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From the Old World to the New
Life in Koshovato Zeide Shlomo and the Goat The Boys of Koshovato Sonya Goes to School The Picture Bride No Gambling Here Choosing a Rabbi Welcome to America The Business Trip The Reluctant Soldiers The Rabbi is Not In Pogroms An Engagement Agreement Zionism The Border Crossings Sonya Travels to America A Meeting in Pittsburgh My Hands Are Cold The Passover Dishes Coming to America Rose Moves to New York and Meets her Beshert The Visit I Want Turkey Abi Gezunt (As Long As You Are Healthy) Aunt Lybba Comes to Visit Visits to Stroudsburg Passover Memories Appendix A little History ... A little Geography
Created 02 Dec 2018
Appendix
Menashe is Hebrew for Manuel Bubbie is grandmother Zeide us grandfather Fetter is uncle Tanta is aunt Shlomo is Hebrew for Solomon Rabbi Joseph Korostoshevshi came from the West to serve as rabbi in the shul. He had only one child, Avrum. (Abraham) Cantor Avrum Korostoshevski could not go to rabbinical school. There were no yeshivot in the area, and Joseph could not afford to send him to a yeshiva in the west. Genesse Gubenko Binder, papers were completed and arranged for Genesse and her children. While Sonya and Yetta were enroute to the US before Genesse could begin her journey, the USSR halted all exit visas.
Dates
Names changed in America
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Koshovato is pronounced kah-shove-a-tah