Jewish Data Times Issue 2 November 2003

Jewish Data Times- Focused on records and images posted at www.jewishdata.com Issue Number 2 November 2003 1. New records from Jewish Cemeteries in Springfield, MA. 2. New records from Jewish Cemeteries in Syracuse, NY 3. Declaration of Intention documents from Ulster County, NY .4. New records from the Jewish Cemeteries in Utica, NY 5. Records from the Jewish World Newspaper from Albany, NY. 1. More than 3,000 records and images from the Jewish Cemeteries inSpringfield MA, have been posted. All eligible tombstones from the followingCemeteries have been photographed and indexed: Bnei Israel Anshai Sfard,Kesser Israel, and City of Homes Ass'n are all located on Wilbraham Ave.The oldest tombstone is that of Hanna Goldberg, 1909. In the center of theCemetery there is an Ohel structure for Rabbi Solomon A. Pessin who died in1919. Some of the interesting Hebrew inscriptions are for Abraham Barowsky, H.Kallin, Solomon Kaplinsky , Shmuel Rosoff, and Leon ZupnickOne Yiddish inscription describes a woman by the name of Chiyena RachelChaitowsky as "A woman who fed hungry people all the days of her life".Some of the family names of which there are at least five tombstones are: Albert, Alpert, Applebaum, Ascher, Askinas, Axler, Baidack, Bardach, Becker, Bilsky, Blacher, Blake, Brooslin, Chase, Chernick, Cooper, Cutler, Dinerstein, Fieldman, Geller, Grant,Grodsky, Hettinger, Izenstein, Kalman, Kaye, Kimball, Kirshner, Kobrosky, Krevalin, Kurnitsky, Kuzon, Lapidus, Lavene, Leider, Lepovetsky, Mackler, Plotkin, Pomerantz, Rispler, Robinovitz, Rosoff, Schaffer, Schogel, Selwitz, Sisitsky, Skeeber, Skerker, Smith, Stambovsky, Steinberg, and Tillman. To narrow your search to these records enter "Springfield MA" in the location field. 2. Approximately 5,400 records and images have been posted fromSyracuse NY's Jewish Cemeteries. The cemeteries are- Congregation AnsheiSfard, Ahavas Achim, Chevra Shas, and Workman's Circle, all located atJamesville Ave. on steep hills. The oldest tombstone in these cemeteries isthat of Joseph Schultz, 1901. Rabbi Mattahias Tsimon, a famous Syracuse leader who died in 1918 is interred in the Chevra Shas section. Other Rabbis nearby are Rabbi Tzvi Some of the family names of which there are at least several tombstones are:Alpern, Agronin, Axenfeld, Bernstein, Bronstein, Brown, Burman, Cantor,Cohen, Elstein, Epstein, Feinberg, Finn, Flesher, Fram, Frank, Franklin,Glinsky, Gilbert, Greenhouse, Hurwitz, Kahn, Kalatsky, Katz, Kleiman,Levine, Meltzer, Rose, Rosenfeld, Ross, Rubenstein, Savatsky, Siegel,Schwartz, Spevak, Tecler, Tomkin, Wallace, and Weisberg. To narrow yoursearch to these records enter "Syracuse" in the location field. 3. Declaration of Intention documents filed by Jewish people in UlsterCounty, NY between 1906-1941 have been photographed, indexed, and postedThere are more than 500 of these records and images.Most of these Jewish immigrants lived in Kingston, NY. However many of themwere farmers and lived in Accord, Ellenville, Greenfield, Highland,Kerhonkson, Spring Glen, Saugerties, and Woodstock. The Jews who lived inKingston are generally listed as "tailor", "peddler", "merchant", or"shoemaker". Jacob Kaplovitz and Reuben Hochstein are listed as Rabbis, andSamuel Miller is listed as a "Hebrew instructor". To narrow your search tothese records enter "Ulster" in the location field. 4. About 5,600 records and images from the Jewish Cemeteries in Utica NY have been posted. These Cemeteries, all located on Woods Road are:Jonathan's Lodge, House of Jacob, House of Israel, Tzvi Jacob, and Beth El.Many of the tombstones are in poor shape, especially the flat ones.The oldest tombstone is that of Nathan Conrad, 1901. There is an Ohel structure for Rabbi Binyamin Moshe Loew 1851- 1914, and his son MordechaiEliyahu who predeceased his father 1887- 1911. Another Rabbi is Julius H.Brody 1861- 1934.Some of the family names for which there at least five tombstones are:Abelove, Abelson, Alexander, Alpert, Arlen, Assinovsky, Bartnick, Benjamin,Berkowitz, Bloom, Boff, Brill, Brooks, Brown, Buff, Coleman, Cominsky,Crade, Damsky, Davis, Demsky, Dresher, Dumain, Finer, Fink, Freeman,Friedlander, Galinsky, Gennis, Gersten, Glovinsky, Goldbas, Grinboum, Koff,Kopel, Kowalsky, Krohn, Lipsie, Lyons, Markson, Marmelstein, Mettelman,Mittleman, Movsh, Namiad, Nathan, Nelson, Nusbaum, Perlman, Philipson,Pleeter, Pollicove, Ribyat, Rizika, Rothstein, Rudolph, Samuels, Savett,Schlosberg, Shulman, Sitrin, Slakter, Smith, Solomon, Snyder, Starker,Starman, Speiler, Sonne, Stone, Sugarman, Sumberg, Supiro, Tapper, Taylor,Trapanick, Tumposky, Vyner, Weiser, Wilcove, Wineburg, Woldenberg, andWolfe. To narrow your search to these records enter "Utica" in the location field. 5. We have began posting announcements published in the Albany Jewish Worldweekly newspaper. The paper started in 1965 and we are posting them as wereceive them from the Jewish World, and the first batch of about 1,000records posted are from 1989-1990. The records posted are births, Bar- BatMitzvahs, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, and obituaries. To narrowyour search to these records enter "Jewish World" in the location field.