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Thanks to his granddaughter Judy who transcribed this vivid story describing many aspects of Jewish life in Odessa.
Enjoy this great memory by clicking here located in the section People Stories

Exhibition opens at Odessa hotel during city's third Limmud Jewish learning conference.

See full article here

Hi everybody,

The translation of an article about the Jewish Nursing Home originally published on the Vikna Odessa newspaper is available on the Institutions section of the Life in Odessa menu.
You can directly access it here

There are also some new images on the Postcards gallery and a new link I'd like to recommend you.
It's an article where Larissa Oshmyany, an Odessite who graduated from the Odessa Theatre and Art College, revisits the past and present of Odessa through images. The article is published here in russian or you can read the english translation by google directly from the links page.

As always, the translation of records on the Odessa Database project continues its normal way.

Enjoy

Ariel Parkansky
Odessa Town Leader
kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa

Happy new year to everybody,

Two new books (1910 All Odessa Directory and 1900 Odessa Illustrated Guide) are online on the Books Database of the Odessa KehilaLinks.

Enjoy,

Ariel Parkansky
Odessa Town Leader
kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa

Hi everybody,

I'd like to give you an update on what's new on Odessa

1) A new article about Sholem Aleichem:
Isabelle Nemirovsky's new article portraits the life of one of the greatests Yiddish writers.
Although Sholem Aleichem only lived 3 years in Odessa, they were fruitful ones and Odessans consider him a "son of the city".
You'll find it on the "Life in Odessa\Art & Culture" section or you can read it directly here

If you have any family story that you want to share, or any subject about the Life in Odessa that you'd like to write about, please contact me.

2) Vital records translation project:
The project continues "as usual". In the last 60 days almost 300 new records have been translated by our volunteers and some 20 new documents added to the database.

If you have any document concerning Odessa that you want to share, please contact me.

3) 1858 Census Project:
The researcher continues to work on the records and we'll have new ones published soon on the database. I'll keep you updated.

Thanks to all the people who has already donated money for this project. For those who haven't done it yet, I remind you that you can do it here. We still need your contribution.

Thanks and Shana Tova to everybody,

Ariel Parkansky
Odessa Town Leader
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa