Cantor Hirsch Louis Chazin

October 1, 2006 JERSEY; Restoring Upended Stones, With Care By Kevin Coyne EVERY Yom Kippur for what seemed an eternity, evening services at the Orthodox synagogue here opened with the improbably huge voice of a surprisingly small man, the revered cantor Hirsch Chazin, chanting the mournful Kol Nidre. When he died at the age of 97, he was laid to rest in a small cemetery near the reservoir at the edge of town, among congregants in whose eyes he had raised tears for decades.

I can still hear that basso-profundo voice, said Dr. Mona Shangold, whose great-grandparents were among the earliest members of Congregation Shaarey Tefiloh, when this immigrant city was home to a thriving Jewish community.

But as the holiest days of the Jewish calendar approached this year, the grave where Cantor Chazin was buried in 1978 had been disturbed. The stone that marked his long and distinguished life -- as well as the adjacent stone for his wife, Dora, and the stones on 33 other graves -- was toppled and lay flat on the ground. A caretaker discovered the damage on Sept. 11

LitvakSIG ALD; Marriage in 1903 in Lazdijai

• Groom KHAZEN, Girsh Leiba age 22 son of Nukhim and Leia daughter of Shulim from Lazdijai
• Bride MARGOLIS, Dobrusha age 25 daughter of David Fishel and Zlata Leia daughter of Abram from Lazdijai
• Event: Marriage
• Date: 11 - 5 - 1903
• Place of Event: Lazdijai / Sejny / Suvalki
• Rabbi: Iankel ROZENBLIUM
• Witnesses: Efroim PUNSKI and Girsh SUKHOVOLSKI
• Where Recorded: Lazdijai Year 1903 Record
• Archive: Polish State Archive PSA/63/200/0/1/31
• Comment: Girsh Leiba born in Teplik vil., Podolsk area

This record is from the LitvakSIG ALD