Nanci and Allan Garon's Family Website
Many of our Jewish ancestors imigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe and settled
in Duluth and
Superior,
and the surrounding areas of Northern Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan.
They came in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
This family website is about our family, our huge extended family
and about many of the other Jews who settled and lived in this region.
This page provides information and resources that are applicable to the Greater Region.
Nathan and Teresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives - -
click here (website)
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - -
click here (website)
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest - -
click here (website)
Jewish Businesses and Organizatons of the Greater Region - -
click here (page on this website)
Obituary Index - Duluth News-Tribune Archives - -
click here (website)
Jewish Family Portraits (originated predominantly in the Vilna region) - -
click here (website)
Jewish Lithunia - Haruth Communications - -
click here (website)
Jewish Web Index - -
click here (website)
Minnesota Reflections - -
click here (website)
Immigration History Research Center - University of Minnesota -
click here (website)
Scrap Stories from the Upper Midwest - Peddlers to Processors -
click here (page on this website)
Jewish Scrap Stories from the Upper Midwest - - book (107 pages)
Duluth Greater Area Temples and Synagogues
- - click here (page on this site)
Exhibit Tells the Story of Baseball's Role in Jewish-American Life -
click here (website)
From Exclusion to Integration: The Story of Jews in Minnesota -
click here (website)
Books about the Jews of Duluth and of the Greater Region
- - click here (page on this site)
Jews in the Upper Midwest - Jewish settlement in Minnesota and the Dakotas
- - click here
Judaism in the Heartland: The Jewish Community of Marietta, Ohio (1895-1940)
- - click here
(pdf file)
Old Fulton New York Post Cards
- - click here (website)
Newspapers.com
- - click here (website)
NewsBank.com
- - click here (website)
Growing Up Jewish in America - An Oral History
- - click here (website)
Summary
People's Pages - Index (open) of all the people for whom there are pages
Jews of Greater Region - Introduction
University of Minnesota Libraries
Contain important archival holdings chronicling the activities of the Jewish community in the region
jhsum.org where generations connect to get the whole story
GENEALOGY: Consider these research options if you are planning on diving into a search for genealogy-related information:
PORTAL: Portal: Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
"It Happened Right Here" - - A Video about the history of JHSUM
Index of Jewish Businesses and Organizations with pictures and information
This index contains names and dates of obituaries printed in the Duluth News-Tribune and Duluth Herald newspapers from 1962 to the present.
Copies of obituaries can be ordered online and copies are sent through the mail and cost $2.00 for each obituary.
Eilat Gordin Levitan Website
Indexed by city in the Old Country:
Dolhinov |
Horodok |
Krasne |
Krivichi |
Kurenets |
Radoshkovichi |
Rakov |
Vashki |
Vileyka |
Vishnevo |
Volozhin |
Maladzyechna |
Lebedevo |
Dunilovichi |
Druya |
Glubokoye |
Kossovo |
Postavy |
Ilja |
Ivie |
Kaziany |
Novogrudok |
Olshan |
Smorgon |
Sharkovshchyzna |
Minsk |
Deretchin |
Vilna |
Kovno |
Oshmany |
Lyntupy |
Panevezys |
Braslav |
Rokiskis |
Siauliai |
Soly |
Vidzy |
Zaslav |
Pasvalys |
Viazhin |
Krakow |
Riga |
Ivenetz |
Birzai |
Dvinsk |
Pinsk |
Grodno |
Lida |
Slonim |
Warsaw |
Baranowice |
Krevo |
Opsa |
Bransk |
Bialystok |
Lodz
Indexed by family name:
Abramowicz | Abramson | Adler | Alperovitz | Alter | Arotzker | Avnaim | Axelrod | Baksht | Barbakov | Berger | Berkman | Berkovitz | Berlin | Berman | Bernstein | Berzon | Bloch | Bobrowicz | Bogin | Botwinik | Bozparozbany | Bronitsky | Bronstein | Brudner | Brudno | Budgor | Budovnitz | Bumstein | Bunimovitz | Cahanovitz | Chadash | Chagall | Chait | Chayklin | Chedekel | Cheres | Chomsky | Chosid | Codosh | Costrell | Danishevski | Dardak | Davidson | Deitch | Demsky | Deutsch | Dikenstein | Dimenstein | Dinnerstein | Dlot | Dokshitzki | Dolgow | Dorfan | Drechinski | Drenger | Dubin | Dudman | Durmashkin | Dworzecki | Eidelman | Eishiski | Ekman | Epstein | Erenburg | Etkind | Evans | Falk | Farberman | Feigel | Feygelson | Flant | Friedman | Futerfas | Garber | Garfinkel | Gdud | Gelman | Gershovitz | Gershwin | Gerstein | Ginsburg | Gitelzon | Gitlin | Gitlitz | Gold | Goldman | Golob | Gordin | Gordon | Greenholtz | Greenhouse | Grosbein | Gurevitz | Gutman | Harkavy | Hayutin | Heifetz | Helberg | Hillman | Hochstein | Hofenberg | Hoffman | Isaacson | Jackan | Jaffe | Kagan | Kaganovich | Kahan | Kalka | Kamenetsky | Kanterovitz | Kantor | Kapit | Kaplan | Katz | Katzowitz | Kazalovski | Kivilovitz | Klaczko | Klausner |Kline | Klingberg | Kopilovitz | Kosovsky | Kotler | Kowarski | Kramnik | Krechmer | Kremer | Kriger | Krivitsky | Kulbak | Kunstler | Kuperstock | Kur | Kuzenitz | Landau | Lane | Laskov | Lavit | Leibmann | Levin | Levitan | Liff | Lifshitz | Limon | Lipetz | Lunin | Luria | Luntz | Macht | Magid | Maisel | Malishkevitz | Malkin | Mandel | Meirovitz | Melamed | Meltzer | Milikowsky | Mordehowicz | Norman | Oshri | Pablovsky | Parlov | Penski | Perlin | Persky | Peschkowsky | Pintov | Podberesky | Pokempner | Pont | Popel | Potashnik | Ptalis | Pupkin | Rabin | Rabinovitz | Rabunski | Raichel |Rakower | Reitshtein | Reznik | Riar | Rogovin | Rogozin | Rolnik | Rosen | Rosenberg | Rosenblum | Rosenson | Rubin | Rubinson | Rubinstein | Ruderman | Rutkowski | Sacks | Sandler | Schlesinger | Schneerson | Schreibman | Segal | Shapiro | Sharett | Sheinhous | Shenker | Shepsenwohl | Shereshevsky | Shertok | Shiff | Shimshelvitz | Shiniyuk | Shmukler | Shochat | Shorr | Shperber | Shpringer | Shriro | Shubitz | Shulman | Shuster | Simon | Sklut | Skolnick | Slutsky | Smorgonski | Sobol | Soloveichik | Sosensky | Sparber | Spektor | Spilka |Spreiregen | Srebnik | Strashun | Strunsky | Stupel | Sud | Sutzkever | Swirsky | Szewach | Szyszko | Tabachovitz | Taibel | Tarshish | Tauger | Teitz | Turov | Twersky | Vaksmakher | Vishniak | Volcani | Wainer | Weisbord | Wilder | Wilkanski | Wolfowich | Wouk | Yafe | Yatzkan | Yudelowitz | Zaltzman | Zandman | Zavodnick | Zecharia | Zelmanovich | Zimbal | Zimmerman | Ziskind | Zuckerman | Zusman
Contains a compendium of information on Lithuanian Jews.
If you click on “People of 1000 Towns” at the bottom, you will see links to photos of various towns in Lithuania and other countries in Eastern Europe.
But the best part is the family links. If you click on a family name, you will get postings from people researching that surname.
Fascinating! If you find anything on our relatives, please let us know. (from Pat Fuller)
Huge list of resources for Jewish genealogy
created by Ted Margulis
A database of digitized original materials shared by cultural heritage organizations located across our state.
These materials include images, text, audio, film, and more, with new items added on a regular basis. The resources found on this site support research for scholars, educators, students, and the public. Minnesota Reflections is the premier project of the Minnesota Digital Library.
The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL), a service of Minitex, is funded by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution via the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS). Additional funding is provided by Minitex. MDL's collaborative partners, including the University of Minnesota, also contribute substantial in-kind services.
A Research Center of the College of Liberal Arts
Transforming our understanding of immigration in the past and present
A VIP invitation to the Scrap Stories Exhibit displayed at the Sabes JCC in Minneapolis
created by Mryna Orensten and produced by Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
Edited by Linda Mack Schloff
Upper Midwest Jewish History - Volume 7, Spring 2016 - produced by Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
Historical information about the Temples and Synagogues in Duluth
Information from various other sources.
NBC News - by Jon Schuppe - published May 15, 2016 - courtesy of Charles Orlowek
"Very interesting! Maybe next time they'll mention Uncle Morrie (Arnovich)." comment by Nate Orlowek
MNOPEDIA - How Jews Have Shaped the State
Poverty, prejudice, and persecution sparked two waves of Jewish immigration to the US in the 19th century.
The first wave (1820–1880) consisted of about 250,000 Jews from German-speaking regions of central Europe, fewer than 1000 of whom made their way to Minnesota.
The second and largest wave (1882–1924) was made up of more than two million Yiddish-speaking Jews from Eastern Europe. About twenty thousand settled in Minnesota.
A listing of reference books with cover pictures, information and summaries.
Books about Bob Dylan with info on his life as a Jew in Minnesota
- - click here (page on this site)
Books that can be purchased from your favorite book seller
by Linda M. Schloff (website)
Reprinted with permission from And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855 (Minnesota Historical Society Press). (webpage)
Author: Amy Hill Siewers - - Published by: Central Michigan University
Search over 40,743,000 Historical Newspaper Pages from the USA & Canada
Search 5,600+ newspapers from the 1700s–2000s
Explore news articles from 1978 - Current - - - subscription, but may be available free thru your public library
by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer - - University of Nebraska Press - 1995
..............search for "Duluth" or other cities to find quotes from the local people. - - search results
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People's Pages - Index (protected) of all the people for whom there are pages
Obituaries - Index for our family and other Duluth-area Jewish families
Cemetery Markers - Index for our family and other Duluth-area Jewish families
News Articles - Index for our family and other Duluth-area Jewish families
Pictures - Index of pictures of other Jewish families from the Duluth area
Businesses & Organizations - Index for our family and other Jewish Duluth-area families
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