KEHILALINKS: RUZHANY (AND KOSSOWO)

Dedicated to Amy Levinson z"l, who was the spirit that brought life to this project.

 

 

Other Names: Rozana, Ruzhana

 ( in Yiddish) Reginoi, Rozhinoy, Rozinoi, Ruzhanoy

Various names listed on a Belarus website  - Ружаны, R żana, 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

• List of Immigrants to North America (U.S.A. & Canada) 

 

Eretz Israel (Palestine)

• Families found in the 1875 Montifiore Census of Eretz Israel

• List of People from Ruzhany and Kosowo Burried on Mt. Olives found in Helkat Mehokek

• List of Emmigrants to Ekron (Mazkeret Batya) Eretz Israel, 1885 & 1886

• Pictures of Emmigrants to Ekron

• Pictures from the Museum at Mazkeret Batya (February 2012)  *new February 2012*
  

• List of those burried in Ekron through Nissan (April) 1931

• Description of Settlement and Institutions and the list of those burried in Ekron through Nissan (April) 1931 (in hebrew - pdf file) 14th pamphlet of Avnei Zikaron written by Pinchas Ben-Zvi Grayevsky 

• Arkin Family History   

• List of Immigrants to Eretz Israel

• Pictures of Immigrants to Eretz Israel

• List of Immigrants from Kossovo to Eretz Israel After World War Two

• List of Immigrants originally from Kossovo to Eretz Israel from Argentina

  

"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, Kos w, Косаў, Kosava, Koss w, 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

• Holocaust Memorial, Valley of the Communities, Yad Vashem Israel

• Holocaust Memorial, Har Zion, Jerusalem, Israel

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

• Volansky Family in Kossovo - Family Pictures from Nadav Molchadsky

• Volansky Family in Kossovo  - Family Pictures 2 from Nadav Molchadsky

• Volansky Family Documents in Eretz Israel from Nadav Molchadsky

• Volansky Family in Kossovo - Family Pictures from Robert W. Kraft

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)

• The JGSNY Burial Society Database Project
  

• Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Rozenoy

• Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Rozenoy - document

• Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Rozenoy - description of above document

• Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Rozenoy - Officers 1973

• List of People Buried in the Anshei Rozinoy Plot at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, NY, USA  (pdf file)

• Pictures of Entrances to Plots at Mt. Zion Cemetery

• List of People Buried in the Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Roznoy Plot at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, NY, USA (pdf file)

• List of People Buried in the Roznoyer Benevolent Society Plot at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, NY, USA (pdf file) 

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

• Holocaust Memorial, Holon Israel

• Holocaust Memorial, Valley of the Communities, Yad Vashem Israel

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

• Mordechai Molchadsky's passport

• Rabbi Yossef (Joshua) Molchadsky's passport

Pines Family

• Pines Family

• Les Pines: Une Famille de Medecins et D'ecrivains 1954 *

Photographs of Ruzhany at different times

1929 Polish Business Directory Project 1929

• 1929 Polish Business Directory Project - Kossow page 1

• 1929 Polish Business Directory Project - Kossow page 2

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  

• Sometime about 1997, Amy Levinson z"l engaged Oleg Perzashkevich to photograph the remaining tombstones in the cemetery in Ruzhany.  The pictures have been uploaded to the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry  JOWBR Project.  A portion of the tombstones can not be deciphered. The following links are to the report Oleg prepared. 

• Page 1 of Oleg's Report

• Page 2 of Oleg's Report

• Overall Map of the Cemetery The following pages are the sections with numbers showing where the remaining tombstones stood.

• Sections 1 - 9

• Sections 10 - 18

• Sections 19 - 27

• Ruzhany Cemetery, about 1925  *updated Dec 2009*

Ruznoyer Congregation (NY)

• Thirtieth Anniversary Booklet 1907 - 1937

• List of Members in 1937

Ruzhany in pictures

• Nancy Holden's Trip to RUZHANY - 2002

• Ruzhany - pictures of the town from about World War I  * Dec 2009*

• Ruzhany - pictures taken December 2101 *new Dec 2010*

• Ruzhany, pictures of the Ruzhany and the surrounding area       
  
• Ruzhany - Lisa Newman's visit October 2011 *new February 2012*

Ruzhany Yizkor Book 

In Memory of our Martyrs - Ruzhinoy and Environs

"Once There was a Shtetl"

Sapieha Palace 

• Saphieha Palace, 1829 through 1988  *updated Dec 2009*

• Saphieha Palace     *updated Jan 2011*

• Documentation of purchase by Ari Leib Pines' purchase of the Ruzhany castle from Duke Sapieha in 1829

• Saphieha Palace, website with floor  plan and collection of pictures

 

Shtetl Donor Lists from Rozinoy listed in HaMagid 1871-1872

Sielecki Family 

Synagogue

• Synagogue of Ruzhany in all its glory *Dec 2009*

• Synagogue of Ruzhany in 1998 & other sites

• Synagogue of Ruzhany in 2010 *new Jan 2011*

 

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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