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 […]

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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. […]

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History of the Zelbovitz Family by Morris Silbert

Morris Silbert was my great uncle. Several of his siblings and first cousins wrote histories of the Zelbovitz family. While all were directionally correct, there were conflicts that we can resolve today through investigating records. One point of interest is that they seemed to start the Zelbovitz family with their great-great-grandfather Nosson. We now know, […]

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