Comments on Rosenstein Article Neil Rosenstein’s article, “JRI-Poland Database and Rabbinic Data Merging,” discusses a topic that has interested me considerably. When JRI-Poland made available on its database indexes for records of three of the Gerer Rebbes, I ordered copies […]
From Our Mailbox: Summer 2008
Correct Article In my article “Age Makes a Difference,” (AVOTAYNU, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, Winter 2007), a clarification is necessary. BL, the woman who made herself five years younger to remain with her sister, has informed me that the change […]
From Our Mailbox: Spring 2008
Looking for Information On Grandfather in New York Jeffrey Arkin’s recent story, “My Faceless Grandfather,” touched a nerve because my grandfather, Samuel Solomon, also was involved in the paper box industry in Brooklyn in the 1920s. He was a partner […]
From Our Mailbox: Fall 2007
Do You Tell Adopted Children? I read with great interest Richard Sobel’s article on privacy, “Guidelines for Respecting Privacy in Jewish Genealogy (AVOTAYNU, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, Spring 2007). An additional situation about which I would appreciate some comment concerns […]
From Our Mailbox: Summer, 2007
Writes About Status of Search Bureau Records AVOTAYNU wrote to the Central Zionist Archives (CZA) in Israel asking why the database of the Jewish Agency’s Search Bureau for Missing Relatives, created many years ago under the direction of Batya Unterschatz […]
From Our Mailbox: Spring 2007
Exhibit on the Jews of Poznan, 1793–1939 For the first time since before 1939, an exhibition was held January 13, 2007, to March 15, 2007, on the life of the Jews in the city of Poznań, Poland, in the Poznań […]