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Posted by David on April 11th, 2011 My GGM was Rose Feiner Friedenberg Semmel, one of 5 children. Her nephew, Joseph, is Perry’s great-grandfather.
 Joseph Feiner I would love to know if we are talking about the same person.
Please contact me at your earliest convenience. As you might guess, I am very excited at the prospect of this part of my family tree may being filled in at last.
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According to the records from Joseph’s immigration, he came from Neustadt and lived in Port Chester. My grandmother actually come through Boston, not Ellis Island in 1921. Her name was spelled Fajner on the ships log. I do have a few pictures of my great-grandfather as well as my grandmother (who died in 1971). I will try to scan as many as possible and send them to you tomorrow.
As I mentioned previously, Joseph Feiner also had 3 other children with his second wife. If you are interested, one of those children (Helen) actually became a fairly important member of the Jewish Women’s movement and had a biography published about her a few years ago (Always Up Front, as told to Myrna Katz Frommer). You can see it at Amazon.com). Helen died in her 90s and I actually went to her 90th birthday party. I didn’t real know her until just before that as my family didn’t have much to do with my grandmother’s step-siblings.
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Anyway, I did see the reference to the marriage you wrote about yesterday. However, I also saw a marriage reference for 1903 (Josek Fajner and Malka Gitla Wolman). Is it possible this is the correct one or do you have additional info about Joseph that makes you certain the marriage to Blima is the one I am looking for. It actually makes more sense to me that they he would have been married in 1903 since my grandmother was born in 1904. How likely do you think it was back then to wait 6 years to have a child if he had been married in 1898? (DRS: YES, Malka makes more sense!)
Many, many thanks, Perry Eisman
 Entire Feiner family (my grandmother- Joseph's daughter, by his first wife from Poland, is third from the right). That's Joseph and his second wife Rose in the center.  My grandmother's wedding pic (Anna Feiner Kleiner)  My grandmother as a baby with her aunt who raised her after Joseph left for America
Posted by David on December 12th, 2010 Meyer Gershenowitz married Toba Besser, my grandmother’s sister. Email from Howard Mirsky:
David:Well, I looked over the links you sent and was very impressed. I’m pretty certain that this is a real connection. Here’s the story:
Meyer is one of 5 children from Czestochowa. (Spellings vary with documents.)
1. Harry Gershanowitz
2. Meyer (Max) Gershenowitz
3. David Gershanowitz
4. Chaje Gershanowitz
5. Ida Gershanowitz
Harrry is my grandfather. He immigrated in 1907. He and Perl Rand had 3 children, Helen, Irving, and Gertrude (Gigi). Gigi is named after her grandmother, Gittl. I’m Helen’s son. (Harry also had 2 prior children by his first wife, Esther Rothman. She died and left him with the 2 children to raise.)
Meyer as you already know had 4 children. He arrived with his sister, Chaje, also in 1907, and they went to his brother, David Gershanowitz, already here at Metropolitan Ave. You also know that on the ship manifest he gives his mother’s name as Gittl, back home.
David is the mystery brother. Just tonight (12/11) I called Gigi in Fla. She said David had a candy store in Brownsville, and that he had 2 children, Irene and Lou. Irene lived in N.Y. and went into the hat business. The family saw her. David moved to the Washington area sometime after the war. I can find no trace of him.
Chaje Gershanowitz. She married Louis Pearlman. They had several children.
Ida Gershanowitz married Max Friedman. He was in the umbrella business. They had 3 children, Gilbert, Irving, and Sam.
Below are the graves at Mt. Judah You can see that the dates may vary a little from the ones you have. On Toby’s stone the translation of the first line is: “Here lies Tova, daughter of Yitchok.” Similarly on the other it says: “Israel Meyer, son of Yitchok Moshe”
Would it be O.K. if I showed the wedding picture of Meyer to my aunt, since she remembers them? By the way, she could remember no one from Toby’s (Toba’s) side.
He also looks very much like my grandfather. Take a look below:
Harry Gershanowitz sometime between 1907 and 1914
Attached to this in my mother’s handwriting is: “Max Gershanowitz, papa’s brother”
FYI: My mother Helen married Bernard Mirsky. Two children, Jay and Howard. Each have 2 girls.
RE: Family story, found here. Yes, I saw that. I know that story, too. Meyer took custody of the children, a boy and a girl, my aunt remembered. He already had 4 children and couldn’t keep them. They went to David Gershanowitz’s son, Lou (my aunt isn’t 100% sure of the name). There, as your aunt remembered, too, they couldn’t fit in and were lost to the family. This probably occurred in the Washington / VA area, since that’s where David’s son, Lou had lived since the war.
Best regards, Howard
Posted by David on August 20th, 2010 
Thanks to “Cousin” Moshe in Israel, we now know cousins Hannah and Ava’s G-G-G-G-Grandparents !
Leibus Werber (b 1770) + Faiga
..Abram Werber + Gitla Rybak
….Chaim-Wolf Werber + Perele Lehrer
……Goitel Werber + Herszek Blusztajn
……..Murry Blustein + Evelyn Semmel
……….Daniel Blustein + Melanie Chan
…………Hannah & Ava
Posted by David on February 2nd, 2010  Cheryl and Howard Altman, Melissa and Heath Linsky, Tyler and Max Linsky, and Joshua Altman in Cancun. What a good looking family!
The Altmans are related to me through a common Great Grandmother: Rose Feiner Friedenberg Semmel.
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