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By Ellen Stepak nee Goldenberg Simcha Goldenberg was my paternal grandfather. He was born in September 1889 and died in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1948, when I was too young to…

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  • Post published:March 8, 2022
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We sailed in May 1940 from a Czechoslovakian port on a Bulgarian freighter flying the flag of Panama. Our goal was to arrive in Palestine within three weeks. This journey…

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  • Post published:March 6, 2021
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IGRA the Israel Genealogy Research Association receives a variety of enquiries and requests for help from those looking to find out more about their family history. Some may be simple…

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The Jews of Lebanon: History and Records, by Alain Farhi

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  • Post published:August 8, 2020
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IGRA thanks AVOTAYNU for permission to reprint this article that appeared in AVOTAYNU Volume XXVIII, Number 4, Winter 2012 As Webmaster of the website des Fleurs (see page 19 Avotaynu,…

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Read more about the article The Brothers Tissenbaum: Discovering Drama Dostoevsky Didn’t Write

The Brothers Tissenbaum: Discovering Drama Dostoevsky Didn’t Write

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  • Post published:July 5, 2020
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Shortly after our father passed away in June, 1995, my brother Mitch alerted me to informationhe had just received that our maternal grandfather was not the first member of our…

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