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 […]
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, […]
‘Questions & Answers on the Shulchan Orech” by Mordechai Zelbowitz
”Questions & Answers on the Shulchan Orech” was written by Mordechai Zelbovitz, son of Abba Leib Zelbovitz. Reb Modechai was born in Lithuania in 1868 and died in the Holocaust in 1941. Ateres Mordechai written by Rabina M. Zelbovica published around 1939 ”Reb Motl Ponedeler” (Mordechai Zelbovich) was born in Ponedel and was the first […]