the Industrial Removal Office

In the early 1900’s large amounts of Romanian Jews fled to New York. The Rumanian Committee was organized in New York City as a result of this. The Committee’s aim was to help relocate the immigrants to other cities and help them find employment. The Rumanian Committee soon became the Industrial Removal Office (IRO), under […]

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What’s in a Name? – Feivel Nosson

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. […]

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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 […]

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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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