Jewish Data Times Issue 4 December 2003

Jewish Data Times- Focused on records and images posted at www.jewishdata.com Issue number 4- December 18, 2003 1. New Declaration of Intention records from Onondaga County NY 2. New Declaration of Intention records from Boston MA 3. New Cemetery records from Saratoga Springs, NY 1. More than 2,000 records and images have been posted from Onondaga County, NY 1906- 1930. The Onondaga County clerk's office was unable to locate the records for later years. These records contain detailed information about Jewish immigrants who filed for US Citizenship. . Most of these applicants lived in the City of Syracuse. A large number of these Jews list their occupation as tailors or junk dealers. The following people are listed as "Rabbi": Isaac Majeir Berenson, Anshel Laizer Freedman, Hersh Weitzman, and Samuel Yelow. Wolf Paperman is listed as a "cantor (minister) " and Abraham Lavine as a "sexton". Isador Abramowitz, Moicha Shapiro, and Abraham Steinberg are listed as "Hebrew teacher". There are some occupation listings which are not commonly heard of today. Here are some examples: Samuel Isak Block- "traveling salesman". Max Katz- "wagon maker". Benjamin Pliskin- "bicycle repair man". Isaac Shapiro- "huckster". Simcha Wexler- "lather". Joe Isaacs-" wire worker". Morrie Lifchitz (Lifshitz)- "cigar maker". Morris Galinsky- "junk peddler". Simon Reuben Finkle- "news agent". Herbert Nymen- "splicer's helper". Louis Rothman- "drayman". Abe Epstein- "ticket seller". Reuben Alderman- "collector". Saddie Kahn- "indexes-maker". Hyman Kalmanovsky- "clothing examiner." There are at least 5 documents of the following families: Abramson, Agronin, Bernstein, Besdin, Block, Bronstein, Cohen, Epstein, Feinberg, Fisher, Freedman, Friedman, Glazier, Glinsky, Gold, Goldberg, Goldsmith, Goldstein, Gordon, Gorelick, Govenda, Greenberg, Hayman, Hodes, Hurwitz, Isaacs, Kahn, Kalmanovitz, Kaplan, Katz, Lavine, Levine, Meltzer, Menter, Miller, Rabinovitch (with various spellings), Rosen, Rosenbllom, Rosenthal, Rubinstein, Rubinson, Sarkin, Shapiro, Share, Siegel, Spevak, Steinberg, Ullman, Wallace, Weiner, Weinstein, Weisberg, and Wolfson.To view any of these records enter "Onondaga" in the location field on the member's search page. 2. Declaration of Intentions from the Circuit Court District of MA have been posted. This first batch is more than 2,000 records and images from Jewish immigrants who settled in the Boston area and filed for Citizenship in the years 1906- 1909. The following people have their occupation listed as "Hebrew teacher": Morris Kaplan, Samuel Heller, Menasse Litvock, Solomon Katfes, Abraham Moses Lapidus and Philip Wilner. Moses Namyot is listed as "Rabbi", Louis Silberstein as "clergyman", and Raphael Minsky as "cantor in a synagogue". While many of these Jewish immigrants are listed as "tailor" or "junk dealer", there are many other listings which portray life in the busy city of Boston. The records show how Jewish immigrants adapted to life in this Country. There are many listings related to shoe production such as "shoemaker", "shoe stitcher", "shoe fitter","shoe laster", "shoe operator", "shoe business", "shoe clerk", "shoe cutter" and "shoe worker". Here are some examples of listings you may not have heard of recently as occupations: David Abramowitz- "labeler of liquor bottles", Barnet Plotkin- "laster", Herriss Hudovitch- "expressman", Max Kaplan- "rag peddler", Philip Teverowsky- "rag picker", Samuel Mark- "rag sorter", Wolf Rotman- "ragman", Louis Abraham Zander- "vamper on shoes", Samuel Rosenfeld- "sailor", Barney Berson- "seaman", Andrew Rosenthal- "mariner", Abraham Joselowiz- "coffee packer", Samuel Feinstein- "tea mixer", Jacob Goldwasser- "egg candler", Samuel Gelt- "egg canner", Barnet Weiner- "egg lighter", Joseph Shaine- "teamster", Abraham Trachtenberg- "vest maker", Morris Maselsky- "ropeworker", Abraham Strikowsky- "crockery peddler", George Kaplan- "gents furnisher", Israel Cherry- "lunch room proprietor", Lewis Cohen- "dealer in metals", Samuel Saul Levine- "elevator man", and Samuel Oxman- "ice cream maker". If anyone knows what the following listings mean, please let us know: Julius Finkelstein- "cooper", Jack Goldberg- "weltman". There are at least 5 documents of the following families: Cohen, Dubinsky, Epstein, Feldman, Freedman, Friedman, Ginsberg, Gold, Goldberg, Goldstein, Goodman, Gordon, Green, Greenberg, Hurwitz, Kaplan, Katz, Levin, Levine, Miller, Nathanson, Pollack, Rosenthal, Rubin, Shapiro, Sherman, Weiner, Weinstein, and Yaffe. To view any of these records enter "Circuit" in the location field on the member's search page. 3. More than 400 records and images have been posted from the only Jewish Cemetery in Saratoga Springs NY on Weibel Ave. The oldest tombstone is that of Hiam Garcia who died in 1907. Joseph Williams (1843- 1929) was according to his monument "Founder of this cemetery and the old Synagogue". Simon Steloff (1848- 1924) was according to the Hebrew inscription "one of the first Jewish settlers in Saratoga". Moses Stein "1873- 1952" is listed as "Gabai of the Synagogue" in his Hebrew inscription, and Joseph Schultz (1882- 1972) is listed as a Shochet, Mohel, Melamed (teacher), and Bal Kriah (Torah reader). There is a monument for a young man by the name of Moshe Silverman who was murdered in 1919. This monument is inscribed as having been donated by Mrs. D. Serotta. There are a few tombstones marked as "unknown". These are for a few Saratoga Springs Spa Jewish visitors of the years, who died there, were not claimed by anyone, and even their names were not known. There are at least 5 monuments for the following family names: Cohen, Fallick, Finkel, Gold, Gross, Kobel, Lavine, Lehman, Schultz, Siegel, Steloff, Stein, Stein, Zelikosky, and Zuckerman. To view these records enter "Saratoga" in the location field on the member's search page. The Saratoga JCC and Sharei Tephilah Synagogue are next to the Cemetery, and they have a nice pictorial display on the Saratoga Springs Jewish Community History.