Jewish Data Times Issue 10 June 1, 2004

Jewish Data Times- Focused on records and images posted at
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Issue number 10 - June 1, 2004

1. Records from Springfield, MA.
2. More Documents from Kings County (Brooklyn) NY
3. Records from the Albany NY Jewish World Newspaper from the 1960's.

1. More than 4,000 records and images from West Springfield, MA Beth El/ Bnai Jacob at Kings Highway have been posted, about half of this Cemetery. The oldest tombstones are for Etta Horenstein- 1892, Heime Seltzer- 1893, Adolph Aduskin, Louis Brown, and Max Feinberg- 1894.

There are a number of US Army Veterans from the Spanish War, World War I and II. For example Max Grinowetz- served in the war with Spain, Harold M. Wiener, Maurice Pottern, William S. Miller, and the following men were killed in action: Nathan Greenberg, Sidney Rulnick, Ronald K. Zundell, and Bernard Katz.

The following men are inscribed as Torah Scholars: M. J. Shapiro, Tzvi Hirsh Robinson, Lewis W. Klempner, Lazar W. Winner, and Solhom Kostrinsky- who also lived until age 97.

Some of the interesting monuments are for Moses Ehrlich and Henry J. Glickman, Max and Sarah Berger- who died on the same day, Samuel Woythaler- a German inscription, Joseph Aronstam- a poetic Hebrew inscription using the first letters of his name. Among the women there is Esther Hinda Pessin wife of Rabbi Solomon Pessin and Rachel Leah Michelman- long Hebrew inscriptions, a woman named Rosa who drowned in 1911, Frances Feldman Korobkin and Mollie Paroshink who lived to 103 and 105 respectively.

There are at least 5 tombstones for people with the following last names: Alpert, Aronson, Ascher, Auerbach, Becker, Berinstein, Berman, Bernson, Binsky, Black, Blatt, Bloom, Bresky, Brothers, Browdy, Brown, Burstein, Chesler, Cohen, Cohn, Connell, Cooley, Davidson, Davis, Diamond, Dietz, Dorenbaium, Epstein, Feinberg, Finkelstein, Fisher, Gelin, Gerstein, Ginsberg, Goldberg, Goldin, Goldsmith, Goldstein, Goldstick, Goodless, Goodman, Gorden, Gordon, Granstein, Green, Greenberg, Hare, Harris, Hertzmark, Hochberg, Hoffman, Hurwitz, Jacobs, Kanter, Kaplan, Karp, Katz, Kinsler, Klein, Kohn, Kramer, Kronick, Kushnet, Lazerus, Levin, Levine, Levinson, Lewis, Lieberman, Lundy, Meyer, Michelman, Miller, Mirkin, Naurison, Pomerantz, Pottern, Radding, Ratner, Resnick, Rice, Richmond, Riner, Robinson, Rosenberg, Rosenbloom, Rosenthal, Rosenwald, Rubin, Rubinstein, Rubinwitch, Rudman, Sagalyn, Sahpiro, Schaffer, Schwartz, Shapiro, Siegel, Silverman, Simcovitz, Sisiky- Sisitsky, Skolnick, Sladofsky, Smith, Solin, Stein, Steinberg, Terney, Tillman, Tober, Tollin, Tuber, Webber, Weinstein, Wiener, Wilson, Winer, Winniman, Witkin, Zandan, Zimmerman, Zundell, and Zwicker

2. Additional Declaration of Intention records from Kings County have been posted. This batch contains 1,600 records and images of documents filed during April- September 1911.

Some of the interesting occupations listed are: Abraham Blaustein and Moisi Rotenberg as "cooper"- which means they built wooden barrels, Alex Feistman- "wood turner", Ike Rubin- "longshoreman"- one who loads and unloads vessels in a port, Joseph Kovalevsky- "wood chopper", Samuel Yoselwitz- "piano teacher', Froim Drinshtein- "ortopath"?, Chaim Streussand- "cornice maker" ?, Israel Rivkin- "cork maker", Sam Moskowitz- "stableman", Pinchas Katcharin- "maker of life savers", Joseph Silverman- "jobber" which seems to be a term for a wholesaler, Jacob Kantor- "milkman", Mendel Kessel- "Rabbi", and Mendel Shenk- the only one listed as "retired".

3. Mr. Sam S. Clevenson of Albany, NY founded a weekly newspaper called "the Jewish World" in 1965. As of June 2004, Mr. Clevenson remains the editor. May G-D bless him until 120. This batch contains 2,100 records and images from the first issue September 23, 1965 until the end of the year, 1966, 1967, and 1969. These records include marriages, anniversaries, achievements, historic family photos, obituaries, and many of the records include pictures of people.