Greetings from the
Shidlover Young Men's Society
Officers 1949
Philip Fleisher President
Mrs. Flora Kohn Vice-President
Irving Wohl Financial Secetary
Shabse Osulke Recording Secretary
David Cholewa Treasurer
The Shidlover Young Men's Society was likely the landsmanshaft for immigrants from Szydłów (Shidlova in Yiddish), Poland. That community was in the Kielce District (before World War I, Russian Empire; between the wars, Poland). There is a similarly named community in Lithuania: Šiluva (Shidleve in Yiddish). However, checking the surnames on this 1949 list of officers against names of current researchers on JewishGen, leads me to believe that
Szydłów is more likely. Two of the surnames listed (Osulke and Cholewa) are also found among Szydłów researchers and not among those studying Šiluva.
Szydłów is more likely. Two of the surnames listed (Osulke and Cholewa) are also found among Szydłów researchers and not among those studying Šiluva.
I have not located anyone of the name Cholewa nor Osulke in the 1940 census enumeration for New York City.
Szydłów was not located any where near Lubin, Volhynia Gunbernia. It may be that this group placed an ad based upon friendships developed in New York after immigration.
According to the "WPA Yiddish Writer's Group Study" conducted in 1938, the Shidlover Young Men's Society was started in 1916 in New York City.
My name is Cliff Carrol. Today I visited the grave sites of my grand parents who died before I was born in 1961. Jacob Cohen passed in 1958 and Ida passed in 1953. Can anyone tell me about them? Were they true Cohens?
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ReplyDeleteCliff: I am not clear if your grandparents were buried in one of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Society plots in Old Montefiore Cemetery or Beth Moses Cemetery. Or, perhaps they were associated with the Shidlover Society? If not, then where were they buried? Does it say ha-Kohane on your grandfather's gravestone inscription? With regard to Kohanim, it is generally info that is passed down by oral tradition within a family. And it only gets passed down though the men in the family.
DeleteThank you for responding. It means ao much to me. They are buried at Beth Israel Cemetery as part of the Shidlover benevolent association.
DeleteCliff: I am afraid my expertise is in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association. I do not know anything about the Shidlover Society beyond what was written in this blog post. Best of luck with your continued research!
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