Sunday, June 19, 2011
Why Lithuanian Jews Went to Dublin
Nadene Goldfoot
I have found quite a few Goldfoots in Ireland including my own grandfather who came from Lithuania. I've often wondered why Jews went to Ireland. What did it have to offer?
Professor Keogh, 53 year old Catholic from University College in Cork, became interested in Irish Jews as he was researching Irish history during WWII. He has found that the Irish Jewish community came about between 1880 and 1901 with the arrival of Ashkenazim from one Lithuanian village, Akmene. They were fleeing from Tsarist pogroms. Dublin legend says that many of them had booked passage to America, but were landed in Dublin instead. Unscrupulous ship captains had assured them they had reached New York.
There were smaller communities with Jews in Cork, Limerick, Galway, Belfast and Derry which were found in prof. Diner's paper that investigated the origins and early years of the Jewish Community of Dublin. First, there were Sephardic Jews who arrived in the 17th Century from Spain and Portugal who went to the Netherlands and on to Ireland. He found that there was a great migration of eastern European Jews who left the continent between 1820 and 1920. Most Jews in Ireland arrived from the 1880's on, though there was already a small group of about 600 in the country, mostly the children of an earlier immigration in the 1820's and 1830's.
Later, the Irish carried the British Aliens Act of 1906 in their own laws, so only a few European Jewish families were allowed in Ireland. In 2005 there were under 1,000 Jews in Ireland from having 6,000 in 1940's. In the past 2 years 200 more have "appeared".
There were lots of Jewish peddlers in the 1860's to the 1880's in Britain, and there were still many in Wales at the same time as in Ireland. Many Jews in Ireland had worked in factories in England and wanted to go into business for themselves.
Peddlers stayed with families where they were welcomed. Many cooked for themselves, some stayed in barns or out in the open. Intermarriage was relatively limited. Some who were well integrated married into the upper classes, like the painter, Estella Solomons.
Anti-Semitism was mostly non-physical. It began when a priest used the pulpit to attack Jews. He called Jewish peddlers and merchants "leeches" who were sucking the blood of the Irish by overcharging or tricking the poor. He called for a boycott of Jewish merchants, and the town obeyed. Within a few years, virtually all of Limerick's 25 Jewish families and the rabbi had left. The Limerick pogrom was physical to an extent, as the Blueshirts threatened physical action, and there a few incidents before Limerick. One person was beaten up, and a brick was thrown at a Rabbi's window.
Gerald Yael Goldberg, b: 12 April 1912 in Cork d: 31 Dec 2003 was the Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork in 1977. He was a lawyer and a member of the Fianna Fail Party. He was the son of Lithuanian Jewish Louis Goldberg from the village of Akmian/Akmene, Lithuania. They were told that Cork was the Gateway to America. Akmene is 238 km NW of Vilna., Lithuania. His family was one who left Limerick in the pogrom for Cork. Louis's father was Simon and Elka Goldberg b: abt 1836 in Akmene.
I note that in Dublin on February 21, 1893, Lena Goldberg of 38 Warren Street, Dublin, daughter of Naftolee Goldberg, already deceased, married Nathan Abraham Goldfoot of 13 Arbutus Place S.C.R, a Com Traveller, son of Morris Goldfoot, who had been a Distiller but was already deceased. One of the witnesses was Leah Goldberg. Certain members could have intermarried or converted.
Both immigrations were Jews who arrived rather poor, found a niche for themselves in commerce, lived in cities, and were religiously traditional. They improved both economically and educationally. Prof. Diner refutes Keogh's theory of being tricked to come here. He says there were never any pogroms in Lithuania, where they had come from. Besides that, many had already lived in Britain before coming to Ireland. He feels they came to Ireland deliberately. They saw the prospects for economic success-they went into small business, started with itinerant peddling which most arrivals did.
No other migrants arrived in Ireland in the 19th century, which was marked by mass emigration to Britain, USA and beyond. Jews saw a demand for consumer goods, which itinerant peddlers could satisfy. In Ireland land mattered, and the Jews being in cities alienated themselves from the marker of Irishness. Also the cultural nationalist movement excluded Jews from the nation as they could not be associated with a pure, "Celtic" past, and Catholic domination in Irish religioius, political and social circles led to the exclusion of Jews. Only a small group of Irish intellecftuals, like Michael Davitt, welcomed Jewish particiipation in Irish life.
Israeli President Chaim Herzog came from Ireland, and Dublin had a Jewish lord mayor, Robert Briscoe in the 1950's and 60's. The entire island's Jewish population has been tiny-ranging from about 400 in the 1880's to 5,400 in the mid-1940's to less than 20,000 in 2007.
There is the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin founded in 1985 and opened by Chaim Herzog, then president of Israel. It is in the former Walworth Road synagogue at 3 and 4 Walworth Road which opened in 1916. It is noted that in the 1940's young Jews became assimilated and there was a great deal of intermarriage. At that time the Church insisted that the non Catholic had to convert.
Dublin had an enormous main synagogue, the Dublin Hebrew Congregation, located at 37 Adelaide Road. It was erected in 1982 and can hold up to 1,000 people. It was almost sold a a mosque, but is now the headquarters of a high technology company. Stars of David are visible on its windows. Dublin's kosher bakery, The Bretzel, has been owned by non-Jews for two generations, but a mashgiach comes in daily to oversee kashruth. Until the 1950's there were enough Jews in Dublin to support 8 kosher butcher shops and a dozen synagogues.
Still and all, in 2007 there were 3 Jewish members of the Irish Parliament, and both Dublin and Cork have had Jewish mayors. the most famous Irish Jew of all is fictional: Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses. A plaque marks his house at 52 Clanbrassil Street in Dublin.
We do know that many Irish Jews migrated to South Africa where we find some of our relatives today.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m04111/is_is_3_48_ai_64507455/pg_3 2/21/2007
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/IrishStudies/Sep_2003_minutes.htm
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/8878/format/print/dis
http://www.isjm.org/jhr/IInos1-2/ireland.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Goldberg
I have found quite a few Goldfoots in Ireland including my own grandfather who came from Lithuania. I've often wondered why Jews went to Ireland. What did it have to offer?
Professor Keogh, 53 year old Catholic from University College in Cork, became interested in Irish Jews as he was researching Irish history during WWII. He has found that the Irish Jewish community came about between 1880 and 1901 with the arrival of Ashkenazim from one Lithuanian village, Akmene. They were fleeing from Tsarist pogroms. Dublin legend says that many of them had booked passage to America, but were landed in Dublin instead. Unscrupulous ship captains had assured them they had reached New York.
There were smaller communities with Jews in Cork, Limerick, Galway, Belfast and Derry which were found in prof. Diner's paper that investigated the origins and early years of the Jewish Community of Dublin. First, there were Sephardic Jews who arrived in the 17th Century from Spain and Portugal who went to the Netherlands and on to Ireland. He found that there was a great migration of eastern European Jews who left the continent between 1820 and 1920. Most Jews in Ireland arrived from the 1880's on, though there was already a small group of about 600 in the country, mostly the children of an earlier immigration in the 1820's and 1830's.
Later, the Irish carried the British Aliens Act of 1906 in their own laws, so only a few European Jewish families were allowed in Ireland. In 2005 there were under 1,000 Jews in Ireland from having 6,000 in 1940's. In the past 2 years 200 more have "appeared".
There were lots of Jewish peddlers in the 1860's to the 1880's in Britain, and there were still many in Wales at the same time as in Ireland. Many Jews in Ireland had worked in factories in England and wanted to go into business for themselves.
Peddlers stayed with families where they were welcomed. Many cooked for themselves, some stayed in barns or out in the open. Intermarriage was relatively limited. Some who were well integrated married into the upper classes, like the painter, Estella Solomons.
Anti-Semitism was mostly non-physical. It began when a priest used the pulpit to attack Jews. He called Jewish peddlers and merchants "leeches" who were sucking the blood of the Irish by overcharging or tricking the poor. He called for a boycott of Jewish merchants, and the town obeyed. Within a few years, virtually all of Limerick's 25 Jewish families and the rabbi had left. The Limerick pogrom was physical to an extent, as the Blueshirts threatened physical action, and there a few incidents before Limerick. One person was beaten up, and a brick was thrown at a Rabbi's window.
Gerald Yael Goldberg, b: 12 April 1912 in Cork d: 31 Dec 2003 was the Jewish Lord Mayor of Cork in 1977. He was a lawyer and a member of the Fianna Fail Party. He was the son of Lithuanian Jewish Louis Goldberg from the village of Akmian/Akmene, Lithuania. They were told that Cork was the Gateway to America. Akmene is 238 km NW of Vilna., Lithuania. His family was one who left Limerick in the pogrom for Cork. Louis's father was Simon and Elka Goldberg b: abt 1836 in Akmene.
I note that in Dublin on February 21, 1893, Lena Goldberg of 38 Warren Street, Dublin, daughter of Naftolee Goldberg, already deceased, married Nathan Abraham Goldfoot of 13 Arbutus Place S.C.R, a Com Traveller, son of Morris Goldfoot, who had been a Distiller but was already deceased. One of the witnesses was Leah Goldberg. Certain members could have intermarried or converted.
Both immigrations were Jews who arrived rather poor, found a niche for themselves in commerce, lived in cities, and were religiously traditional. They improved both economically and educationally. Prof. Diner refutes Keogh's theory of being tricked to come here. He says there were never any pogroms in Lithuania, where they had come from. Besides that, many had already lived in Britain before coming to Ireland. He feels they came to Ireland deliberately. They saw the prospects for economic success-they went into small business, started with itinerant peddling which most arrivals did.
No other migrants arrived in Ireland in the 19th century, which was marked by mass emigration to Britain, USA and beyond. Jews saw a demand for consumer goods, which itinerant peddlers could satisfy. In Ireland land mattered, and the Jews being in cities alienated themselves from the marker of Irishness. Also the cultural nationalist movement excluded Jews from the nation as they could not be associated with a pure, "Celtic" past, and Catholic domination in Irish religioius, political and social circles led to the exclusion of Jews. Only a small group of Irish intellecftuals, like Michael Davitt, welcomed Jewish particiipation in Irish life.
Israeli President Chaim Herzog came from Ireland, and Dublin had a Jewish lord mayor, Robert Briscoe in the 1950's and 60's. The entire island's Jewish population has been tiny-ranging from about 400 in the 1880's to 5,400 in the mid-1940's to less than 20,000 in 2007.
There is the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin founded in 1985 and opened by Chaim Herzog, then president of Israel. It is in the former Walworth Road synagogue at 3 and 4 Walworth Road which opened in 1916. It is noted that in the 1940's young Jews became assimilated and there was a great deal of intermarriage. At that time the Church insisted that the non Catholic had to convert.
Dublin had an enormous main synagogue, the Dublin Hebrew Congregation, located at 37 Adelaide Road. It was erected in 1982 and can hold up to 1,000 people. It was almost sold a a mosque, but is now the headquarters of a high technology company. Stars of David are visible on its windows. Dublin's kosher bakery, The Bretzel, has been owned by non-Jews for two generations, but a mashgiach comes in daily to oversee kashruth. Until the 1950's there were enough Jews in Dublin to support 8 kosher butcher shops and a dozen synagogues.
Still and all, in 2007 there were 3 Jewish members of the Irish Parliament, and both Dublin and Cork have had Jewish mayors. the most famous Irish Jew of all is fictional: Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses. A plaque marks his house at 52 Clanbrassil Street in Dublin.
We do know that many Irish Jews migrated to South Africa where we find some of our relatives today.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m04111/is_is_3_48_ai_64507455/pg_3 2/21/2007
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/IrishStudies/Sep_2003_minutes.htm
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/8878/format/print/dis
http://www.isjm.org/jhr/IInos1-2/ireland.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Goldberg
Labels: history, Jews in Ireland
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Our Goldfoot Family: Litvaks on Both Sides
Being a Litvak is very special. Lithuanian Jews had special attributes. They were distinguished by their intellectual and rational attitude. This group was nicknamed "Litvak" and also "Tseilem Kop" or "Cross Head", meaning that Lithuanian Jews would be ready to strike out vertically and horizontally in order to achieve his goal, or in other words, alternatively to cross check his findings in order to reach the absolute truth. This was found in dealings in daily life and in the social-cultural strata. For example, they were not ahout to believe in false messiahs, and even opposed the Hasiduth, or Chassidism. They showed much diligence in studying Torah in the synagogues as well as in the yeshivoth. The great Yeshivoth of Slabodka was in Telzh (Telsiai). Hundreds of foreign students were also there. The Ethics Movement began and spread by Rabbi Salanter whose principals were on the idea of intellectual activity and knowledge to correct and improve the behavior of the individual. They fostered and adopted the Zionist idea and also challenged the Enlightenment Movement whether in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian or German.
Babylonian and others Jewish settlement began 9th, 10th Century (800's-900's)
The first settlement of Jews in the Great Lithuanian Princedom (Magnus Ducatus Lithuaniae) began in the 14th Century (1300's) by invitation of the Grand Dukes Gediminas and Vytautas.
1387 Christian-Catholic religion introduced in Lithuania
1388 Christians granted Jews civil status and bills of rights of protection, freedom
1413 Christianity toNW Lithuanians (Zamut) populated by ethnic Lithuanian tribes, lacked Judo phobia
1492 Jews expelled from Spain
1495 Jew expelled from Lithuania 6,000+ people, confiscated their property
1503 Jews permitted back , received half of property lost , gained back most rights
1648-1667 Period of Tribulation: Cossacks mutiny, Russian army occupied Vilna; Black Plague
1795 Most Lithuania annexed to Russia (NW Zone), Suwalk, Lazdijai in SW also added
1795-1917 half population in NW were Jewish, saw The Jews' Street, in Pale of Settlement , restricted, lilmitations, great hardships
1797 census: Telsiai-1,650 Jews-66%
1804 Jews forbidden to live in villages and sell alcohol to peasants, schools opened for Jews
1812 Napoleon invaded Lithuania
1831 Polish uprisings against Russian rule
1855-1857 census: Telsiai-3,209 Jews-61% Goldfus
1855-1857 census: Lazdijai-1,546 Jews-60% Jermulowske
1863 Polish uprisings against Russian rule
1897 census: Telsiai- 3,088 Jews-51%-Jewish population increased, other towns decreased
1897 census: Lazdijai-1,439 Jews-57%
1905 revolution against rule of Czar, Jews supported Lithuanians
1923 census: Telsiai-1,545 Jews-33% , census done by Independent Lithuania
1923 census: Lazidijai-1,141 Jews-48%
1941 Lithuanian Jews on eve of Shoah: abt a quarter of a million including Vilna region and refugees from Poland
1945 census: Telsiai-unknown -liberation from Nazis
1945 census-Lazdijai-0 Jews
1970 census-Telsiai-70 Jews
Reference: Preserving Our Litvak Heritage by Josef Rosin by jewishGen,Inc.
Map of Pale of Settlement from Avotaynu 2011 Catalog cover
Map of Lithuania from Perserving Our Litvak Heritage
Labels: Lithuanian Jewish history, Litvaks
Friday, June 17, 2011
Goldfoot/Goldfus dna Origins Upgraded: Q1b1 or Q -L245
Nadene Goldfoot
Our Q1b1 status is in shorthand, called Q - L245. This group came from parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and possibly southern Saudi Arabia. Iraq is the location of Ur, where Abraham and Sarah came from. They left, seeking their own land that would become free of idol worship with Abraham's leadership.
The Q line did come from Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey in the Atlai Mountains. Our line, a more recent branch off the main one, has not been found in Siberia and Mongolia. It is Q3 that became the native Americans who migrated down into North America.
Before I jump to the conclusion that Ur could be the site of our origins, Ur was an ancient Babylonian city and housed Abraham before he and his family left for Haran. He was living among the Canaanites and the Philistines. His father, who came with him, was Terah and he was the father of Isaac by Sarah and of Ishmael by his concubine, Hagar, the Egyptian. His last residence was in Hebron.
He lived at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. Modern excavations in the ruins by Sir Leonard Woolley have revealed a highly-civilized nature of the city in Abraham's time as well as evidence of an extensive flood at an earlier date. Our line comes from an ancestor of much more modern times, less than 1,000 years.
Looking at a globe, I can trace a path from Ur in Iraq or Babylonia and go directly West to Canaan, or today's Israel. It is very close by. Israel is right on the Mediterannean Sea and would be the crossroads of the world with access to water, which would have been a great draw or reason to remain. Of course from Canaan, one had access to Egypt, which is what happened with Abraham's family later on.
Our Goldfus family was from Lithuania, mainly Telsiai. How and why Jews first reached Lithuania is a matter of informed hypothesis to be found possibly through dna analysis along with archaelogy, but historian Abraham Eliyahu Harkavi said that they came from Babylonia and elsewhere in the Near East in the 9th and 10th centuries CE. We may have come from Ur, and if we had found our way to Judea, which was originally Canaan, we were then taken back as slaves to Babylonia, most likely. From there we joined up with other Jews to traverse to Lithuania at least by the 10th century or perhaps a little later, knowing there already was a Jewish settlement there. A lot of this hypothesis depends on the date of when our Q-L245 was determined to have happened, and that I don't know.
According to Behar et al. 5% of Ashkenazi males belong to haplogroup Q This has subsequently been found to be entirely the Q-M378 subclade and may be restricted to Q-L245.
Abraham's Family Tree
0. Noah of the Flood
1. Japheth
1. Ham
1. Shem
2. Arpachshad---after the flood
3. Shelah
4. Eber
5. Peleg
6. Reu
7. Serug
8. Nahor
9. Terah b: Ur, d: Haran
10. Abram-Abraham
c: Hagar
11. Ishmael
m. Sarai-Sahar
11. Isaac
10. Nahor
m. Milcah, daughter of Haran
10. Haran b:Ur, d: Ur --Hebrew settlement found here
11. Lot
Abraham and Sarah went to Haran after living in Ur. Haran was a trading town of NW Mesopotamia: and was also a center of a moon cult. Iraq was formerly called Mesopotamia. It was conquered by Arabs in 637 ACE. Jews actually had helped them because they were trying to free themselves from Sassanid persecution. Shortly after that happened, Jews had been expelled from Arabia and they seettled in Kufa. This area continued for centuries to be the center of Jewish life.
Resource: Rebekah Adele , leader in H and Q1b haplogroups from familytreedna
The Tanach, Stone Edition, Genesis 10:26-11:24
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community 1916-1945 by Masha Greenbaum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q_(Y-DNA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6X2465EeM on Turkic Homeland 14,000BC-12,000AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ&vq=large-BBC on Human Planet
6/20/11 Comment from Prof. Krupa of Ashina Royal Dynasty Group in answer to my query: Q1b1 (OR L-245) IS OF KHAZAR ORIGIN AND EVOLVED FROM Q1B (WHICH IS SOME 2300 YEARS OLD AND FROM SIBERIAN XIOGNU EMPIRE) SOME 1000-1100 YEARS AGO..
AFTER THE "BLACK DEATH" WE HAVE BRANCHING IN MORE SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION; 500 YEARS AGO. MY FAMILY BRANCHED SOME 200-150 YEARS AGO ETC..
BABYLONIAN LEVITS GET MARRIED DAUGHTERS TO ASHINA ROYAL KHAZARS.
VLADIMIR GURIANOV INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRMED ALL OF MY RESEARCH WHICH I HAVE REVEALED IN 2007
6/21/11: from Prof. Krupa:
1) In 1346 the plague was brought in Crimea, and in 1351 in Poland and Russia. Later, in Russia there were outbreaks of plague in 1603, 1654, 1738-1740 and 1769. (Russian Wikipedia)
2) The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the 14th to 17th centuries.[54] According to Biraben, plague was present somewhere in Europe in every year between 1346 and 1671.[55] The Second Pandemic was particularly widespread in the following years: 1360–1363; 1374; 1400; 1438–1439; 1456–1457; 1464–1466; 1481–1485; 1500–1503; 1518–1531; 1544–1548; 1563–1566; 1573–1588; 1596–1599; 1602–1611; 1623–1640; 1644–1654; and 1664–1667. (English Wikipedia).
Our Q1b1 status is in shorthand, called Q - L245. This group came from parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and possibly southern Saudi Arabia. Iraq is the location of Ur, where Abraham and Sarah came from. They left, seeking their own land that would become free of idol worship with Abraham's leadership.
The Q line did come from Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey in the Atlai Mountains. Our line, a more recent branch off the main one, has not been found in Siberia and Mongolia. It is Q3 that became the native Americans who migrated down into North America.
Before I jump to the conclusion that Ur could be the site of our origins, Ur was an ancient Babylonian city and housed Abraham before he and his family left for Haran. He was living among the Canaanites and the Philistines. His father, who came with him, was Terah and he was the father of Isaac by Sarah and of Ishmael by his concubine, Hagar, the Egyptian. His last residence was in Hebron.
He lived at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. Modern excavations in the ruins by Sir Leonard Woolley have revealed a highly-civilized nature of the city in Abraham's time as well as evidence of an extensive flood at an earlier date. Our line comes from an ancestor of much more modern times, less than 1,000 years.
Looking at a globe, I can trace a path from Ur in Iraq or Babylonia and go directly West to Canaan, or today's Israel. It is very close by. Israel is right on the Mediterannean Sea and would be the crossroads of the world with access to water, which would have been a great draw or reason to remain. Of course from Canaan, one had access to Egypt, which is what happened with Abraham's family later on.
Our Goldfus family was from Lithuania, mainly Telsiai. How and why Jews first reached Lithuania is a matter of informed hypothesis to be found possibly through dna analysis along with archaelogy, but historian Abraham Eliyahu Harkavi said that they came from Babylonia and elsewhere in the Near East in the 9th and 10th centuries CE. We may have come from Ur, and if we had found our way to Judea, which was originally Canaan, we were then taken back as slaves to Babylonia, most likely. From there we joined up with other Jews to traverse to Lithuania at least by the 10th century or perhaps a little later, knowing there already was a Jewish settlement there. A lot of this hypothesis depends on the date of when our Q-L245 was determined to have happened, and that I don't know.
According to Behar et al. 5% of Ashkenazi males belong to haplogroup Q This has subsequently been found to be entirely the Q-M378 subclade and may be restricted to Q-L245.
Abraham's Family Tree
0. Noah of the Flood
1. Japheth
1. Ham
1. Shem
2. Arpachshad---after the flood
3. Shelah
4. Eber
5. Peleg
6. Reu
7. Serug
8. Nahor
9. Terah b: Ur, d: Haran
10. Abram-Abraham
c: Hagar
11. Ishmael
m. Sarai-Sahar
11. Isaac
10. Nahor
m. Milcah, daughter of Haran
10. Haran b:Ur, d: Ur --Hebrew settlement found here
11. Lot
Abraham and Sarah went to Haran after living in Ur. Haran was a trading town of NW Mesopotamia: and was also a center of a moon cult. Iraq was formerly called Mesopotamia. It was conquered by Arabs in 637 ACE. Jews actually had helped them because they were trying to free themselves from Sassanid persecution. Shortly after that happened, Jews had been expelled from Arabia and they seettled in Kufa. This area continued for centuries to be the center of Jewish life.
Resource: Rebekah Adele , leader in H and Q1b haplogroups from familytreedna
The Tanach, Stone Edition, Genesis 10:26-11:24
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
The Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community 1916-1945 by Masha Greenbaum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q_(Y-DNA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o6X2465EeM on Turkic Homeland 14,000BC-12,000AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=2HiUMlOz4UQ&vq=large-BBC on Human Planet
6/20/11 Comment from Prof. Krupa of Ashina Royal Dynasty Group in answer to my query: Q1b1 (OR L-245) IS OF KHAZAR ORIGIN AND EVOLVED FROM Q1B (WHICH IS SOME 2300 YEARS OLD AND FROM SIBERIAN XIOGNU EMPIRE) SOME 1000-1100 YEARS AGO..
AFTER THE "BLACK DEATH" WE HAVE BRANCHING IN MORE SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION; 500 YEARS AGO. MY FAMILY BRANCHED SOME 200-150 YEARS AGO ETC..
BABYLONIAN LEVITS GET MARRIED DAUGHTERS TO ASHINA ROYAL KHAZARS.
VLADIMIR GURIANOV INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRMED ALL OF MY RESEARCH WHICH I HAVE REVEALED IN 2007
6/21/11: from Prof. Krupa:
1) In 1346 the plague was brought in Crimea, and in 1351 in Poland and Russia. Later, in Russia there were outbreaks of plague in 1603, 1654, 1738-1740 and 1769. (Russian Wikipedia)
2) The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the 14th to 17th centuries.[54] According to Biraben, plague was present somewhere in Europe in every year between 1346 and 1671.[55] The Second Pandemic was particularly widespread in the following years: 1360–1363; 1374; 1400; 1438–1439; 1456–1457; 1464–1466; 1481–1485; 1500–1503; 1518–1531; 1544–1548; 1563–1566; 1573–1588; 1596–1599; 1602–1611; 1623–1640; 1644–1654; and 1664–1667. (English Wikipedia).
Labels: Goldfoot/Goldfus, Q1b1 upgrade
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Sam Goldfuss 1891 England
Sam Goldfuss, age 26, was born in Russia. He was a lodger in Manchester, Central Lancashire, England in 1891
Resource: FamilySearch
Resource: FamilySearch
Labels: 1891, England, Russia, Sam Goldfuss
Isaak Goldfuss, Immigration 1915
Isaak Goldfuss, born 1897, was only 18 when he arrived in Ellis Island alone on May 16, 1915 from London, England on the ship, Saint Paul. He had left the port of Liverpool to get to the New York. He had been born in Russia and was Jewish.
Research: FamilySearch
Research: FamilySearch
Labels: 1915, Ellis Island, Isaak Goldfuss, Liverpool
Lewis and Sofie Goldfus, Russia to Ellis Island 9 May 1909
Lewis, 42 and wife Sofie, 38 Goldfus left Russia and arrived at Ellis Island, NY on May 9, 1909. Their ship was the Cedric. The port they had left from was Liverpool. They had been living in London. Their children were:
Yette 17, Abe 14, Ester 11, Rosa 10, Benny 8 and Sarah 6. All had been born in Russia.
Resource: FamilySearch
Yette 17, Abe 14, Ester 11, Rosa 10, Benny 8 and Sarah 6. All had been born in Russia.
Resource: FamilySearch
Labels: 1909, Abraham Goldfus, Ellis Island, England, London
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
High I.Q's: Coming from Mothers or Fathers
Nadene Goldfoot
We humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, or 46 total in each of our cells. The 23rd pair are the sex chromosomes, the X and the Y. The X holds the key to our IQ.
Males have an X and a Y chromosome, while females have two X's. It is found that females average a little better than males on IQ tests. More males are both mentally retarded or have IQ's at 135 and above. What causes all this seems to be the X chromosome. This is because only 54 out of the 1,098 protein-coding genes on X functions like the Y, of which the few genes Y carries are related to sperm production and male physical characteristics.
If a gene on X chromosome mutates in a female, there is a backup gene on the 2nd X chromosome which can fill the gap. But in a male, his Y genes cannot step up to the bat and help out. This accounts for about 300 genetic diseases and disorders in males like color blindness, muscular dystrophy, and about 200 brain disorders.
The male gets his X gene from his mother in her mtDNA. If he gets a favorable X-related-genetic mutation, it will not be overridden by a gene on his Y chromosome. The problem is that he cannot pass this gene to his son, but will always pass it to his daughter. The daughter's paternal X-chromosome recombines with her mother's X-chromosome in the formation of the daughter's egg cells. There is a 50% chance that she will pass it to the next generation. In the female, however, a good mutation on one X might be overridden by a normal gene on her other X.
This causes me to wonder about me inheriting any of my paternal grandmother's genes from her haplogroup W. She was often distracted while cooking and would burn something and I do the same thing. Our body shape is similar. My very bright father must have inherited his IQ from her. I also would have some of her IQ abilities along with my mother's IQ genes.
Does this mean that my grandson from my son has not inherited my mt X chomosome which is in my H2a1 haplogroup? My background and love for dancing and art work is coming out in my grandson. Of course, the mother of his mother has those same qualities, giving him a double dose which is quite possible. I'm sure he's brighter than I am. Then my grandson did not get my X chromosome holding the IQ genes.
My son is gifted with a wonderful IQ, and his father had an extremely high IQ. We can assume that his father received a mutated X gene from his mother to have such an unusual high I.Q, and believe me, his mother was a sharp cookie, but so was his father. I see that under this way of passing the gene along, his daughter would get the mutated X but not his son! I suppose then that my son inherited his high IQ from me! And all along I thought it was his father. My daughter has both her father's single X with the IQ and my X with the IQ. Little do we daughters know how capable we can be.
I'm bright, but not half as bright as my brother! There's another case of having a very high IQ and it being the male sibling. This means that my brother could not have received the X chromosome from his equally bright father, but from his mother, but that's where I got my brains, from my father! My brother was lucky to have had a very bright mother.
I wondered if on that very male Y gene there could possibly be a segment labeled High IQ along with broad shoulders, bass voice, etc. Evidently not. If that were so, only males would inherit it. Females have two chances of getting smart but one of those chances can be canceled out by the other, and the male has to depend on getting his smarts from his mother by having a 50% chance to do so, but with his odds, will turn it into a much higher IQ
.
So, bright females. Thank your fathers for adding to your brains. There's nothing that says our mother's IQ genes aren't working for us as well. We have the double dose of 2 XX's. No wonder we can do two or three things at the same time. Bright males, your probabilites for having extremely higher IQ's than females are great. You can thank your mothers for that. We females can be counted on to have a nice steady above average IQ but have less problems mentally and physically than males.
Perhaps more mutations have been happening in females as we are using our brains more and succeeding in the world in all fields. This will certainly improve our sons and our daughters. As females' skills have improved throughout the ages, so have the males of the nations. I see this as a most positive step in group evolvement. It's important to keep females educated in order to elevate the whole community. Look at what happens in a controlled group whereby the females are held down and minds are not expanded. Look at the productivity of that group. It's not doing well at all. For the well-being of a nation, the best thing to do is to keep women educated.
Reference: DNA and Genealogy by Colleen Fitzpatrick and Andrew Yeiser
Reference: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/basics/howmanychromosomes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ added 6/15/11
http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/answers/viewtopic.php?id=1958
http://www.cerebrals.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3233
http://wilderdom.com/personality/L4-1IntelligenceNatureVsNurture.html
We humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, or 46 total in each of our cells. The 23rd pair are the sex chromosomes, the X and the Y. The X holds the key to our IQ.
Males have an X and a Y chromosome, while females have two X's. It is found that females average a little better than males on IQ tests. More males are both mentally retarded or have IQ's at 135 and above. What causes all this seems to be the X chromosome. This is because only 54 out of the 1,098 protein-coding genes on X functions like the Y, of which the few genes Y carries are related to sperm production and male physical characteristics.
If a gene on X chromosome mutates in a female, there is a backup gene on the 2nd X chromosome which can fill the gap. But in a male, his Y genes cannot step up to the bat and help out. This accounts for about 300 genetic diseases and disorders in males like color blindness, muscular dystrophy, and about 200 brain disorders.
The male gets his X gene from his mother in her mtDNA. If he gets a favorable X-related-genetic mutation, it will not be overridden by a gene on his Y chromosome. The problem is that he cannot pass this gene to his son, but will always pass it to his daughter. The daughter's paternal X-chromosome recombines with her mother's X-chromosome in the formation of the daughter's egg cells. There is a 50% chance that she will pass it to the next generation. In the female, however, a good mutation on one X might be overridden by a normal gene on her other X.
This causes me to wonder about me inheriting any of my paternal grandmother's genes from her haplogroup W. She was often distracted while cooking and would burn something and I do the same thing. Our body shape is similar. My very bright father must have inherited his IQ from her. I also would have some of her IQ abilities along with my mother's IQ genes.
Does this mean that my grandson from my son has not inherited my mt X chomosome which is in my H2a1 haplogroup? My background and love for dancing and art work is coming out in my grandson. Of course, the mother of his mother has those same qualities, giving him a double dose which is quite possible. I'm sure he's brighter than I am. Then my grandson did not get my X chromosome holding the IQ genes.
My son is gifted with a wonderful IQ, and his father had an extremely high IQ. We can assume that his father received a mutated X gene from his mother to have such an unusual high I.Q, and believe me, his mother was a sharp cookie, but so was his father. I see that under this way of passing the gene along, his daughter would get the mutated X but not his son! I suppose then that my son inherited his high IQ from me! And all along I thought it was his father. My daughter has both her father's single X with the IQ and my X with the IQ. Little do we daughters know how capable we can be.
I'm bright, but not half as bright as my brother! There's another case of having a very high IQ and it being the male sibling. This means that my brother could not have received the X chromosome from his equally bright father, but from his mother, but that's where I got my brains, from my father! My brother was lucky to have had a very bright mother.
I wondered if on that very male Y gene there could possibly be a segment labeled High IQ along with broad shoulders, bass voice, etc. Evidently not. If that were so, only males would inherit it. Females have two chances of getting smart but one of those chances can be canceled out by the other, and the male has to depend on getting his smarts from his mother by having a 50% chance to do so, but with his odds, will turn it into a much higher IQ
.
So, bright females. Thank your fathers for adding to your brains. There's nothing that says our mother's IQ genes aren't working for us as well. We have the double dose of 2 XX's. No wonder we can do two or three things at the same time. Bright males, your probabilites for having extremely higher IQ's than females are great. You can thank your mothers for that. We females can be counted on to have a nice steady above average IQ but have less problems mentally and physically than males.
Perhaps more mutations have been happening in females as we are using our brains more and succeeding in the world in all fields. This will certainly improve our sons and our daughters. As females' skills have improved throughout the ages, so have the males of the nations. I see this as a most positive step in group evolvement. It's important to keep females educated in order to elevate the whole community. Look at what happens in a controlled group whereby the females are held down and minds are not expanded. Look at the productivity of that group. It's not doing well at all. For the well-being of a nation, the best thing to do is to keep women educated.
Reference: DNA and Genealogy by Colleen Fitzpatrick and Andrew Yeiser
Reference: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/basics/howmanychromosomes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ added 6/15/11
http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/answers/viewtopic.php?id=1958
http://www.cerebrals.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3233
http://wilderdom.com/personality/L4-1IntelligenceNatureVsNurture.html
Labels: chromosomes, dna, fathers, inheriting, IQ, mothers, mtDNA, mutate, sons, Ydna
Calendar Difference: Gregorian versus Julian of Eastern Europe
The Julian calendar was a reformed calendar from the Roman Calendar created by Julius Caesar. It was used in 45 BCE onwards till 1582 when Pope Gregory introduced his Gregorian Calendar, which is still in use today. The Julian calender went from vernal equinoxes to the next vernal equinox and consisted of 365.25 days, well, actually 11 minutes shorter than that.
The Gregorian calendar is 12 days later (also 13 sometimes) than the Julian calendar used by our ancestors in eastern Europe. That accounts for the differences: our forefathers were not aware of this. (Dennis Kahn)The Gregorian calendar has 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds. Leap year every 4 years adjusts the time.
Russia changed over to the Gregorian in 1918.
Prussia changed in 1700.
The British Empire changed in 1752.
Most all countries had changed over by 1927.
Now when we get dates in our genealogy research I'll wonder which calendar was used and will have to look at the dates involved. The question of different calendars is clearly shown by Christine Usdine. She researches Latvian sources for jewishgen. In each of her birth, marriage and death presentations she tells one how many days to add to get our date. Her email: uzdine@orange.fr from Dennis Kahn.
Dennis Kahn.
http://www.nestle-watersna.com/pdf/julian-calendar.pdf Julian Calendar graph
http://landdb1.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/calendar.html
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/cal_art.html#Julian_Calendar
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/ excellent calendar converter in Julian, Gregorian, Hebrew, etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar what countries changed to Gregorian on what dates
The Gregorian calendar is 12 days later (also 13 sometimes) than the Julian calendar used by our ancestors in eastern Europe. That accounts for the differences: our forefathers were not aware of this. (Dennis Kahn)The Gregorian calendar has 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds. Leap year every 4 years adjusts the time.
Russia changed over to the Gregorian in 1918.
Prussia changed in 1700.
The British Empire changed in 1752.
Most all countries had changed over by 1927.
Now when we get dates in our genealogy research I'll wonder which calendar was used and will have to look at the dates involved. The question of different calendars is clearly shown by Christine Usdine. She researches Latvian sources for jewishgen. In each of her birth, marriage and death presentations she tells one how many days to add to get our date. Her email: uzdine@orange.fr from Dennis Kahn.
Dennis Kahn.
http://www.nestle-watersna.com/pdf/julian-calendar.pdf Julian Calendar graph
http://landdb1.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/calendar.html
http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/cal_art.html#Julian_Calendar
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/ excellent calendar converter in Julian, Gregorian, Hebrew, etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar what countries changed to Gregorian on what dates
Labels: Gregorian, Julian Calendar
Monday, June 13, 2011
Goldfoot SNP Test In-L245 Positive Q1b1 Haplogroup
I found out something new. When you have a SNP test, you are not notified by e-mail. The results are to be found on your webpage. I also found out that SNP tests come in quickly. The results were known by the 25th of April and I wasn't aware of that. I had sent in the request on the 12th of April. Now I still couldn't follow the directions of the gal answering my phone call. I found the results on the certificate that came up for SNP results after speaking to her.
3:16pm: Just now tried again and it did come up.
The result is that our Goldfoot line was positive for L245 and negative for L272. This puts us in the catagory of Q1b1 now instead of Q1b. In shorthand this is P36+2 + M378+ L245+. Evidently people positive for L272 have the tag of Q1b1a1 and we are not in that group.
The Q's were from the Altai/Baikal region of Northern Eurasia and that's how Native Americans got into America. As for our small Jewish group that left the original Q's eons ago, we're only about 5% of the total Jewish population. Maybe this SNP test will help us learn what path we took and when.
The haplogroup of Q started 17,000 to 22,000 years ago and was a branch off of haplogroup P.
Most Europeans and all the people of the Americas come from P. So do the Central and Southern Asians. This was a branch developed 27,000 to 41,000 years ago.
P, Q and R are descendents of K. P's came from Siberia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan or along the Silk road around Kinjiang, Gansu or Ningxia about 35,000 years ago. Sea levels were much lower at that time and the weather was different.
Without any kind of transportation, except the horse when people were still enjoying cave homes, people traversed this whole planet, most likely in search of food and safety instead of wanting a holiday. There's still a lot to learn about the travails of our Q1b1 ancestors.
Answer to question found on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ashkenazi-Q/message/1439
"But the L245 SNP is downstream from the M378. Downstream means evolved later in time. This makes us even more unique. Two of our members have SNPs downstream from the L245. One is the L272 and the other is the L315." (our particular test shows we were negative for L272.)
These more recent mutations may have evolved within a few hundred years in the Mediterranean area.
Resource: familytreedna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q_(Y-DNA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_P_(Y-DNA)
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Jewish_Q/default.aspx?section=ycolorized
http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts.html
3:16pm: Just now tried again and it did come up.
| Q1b1 | P36.2+ M378+ L245+ L272- |
The result is that our Goldfoot line was positive for L245 and negative for L272. This puts us in the catagory of Q1b1 now instead of Q1b. In shorthand this is P36+2 + M378+ L245+. Evidently people positive for L272 have the tag of Q1b1a1 and we are not in that group.
The Q's were from the Altai/Baikal region of Northern Eurasia and that's how Native Americans got into America. As for our small Jewish group that left the original Q's eons ago, we're only about 5% of the total Jewish population. Maybe this SNP test will help us learn what path we took and when.
The haplogroup of Q started 17,000 to 22,000 years ago and was a branch off of haplogroup P.
Most Europeans and all the people of the Americas come from P. So do the Central and Southern Asians. This was a branch developed 27,000 to 41,000 years ago.
P, Q and R are descendents of K. P's came from Siberia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan or along the Silk road around Kinjiang, Gansu or Ningxia about 35,000 years ago. Sea levels were much lower at that time and the weather was different.
Without any kind of transportation, except the horse when people were still enjoying cave homes, people traversed this whole planet, most likely in search of food and safety instead of wanting a holiday. There's still a lot to learn about the travails of our Q1b1 ancestors.
Answer to question found on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ashkenazi-Q/message/1439
"But the L245 SNP is downstream from the M378. Downstream means evolved later in time. This makes us even more unique. Two of our members have SNPs downstream from the L245. One is the L272 and the other is the L315." (our particular test shows we were negative for L272.)
These more recent mutations may have evolved within a few hundred years in the Mediterranean area.
Resource: familytreedna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q_(Y-DNA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_P_(Y-DNA)
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Jewish_Q/default.aspx?section=ycolorized
http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts.html
Labels: L245 positive, Q1b1
Friday, June 10, 2011
More on Telsiai, Lithuania
It was called Telz in Yiddish. This town is one of the oldest towns in Lithuania and is in the NW part, the Zemaitija region on the shores of Lake Mastis. It was even mentioned in the chronicles of a Crusader Order in 1320.
In 1710 the Swedes invaded and it suffered badly. Two thirds of its population died from epidemics at that time.
Until 1795 it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, when the 3rd division of Poland by the 3 superpowers of those times; Russia, Prussia and Austria, caused Lithuania to become partly Russian and Partly Prussian. Telz fell under Czarist Russian rule, first from 1802 as part of the Vilna Gubernia or Province and from 1843 as part of the Kovno Province or Gubernia.
1812 came with Napoleon's retreating army going through leaving behind desolation and a big gun, now in the town park.
The town was damaged in the Polish rebellions of 1831 and 1863.
Jewish Settlement
Jews settle in Telz at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1800 the municipal council established included 3 Jewish delegates, but in 1804 they were removed at the request of the Christian delegates.
1,650 Jews lived in the city out of 2,500 population. That's 66% being Jewish. In 1758 they suffered from "Blood Libels" and agin in 1827. Tlhe result was that the Jews suffered througha period of fear. Christians also saw Jews as competitors in producing and selling alcohol, so in 1825 the nobles asked the Tsar to expel the Jews because they "spread diseases and threaten to rob and to steal."
In the Polish rebellion of 1831 they suffered from the rebels and Cossacks. One was hung. Authorities started to arm the population against the rebels and the Jews asked not for the guns as they didn[t know how to use them or to fight but that they would be suppliers of steel, leather, gunpowder, and they agreed.
Years of familne were 1869-1872, just before and after my grandfather was born in 1871. By 1870 there were 6,481 people in Telz including 4,399 Jews. That's now 68%, and in 1897 there were 6,000 residents and of them 3,088 were Jews, down to 51%. Already Jews were immigrating to England and the United States as well as Argentina and South Africa. This immigration went on till WWI.
Persecutions and pogroms against Jews happened in the 1880's in Ukraine and other places. Telz Jews had their self confidence damaged because of being conscripted into the army for 6 years, another reason for immigration. From 1870 to 1923 the Jewish population decreased by 2,854 Telz Jews. 1893, when my grandfather was by then in Ireland, a cholera epidemic took many Telz victims, especially among the poor. who lived in overcrowed conditions with bad hygienic conditions. The rich gave money for the poor to have medicines, disinfeftants and medical help. It was then that the Telz Jewish hospital was established.
What work was there for Jews? The answer is commerce, crafts and peddling. In 1841 there were 25 Jewish artisans; 14 tailors, 10 shoemakers and one watchmaker and many wandering artisans. Up till WWI there was a strong organization of them helping their members with loans for buyhing raw materials and tools.
There were several Jewish merchants who had big businesses of grains and flax and made a good living. I had heard that a Goldfus was a dealer in corn and even had a pass into Russia out of the Pale of Settlement. Several were textile merchants who imported goods from Germany. Ya'akov Rabinovitz was one and I've seen that surname pop up as a dna match to me, I believe.
The Telz "Yeshivah" was built in 1880 by 3 young men, an Openheim, Atlas and Abel. It became the main institution of orthodox education. By 1889 it had about 400 students and was one of the greatest in the world. Next door was a preparatory class called Yeshivah Ketanah for boys age 10-16. It was the source of income for many families who supplied rooms and food for many of the students. They also maintained the gardens. In the 1880's many Jewish families earned their living by living in the surrounding villages. The economic situation was difficult. There were poor people on welfare and some beggers going from house to house. The town housed 4 synagogues.
Between the army and famines as well as the economic conditions, it is no wonder my grandfather left town for the USA. But first he went to England and then Ireland trying to make up his mind and collecting enough money. The shame of it all is that by the time he got to Idaho, he only lived for 7 more years and died around the age of 40.
from Dennis Kahn: Goldfus is: “surname found in Tel’shi, Shavli, and Rossieny. It is an artificial surname, spelled goldfus [Northeastern dialect of Yiddish], Goldfuss [German] and means golden foot. That explains Goldfoot [English].” This shows that our Goldfoot line does certainly come from Telsiai along with the other towns mentioned here as well as others I've found.
Reference: Preserving Our Litvak Heritage by Josef Rosin and Joel Alpert, Editor, published by JewishGen, Inc.
http://litvak-cemetery.info/ Great site to see Vilnius cemetery, translate into English at bottom of page. Also translates into many other languages.
In 1710 the Swedes invaded and it suffered badly. Two thirds of its population died from epidemics at that time.
Until 1795 it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, when the 3rd division of Poland by the 3 superpowers of those times; Russia, Prussia and Austria, caused Lithuania to become partly Russian and Partly Prussian. Telz fell under Czarist Russian rule, first from 1802 as part of the Vilna Gubernia or Province and from 1843 as part of the Kovno Province or Gubernia.
1812 came with Napoleon's retreating army going through leaving behind desolation and a big gun, now in the town park.
The town was damaged in the Polish rebellions of 1831 and 1863.
Jewish Settlement
Jews settle in Telz at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1800 the municipal council established included 3 Jewish delegates, but in 1804 they were removed at the request of the Christian delegates.
1,650 Jews lived in the city out of 2,500 population. That's 66% being Jewish. In 1758 they suffered from "Blood Libels" and agin in 1827. Tlhe result was that the Jews suffered througha period of fear. Christians also saw Jews as competitors in producing and selling alcohol, so in 1825 the nobles asked the Tsar to expel the Jews because they "spread diseases and threaten to rob and to steal."
In the Polish rebellion of 1831 they suffered from the rebels and Cossacks. One was hung. Authorities started to arm the population against the rebels and the Jews asked not for the guns as they didn[t know how to use them or to fight but that they would be suppliers of steel, leather, gunpowder, and they agreed.
Years of familne were 1869-1872, just before and after my grandfather was born in 1871. By 1870 there were 6,481 people in Telz including 4,399 Jews. That's now 68%, and in 1897 there were 6,000 residents and of them 3,088 were Jews, down to 51%. Already Jews were immigrating to England and the United States as well as Argentina and South Africa. This immigration went on till WWI.
Persecutions and pogroms against Jews happened in the 1880's in Ukraine and other places. Telz Jews had their self confidence damaged because of being conscripted into the army for 6 years, another reason for immigration. From 1870 to 1923 the Jewish population decreased by 2,854 Telz Jews. 1893, when my grandfather was by then in Ireland, a cholera epidemic took many Telz victims, especially among the poor. who lived in overcrowed conditions with bad hygienic conditions. The rich gave money for the poor to have medicines, disinfeftants and medical help. It was then that the Telz Jewish hospital was established.
What work was there for Jews? The answer is commerce, crafts and peddling. In 1841 there were 25 Jewish artisans; 14 tailors, 10 shoemakers and one watchmaker and many wandering artisans. Up till WWI there was a strong organization of them helping their members with loans for buyhing raw materials and tools.
There were several Jewish merchants who had big businesses of grains and flax and made a good living. I had heard that a Goldfus was a dealer in corn and even had a pass into Russia out of the Pale of Settlement. Several were textile merchants who imported goods from Germany. Ya'akov Rabinovitz was one and I've seen that surname pop up as a dna match to me, I believe.
The Telz "Yeshivah" was built in 1880 by 3 young men, an Openheim, Atlas and Abel. It became the main institution of orthodox education. By 1889 it had about 400 students and was one of the greatest in the world. Next door was a preparatory class called Yeshivah Ketanah for boys age 10-16. It was the source of income for many families who supplied rooms and food for many of the students. They also maintained the gardens. In the 1880's many Jewish families earned their living by living in the surrounding villages. The economic situation was difficult. There were poor people on welfare and some beggers going from house to house. The town housed 4 synagogues.
Between the army and famines as well as the economic conditions, it is no wonder my grandfather left town for the USA. But first he went to England and then Ireland trying to make up his mind and collecting enough money. The shame of it all is that by the time he got to Idaho, he only lived for 7 more years and died around the age of 40.
from Dennis Kahn: Goldfus is: “surname found in Tel’shi, Shavli, and Rossieny. It is an artificial surname, spelled goldfus [Northeastern dialect of Yiddish], Goldfuss [German] and means golden foot. That explains Goldfoot [English].” This shows that our Goldfoot line does certainly come from Telsiai along with the other towns mentioned here as well as others I've found.
Reference: Preserving Our Litvak Heritage by Josef Rosin and Joel Alpert, Editor, published by JewishGen, Inc.
http://litvak-cemetery.info/ Great site to see Vilnius cemetery, translate into English at bottom of page. Also translates into many other languages.
Labels: Telsiai Jewish History
Goldfus Passports 1919-1940 from Lithuania
1. Khana Goldfus was born in 1851 and was going to be 69 in 1920 when she applied for a passport. She was born in Telsiai and was a merchant's wife or was also a merchant. Her passport # 41018/98.
2. Ruvel Goldfus was born in 1869 and was going to be 63 in 1932. He was born in Akmene, Lithuania and was a tradesman. #28484/819747.
The next three were all from Liepaja, Lithuania and may have been from one family.
3. Zara Goldfus, born in 1854, would be 68 in 1922 and was a housewife. #28485/819727.
4. Beyla Goldfus, born in 1890, would be 32 in 1922 and was a dentist. #28486/819731
5. Marta Goldfus, born in 1892, would be 30 in 1922 and was a music teacher. #28483/819750.
Research: Jewishgen.org
2. Ruvel Goldfus was born in 1869 and was going to be 63 in 1932. He was born in Akmene, Lithuania and was a tradesman. #28484/819747.
The next three were all from Liepaja, Lithuania and may have been from one family.
3. Zara Goldfus, born in 1854, would be 68 in 1922 and was a housewife. #28485/819727.
4. Beyla Goldfus, born in 1890, would be 32 in 1922 and was a dentist. #28486/819731
5. Marta Goldfus, born in 1892, would be 30 in 1922 and was a music teacher. #28483/819750.
Research: Jewishgen.org
Labels: Goldfus, Lithuania, passports
Chaim Goldfus b: 1880
Tzvi Goldfus, possibly born about 1855, was the father of another Chaim Goldfus b: 1880 probably in Telsiai, Lithuania. He married Elke Saks.
His son was Samuel Goldfus. He left Lithuania in 1927 for South Africa to work for his uncle in Bloemfontein. Then he moved to Capetown.
This information is from a family that most likely is part of ours, as my grandfather was originally a Goldfus. His father according to his headstone was Chaim Itzhak Goldfus, who would have been an older Chaim, born most likely in 1850 or even before that. I've very grateful to have been contacted regarding our possible connection. This is great news.
His son was Samuel Goldfus. He left Lithuania in 1927 for South Africa to work for his uncle in Bloemfontein. Then he moved to Capetown.
This information is from a family that most likely is part of ours, as my grandfather was originally a Goldfus. His father according to his headstone was Chaim Itzhak Goldfus, who would have been an older Chaim, born most likely in 1850 or even before that. I've very grateful to have been contacted regarding our possible connection. This is great news.
Labels: Chaim Goldfus
