News Archive

History of Jews in Bessarabia. New additions:
Book written by Grand Rabbi of Kishinev, L. Tsirelson (1922) 'Trees of Lebanon' now available online in Hebrew.
Video about Jewish Bendery, created by Ruslan Rufikovich, Bendery, Moldova.
Wikipedia article about Jewish History in Moldova.

Research Projects. New additions:
31. Poets, Writers, Musicians. Project leader, translator: Bianca Gamarnik, Israel.
32. Tiraspol Zionists. See first document translated.
15. Kishinev Yizkor Book, translation started.
16. Update on the progress. 32 books/sections from Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Bessarabia/Moldova are translated!

General History, Governments and Maps. New additions:
Book added: Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands.

Archives, Libraries, Museums. New additions:
Jewish Cultural Center KEDEM; Jewish Public Library, Museum and Research Education Center. Created by Gloria Green.

Travel to Bessarabia. New additions:
Bendery today, Bendery Fortress, and Recommendations on Travel, by Gloria Green.

Photo Gallery. New additions:
Bendery today and Bendery Fortress, by Gloria Green.

Jewish Cemeteries, Photo Collection. New additions:
Bendery (Tighina), 2013 Photos, from Ruslan Ravikovich.

Travel to Bessarabia. New additions:
Trip to Khotin, by Anna Royzner, Dunaevtsy, Ukraine.

Research Projects:
Updated: Geographical Dictionary for Bessarabia, by Harvey Kabaker.

Boston Conference 2013:
Pictures and slides now available.

Family Memoirs. New additions:
The History of a Mystery and How it Was Solved (mostly). By Michael Burke.
Chapter 19. Our Cherkes Ancestors. By Yale Wolf Richmond.

Bessarabian Databases. New additions:
=Bessarabia Revision List Records: new 12495 records added to the database from towns of Bendery, Kishinev, Novoselitsa, Lipkany, Lomachenets, Khotin, Beltsy, Skulyany, Faleshty, Rezina, Teleneshty, many village in Soroki district, Kalarash, Rashkov and Soroki. Go to Bessarania Database section and see details of all the sets of uploaded records.

Family Memoirs, Stories
My family from Khotin, Bessarabia. Presented by Fran Schreiber, June, 2013.
Two stories written by Irving Schreiber, Fran's father: Some Genealogy and Bubba Feyga from Khotin.

Landsmanshaften
Photo from Banquet of the Chotiner Branch #271/WC. Park Palace, Oct.25, 1924. Presented by Fran Schreiber, June, 2013.

Genealogical Conferences
Read abstracts of presentations related to Bessarabia at the International Jewish Genealogical Conference in August 4-9th, 2013 in Boston.
See you at the conference in Boston!

Research Projects
6. Four town translation/transliteration of Cemetery lists.
Beltsy, 1992-1995, completed by Terry Lasky.

23. Translation/transcription of the Bendery cemetery records.
24. Photographing the gravestones at the Bendery Cemetery.
Two projects completed. See the Final Bendery Cemetery Report (at Jewish Cemeteries section).

30. Bessarabia Annual books, 1862-1914. The List compiled of Jews involved in Public Life of Bessarabia, 1893. Some of Jews held government positions. 1862 year book was researched and completed. In addition to the list of people see Statistical information from 1862: Jewish Population, Newborn, Deceased, Marriages and Synagogues, Yeshivas. See at Research Projects section.

Family Memoirs, Stories
Read at JewishGen Success Stories section: THE BLECHER BOYS OF BESSARABIA BECOME BARBERS: From Soroki to Chicago 1909-1914 or at our Family Memoirs/Stories section. Many thanks to Marla Raucher Osborn, Paris, France.