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Hi everybody,

More than 40000 records have been added to the All Odessa Database.
I've just indexed the Ellis Island Passenger Lists (28226 records) and the Tashkent Refugees List (14747 records).

The Project of Census and Vital Records translation continue its normal way. There are already 335 documents and more than 3500 records and its number increases every week.

The correction of the index of the 1902-1903 Real Estate Directory is touching its end and will be soon also available online.

I remind you that the All Odessa Database is accessible at the Odessa KehilaLinks (http://kehilainks.jewishgen.org/odessa)

There are other big news coming soon so stay tuned :)

Ariel PARKANSKY
JewishGen, Odessa Town Leader

Hi everybody,
A new section "Videos" has been added under the menu "Image Gallery".
Enjoy,
A. Parkansky

Two of the articles are published in the Education Section:
David Krasner and The last graduating class of Jewish School No. 83 by Alex Gliksberg.

The other two appear in the "Odessa Today" Section:
The first one is an 1991 article by Craig Terkowitz about The rebirth of the Jewish Life in Soviet Odessa
The second one is about Antisemitic demonstrations on Hannukah 2011 by Ariel Parkansky.

Isabelle has this time written about the biography and works of Mendele Moykher Sforim - pen name of Sholem Yacov Abramovich -, the "grandfather" of modern literature in Hebrew and Yiddish.
You'll find the article here or under the "Art & Culture" topic of the "Life in Odessa" section.
Many thanks to Isabelle for this great article.

Two new articles provided by Alex Gliksberg have been published :

Jewish Odessa: Chapters from My Memoirs by Rabbi Gliksberg and Rabbi Gliksberg Biography.

Both articles can be found in the "Life in Odessa" section of the menu. The first one under the General subsection, the second under the Inteligentsia one.