In February, Jewish Family Research Association Israel's Ra'anana branch hosted Sherry Kisos, who spoke on the Bad Arolsen files. ESRAvision, Israel's English-language community-access program, filmed and interviewed Kisos.
According to JFRA Israel's president Ingrid Rockberger, the segment will be shown as the second item of the magazine-format program throughout April.
Viewing times (only in Israel) are 10.30 p.m. Mondays, 9.30 a.m. Tuesdays on HOT (Channel 25) and YES (Channel 98); and at 3 p.m. Thursdays (METV).
Rockberger says that she hopes to have the segment available soon on the JFRA Israel Web site.
09 April 2007
Make your own Roots TV
Roots Television is an independent media company set up by national media producer Marcy Brown and professional genealogist Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak.
It has just received a major overhaul, adding 20 channels and, as a genealogist's answer to online video, a RootsTube section.
A "Wild Roots!" contest is also being sponsored - you can win $500 as you flaunt your roots. International genealogists can share their sleuthing, reunion mishaps, cemetery explorations, interviews, old country trips, or your local society’s monthly program.
The instructions on how to do this seem easy enough, and according to the press release:
There's lots to choose from, and I'm looking forward to seeing submissions from Tracing the Tribe's readers. Roots Television is looking for programming focusing on all areas of family history and for researchers of all levels.
It has just received a major overhaul, adding 20 channels and, as a genealogist's answer to online video, a RootsTube section.
A "Wild Roots!" contest is also being sponsored - you can win $500 as you flaunt your roots. International genealogists can share their sleuthing, reunion mishaps, cemetery explorations, interviews, old country trips, or your local society’s monthly program.
The instructions on how to do this seem easy enough, and according to the press release:
"Viewers are invited to tell the world about the craziest thing they ever did in their quest to learn about their heritage. Did you accidentally pull an all-nighter at your computer? Did you cross a field with a bull in it to get to an old cemetery? Did you purposely get yourself locked into a library overnight? If so, we want to hear about it.
"You can tell your tale directly to the camera, re-enact it, animate it, use hand puppets or whatever appeals to you. Do it by yourself or with your sister, research buddies, fellow society members, or that 6th cousin of yours in New Zealand.
"On May 15, 2007, Roots Television will select and announce the winner of the Wild Roots! contest."
There's lots to choose from, and I'm looking forward to seeing submissions from Tracing the Tribe's readers. Roots Television is looking for programming focusing on all areas of family history and for researchers of all levels.
Philadelphia: Historic photographs online
According to the ResearchBuzz.com blog, a new historic photography archive is now available.
The Philadelphia City Archive is one the country's largest municipal archives, with about 2 million photographs dating back to the late 1800s.
Online now at PhillyHistory are nearly 25,500 images of Philadelphia; some 2,000 new images are added monthly.
You can search the images by address, neighborhood, keyword or year. Researchers can buy photographs for $10 to $20.
Eventually, this site should have many images of interest to Jewish genealogists, because Philadelphia was home to one of the earliest American Jewish communities. Those familiar with the city's neighborhoods should do better at seeing what's there than this New York girl!
The Philadelphia City Archive is one the country's largest municipal archives, with about 2 million photographs dating back to the late 1800s.
Online now at PhillyHistory are nearly 25,500 images of Philadelphia; some 2,000 new images are added monthly.
You can search the images by address, neighborhood, keyword or year. Researchers can buy photographs for $10 to $20.
Eventually, this site should have many images of interest to Jewish genealogists, because Philadelphia was home to one of the earliest American Jewish communities. Those familiar with the city's neighborhoods should do better at seeing what's there than this New York girl!
Online Exhibit: Caribbean Histories
The U.K. National Archives launched an online exhibit that covers 300 years of Caribbean history, from the 17th century through 1926. It offers maps, photos, letters and petitions.
This new resource, launched in March, marks the culmination of 'Your Caribbean Heritage', a three-year project at the National Archives, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project has created 125,000 new online record descriptions relating to the Caribbean, making the documents more easily accessible to a wider audience.
The territory covered includes Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bay Islands [Honduras], Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, St Croix, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, St Eustatius, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Havana Province [Cuba], Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, Surinam, Tobago, Trinidad, the Turks & Caicos, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
There are many entries of Jewish interest, including a petition (CO 137/2 folio 208) sent by members of the Jamaican Jewish community after a 1692 hurricane and a 1914 request for British naturalization of Mr. Sally Wolffsohn of British Honduras (Belize).
Names referenced in the petition are somewhat incorrect in the document's transcript, and I read the correct names of the petitioners from the document image as Isaque Fernandez Diaz, Isaque Moses Baruch, Isaque Nunez, Phineas Abarbanel, Isaque Rodrigue, Sousa Aron Jacob, Soares Samuel, Careses? Jacob David, Robles Isaque Monoes? (Gutierer).
The men, named as merchants, also mention the "terrible earthquake which happened there on ye 7th of June," and that they have lost everything.
This new resource, launched in March, marks the culmination of 'Your Caribbean Heritage', a three-year project at the National Archives, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project has created 125,000 new online record descriptions relating to the Caribbean, making the documents more easily accessible to a wider audience.
The territory covered includes Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bay Islands [Honduras], Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, St Croix, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, St Eustatius, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Havana Province [Cuba], Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, Surinam, Tobago, Trinidad, the Turks & Caicos, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
There are many entries of Jewish interest, including a petition (CO 137/2 folio 208) sent by members of the Jamaican Jewish community after a 1692 hurricane and a 1914 request for British naturalization of Mr. Sally Wolffsohn of British Honduras (Belize).
Names referenced in the petition are somewhat incorrect in the document's transcript, and I read the correct names of the petitioners from the document image as Isaque Fernandez Diaz, Isaque Moses Baruch, Isaque Nunez, Phineas Abarbanel, Isaque Rodrigue, Sousa Aron Jacob, Soares Samuel, Careses? Jacob David, Robles Isaque Monoes? (Gutierer).
The men, named as merchants, also mention the "terrible earthquake which happened there on ye 7th of June," and that they have lost everything.
08 April 2007
19th century Jewish businesswomen
I received the spring issue of American Jewish Legacy and was pleased to see some interesting information on important businesswomen in our history:
--Rebecca Moses (1792-1872), a businesswoman and wife of successful Charleston planter, Isaiah Moses.
--Jenny Baruh, daughter of Jewish Gold Rush Pioneer Aaron Baruh and wife of Isadore Zellerbach (Crown Zellerbach paper company), who established a charitable foundation that has disbursed more than $50 million
--Blanche Colman, South Dakota's first female lawyer (1911), daughter of a Yiddish-speaking pioneer who came to Deadwood in 1877, where he was lay rabbi and a longtime justice of the peace
--Bella Marks, wife of Moses Garfunkel, a partner in Marks Moses of Georgetown, SC
--Nannette (Yettel) Conrad (born 1830, Bavaria), had a San Francisco millinery store, married Emanuel Blochman.
This issue also contains information on Ava F. Kahn, PhD of San Francisco, whose book Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History 1849-1880, will be followed by a co-authored volume, Jews of the Pacific West: The Growth of a Regional Community, 1849-1990 to be published by the University of Washington Press in 2008.
To read more or sign up to receive future issues, click here.
--Rebecca Moses (1792-1872), a businesswoman and wife of successful Charleston planter, Isaiah Moses.
--Jenny Baruh, daughter of Jewish Gold Rush Pioneer Aaron Baruh and wife of Isadore Zellerbach (Crown Zellerbach paper company), who established a charitable foundation that has disbursed more than $50 million
--Blanche Colman, South Dakota's first female lawyer (1911), daughter of a Yiddish-speaking pioneer who came to Deadwood in 1877, where he was lay rabbi and a longtime justice of the peace
--Bella Marks, wife of Moses Garfunkel, a partner in Marks Moses of Georgetown, SC
--Nannette (Yettel) Conrad (born 1830, Bavaria), had a San Francisco millinery store, married Emanuel Blochman.
This issue also contains information on Ava F. Kahn, PhD of San Francisco, whose book Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History 1849-1880, will be followed by a co-authored volume, Jews of the Pacific West: The Growth of a Regional Community, 1849-1990 to be published by the University of Washington Press in 2008.
To read more or sign up to receive future issues, click here.
Montreal: Jewish orphanages
Judy (Gold-Asch) and Myer Gordon will present "Four Hundred Brothers & Sisters - a Story of Two Jewish Orphanages in Montreal, 1902-1942," sponsored by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal and the Jewish Public Library.
Myer lived in one of the homes for 10 years.
The Gordons' two books are endorsed by archivists, librarians, social workers and professors who agree about the importance of informing a wider audience about this part of the city's history. The orphanages' reunions still attract former residents and their families.
The program will begin at 7.30 p.m., Monday, April 16, at the Gelber Conference Centre.
For information on future meetings and Sunday morning workshops, call the JGS of Montreal hotline, 514-484-0969, or click here.
Myer lived in one of the homes for 10 years.
The Gordons' two books are endorsed by archivists, librarians, social workers and professors who agree about the importance of informing a wider audience about this part of the city's history. The orphanages' reunions still attract former residents and their families.
The program will begin at 7.30 p.m., Monday, April 16, at the Gelber Conference Centre.
For information on future meetings and Sunday morning workshops, call the JGS of Montreal hotline, 514-484-0969, or click here.
Miami Beach: Mooning over my shtetl
For an interesting view on Miami Beach as an evolving "shtetl by the sea," click here.
The area's last kosher resort, The Saxony, closed in 2005 to make way for more condominiums, and Beth David (the oldest synagogue) also closed that year when its membership dropped to 22. However, the building is now the Jewish Museum of Florida, preserving such items as mah-jong sets and anti-Semitic real estate ads ("always a view, never a Jew"). Those with "Hebrew or Syrian blood" could not rent or buy north of Fifth Street until the 1950s.
We used to visit Miami when I was a little kid and I particularly remember one memorable train trip from New York with my favorite stuffed animal, a wolf named - what else? - Wolfie. I remember eating at Wolfie's Rascal House then (and on later visits through the years), but I'm not sure if my Wolfie was named for the deli. Alas, Wolfie's is on the demolition list to be replaced by yet another condo.
According to the story, Wolfie's storefront will be made part of the new building in a salute to nostalgia. It had really good lean corn beef sandwiches, although my tastes still run to fresh roast turkey breast on rye with Russian dressing and real sour pickles (none of those half-sours, please!).
How can we talk about deli during Passover?
Miami Beach had roughly 60,000 people in Jewish households, 62 percent of the total population, in 1982, but only 16,500, or 19 percent of the population, in 2004, said Ira Sheskin, a demographer at the University of Miami who conducts surveys once a decade. The decline — due mostly to elderly Jews dying or getting priced out after the city’s Art Deco revival, but also to the migration of others to Broward and Palm Beach Counties as greater Miami became more Hispanic — has forced old-timers to scour for hints of their past.
The area's last kosher resort, The Saxony, closed in 2005 to make way for more condominiums, and Beth David (the oldest synagogue) also closed that year when its membership dropped to 22. However, the building is now the Jewish Museum of Florida, preserving such items as mah-jong sets and anti-Semitic real estate ads ("always a view, never a Jew"). Those with "Hebrew or Syrian blood" could not rent or buy north of Fifth Street until the 1950s.
We used to visit Miami when I was a little kid and I particularly remember one memorable train trip from New York with my favorite stuffed animal, a wolf named - what else? - Wolfie. I remember eating at Wolfie's Rascal House then (and on later visits through the years), but I'm not sure if my Wolfie was named for the deli. Alas, Wolfie's is on the demolition list to be replaced by yet another condo.
According to the story, Wolfie's storefront will be made part of the new building in a salute to nostalgia. It had really good lean corn beef sandwiches, although my tastes still run to fresh roast turkey breast on rye with Russian dressing and real sour pickles (none of those half-sours, please!).
How can we talk about deli during Passover?
Tykocin, Poland: A new book
Mark Halpern, coordinator of BialyGen SIG, has provided information on a new book written about the Polish community of Tykocin, which houses a Jewish museum in a 1650s synagogue.
Mogens Kjelgaard, a Swedish-born journalist living in Warsaw, has written a historical novel about this Jewish community, Tykocin, a World Destroyed.
His wife was born near the town and the author has a personal interest in the area.
For more information on the book and Kjelgaard, click here.
Mogens Kjelgaard, a Swedish-born journalist living in Warsaw, has written a historical novel about this Jewish community, Tykocin, a World Destroyed.
His wife was born near the town and the author has a personal interest in the area.
For more information on the book and Kjelgaard, click here.
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