Post by joshak on Feb 21, 2005 15:38:21 GMT -5
I am trying to find the exact relationship between my grandfather, Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak ABRAMOWITZ of Jerusalem and Rabbi Isaac Simcha HUREWITZ of Hartford and his cousin Reb' Shimon "Shoichet" of Petach Tikva, Israel.
The two sides (Abramowitzs and the Hurewitzs) "know" they are cousins but no one alive today seems to know exactly how.
Both my grandfather's parents and the two above Hurewitzs emmigrated from Novarodok in Eastern Europe (Isaac going to the states and Shimon going to Palestine).
My grandparents emmigrated from Palestine to Hartford (in the 1930s) since they had a relative who served as a Rabbi there-the above Rabbi I.S. Hurewitz. My mother writes in her autobiography about her cousins the Hurewitzs in Hartford.
When my grandfather's parents died the same week in a typhoid epedemic in Palestine leaving a 6 year old orphan child (my mother's aunt) Reb' Shimon Hurewitz came to adopt the young girl. We presume it was a familial responsibility.
All my aunts refer to Shimon H. as "our cousin".
Shimon's children, the Puchowitz family of Israel and Chicago also grew up "knowing" this cousiship, but not knowing the exact connection.
One possible link is through a Rabbi Dovid of Novarodok who authored a book called "Galia Mesechta". According to family sources we are descendants of Dovid's Parents.
Does anyone connected to the above Hurewitz family know of a connection to this Dovid of Novarodok (no family name known).
Thank you.
Not to make this message too lengthy I have omitted most of the basis for the presumption of the family relationship.
The two sides (Abramowitzs and the Hurewitzs) "know" they are cousins but no one alive today seems to know exactly how.
Both my grandfather's parents and the two above Hurewitzs emmigrated from Novarodok in Eastern Europe (Isaac going to the states and Shimon going to Palestine).
My grandparents emmigrated from Palestine to Hartford (in the 1930s) since they had a relative who served as a Rabbi there-the above Rabbi I.S. Hurewitz. My mother writes in her autobiography about her cousins the Hurewitzs in Hartford.
When my grandfather's parents died the same week in a typhoid epedemic in Palestine leaving a 6 year old orphan child (my mother's aunt) Reb' Shimon Hurewitz came to adopt the young girl. We presume it was a familial responsibility.
All my aunts refer to Shimon H. as "our cousin".
Shimon's children, the Puchowitz family of Israel and Chicago also grew up "knowing" this cousiship, but not knowing the exact connection.
One possible link is through a Rabbi Dovid of Novarodok who authored a book called "Galia Mesechta". According to family sources we are descendants of Dovid's Parents.
Does anyone connected to the above Hurewitz family know of a connection to this Dovid of Novarodok (no family name known).
Thank you.
Not to make this message too lengthy I have omitted most of the basis for the presumption of the family relationship.