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Sammy Marks & Heiny Ellert

Sammy Marks & Heiny Ellert

Two men who came from the same town of Neishtot-Tavrig  in Lithuania   Sammy Marks square in Pretoria is one of the best known landmarks in South Africa’s capital city, but how many people actually know who Sammy Marks was?  

The interesting history of Sammy Marks on Simcha TV (South Africa SABC) with Prof Richard Mendelsohn (ret) UCT History Dept.

Simcha TV

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The Jews of LImpopo

The Jews of LImpopo

Enter the Pietersburg KehilaLink, the website about Jewish life, by clicking on this image below.

Here is the list of and links to all my KehilaLinks:

http://elirab.me/litvak-portal/kehilalinks/

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TEC News From Lithuania

TEC News From Lithuania

  Visit the KehilaLinks for many of these towns

http://elirab.me/litvak-portal/kehilalinks/

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New Jewish Websites & Shemot

New Jewish Websites & Shemot

In honour of the Jewish Pedlar or Smous – see Graaf Reinet KehilaLink

  My article about the Shanghai KehilaLink has been published in the April 2016 edition of Shemot, the publication of the JGS of Great Britain.

http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/shemot

My interest in family history started in 1992, after my cousin wrote seven ancestors’ names down on a scrap piece of paper.

I have had many…

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Five New KehilaLinks

I am pleased to advise that I am now working on five new KehilaLinks.

I compile and manage these Jewish websites as a volunteer for Jewishgen.org, the world’s largest Jewish genealogical organisation.

JewishGen should be the first stop in the journey of discovery of your family history.

If you have roots in these towns, please contact me at [email protected]

I hope you are able to share your…

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Sydney Talk & New KehilaLinks

Sydney Talk & New KehilaLinks

Please note that my Sydney talk now starts at 8pm on Thursday 5 November 2015:

The Melbourne talk is as before on Sunday 1 November at 8pm

Please look at the new Sydney and Melbourne KehilaLinks / Jewish websites.

Sydney:

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/sydney

Melbourne:

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/melbourne

Please email your family photos and stories to [email protected]

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Recognise anyone here?

Cape Town c1950s?

I was sent this photo this morning by Abe Gulis in Israel.

Who is clever or old enough to know who is in this photo and what the occasion was?

My Zaida, Rev Nachum Mendel Rabinowitz of the Vredehoek Shul is third from the left in the second row from the front.

Two away from him in the middle of the row is Chief Rabbi Israel Abrahams, of the Gardens Shul.

I believe it was taken…

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Are you from Port Elizabeth, Pretoria or Oudthoorn?

Are you from Port Elizabeth, Pretoria or Oudthoorn?

Hi

I have set up three basic websites for PE, Pretoria and Oudtshoorn, forerunners of the Kehilalink websites.

These websites celebrate and document the Jews of these cities from its pioneers, through the families who lived and worked in these cities over the decades to those still there today. It will tell the story of the Jewish institutions, the shuls and other Jewish buildings and…

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