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A list and description of the chapters of this book
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Introduction: “The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed; and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out,…
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Chapter Seven: Besser and Popaver in Warsaw & Otwock Avram Zamvel Besser, Menucha Yaakov , Shlomo Popaver, Rachel Leia (surname unknown) The Polish archives have been especially stingy in providing information on the Popavers and Bessers. Because of this we only see back into the mid to late 1800s. Even worse, we do not know…
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Avram Moshe Olej, Baila Horowicz, and Chana Glevistsky A Wedding It happened in the city of Zgierz, March 10th, 1845, at 3pm. Local Orthodox [Rabbi] Herz Kohn appeared together with Orthodox Oli Liverant, a bachelor age 28. Living in the city of Łask also born of Michal & Sury… and the Orthodox Bajla Horowitz a…
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Mendel Levin, Mindel Aronowna, Ludwick Levin, Estera Siennicka, Jakub Levin, and Malka Hinda Lichtensztejn Quick notes on the Levins For those of you who are descended from Avram Moshe Olej, but not from Yosef, you are not likely related to the Levins. However, you may still find this chapter interesting as it describes Jewish life…
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To access the spreadsheet, use this link Lewin – Pabianice Final.xls
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Chapter Four: 1750-1840 – Our Earliest Known Ancestor Lajzer Olej, Machel Olej/Liverand, Sura Warzawaska Łask, Poland Around 1770 our earliest known ancestor, Machel Leyzer Olej was born in Łask Poland. He was your author’s 3rd great-grandfather.[i] Within the family he has been named both Machel Olej and Machel Liverand. To date, all official records refer…
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Chapter Three: Life in Europe We, Boleslaw, by the grace of God the Duke of Wielkopolska, hereby make it known to both those of the present and of the future, to whose notice the present write shall come, that to our Jews living all across the lands of our Dominion, We have resolved to declare…
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Chapter Two: Diaspora (תְּפוּצָה) Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them the waters of the River, strong and mighty – The King of Assyria and all his glory; He will go up over all his channels And go over all his banks. He will pass through Judah, He will overflow and pass over,…
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Chapter One: From Nomads to the Jewish KingdomAdam & Eve, approximately 200,000 years ago in modern day Botswana At an unknown date, an unnamed tribe of ancient Humans lived in the Makgadikgadi Basin. Within this tribe was the mother of all living humans. This woman, our ~8,000th great grandmother[1] is known as the “Mitochondrial Eve”.…
