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that's crazy lol, this minor figure in my research Rudy (Rachmil) Tilkin, a klezmer musician, was married in the Lower East Side in 1895 by none other than Eliakum Zunser, the "Father of Yiddish poetry"
https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/7738588

#genealogy #JewishHistory #Yiddish #LES

a handwritten New York marriage form from 1895 showing the marriage of Racmil Tilkin and Fanny Ash. the officiant of the ceremony was Eliakum Zunser.

here's the link again for my lecture this coming Thursday the 8th at 1pm EST, based on my historical research about immigrant Jewish musicians and mutual aid societies in YIVO's collections.
https://www.yivo.org/NY-Mutual-Aid

#MusicHistory #MutualAid #YIVO #Yiddish #JewishHistory

VEGESACK: Thanks to Mrs. Silke Lehsten, the marriages 1876-1920 from Bremen-Vegesack will be included in the new edition.

Source: https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/detailAction.action?detailid=v8580902
Picture: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegesack

VEGESACK: Dank Frau Silke Lehsten werden die Heiraten 1876-1920 von Bremen-Vegesack bei der Neuauflage erscheinen.

Quelle: https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/detailAction.action?detailid=v8580902
Bild: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegesack

#Vegesack #Bremen #Genealogy #Jewish #JewishGenealogy #JewishCommunity #JewishHistory #Holocaust #Shoah #JewsInTheGermanEmpire

the passage continues with more descriptions of the traditional Galician Jewish wedding.. find it in English translation here p.322-25
https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Zhovkva1/files/Zolkiew.pdf

I can't read Hebrew, but here is the original of the Yizkor book which presumably contains it at some point:
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yizkor-books/yzk-nybc314132/gelber-n-m-ben-shem-israel-sefer-z-olkiv-kiryah-nisgavah

#klezmer #Galicia #JewishHistory #Hebrew

Practice your Yiddish with (or just listen to) a Sing-a-long!

Register: https://www.circle.org/events/let-there-be-yiddish-zol-zayn-yidish-presents-spring-singalong-friling-lider-zingeray

#Mazeldon #jewish #Judaism #Yiddish #JewishHistory #JewishMusic

Wednesday, May 7, 1:00 PM ET
Let There Be Yiddish / Zol Zayn Yidish Presents: Spring Singalong / Friling-lider Zingeray

Enjoy music, community, and life-long learning for adults 60 and beyond at an online spring music celebration. Led by Let There Be Yiddish Culture Organizer Deborah Strauss and special guests from around the country, we’ll sing both well-known and lesser-known Yiddish songs about nature, solidarity, strength, and renewal in English and Yiddish with transliteration and translation.

No previous background in Yiddish or music required.

This event is free, but donations are welcome to strengthen our Yiddish programming.

GOCH: The marriages from 1876 to 1899 will be included in the new edition. Mrs. Silke Lehsten selected these. Thank you!

Source: https://www.landesarchiv-nrw.de/digitalisate/Abt_Rheinland/PA_3102/PA_3102_05.html

#Goch #Rheinland #Niederrhein #Genealogy #Jewish #JewishGenealogy #JewishCommunity #JewishHistory #Holocaust #Shoah #JewsInTheGermanEmpire

Today at sundown, Yom HaShoah, Israeli Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, begins. This commemoration is a time to remember the six million Jews who were systematically murdered, honor the survivors and recognize both the resilience and courage during Holocaust.

#YomHaShoah #HolocaustRemembrance #JewishHistory #NeverForget #HolocaustEducation #WarsawGhettoUprising #NeverAgainIsNow

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Photo: Survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp arriving in Haifa, July 15, 1945.

Today at sundown, Yom HaShoah, Israeli Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, begins. This commemoration is a time to remember the six million Jews who were systematically murdered, honor the survivors and recognize both the resilience and courage during Holocaust.

#YomHaShoah #HolocaustRemembrance #JewishHistory #NeverForget #HolocaustEducation #WarsawGhettoUprising #NeverAgainIsNow

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HERMÜLHEIM: Thanks to Mr. Peter Meschenich, the new edition will include deaths from Hermülheim 1877-1938!

#Hermülheim #Alstädten #Berrenrath #Fischenich #Hürth #Kendenich #Rheinland #Genealogy #Jewish #JewishGenealogy #JewishCommunity #JewishHistory #Holocaust #Shoah

Join the Workers Circle and our friends at Congress for Jewish Culture, YIVO, the Jewish Labor Committee, and Friends of the Bund in New York City on Friday, April 18, at 1:00 PM ET for a commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Gather with us at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park to remember the brave and spirited fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

We will hear from academics, artists, and activists as we recount the history of this watershed moment and ground today's activism in the work of our movement ancestors.

Info: https://www.circle.org/events/remember-warsaw-2025

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #JewishHistory #Jewish #Judaism

From the Worker's Circle - 125 Years
Jewish Culture for a Just World

On April 19, 1943, Nazi forces prepared to bring the last Jewish residents of the Warsaw Ghetto, including children, to their deaths in gas chambers, but little did the Nazis know, a scrappy local group of Jews had been preparing to resist. Their uprising preoccupied and slowed Nazi forces for months and, most importantly, allowed Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto to determine their own fates.

his annual gathering follows a tradition established in 1947 by Jewish partisans, ghetto fighters, and Holocaust survivors at the site earmarked by the City of New York for a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It has become an annual gathering of Bundists and members of the secular, progressive Yiddish cultural community, as well as children and grandchildren of the original attendees.

Now more than ever, as our government disappears dissidents, dismantles our voting rights, and generally embraces fascism, the history of the Warsaw Ghetto reminds us that we always have the option to resist.

In solidarity,
Ann Toback, CEO

for vancouver ppl, I'm giving an informal talk at the Peretz Centre on May 16th after their monthly Fraytik tsu Nakht potluck social. it's based on my YIVO research over the last few months, but with a different angle than my YIVO talk which will focus on the ties of musicians to these organizations. this talk will be more about the organizations themselves and what trajectory they took during the 20th century.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/fraytik-tsu-nakht-shabbes-for-cultural-jews-2025-05-16-18-00

#Vancouver #YIVO #landsmanshaft #JewishHistory #Peretz

RECKLINGHAUSEN: Mrs. Silke Lehsten has once again selected the marriages Recklinghausen 1874-1899! They will be included in the new edition!

#Recklinghausen #Westfalen #Genealogy #Jewish #JewishGenealogy #JewishCommunity #JewishHistory #Holocaust #Shoah #JewsInTheGermanEmpire

HALTERN: Mrs. Silke Lehsten has selected the marriages from 1874 to 1899 for us! They will be included in the new edition!

#HalternAmSee #Haltern #Westfalen #Genealogy #Jewish #JewishGenealogy #JewishCommunity #JewishHistory #Holocaust #Shoah #JewsInTheGermanEmpire

DESSAU: I am pleased to announce that the births 1872-1902 will appear in the next new edition; among them is the birth of Kurt Weill.

#Dessau #SachsenAnhalt #Anhalt #KurtWeill #Genealogy #Jewish #JewishGenealogy #JewishCommunity #JewishHistory #Holocaust #Shoah

My talk for YIVO has been posted, it'll be on zoom on May 8th 1pm EST. It'll be based on the results of my research here in recent months looking for traces of immigrant Jewish and Klezmer musicians in YIVO's landsmanshaft and mutual aid society collections.
https://yivo.org/NY-Mutual-Aid

#klezmer #MusicHistory #ZoomLectures #NewYorkHistory #JewishHistory #YIVO

A cool set of ribbons on their own in YIVO's huge RG 123 collection of assorted landsmanshaft and mutual aid society materials.

minimal results on google but it seems to be an old Philadelphia mutual aid society: The First Roumanian Ladies Association Agudath Achiois, which was affiliated with the Federation of Roumanian Jews of Philadelphia.

undated, maybe 1910s-20s?

#Philadelphia #ephemera #archives #ribbons #JewishHistory #RomanianJews #YIVO

a photo of two red-white-and-blue ribbons sitting on a white background. both have the text on the ribbon FIRST ROUMANIAN LADIES ASS'N. "AGUDAS ACHIOIS". the ribbon on the left is more elaborate with a floral and jewel and tassle top and a little frame on top with the text SECRETARY in it. The other ribbon is less elaborate and is just the plain ribbon with a frame on top that says MEMBER.

Photo of Jewish musicians from Klyetsk, 1928, not far from Baranavichy. At that time in Poland, today in Belarus. From the YIVO collection, from the 1946 "Journal dedicated our Birthplace Kletzk" by United Kletzker Relief. The line underneath is a bit of a play on a Molly Picon song. "Di 'Kapelie' - Efrim mitn fidl un Asher mitn bas - 1928."

#MusicHistory #klezmer #JewishHistory #Belarus #FolkMusic #JewishMusic #Yiddish

a magazine reprint of an old black and white photograph of musicians standing outside in a row (apparently 3 violinists, a clarinetist, a standup bassist) in a shtetl. there is text underneath in yiddish

DESSAU: Some pictures from a visit to Dessau.

#Dessau #JewishCemetery #Genealogy #Jewish #JewishGenealogy #JewishCommunity #JewishHistory #Holocaust #Shoah #JewsInTheGermanEmpire #Genealogie #Jüdisch #JüdischeGenealogie #JüdischeGemeinde

Ty Alhadeff, JIMENA’s Director of Education, has been featured in Conversations Journal, Issue 45, published by the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals. In his article, Lessons from the Sephardic and Mizrahi Traditions, Ty offers a powerful overview of JIMENA’s educational vision and the transformative work we are doing to ensure Sephardic and Mizrahi history, identity, and voices are fully represented across Jewish and public education.

From launching our groundbreaking Sephardi & Mizrahi Education Toolkit to leading fellowships and building partnerships with public schools and national institutions, this article is a testament to how far our community has come—and how much more we’re ready to do.

We invite you to read and share this important piece as we continue to expand inclusive, representative Jewish education for all.

With gratitude, The JIMENA Team

Visit Ideals: https://www.jewishideas.org/

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Jewish #Judaism #JewishHistory

IDEALS
Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals

Lessons from the Sephardic and Mizrahi Traditions
by Ty Alhadeff - Director of Education at JIMENA
Conversations Journal, Issue 45

Save the Date - Harif UK:
This film is being shown for the first time in the UK and is based on the true story of Ziko, a nine-year-old orphan from Salonica.

A group of Greek Jews from Volos are sheltering on the Pelion mountain. A Nazi SS Unit intent on deporting the Jews to Auschwitz arrives to set up their headquarters. They demand to be billeted with the group.

The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Rami Kimchi.

Tickets £16.50, plus £2 booking fee and £1.50 security charge. To book, click here: https://www.jw3.org.uk/book/857415

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #Jewdiverse #Jewish #Judaism #JewishHistory

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