Iowa and Illinois - especially Rock Island (really the Tri-City area including Moline and Davenport), St. Louis, and Chicago - were a landing place for Jewish immigrants from this area between 1880 and 1920. This project will document the family surnames and towns that they settled in. This first came to my attention when I read that emigrants from my great-grandparents' town of Belogorodka ten...
Izyaslav (formerly Zaslav) city in Khmelnitski region (former Kamenets-Podolski), Ukraine. Situated on the Horyn river, the city dates back to the 11th century. It is one of the oldest cities in Volhynia. The first evidence about the Jewish community there dates back to the first half of the 16th century. . . . ‘’Continued >>>Izyaslav [Ukr], Zaslav [Rus], Zaslaw [Pol], Izyaslavl, Zaslavl, Izias...
Zaslavl, a former shtetl near Minsk, Belarus.* Zaslav, Minsk gubernia Eilat Gordin Levitan * Zaslavl Jewish Cemetery Minsk region, Minskij district* Zaslawye, Belarus JewishGen* Zaslavlis is a historic city in Minsk Province of Belarus, 20 kilometres northwest of Minsk.>>Zaslawye [Bel] - Zaslavl' [Rus] - Zaslov [Yid], Zasław [Pol] - Zaslavium [Lat] - Zaslav, Zasłaŭje - Zaslaue - Zaslavlis - (Be...