Jewish Data Times Issue 8 February 27, 2004

Jewish Data Times- Focused on records and images posted at www.jewishdata.com Issue number 8- February 27, 2004 1. New posting of upstate NY Synagogue records. 2. A book on Canadian Jewish History is being posted. 1. A 145-page hand written Journal that records Synagogue meetings of the Jewish Community of Hoosick Falls NY 1891- 1901 has been posted. Hoosick Falls is a Village located in Rensselaer County NY, near Bennington, Vermont, and about 45 miles from Albany, NY. A Jewish community of about 40 families formed in the late 1880's, and in 1891 they started a Synagogue called "Love Peace"- Ahavas Sholom. The Journal records their meetings and reading it provides us a picture of what life was like for Jews in a village more than a hundred years ago. Reading these pages one can see their efforts at maintaining a "Minyan", living according to the Torah in general, and how the members of a small Jewish Community cared for one another. Surely they were many similar Communities in this Country, but how many actually recorded and preserved their records? If Synagogues have similar Journals, it would be wonderful if they would also post them on the Internet. Anyone interested in American Jewish History will appreciate browsing through these pages. The written pages are easy to read online. In order to view these records, enter the words - Hoosick Falls- in the record location field at the member's main search page, and it will retrieve a list of page numbers. Some of the most interesting pages are 1, 2, 5, 10, 11, 15, 26, 30, 88, 113, and 115. The following names appear in the Journal very frequently: L. Baer, Joseph Borowsky, Myer Daniel, Isaac Daniel, Abraham Dinner, Ellis Ferber, Abram Goldman, Lewis Kobell, Rev. Dr. L. Lampert, Bernard Levin, David Levine, Joseph Levine, Jacob Lurie, Julius Lurie, Morris Lurie, Louis Markstone, Louis Pincus, Kalman Richless, Morris Richless, and Abe Rosenthal. The following Jewish people who lived in Hoosick Falls also filed Declaration of Intention documents that are in the database under the location - Rensselaer County: Louis Berkman. Abraham Handelman, David Levine, Joseph Lewis, Hyman Miller, Moses Rabinowitz, Joseph Rokosky, Samuel Semelisky, and Joseph Shaulis. Joseph Lewis, who appears in the Journal as one of the donors for the Torah Scroll, signed his Declaration of Intention in Hebrew. A more detailed article about the Hoosick Falls records is being prepared. 2. A special book on Canadian Jewish History is being posted. The name of the book is "The Jew in Canada”, 1926 by Arthur Daniel Hart (1886- 1932). This 576-page book details the History of the earliest Canadian Jews, and the story of every Synagogue, School, and Jewish Social group in Canada. The book contains hundreds of photographs, and in general is a goldmine of information. The book can be found in some Jewish Libraries, but not many. This posting is the first 123 pages of the book. While the original book does not have an index, Jewish Data has compiled an index, so that the regular search engine retrieves names. There are two ways to search these records. 1. A name search, and it can be limited to these records by entering- A Jew in Canada – in the location field. 2. By page numbers. To view the pages, enter - The Jew in Canada- in the record location field on the member's search page, press enter, and a list of pages will display. Click the camera icon to view the page. Pages 000e- 000i are the table of Contents. A tip on name searches: To search both the book and Jewish Cemetery images- just enter the word- Canada- in the record location field, and then enter the desired first/ last name in those fields. The remainder of the book is being processed and will be posted G-D willing soon. If you would like to receive back Issues, please let us know.