Four Jewish Families in Philadelphia; The Solotnitsky, Markowitz, Malinger and Rosenberg Families
Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 401, [3] pages. Illustrations. Genealogical Tables. Cemeteries. Glossary of Foreign and Domestic Words and Phrases. Bibliography. Leonard Markowitz was a chemist and later an aerospace engineer. Mr. Markowitz grew up in West Philadelphia and Wynnefield, and lived in the Philadelphia area all his life. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Temple University, where he majored in chemistry and minored in history. Mr. Markowitz worked in various capacities with Thiokol Chemical Corp., Radio Corp. of America, and General Electric Co. He contributed to programs such as the "Star Wars" missile defense system, the International Space Station, and a number of classified projects. He made presentations to, and worked with, the military and intelligence communities.
After retiring in 1991, he became interested in the genealogy of his and his wife's families. In 2000, the research led to the self-publication of a 424-page book, Four Jewish Families in Philadelphia. The book includes descriptions of life in Eastern Europe during the 19th century, the voyage to America, and what Philadelphia was like when the families arrived at the turn of the 20th century. "There are also vivid descriptions of what happened in the small European towns covered during the Holocaust," Mr. Markowitz wrote in an online synopsis. The book contains the names of over 1,200 individuals, he wrote, with the core surnames of Solotnitsky, Markowitz, Malinger, and Rosenberg. The book has proved to be a godsend for answering questions about genealogy, said his daughter, Lynn Pechinski. The ancestral home of the Zolotnitsky/Solotnitsky family is Priluki on the Uday River east of Kiev, Russia; now located in Chernigov Oblast, Ukraine. Most of the family immigrated about 1907 to Philadelphia. Mary Solotoff or Zolotnitsky (1897 or 1901-1971) married Nathan Markowitz (1891-1951) on 31 Dec. 1919 in Philadelphia. The Markowitz family immigrated in 1890 from Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. Adolph Malinger (1879?-1940) married Mary Morgenstern (1885-1954) in Philadelphia in 1905. The Malinger family came from Tabaszowa and Nowy Sacz, Poland. The Morgenstern family came from Luzna which was about 16 miles from Tabaszowa. Includes the surnames Gabain, Solit, Solot, Segan, Leof/Liev, Sopenoff/Sopenitsky, Poltowsky, Markowicz, Soloff, Soloveitchik, Birn, Oliner, Mollinger, Pazner, Arenson, Skolnick, Gold, Schwartz/Wagner, Pinkerton, May, Simkowitz, Nagel, Keyser, Galfand. Condition: Very good / No Dust Jacket present.
Keywords: Jews, Migration, Pogroms, Shtetl, Philadelphia, Solotnitsky, Gabain, Markowitz, Poltowsky, Malinger, Morgenstern, Rosenberg, Pazner
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