Jewish Data Times Issue 34

9/27/10


Jewish Data Times Issue 34

Focused on records posted at www.jewishdata.com

1. More records from Chicago.

2. Great resource for early New York Jews.

3. History of Maryland Jew

4. Facebook.

1. Following a recent update, the database now includes more than 100,000 Jewish tombstone images from Chicago, mostly from Waldheim. More records from Waldheim are still being processed. To limit a search to Chicago records, enter Chicago in the location field at the member's page.

2. We have posted an old book called "Portraits Etched in Stone, Early Jewish Settlers 1682-1831" by David De Sola Pool, who carefully researched the early New York Jewish settlers. There is a major focus on the Manhattan Chatam Square cemetery of Shaerit Israel, which is the first Jewish cemetery in the United States. An old plaque states it was " Consecrated in the year 1656 when it was described as "outside the city" . During the war of the revolution it was fortified by the Patriots as one of the defenses of the city". David De Sola Pool copied the inscriptions on all the legible stones in his time, and traced the history of each individual interred there.. Many of those monuments are no longer there, and what remains of the cemetery is now open for only a few days a year.

For the benefit of researchers here is a list of family names in these records: Aaron, Abendena, Abrahams, Adolphus, Ashers, Benjamin, Benzaken, Berlin, Berned, Botinez, Brandly, Brandon, Burgos, Capadocia, Crasto, D'Aguilar, Da Costa, Daniel, De Fonesca, De Friez, De Mesquita, De Meza, De ivera, De Torres, Eting, Franks, Gomes, Gomez, Gomperts, Hart, Hays, Hendricks, Henriques, Hurtz, Hymans, Ilhoa, Isaac, Isaacs, Israel, Jacobs, Jesshurun, Jewel, Jonas, Judah, King, Lazarus, Leon, Levy, Lewis, Lopez, Louzada, Marks, Marques, Mendes, Meyers, Moravia, Moses, Myers, Nabaro, Nathan, Nathans, Noah, Nunes, Pardo, Philips, Picard, Pinheiro, Pinto, Reyna, Rodriguez, Ruden, Saixes, Seixas, Simons, Simson, Solomon, Torres, Valverde, Waag, Welcome, Zunts, Zuntz.

3. A book called "A Pictorial History of Maryland Jewry" by A.D. Glushakow, has recently been posted at the site. The author studied the early families who settled mainly in Baltimore. The following family names are included:
Adler, Agus, Aisenberg, Alter,Austrian, Ayares, Bak, Bambuce, Barrash, ass, Berger, Berman, Blaustein, Bluefield, Blumenthal, Borshay, Bodie, Chertkof, Chidechel, De Sousa, Dopkin, Drazin, Edlman, Eisenberg, Etting, Fagin, Fiedenwald, Freedman, Feinworth, Frenkill, Friedenwald, Ginsberg, Glushakow, Goldstrom, Gomborov, Gratz, Greenfield, Greenstein, Gutman, Heiling, Hochschild, Hoffberg, Hurwitz, Hutzler, Isaacson, Kaiser, Katz, Keyser, Levin, Lumbrozo, Macht, Meyerhoff, myers, Paul, Pearlmutter, Pliskin, Rayner, Rice, Rogers, Rosenfeld, Rubin, Ruderman, Saffra, Sherles, Schochat, Seiel, Shulman, Shustermna, Sobeloff, Solomon, Sonnerborn, Steinbach, Strasse, Subotnik, Szold, Turk, Weintraub, Youngelson.

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