History of Jews in Bessarabia:
The Jews of Moldova, by Dr. Clara Jignea, Professor Yakov Kopansky and Semion Shoikhet. The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation.
Current Research Projects:
3. Towns and Shtetlakh where Jews lived in Bessarabia (Geographical Dictionary). Dictionary was updated on 12/26/2011.
7. Beltsy cemetery project - photographing and indexing graves. Proposal was approved by JewishGen, and the project is among Bessarabia Generosity Projects, where people donating money for the work to be completed.
17. Transliterate Landsmanshaften groups records for towns and districts in Bessarabia. The draft of the table is available at the website.
A new task:
20. Yiddish Theatre biographies. A joined project with Museum of Family History. Translate biographies from 'Lexicon of Yiddish Theatre' by Zalmen Zylbercweig. There are total of 84 actors, writers and others involved in Yiddish Theatre from Bessarabia from towns of Akkerman, Beltz, Bendery, Calarasi, Khotin, Faleshty, Dombroveny, Kiliya, Lipkany, Orgeev, Ataki, Soroki, Teleneshty, Sekureny, Zguritsa, Skuleny, Markuleshty, Kagul, Brichany. 36 biographies are already translated. A biography is a printed article from 1-5 pages long. All 84 biographies will be accessible through Bessarabia SIG website and also from certain KehilaLinks websites.
Please contact Yefim Kogan for more details (yefimk@verizon.net).
Additional Reading: books, articles. New additions:
Vladimir F. Wertsman 'Salute to the Romanian Jews in America and Canada, 1850-2010'.
Photo Gallery. New additions for towns of:
Akkerman
Beltsy
Bricheva
Kishinev
Sokiryany
Soroki
Tiraspol
Family Memoirs, Stories. New additions:
The early years of Joseph Meites, by Mable E. Meites.
Tulchinsky's Family, by Beth Gamulka.
Ida Weinhouse's fluden forms, by Harvey Kabaker.
Meites family by Yuliy Vaysman.
Travel to Bessarabia. New additions:
Travel to Soroca (Soroki), by Marla Raucher Osborn.
Ghosts in Soroca, by Brock D. Bierman.
Crossing the River Prut, by Marcel Glaskie.
Family Tree. New additions:
The Vagman family of Akkerman (Bessarabia), by Vincent Vagman.
Descendant List of YAKOV 'Kopel' Pustilnik, by Stephanie Newman.
