main Jewish Cemetery (Skulyany).

Holocaust in Bessarabia. New additions:
History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria. The Nizkor Project. Thanks to Dr. Felicia (Steigman) Carmelly.

Family Memoirs. New additions:
Finding Fera Citron, Part I

Additional reading. Updated:
Steven Zipperstein, 'Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th-Century Jewish History', now with copy of lecture in audio (thanks to Patricia K. and Steven Z.)

General History, Government, Maps. New additions:
Military-Topographical Maps of Russian Empire created in 1846-1863

Jewish Cemeteries. Updated:
35. Indexing and Photographing the gravestones at the Chimishliya Cemetery: finished.

Additional reading. New additions:
Steven Zipperstein: Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th-Century Jewish History
Alexandr Roitman: The process of conversion of the Jewish Population of Bessarabia, into Christian from Mozaic religion, in the XIX century.
Alexandr Roitman:, Bessarabian Jews, who are they?

Photo Gallery. New additions:
Kishinev 150 years ago!

Jewish Cemeteries. Updated:
Kishinev, 1979-1988. Thanks to Terry Lasky, who translated 3227 records.

Music, Theatre, Literature. New additions:
Cantor Nissan Spivak
Cantor Moishe Oysher

Jewish Cemeteries, Photograph Collections. New additions:
Photos from Cemeteries in Teleneshty, Calarash and Vadul Rashkov. Courtesy of Olga Sivac, Kishinev, Librarian at I. Manger Jewish Public Library (website).

Research Projects. Updated:
32. Tiraspol Zionists, part 2. Translated by Janet Furba.

Additional Reading. New additions:
The Lost Jews of McIntosh. Thanks to Pat Fuller for finding this article.

KehilaLinks websites. New section added with
15 towns, and 3 towns in progress.