Feivel Nosson Zelbovitz (1871-1906) was born in Ponedel. Upon attempting to immigrate to the US with family, he was turned back after a medical inspection showed that he had conjunctivitis. His daughter Elka went back on the boat with her father. Feivel Nosson died on the boat back to the Old Country at age 34. […]
A Zelbovitz descendant in the Civil Rights movement
Eugene Feldman (1915-1987) The basis for this story is an obituary of Eugene Feldman in the Chicago Tribune in 1987… Eugene Pieter Romayn Feldman (1915-1987), one of the founders in the early 1960s of the Du Sable Museum of African American History, served as its director of development and planning for many years. He also […]
Box-Tax paperwork Records.
Below is a link to a very detailed article on Box-Tax paperwork Records.According to Gessen, “Box of cup tax was a term used long ago, as it seems, to refer to the taxes that were levied upon the entire Jewish population not levied individually for each soul (per person or per professions based on assessed […]
History of Jewish Jacksonville, Florida
Metro Jacksonville: Lost Jacksonville: Downtown’s Jewish Enclave A section of the Zelbovitz family (in the Nosson branch) left Lithuania and settled in Jacksonville, Florida by way of Baltimore. This article, aside from being academically interesting, talks about how early Jewish immigrants to Jacksonville established a tight knit community in LaVilla between the 1880s and 1920s. […]
Bernard Silbowitz – missing in action over Crete on Oct 28, 1942
As Memorial Day comes and goes, I would like to remember Second Lieutenant Bernard Silbowitz, who died in action over Crete in 1942. Bernard (1917-1942) was son of Abba Zeev and Jennie Silbowitz. Abba Zeev in turn was son of Chaim Gedalia Zelbovich of Grodno. As a very young girls, my friend and distant cousin Laurie Caspe […]