Other
Names: Rozana, Ruzhana
· ( in Yiddish)
Reginoi, Rozhinoy, Rozinoi, Ruzhanoy
Various names
listed on a Belarus website - Ружаны, Różana, Ражана, Ражаная,
Rozana,
Rozhinoy, Rozinoi, Ruzany, Ruzhana, Ruzhany
Where
is RUZHANY ? Latitude 52°52´, Longitude 24°53´
According to a website in Belarus, it is in Brest
regition, Pruzany district.
Maps
Ruzhany - Map and Information on JewishGen
Kossowo - Map and Information on JewishGen
Background
Information
In every generation each person must
regard himself as if he himself had come out of
Egypt, as it is said: "And thou shalt relate it to
thy son on that day, saying, this is done on account
of that which the Lord did unto me, when I came
forth out of Egypt."(Exodus 13:8, Passover Hagadah)
Time Line - The
History of Ruzhany vs Jewish and European History
Immigration from Ruzhany to America,
& Eretz Israel
North America
Eretz
Israel (Palestine)
"Not to know what happened before we
were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what
is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into
the life of our ancestors by the records of
history?" --- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
Kossowo
Kossowo
According
to a website in Belarus, it is in Brest region,
Ivacevičy district. The driving instructions
say to go through Ruzany to get there, so I think
this is the one. Latitude 52°45´, Longitude 25°09´
Other
spellings: Коссово, Kosów, Косаў, Kosava, Kossów,
Kossovo, Kosow, Kossov, Мерачоўшчына,
Меречёвщина, Kosau, Меречевщина,
Мерачевщина, Марачоўшчына, Mereczowszczyzna
Documents,
Stories & Photographs
A Few Families' Pictures from Kossovo
from Shmuel Rabinovich
A Few More Families' Pictures from
Kossovo
from Shmuel Rabinovich
Bits & Pieces of Information from
the Belarus Database (Jewish
Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire,
1853-1854, Births Database, & Vsia Rossiia
1895,1899,1903,1911 Berdichev, Zhitomir, Tiraspol,
Slonim and Volkovysk Uyezds)
Finkel-Franklin
Family - founders of a Jewish farming community
in Ellington, Connecticut
from Irene Berman
Holocaust Memorials
Jenta Iliwicka &
Others - Documents
Kossover Benevolent
Association
List of People Buried in the Kossover
Benevolent Association Plot at Mt. Zion Cemetery,
Maspeth, NY, USA (pdf file)
Picture of the gate entrance to the
Kossover Benevolent Association Plot at Mt. Zion
Cemetery, Queens, NY. USA
Passports
· Quni-Malka Volansky's (Sarshevsky)
passport
Memorial
Book of Kosow Poleski (Kossovo, Belarus)
Molchadsky - Letters of Recommendation for Rabbi
Yossef Yoshuha Molchadsky
Pictures of
Kossovo
from Shmuel Rabinovich
Receipt of Money Sent to Kosowo to
Rikel Kleckyn
Rikel Kleckyn - Picture
from Phyllis Forman
Pictures from the Meetings of
Kossovoers in Israel
from Shmuel Rabinovich
Rifikoff Family in
Kossovo
Volansky Family in Kossovo
Zshuk-Zukovsky Family in Jerusalem from Shoshana
Stern
Ruzhany
Bits & Pieces of Information from
the Belarus Database (Jewish
Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire,
1853-1854, Births Database, & Vsia Rossiia
1895,1899,1903,1911 Berdichev, Zhitomir, Tiraspol,
Slonim and Volkovysk Uyezds)
Burials & Burial Societies
(Chevra Kadisha)
Chiry (Victor) Hyman (Chaim Avigdor)
from Ruzhany to Chicago by
Elliot Malkin
Deportation of Jews -- Operation
Reinhardt
Eby-Spector
Family
A son's tribute to the heritage of a
lost village - Woodbine, NJ
Etta
Yellin, Le
Tsatseiey (To My Descendants: My Memories)
Halprin (Epstein) Family
A
Haggadah that Survived the Holocaust * new March 2012*
Holocaust
Memorials
List of Kahal
Electors, 1838-1841, Ruzhany
List of Residents of Ruzhany from the
research of Yehuda Klausner
Elections
for Synagogue and Kahal Administration 1838
Passports
Pines
Family
Photographs
of Ruzhany at different times
1929 Polish
Business Directory Project 1929
1929 Polish Business Directory
Project - Ruzhany
Rabbis of Ruzhany *updated Dec 2009*
Ohel Shem & Material about Rabbis from
Ruzhany
Rubins/Podorovsky
Family
Ruzhany Businesses,
1895 & 1903
Ruzhany
Cemetery
Ruznoyer Congregation
(NY)
Ruzhany in pictures
Ruzhany Yizkor Book
In Memory of our
Martyrs - Ruzhinoy and Environs
"Once There was a
Shtetl"
Sapieha
Palace
Shtetl Donor Lists from Rozinoy
listed in HaMagid 1871-1872
Sielecki Family
Synagogue
Vegotsky & Solomon Families * Dec 2009*
Vygodsky -
My visit to Minsk and Ruzhany by Tybie Abrams * new March 2012*
Well-known Emigres and Descendants of
Ruzhany
Stories
about Ruzhany (published)
Some of the stories are PDF files, in
order to read the stories you will need the Arcobat
Reader which you can download free from the
following site.

· In
My Childhood: In Rozinoy written by Etta Yellin,
published in To My Descendants: My
Memories,
"Maariv" Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1938, p. 7-12
(Hebrew)
Rozinoy
written by Mordechai Guber, published in Jewish Farmers on
Russian Fields,
Sifrat Poalim, Ltd., 1965 (originally in Hebrew,
translated to English)
Bibliography & Resources
Books
(Bibliography including names of books in Hebrew)
· Jewish Farmers on
Russian Fields,
Sifrat Poalim, Ltd., 1965 (Hebrew)
· The Encyclopedia of
Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust,
Volume 3
· Zkor Niz'kor: Keihila
Yehudit. Rozhinoy - Ruzhany de'Grodno: Be'hayah'
Be'yemay Hashoah U'Be'haslachota le'dorot
Mifal Haschipul Publications, Tel-Aviv, 1971. A
project produced by students in the Ramat Ha'Hayal
High School based on interviews of residents of
Rozhinoy.
· I.T.
Eisenstadt, Da'at Kedoshim
· Wayne
Pines, The Sermons of Jerome
Martin Pines with A Partial genealogy of the Pines
Family,
1978
· Pinchs
Ben-Zvi Grajewsky, Avnei Zikaron 14th
pamphlet,
1931
· George
Sackheim, Scattered Seeds
The family connections of Rabbi Israel, including a
long line of Ruzhany rabbis and chiefs of rabbinical
courts (ABD's).
· Yaacov
Sharat & Tamir Nachman (Eds), People of the Second
Aliyah,
Mifalei Culture & Education, Inc. Volume 1, 1970
(Hebrew)
· Meir
Segev (Eds), Rozinoi; sefer zikaron
li-kehilat Rozinoi vehasevivah,
Tel-Aviv, 1957
· David
Tidhar, Encyclopedia Le Haluzei
HaYishuv VeBonev: Demuot veTmunot (Encyclopedia of
the Pioneers of the Yishuv and its Builders: Persons
and Pictures),
1971 (Hebrew)
· Etta
Yellin, Le Tsatseiey (To My
Descendants: My Memories),
"Maariv" Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1938, p. 7-12
(Hebrew)
· xxx
(Eds), Sefer Yovel PT,
Book 1, 1929 (Hebrew)
Archives
Archives of Belarus
· Grodno
Archives
The Central Archives for the History
of the Jewish People Sprinzak
Building, Hebrew University, Givat Ram Campus,
Jerusalem, Israel They have a collection of
microfilms & microfische in Russian. They do not
accept requests by mail. The material can be viewed
at their location and copies of relevant material
can be made. Their collection does not include
genealogical materials but good back information.
You need to bring along someone who reads polish and
russian handwriting.
Additional Sites of Information
Belarus Online Newsletter
Belarus SIG Webpage
Burial Societies in the New York
Metropolitan Area
- Anshei Rozinoy, Chevreh Adath Kedeyshim Anshe
Rozinoy (Mt. Zion), Chevreh Adath Kedeyshim Anshe
Rozinoy (United Hebrew), Roznoyer Benevolent
Association, Roznoyer Kranken Unt. Verein
Documentary Resources for the Study
of Towns in Grodno Guberniya
Jewish Communities of the Grodno
Province
JewishGen Holocaust Database
Search the JewishGen Site
We Remember Treblinka!
Yad Vashem, Israel The Central Database of Shoah
Victims' Names
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum archives on Ruzhany
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