This is a non-scientific sampling of some of the occupations our relatives
held in Ukraine, generally around the turn of the 20th Century. Data gathered approximately November 2005.
| Subject's name |
Subject's Dates |
Occupation |
Ukraine residences |
Dates of Residence
|
Training |
Submitted by |
APPLEBAUM/EPPLEBAUM
SILVERMAN/ZILBERMAN, Mordechai bar Ze'ev Wolf |
|
Egg Dealer |
Zincov in Podolia Gubernia |
Emigrated 1880 |
|
Linda Silverman Shefler JGFF #2088 |
| BARATS, Moshe |
c.1870-?
|
tailor |
Emilchino in Volhynia Gubernia
|
lifetime |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF # 156798 |
| BEJZMAN |
-1916, killed pogrom |
Bookkeeper for a landowner |
Novogrod-Volhynsky, Saratov |
lifetime |
|
Mark Wajsenberg
JGFF#112715 |
| BEJZMAN, Mordechai Aharon |
1891-1947 |
Metal worker, repaired wheels |
Novogrod-Volhynsky, Smargon |
lifetime |
|
Mark Wajsenberg
JGFF#112715 |
| BELENKI, Reuven |
-1947 |
Russian military officer |
Saratov |
lifetime |
|
Mark Wajsenberg
JGFF#112715 |
| BELOGALOV, Shmule Yosel |
1845-1925 |
scribe |
Zvenigoroda |
lifetime |
|
Doris Resnik |
| BELKIND, Benjamin haLevi |
1860-? |
tailor |
Boguslav in Kiev Gubernia; Odessa (Peresyp)
in Kherson Gubernia |
in Odessa from 1892 |
|
Steve Orlen |
| BELKIND, Chaim |
1893-? |
photographer (studio) |
Odessa in Kherson Gubernia |
|
|
Steve Orlen |
| BRODSKY, Isaac
|
? to 1918
|
bookbinder
|
Yelisavetgrad and Zlatopol |
until 1909 |
|
Lenn Zonder JGFF 10850
|
| FRAYERMAN, Shmuel |
1850-1907 |
Forest Manager |
Korets then Novogrod-Volhynsky |
Korets (c.1850-1870)
Novogrod-Volhynsky (c.1870-1907) |
|
Reouven Frajerman
JGFF#119799 |
FREYLIKHMAN, Asya (nee KOPELBERG) |
1916-1941 |
teacher of German language |
Stepanivka; Grushev district Odessa
region |
Stepanivka in Emilchino 1916-1936 then Grushev
(Odessa Oblast) 1936-1941; killed by Nazis with her sons Zyunya
(1935?-1941) and Boris (1937-1941)FREYLIKHMAN |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF #156798 |
| FREYLIKHMAN,Motel Shlemovich |
1923-1945 |
student then soldier |
Stepanivka in Emilchino; Emilchino; Kharkiv;
in Soviet Army |
Stepanivka (1923-1936);
Emilchino (1936-1940); Uzbekhistan (1940-1941); Soviet Army (1941-1945); |
|
Gennady Freylikhman via Alex Kopelberg
JGFF #156798 |
| FREYLIKHMAN,Shlema Zayvelyovich |
1891-1977 |
salesman then government purveyor |
Stepanivka in Emilchino; Emilchino; Uzbekhistan;Emilchino |
Stepanivka (1891-1936);
Emilchino (1936-1941); Uzbekhistan (1941-1944); Emilchino (1944-1977) |
|
Gennady Freylikhman via Alex Kopelberg
JGFF #156798 |
| FREYLIKHMAN,Yefim |
1905-1981 |
school director |
1905-1981; Stepanivka in Emilchino 1905-1936;
then Grushev (Odessa Oblast)1936-1941; |
Stepanivka; Grushev district Odessa
region 1936-1941; Soviet Army 1941-1945; Shepetovka Khmelnitsky
Region 1945-1981 |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF #156798 |
| FREYLIKHMAN,Zayvel Shlemovich |
1919-1942 |
student then soldier |
Stepanivka in Emilchino; Kharkiv; in Soviet
Army |
Stepanivka (1919-1936);
Kharkiv (1936-1940); Soviet Army (1940-1942) |
|
Gennady Freylikhman via Alex Kopelberg
JGFF #156798 |
GITNER, BenZion |
1881-1941 |
Ritual slaughterer
|
Litin, Podolia
|
1881-1941 killed by Nazis |
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
| GITNER, Yeheskel |
-1887 |
Ritual slaughterer (Shochet/bodek); gave ordination
to ritual slaughterer |
Litin, Podolia
|
lifetime-1887 |
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
| GORDON, Eliahu (Ilye) |
Died before 1896 |
Hay and Grain Merchant |
Kherson gubernia
|
|
|
Linda Silverman Shefler JGFF #2088 |
| GORDON, Michal Lazar bar Eliahu |
Harness maker
|
Elizavetgrad in Kherson Gubernia
|
Emigrated 1903 |
|
|
Linda Silverman Shefler JGFF #2088 |
| GOTLIBOVICH/ GOTLIEB, Gitl |
|
tobacco shop owner |
Cherkassy in Kiev Gubernia |
|
|
Florence NERENBERG Elman JGFF #10121 |
| GOTLIBOVICH/ GOTLIEB, Pesach |
|
dayan; matchmaker; middleman merchant |
Cherkassy in Kiev Gubernia |
|
|
Florence NERENBERG Elman JGFF #10121 |
| GOTLIBOVICH/ GOTLIEB, Ovsey-Meier |
|
grocery stall owner |
Cherkassy in Kiev Gubernia |
|
|
Florence NERENBERG Elman JGFF #10121 |
| GOTLIBOVICH/ GOTLIEB,Yefim |
|
military |
Odessa in Kherson Gubernia |
|
|
Florence NERENBERG Elman JGFF #10121 |
| GRÜNFELD, Roisa wife of Gershon |
1861-1936
m.1877 |
Licensed to sell groceries and whiskey from
home |
Kopyczynce |
1902
license |
|
Norman Greenfield JGFF
#77171
|
| JANKOWSKY, Saul son of Schmaya |
9/1834-1911 |
Innkeeper |
Kiev |
to Kiev from Kaunas in 1861, to
Tula Russia in 1877 |
father Schmaya Jankovke ran inn
in Viesvenai, Telsai, Kaunas |
Stan Judd JGFF# |
KATZ, Lazar and Fruma Rifka |
|
Innkeepers |
Worms now Vinogradnoye |
|
|
Roberta Rosen JGFF#73238
|
| KHARITON, Mordka (Mordechai) |
1878-1956 |
tailor |
Dashev in Kiev Gubernia |
1878-1906 |
|
Bonnie Leigh Blish JGFF#129405 |
KLEINMANN, Moshe Yitzhakovich, father of Wolf |
c.1815-1890s |
Horseman, horsebreeder, owned horsebreeding
farm |
Brailav |
after army discharge 1840s-til
grandson took over near 1900 |
His grandfather a "horse-breeder
for Catherine the Great" and Moshe was a Nikolai soldier in charge
of horses |
Deborah Glassman |
KOIRE, George son of Volf Vladimir |
1899-1944 |
|
|
1899-1917 or 1918 |
Polytechnics School in St Petersburg
for Naval Architecture; Germany after Revolution |
Nathalie Ried JGFF#123600 |
| KOIRE / KOIRA, Volf Vladimir |
1856-1908 |
Merchant first or second guilds; wealthy |
Odessa |
1870’s-? |
|
Nathalie Ried JGFF#123600 |
| KOPELBERG, Asya (see FREYLIKHMAN) |
1916-1941 |
teacher of German language |
Stepanivka in Emilchino; Grushev district Odessa
region |
Stepanivka 1916-1936; Grushev 1936-1941; killed
by Nazis with her sons Zyunya (1935?-1941) and Boris (1937-1941)
FREYLIKHMAN |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF #156798 |
KOPELBERG, Ita Raphailovna (nee RAZUMOVSKIY) |
1890?-1941 |
housewife |
birthplace and early residence unknown; Grushev
district Odessa region; |
somewhere in ukraine 1890-1936;
Grushev district Odessa region 1936-1941, killed by Nazis |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF #156798 |
| KOPELBERG, Mikhail Samuilovich |
1922-1991 |
Veterinarian |
1922-1991; Stepanivka (Zhitomir Oblast) then
Snegirivka (Kherson Oblast) |
Stepanivka village Emilchino district,
Zhitomir 1922-1941; Soviet Army Service (POW in Buchenwald) 1941-1945;
Snegirivka, Kherson region 1945-1991 |
Odessa Agricultural College -Veterinary
College |
Alex Kopelberg JGFF #156798 |
| KOPELBERG, Raisa Samuilovna |
1919-2000 |
nurse in a kindergarten |
Stepanivka (Zhitomir Oblast) then Mikolayiv
(Kherson Oblast) |
Stepanivka village Emilchino district,
Zhitomir 1919-1941; Mikolayiv, Kherson 1945-2000; |
Kherson Medical College, 2 courses |
Alex Kopelberg JGFF #156798 |
| KOPELBERG, Samuel Shmulevich |
1880-1936 |
seeking info |
Stepanivka (Zhitomir Oblast) |
Stepanivka village Emilchino district,
Zhitomir 1880-1936 |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF #156798 |
| KREMENETSKY, Shalom: |
|
Horse/cattle/oxen breeder; Hauler(grain to mill,
seed/other freight from river; kosher meat from Berezovka); |
Berezovka hauling, lived Worms (now Vinogradnoye) |
|
|
Roberta Rosen JGFF#73238 |
| LEVINE, Cecelia (married name unknown)
daughter of David |
c.1850s-? |
physician |
Odessa |
c.1890s-? (supposition) |
Trained in Paris |
Nathalie Ried JGFF#123600 |
| LEVINE, David
12 children |
c.1830-? |
cloth merchant |
Odessa |
1850's- 1870's (supposition) |
Nathalie Ried JGFF#123600 |
Sept 2005 |
| LIPITZ, Jacob |
c.1830s-? |
cantor |
Smela |
"cantor for 50 years"
- lifetime |
Said to have studied with Solomon
Sulzer |
Laura C. Katz
JGFF#33567 |
| LIPITZ, Louis |
1887-1958 |
cantor |
Smela |
emigrated in 1907 |
Studied in Kiev |
Laura C. Katz
JGFF#33567 |
| LULKIN, (GITNER) Pinchas |
c.1858-1955
|
In charge of oil products depot in Kalinovka |
childhood in Litin; adult in Kalinovka |
to c.1880 Litin; c1880-c1923 Kalinovka;
em1923 to Eretz Israel |
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
| LULKIN,Gershon |
c.1886-1937
|
bookkeeper
Kalinovka |
c.1886-1937, disappeared in days
of Stalin |
|
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
| MARDER, Matetyahu |
|
innkeeper |
|
|
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
MINKOVSKY, Avrum Hirsch |
1860-1923 |
cantor |
Rozhev |
|
|
Beatrice Markel JGFF #32756 |
| NOSOWSKY/ NOSOFSKY, Meyer |
|
miller |
Icnya in Chernigov Gubernia |
emigrated 1904 |
|
Marion Diamond
JGFF# |
| NULMAN, David (Dody) |
|
Merchant |
Fastov in Kiev Gubernia
|
emigrated in 1908 |
|
Linda Silverman Shefler JGFF #2088 |
| NULMAN, Edel (Hillel) |
|
tailor |
Fastov in Kiev Gubernia
|
emigrated in 1904 |
|
Linda Silverman Shefler JGFF #2088 |
| PLOTKE/ PLOTKER ZILBERMAN, Yeruhem Fishel |
Died before 1884 |
Government Inspector
|
Zincov in Podolia Gubernia
|
|
|
Linda Silverman Shefler JGFF #2088 |
| POBERJESKY/ POBERESKY, Jasha (Jacob, Yasha) |
1888-1970 |
watchmaker |
Elizavetgrad, Kherson Gubernia |
1888-1904 |
Apprenticeship unknown (in US a watchmaker,
jeweler, mostly a tailor; one rec says "dentist!" |
Raymond Cannata JGFF#63228 |
| POBERJESKY/ POBERESKY, Katia (Gittel) |
1869-1940 |
nurse |
Elizavetgrad, Kherson Gubernia |
1869-1891 |
allegedly trained as physician, poss.
at U of Kharkov, but no proof yet |
Raymond Cannata JGFF#63228 |
| POGRANICHNY/ POGRAN, Schmiel |
|
fruit orchard factor |
Nova Ushitsa in Podolia Gubernia |
|
|
Florence NERENBERG Elman JGFF #10121 |
| REZNIK, Gedaliah |
1837-1920 |
Slaughterer, shochet, uncertified architect
Kalinovka |
1837 to 1920 |
|
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
| REZNIK, Tuvia |
1882-1930
|
innkeeper
Kalinovka |
1882-c.1930 |
|
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
| REZNIK, Zvi Herschel |
c.1849 to?
|
shochet
Krute near Balta |
c.1849 to ? |
|
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
| REZNIK,Yosef |
1854 to?
|
merchant
|
|
|
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
| REZNIK, Eliezer |
1858-1942
|
shochet
Kalinovka |
1858-1942, killed by Nazis |
|
|
Rose Feldman JGFF#47301 |
| ROSENTHAL, Joseph |
|
Tailor |
Uman and Zinkov |
|
|
Dan Nussbaum
JGFF#28264 |
| SCHNAPARSKI/SNOPARSKY, Avraham Yankel ben Yaacov |
|
Carpenter |
Pavoloch in Kiev Gubernia
|
Emigrated 1908 |
Apprenticed at 7 or 8 years old |
Linda Silverman Shefler JGFF #2088 |
| SEVRANSKY, Velvil |
?- killed in action in Russian Army WWI |
Tailor |
Tarashcha |
lifetime |
|
Richard BaumJGFF JGFF#2183 |
| SHAPIRO, Benjamin Kahn |
c.1840 Stoblsty, Belarus, to 1891 Lubny, Ukraine
| wheat trader, teacher of Hebrew, traveler |
Lubny and surrounding area |
to 1891 when robbed of season's worth
of income, he ended his life; |
|
Gayle Schlissel Riley |
| SHTIRBERG/ STIRBERG, Avram |
|
fruit orchard factor |
Nova Ushitsa in Podolia Gubernia |
|
|
Florence NERENBERG Elman JGFF #10121 |
| SIEBELEWSKY/ CIBULEVSKY / TSIBELEVSKY, Alter |
1865-1911 |
pharmacist |
Elizavetgrad, Kherson Gubernia |
1865-1891 |
Apprenticeship;& degree from medical
faculty of University of Kharkov, of "Apothecary's Assistant",
4 Dec. 1890. |
Raymond Cannata JGFF#63228 |
| SIEBELEWSKY/ CIBULEVSKY / TSIBELEVSKY, Bentsion |
1871-1922 |
tailor |
Elizavetgrad, Kherson Gubernia; possibly also
Jaroswet in Kherson gub; |
1871-1905 |
Apprenticeship unknown |
Raymond Cannata JGFF#63228 |
| SOLOMON, Joseph/Yussel |
1864-1934 |
Blacksmith |
Chudnov, Khmelnik, Krasnopolye |
1864-1904 |
Apprentice in Khmelnik |
Deborah Glassman |
| SURIS, David |
|
cobbler |
Cherkassy in Kiev Gubernia |
|
|
Florence NERENBERG Elman JGFF #10121 |
TEPLITZKY, Beryl
|
|
Miller; Glazier |
Uman and Zinkov |
|
|
Dan Nussbaum
JGFF#28264 |
| TSAROVSKY, Aaron (later STEIN) |
|
tailor |
Ruzhin in Kiev Gubernia |
worked in tailor shop of father and
gfthr |
|
Edward F. Stein JGFF # |
| URMAN, Benyamin |
c.1865-
|
? |
Emilchino in Volhynia Gubernia |
lifetime |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF # 156798 |
| URMAN, Benyamin called Nyuma |
1922-1941
|
student |
Emilchino in Volhynia Gubernia |
lifetime |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF # 156798 |
| URMAN, Etl |
c.1860s?-
|
housewife |
Emilchino in Volhynia Gubernia |
lifetime |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF # 156798 |
| URMAN, Mikhlya (SHAPIRO) |
1898-1982
|
housewife |
Emilchino in Volhynia Gubernia
|
1898-1960
Emilchino, then Stanislav (IvanoFrankivsk) |
|
Alex Kopelberg JGFF # 156798 |
| VINNITSKII, Avrum-Itsko (Abraham-Issac) son
of Yankel Shimon |
1874-1918 (died from pogrom injuries) |
- grains/flour shop |
Zhivotov |
lifetime |
|
Jo Anne Vanett JGFF 18622 |
| VINNITSKII, Moshe Itskovich son of Avrum-Itsko |
1894- |
- grain purchaser in small towns; itinerant
melamed; mailman |
Zhivotov |
1894-em via Romania to US 1922 |
|
Jo Anne Vanett JGFF 18622 |
| WAINFELD, Binyamin |
1850s?-died c.1905-1929 |
shop owner |
Berdichev then Odessa |
|
|
Reouven Frajerman
JGFF#119799 |
| WOLINSKY, Motis-Mendel |
1780s-? |
wheelwright |
Boguslav in Kiev Gubernia |
|
|
Steve Orlen |
| WOLINSKY, Ephraim |
c.1830-? |
wheelwright |
Boguslav in Kiev Gubernia; Odessa c.1895 |
|
father was wheelwright |
Steve Orlen |
| WOLINSKY, Yoynah (Jonah) |
fthr born c1780 |
soldier, long term |
served with unknown regiment |
|
|
Steve Orlen |
| WOLINSKY, Srulke (Israel) |
1845-?
|
Art Gallery Owner |
Odessa |
|
|
Steve Orlen |
| WOLINSKY, Yankel |
|
Engineer on water projects |
Odessa then emig. to Alexandria; then to Palestine |
|
|
Steve Orlen |
| ZAMACHOVSKY, Schloime ben Zalman
|
1850-1926
|
Tailor
|
Yelisavetgrad |
until 1909 |
|
Lenn Zonder JGFF 10850
|
| ZAMACHOVSKY, Sender ben Schloime
|
1889 or 1891 - 1946
|
Student and tailor's apprentice
|
Yelisavetgrad |
1889 or 1891 - 1907 |
his father's shop? |
Lenn Zonder JGFF 10850
|
| ZHURAVSKY, Yakov Moshe |
1838-1912 |
middleman, buying and selling produce |
Chigirin, then Cherkassy in the 1900s |
|
|
Deborah Glassman |
| ZILBERMAN/SILVERMAN APPLEBAUM/EPPLEBAUM Mordechai
bar Ze'ev Wolf
| Egg Dealer
|
Zincov in Podolia Gubernia
|
|
Emigrated 1880 |
|
Linda Silverman Shefler JGFF #2088 |
| ZILBERMAN PLOTKE/ PLOTKER, Yeruhem Fishel |
Died before 1884 |
Government Inspector
|
Zincov in Podolia Gubernia
|
|
|
Linda Silverman Shefler JGFF #2088 |
