Sunday, April 10, 2016

The Gefilte Fish Line

The Gefilte Fish Line: A Sweet And Salty History Of Jewish ...

www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/24/351185646/the-gefilte-fish...

 
The line delineates the sweet and salty foods.  For example, gefilte fish may be slightly sweet or salty, depending on the region. The Galitzianers prepare gefilte fish with sugar; Litvak’s, WITH black pepper. To the west of this line is Galitzianer territory. Gefilte Fish Line. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/24/351185646/the-gefilte-fish-line-a-sweet-and-salty-history-of-jewish-identity

Litvak and Galitzianers spoke Yiddish but with different dialects. For example the Galician ‘Toyrah’; Litvak, ‘Torah’).

Lands were generally Russian somehow differed east and west of the above border through central Poland. Of course, Galicians, to the Northeast of Poland also had their own accent and foods.

Glalicia consisted of much of what later became the Ukraine and Poland.

Galician Towns 1900
Ukraine
(transliteration)
בעלז
(Beltz)
ברעזשאן
(Brezhan)
בולחוב
בראד
(Brod)
בוסק
(Bisk)
בוטשאטש
(Bitshutsh)
טשארטקאוו
(Tshortkov)
דראהביטש
(Drubitsh)
גאליצ
(Galits)
הורדנקא
הוסיאטין
(Hushatin)
סטאניסלאוו
(Stanislav)
קאליזש
קאלאמײַ
(Kolomay)
לעמבערג
(Lemberik)
נאדווארנע
(Nadverne)
פרעמישלאן
פודהייצא
ראווע
(Rave)
רוהאטין
סאמבור
סטרי
טארנאפאל
ז'ובקבה
(Zholkva)
זלאטשאוו
(Zlotshev)
Poland
(transliteration)
באכניא
קשאנוב
דיקלא
דינוב
גאָרליץ
(Gurlitz)
יעראסלאוו
(Yeroslav)
קראקא
(Kruke)
לינסק
(Linsk)
ליז'נסק
(Lizhensk)
לימינוב
(Liminuv)
לאַנצוט
(Lantzut)
מישלעניץ
צאנז
(Tsanz)
אשפוצין
(Oshpetsin)
פרעמישעל
פּשעוואָרסק
(Pshevorsk)
רימנוב
ריישא
(Reysha)
סאניק
(Sunik)
טארנא
(Turne)
ודוביץ
זאטער
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Friday, April 8, 2016

Trenton's Jews: Beginning, Adaptation and Achieving the American Dream



Trenton's Jews: Beginning, Adaptation and Achieving the American Dream  Arthur L. Finkle 


An account of a small industrial city, Trenton, that became a haven for immigrating Jews (German Jews in the 1850’s; and the Russian, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian Jews in 1881-1914). The story delves into the immigrant periods of a displaced people adapting to a completely new environment. It follow its people, its institutions, its work and its eventual economic success. Later, the story line explores the Second Generation of this Russian community, along with the older and smaller German Jewish community, and the amalgamating influences of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) and other secular organizations ‘Americanizing’ the Jewish community. Trenton is one of many small cities that served as havens for Jewish refugees who came to the land of opportunity to eventually achieve the American dream.

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