New member introduction from Larry Lobel on 2004-02-06 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Larry Lobel <hayforker_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:23:35 -0800
To: <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-To: hayforker_at_earthlink.net

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Hello
Czernowitzers,

My name is
Larry Lobel. I'm 54 years old and live in California, though I'm a native
of New York City. I became interested in my family history about 15 years
ago and have done research on and off during that time. My paternal
grandfather, Jacob Lobel (1889-1960), a native of Bukovina, emigrated to the US
in 1907. He said he came from Unter-Stanestie, which through my research I
found to be asmall town near Sadagura and Czernowitz, which he also used
to mention by name. He was fluent and literatein German, Hebrew,
Yiddish and English, and had a beautifulhandwriting. For many years
he was the secretary of the landsmannshaft, First Sadagorer Young Men's
Benevolent Association. I have copies of the minutes he kept in Hebrew of
the organization's meetings in the 1950s. He is buried in the Baron Hirsch
Cemetery in Staten Island, New York, where I remember seeing a monument
inscribed with the name of the landsmannshaft. 

I'm
verypleased to learn of your list and the shtetl web site. When the
recordsand photos become available from the Sadagora and Czernowitz
cemeteries, I think I might find my ancestors in them. My
great-grandparents, Schulem and Mantsya Lobel, I was told passed away there in
the influenza epidemic of 1918. 

I was
fascinated and moved by Clifford Rees's report of his trip to Czernowitz, which
has many parallels to my background, my interest in genealogy, and my own family
historypilgrimage, which I made to Vienna in 1991.My
description of this was published in Ancestry Magazine, and can be seen at this
website - <A
href="http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/849.asp">http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/849.asp</A>

For now,
I'd like to know if anyone on the List has heard of the town of Stanestie, and
can tell me anything about it - population, how close it was to
Sadagura-Czernowitz, does anything remain of it, etc? 


Larry
Lobel
Petaluma,
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Received on 2004-02-07 07:57:34