July 18, 2018 – Elizabeth, NJ – World-renowned Jewish genealogist Neil Rosenstein recently announced the on-going release of articles which appeared in various newspapers, periodical, journals and magazines over the past three decades. Presented here is “JRP-Poland Database and Rabbinic Data Merging” which appeared Avotaynu - in the scholarly International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Summer, 2008.
Neil Rosenstein, a world-renowned genealogist and expert in medieval Jewish history, continues to release old, archival articles to the public over the internet. Rosenstein says, “It is of the utmost importance for Jewish historians, researchers and genealogists to gain access to the content of the many articles and book reviews which are hidden away in numerous periodical, magazines, and newspapers over the past twenty or thirty years.”
The writer discusses four examples of the integration of JRI-Poland civil records with published facts of rabbinic genealogy from other sources.
Example One: Deals with Horowitz family and Cracow records.
Example Two: Deals with the Frankel-Teomim family and Warsaw records.
Example Three: Deals with the Wallerstein family and Rzeszow records.
Example Four: Deals with the Waks family and Kalisz records.
A detailed conclusion follows.
About Rosenstein:
Neil Rosenstein was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1944. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town and interned in Israel. He specialized in surgery at the Mt. Sinai hospitals in Cleveland and New York City, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. He maintained a private practice as a general surgeon in New Jersey for over 30 years.
As a result of over four decades of investigative study of rare books and manuscripts, trips to libraries and cemeteries, travel and correspondence, Rosenstein has accumulated a vast matrix of material on Jewish genealogy, especially in the field of rabbinical dynasties for which he has become world famous. His research has included travel in South Africa, Israel, USA, Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, England, Italy, and France.
He founded the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (New York) in 1977, and is also founder and director of the Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy.
Rosenstein is the author of many works on Jewish Genealogy, his magnum opus being The Unbroken Chain, first published as a single volume in 1976. An expanded two-volume second edition was published in 1990. Other noted works include Saul Wahl, The Grandees of New Jersey, The Lurie Legacy: The House of Davidic Royal Descent, Avnei Zikaron (Stones of Remembrance), The Gaon of Vilna and his Cousinhood, and Latter Day Leaders, Sages and Scholars.
He has produced a CD-ROM with the indexed obituaries of the first-ever Hebrew weekly, HaMagid, which was in print from 1856 to 1903. In addition, he is contributor of articles to various Jewish genealogical publications and The Jewish Press.
He lectures frequently and has spoken many times to various Jewish genealogical societies, in the United States and abroad, as well as at the International Seminars for Jewish Genealogy and the annual National Summer Seminars. His biography is included in Who's Who in World Jewry (1987) and is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America (from 1997 onwards).
Rosenstein and his wife, Mavis, live in Elizabeth, New Jersey. They have five sons and more than 20 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Neil Rosenstein, a world-renowned genealogist and expert in medieval Jewish history, continues to release old, archival articles to the public over the internet. Rosenstein says, “It is of the utmost importance for Jewish historians, researchers and genealogists to gain access to the content of the many articles and book reviews which are hidden away in numerous periodical, magazines, and newspapers over the past twenty or thirty years.”
The writer discusses four examples of the integration of JRI-Poland civil records with published facts of rabbinic genealogy from other sources.
Example One: Deals with Horowitz family and Cracow records.
Example Two: Deals with the Frankel-Teomim family and Warsaw records.
Example Three: Deals with the Wallerstein family and Rzeszow records.
Example Four: Deals with the Waks family and Kalisz records.
A detailed conclusion follows.
About Rosenstein:
Neil Rosenstein was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1944. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town and interned in Israel. He specialized in surgery at the Mt. Sinai hospitals in Cleveland and New York City, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. He maintained a private practice as a general surgeon in New Jersey for over 30 years.
As a result of over four decades of investigative study of rare books and manuscripts, trips to libraries and cemeteries, travel and correspondence, Rosenstein has accumulated a vast matrix of material on Jewish genealogy, especially in the field of rabbinical dynasties for which he has become world famous. His research has included travel in South Africa, Israel, USA, Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, England, Italy, and France.
He founded the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (New York) in 1977, and is also founder and director of the Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy.
Rosenstein is the author of many works on Jewish Genealogy, his magnum opus being The Unbroken Chain, first published as a single volume in 1976. An expanded two-volume second edition was published in 1990. Other noted works include Saul Wahl, The Grandees of New Jersey, The Lurie Legacy: The House of Davidic Royal Descent, Avnei Zikaron (Stones of Remembrance), The Gaon of Vilna and his Cousinhood, and Latter Day Leaders, Sages and Scholars.
He has produced a CD-ROM with the indexed obituaries of the first-ever Hebrew weekly, HaMagid, which was in print from 1856 to 1903. In addition, he is contributor of articles to various Jewish genealogical publications and The Jewish Press.
He lectures frequently and has spoken many times to various Jewish genealogical societies, in the United States and abroad, as well as at the International Seminars for Jewish Genealogy and the annual National Summer Seminars. His biography is included in Who's Who in World Jewry (1987) and is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America (from 1997 onwards).
Rosenstein and his wife, Mavis, live in Elizabeth, New Jersey. They have five sons and more than 20 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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