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Wikipedia The University of Jordan (Arabic: الجامعة الأردنية), often abbreviated UJ or JU, is a public university located in Amman, Jordan. Founded in 1962,[10] and it is the largest and oldest institution of higher education in Jordan. It is located in the capital Amman in the Jubaiha District of Amman. It is composed of 25 faculties,[11] and offers 91 bachelor programs and 161 postgraduate ...
Opatów ([%C9%94%CB%88patuf]; Yiddish: אַפּטאַ, אַפּט) is a town in Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, historic province of Lesser Poland. It is the capital of Opatów County. Its population is 7,833 (2007). Opatów is located among the hills of Lesser Polish Upland, with the Opatówka river dividing the town into two parts. The town marks the intersection of two main roads - European route E3...
Jewish Families from Ostrow Wielkopolski (formerly Ostrowo) This project is designed to identify and collect the Jewish individuals who have a connection to the town of Ostrow/Ostrowo in Wielkopolski, Poland.This town was part of the Grand Duchy of Posen in the 1800's. It was in the Posen Administrative District of Adelnau along with the towns of Adelnau and Raszkow. (Adelnau=Odolanow depending...
Province: Łódź Voivodeship / Łódź Voivodeship (before 1939) County: zgierski / łęczycki (before 1939) Community: Ozorków / Ozorków (before 1939) Other names: Ozorków [official language]; Ozorków [English]; Озоркув [German / Russian]; אוזורקוב [Hebrew] GPS: 51.9631° N / 19.2911° E, 51°57'47" N / 19°17'28" EThe earliest records of Jewish activity in Ozorków date back to the late 18th century. The...
Jewish Families from Piła (Formerly Schneidemühl) Piła, Poland 53°09' N 16°45' E 188 mi WNW of Warszawa N 16°45' E This project is not for Schneidermühl, Tittling, Bayern, Deutschland. Pila is well documented at the JewishGen site here: . This is a primary resource. Peter Cullman has written a 375 page book on this town; Peter Cullman spent fifteen years compiling a history of Schneidemühl ...
Jewish Families from Pobiedziska (formerly Pudewitz Prussia) Pobiedziska [p%C9%94b%CA%B2%C9%9B%CB%88d%CD%A1%CA%91iska] (German: Pudewitz) is a town in Poznań County, Poland, with 8,209 inhabitants as of the year 2004. It is also the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Pobiedziska. Yad Vashem records 105 individuals from or connected to Pudewitz who perished in the Holocaus...
Puławy was founded in the Fifteenth Century near a Vistula River crossing. In the Seventeenth Century it became the home of noble families. The town has a rich, and sometimes bloody history, having at various times been occupied by the Swedes, the French, the Austrians, the Russians, and the Germans. It lies about 53 km by road from Lublin. In 1900, its Jewish population was about 4,000. Holo...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Skałat, Ukraine.* JewishGen KehilaLinks Skalat page * Gesher Galicia Skalat page * JRI-Poland Skalat page * Virtual Jewish Library Skalat page SKALAT (Pol. Skałat), town in Tarnopol district, Ukraine. Formerly within Poland, Skalat passed to Austria in 1772, reverting to Poland between the two world wars. There was a Jewi...
Jewish Families from Skoki, formerly Schokken Prussia Skoki (German: Schokken) is a town in Poland, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Wągrowiec County, with 3,779 inhabitants (December 2004). It is located about 40 km north of Poznań. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Skoki. Skoki [Pol], Schokken [Ger] Hebrew: סקוקי 19 miles NNE of Poznań (Posen), 20 miles WNW Gniezn...
Jewish Families from Skole, Ukraine / Poland (Galicia) Skolye Hasidic Dynasty R' Eliezer Chaim Rabinowitz of Yampola (1845–1916) (the first Hasidic rebbe in America and founder of the Skolye dynasty) – son of Rebbe Boruch Rabinovich of Iași. R' Boruch Pinchas Rabinowitz of Skolye (Skole) (1874–1920), buried in Vienna, son of Rebbe Eliezer Chaim of Yampola R' Dovid Yitzchok Ei...
Helisevän länsirannasta levisivät Matikkalan ja Hauhialan kylän maat. Hauhialan puolella laski lahden pohjukkaan Sukslammista alkanut, Kirvun ja Suksniittyjen läpi virtaava Kuismanjoki ja pienen matkan päässä siitä Kuhajoki, jota myöden Torajärven ja Juoksemajärven vedet Alakosken kautta yhtyivät Helisevän vesistöön. Siitä etelään Hauhialan talot loppuvat ja metsäiset asumattomat rannat alkavat...
The purpose of this Geni project is to identify and collect residents and former residents or people who are connected with the Jewish town of Slesin, Poland. Additions are welcome. Ślesin is a town in Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,324 inhabitants. In partitioned Poland it belonged to the Russian-controlled Congress Kingdom from 1815; it returned to Poland when the co...
This project attempts to identify and collect Jewish individuals from or connected to the town of Sompolno, or Sompolna, Poland. Located in Wielkopolska Province at 52°24′40″N 18°30′10″E. External Links: JewishGen locality page: [ ] JRI Poland: [ ] Virtual Shtetl: [ ] Archives Document Scans (the majority of BMD records from 1826 on are digitized: [ ]. There are also some Jewish docu...
The first mention of Stopnica (known then as Stobnica) comes from the 12th century, but a gord, or Slavic settlement, had existed here earlier. According to Jan Długosz’s chronicle Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae, in 1103, the parish priest of Stopnica, the Right Reverend Baldwin, became the Bishop of Kraków. In 1362, Stopnica was granted civic rights by King Casimir III the Great. O...
Scope of Project ===Seventy-five years before the emancipation of the slaves and one hundred fifty years before women began voting in the United States, the Shakers were practicing social, gender, economic, and spiritual equality for all members. Yet, possibly because the Shakers were celibate and did not marry or bear children, their individual histories have been generally overlooked in the g...
Jewish Families from Strusiv, Ukraine (Formerly Galicia, Austro-Hungary) Strusiv is a very small town located in Ternopolskaya at 49º20 25º37, near Ternopil and 12 km from Terebovlya and 120 km from Chernovtsy. The cemetery is located at SW village, near entry from Buchach. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews. The earliest known Jewish Community was 18th century. 1939 Jewish pop...
This is a shell for Jewish Families of Szczebrzeszyn please join, add profiles and add to the description. Szczebrzeszyn Yizkor Book Samuel Gruber's Blog- Szczebrzeszyn Jewish Virtual Libray- Szczebrzeszyn Virtual Shtetl-Szczebrzeszyn JRI-Poland- Szczebrzeszyn Jewish Cemetery Project- Szczebrzeszyn Jewish Cemetery Search - Gidonim Project
GORLICE also called Gorlitza (Yiddish), Gorlits, Gorlitse*Today Gorlice, Malopolskie, Poland - formerly Gorlice, Galicia, Austria*62 miles ESE of Kraków, 20 miles E of Nowy Sącz.*Jewish Population in 1900: about 3,000 TIPS FOR JOINERS TO THIS GROUP # press "actions" button in upper-right corner# select "add profiles"# pick everyone in your tree from Gorlice (Geni may take an hour or more to att...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland.Grodzisk Mazowiecki is a town located 30 km. southwest of Warsaw. The town had a Jewish community and it had been the center of the Hasidic Grodzhisk dynasty, (Grodzisk Mazowiecki being pronounced as "Grodzhisk" in Yiddish.) Grodzisk was the birthplace of Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889-1943), also known as...
Photographs and text by Julian H. Preisler Dobrin in Yiddish Former Jewish community in Lipno Province, Poland. [GPS: 52.6385%C2%B0 N / 19.3215° E, 52°38'18" N / 19°19'17" E]Dobrzyń nad Wisłą (Dobrin in Yiddish) is located on the Wisłą (Vistula) River in the Włocławek Province of Poland. It is a small town located halfway between the cities of Włocławek and Płock in central Poland. The town, f...
Jewish Families from Chortkiv (Czortkow) This is a project for Jewish Families from the Galician town of Czortkow in what is now the Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine at 49°01'00 Longitude: 25°48'00. External Links: Czortkow Records on JRI-Poland.org Kehilalinks-Czortkow Czortkow on Wikipedia
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Cisna, Poland. [ Gesher Galicia-Cisna ] Background Cisna [%CB%88t%CD%A1%C9%95isna] (Ukrainian: Тісна, Tisna) is the main village of the Gmina Cisna in the Lesko County, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (province) of south-eastern Poland. It lies in the Solinka valley in between the Bieszczady mountains. History The village ha...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Chrzanów, Poland. Chrzanów in Wikipedia JewishGen Memory Book for Chrzanów ===Background and History=== Chrzanów [%CB%88x%CA%82anuf] ( listen) (German: 1941-1945 Krenau)[1] is a town in southern Poland with 39,704 inhabitants as of 2006. It is situated in the historical Lesser Poland Voivodeship (since 1999) and is the ca...
Jewish Families from Chorostkow (Khorostkiv, Ukraine) The purpose of this project is to identify and connect all of the Jewish families of the small town of Chorostkow. Chorostkow, now called Khorostkiv is located between Husiatyn and Kopyczynce, on the banks of the River Taina in the Ternopil Oblast of the Ukraine in what was once Galician Podolia. The village was granted the rights of a sma...
Jewish Families of Chojna, Poland (Formerly Koenigsberg in der Neumark, Prussia) This project is intended to catalogue the Jewish families living now or in the past in Chojna in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland that was formerly Königsberg in der Neumark "King's Mountain in the New March" in Prussia. It is a small town in northwestern Poland in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship approxima...