Photo Essay: Rosh Chodesh Adar
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My great-grandfather's shtetlTraintrackstoShepetovka.jpg)
Train tracks leading west out of the shtetlFurnessia.jpg)
S.S. Furnessia - Arrived in New York City on Rosh Chodesh Adar
(February 23, 1898)Philadelphia_1898.jpg)
Philadelphia 1898 - Reunited with his older brotherTrainTracks.jpg)
Train tracks located next to his new home in America1301Market.jpg)
My great-grandfather's house/grocery store13011999.jpg)
Site of his house, now an empty lot (1999)
My son, named after my great-grandfather - June 2004
24 Comments:
This is so cool. Thanks for the brief history.
Really nice pictorial history piece! My great-grandfather came over slightly before, around 1890, settling first in the Lower East Side of NYC, then they moved to Boro Park Bklyn, before my grandparents & parents moved to the Rockaways [all NYC] in the early 1950s.
Tamara & Yitz: Thank you. I am glad you both enjoyed it.
What a beautiful and original photo essay.
Did you notice baby boy in his "pondering pose"? Already a thinker in those early days...probably thinking about the acts of chesed he would be doing as he grows up!
Thanks Pearl :) I really enjoyed your thought! G-d willing, that is just what he will do.
WOW - What a great post!
It is an incredible thing to have compiled. It must be so fulfilling and exciting to have reconstructed the legacy, and provide it for the next link in the chain. Ashrecha!
Chabakuk Elisha: It is very fulfilling. I am still trying to find out how my great-grandfather made his way across Europe and got to Glasgow where he boarded the S.S. Furnessia.
Wow I think it is amazing that you have all that history and pictures! Your son is beautiful!
Frumgirl: Thanks - he is actually much cuter these days with his long blonde hair :)
WOnderful! If you go to my blog, and scroll down a few, I posted some old pics and a brief history. :) I love that you have SO much history of your family. That's very special. OH, and so is your adorable son! Mazel tov!
What an awesome pictoral history. Very cool. I enjoyed reading your map (I studied Russian in college). Your son is just adorable!
Things seem to have gone full circle
Tamara: Thanks for pointing that out. I too enjoy looking at old family pictures.
Stacey: I wish I had taken Russian as well. I took German (yuck) in junior high and high school and Hebrew in college (and one semester of Yiddish).
Mottel: Exactly. That is why I named my son after him.
Touching and simple, as your blog name implies. I found your site through Yehoshua Karsh's Musings of a Jewish Soul, and I'm glad I did.
My maternal ancestors came from a shetl called Soroki in Bessarabia (now Moldova) on the Dneister River north of Odessa. My paternal ancestors came from Bialystok, Poland. Both families emigrated to the Lower East Sde of NY at the turn of the century, then migrated to the South Bronx and -- paradise! -- the central Bronx, where I grew up. I'm now in Texas and have kids and relatives all over -- by no means all of them Jewish.
Richard: Welcome. Rabbi Karsh indeed has a wonderful blog which I read every day as well.
Thank you for your compliments on my blog as well as sharing the history of your family.
What a little sugar pie.
Beautiful.
Alice & Judah HaKohain: Thanks ;)
Extremely cool. It's so important to try to assemble all of this while it's still available. The next generation is horribly ignorant of where they came from.
Psychotoddler: Thanks! I totally agree with you and this is why I am doing it.
Thank you. Those pictures are so precious, and especially is the one of your son. To me, it looks like he is still 'reviewing' shas before he begins learning all over again.
My great grandparents went to Philadelphia also. My gr-grandfather was a tailor in West Philadelphia in the early 1900's, and they lived in an old Jewish neighborhood near there. I was born in and raised in Philly.
What area in or near Philly was the grocery store?
Do you have a passenger list from the S.S. Furnissia?
What port did the ship leave from and unload at?
I'm so curious because I have also been collecting as much data as I can about my family.
Anonymous:
Many of my family members also lived in West Philly as well. My grandparents lived in the Wynnewood/Armore area.
1) The grocery store was actually not in Philly but in Linwood/Marcus Hook where my great-grandfather moved after living in Philadelphia for some time.
2) Yes, I have the passenger list
3) The Furnessia left from Glasgow and unloaded in NYC.
The pics say it all. Awesome!!
Fascinating to have all that history. My family's history blurs at WWII, and everything before is only hagiography and broad generalization, or speculative and vague.
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