Dedicated to Amy Levinson z"l, who was the spirit
that brought life to this project.

Other Names: Rozana, Ruzhana

Where is RUZHANY ? Latitude 52°52´, Longitude 24°53´
According to a website in Belarus, it is in Brest regition, Pruzany district.

Maps

• Ruzhany - Map and Information on JewishGen
• Kossowo - Map and Information on JewishGen

Background Information
In every generation each person must regard himself as if he himself had come out of Egypt, as it is said: "And thou shalt relate it to thy son on that day, saying, this is done on account of that which the Lord did unto me, when I came forth out of Egypt."(Exodus 13:8, Passover Hagadah)

• Time Line - The History of Ruzhany vs Jewish and European History
  
• Immigration from Ruzhany to America, & Eretz Israel
  
  • North America
    
    • List of Immigrants to North America (U.S.A. & Canada)
      
  • Eretz Israel (Palestine)
    
    • Families found in the 1875 Montifiore Census of Eretz Israel
    • List of People from Ruzhany and Kosowo Burried on Mt. Olives found in Helkat Mehokek
    • List of Emmigrants to Ekron (Mazkeret Batya) Eretz Israel, 1885 & 1886
      • Pictures of Emmigrants to Ekron
      • List of those burried in Ekron through Nissan (April) 1931
      • Description of Settlement and Institutions and the list of those burried in Ekron through Nissan (April) 1931 (in hebrew - pdf file)
        14th pamphlet of Avnei Zikaron written by Pinchas Ben-Zvi Grebsky
      • Arkin Family History
    • List of Immigrants to Eretz Israel
      • Pictures of Immigrants to Eretz Israel
    • List of Immigrants from Kossovo to Eretz Israel After World War Two
    • List of Immigrants originally from Kossovo to Eretz Israel from Argentina

Documents, Stories & Photographs
"Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" --- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.

Kossowo According to a website in Belarus, it is in Brest region, Ivacevičy  district. The driving instructions say to go through Ruzany to get there, so I think this is the one. Latitude 52°45´, Longitude 25°09´

Other spellings: Коссово, Kosów, Косаў, Kosava, Kossów, Kossovo, Kosow, Kossov, Мерачоўшчына, Меречёвщина, Kosau, Меречевщина, Мерачевщина, Марачоўшчына, Mereczowszczyzna

• A Few Families' Pictures from Kossovo from Shmuel Rabinovich
• A Few More Families' Pictures from Kossovo from Shmuel Rabinovich
• Bits & Pieces of Information from the Belarus Database (Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-1854, Births Database, & Vsia Rossiia 1895,1899,1903,1911 Berdichev, Zhitomir, Tiraspol, Slonim and Volkovysk Uyezds)
• Chiry (Victor) Hyman (Chaim Avigdor) from Ruzhany to Chicago by Elliot Malkin
• Finkel-Franklin Family - founders of a Jewish farming community in Ellington, Connecticut from Irene Berman
• Holocaust Memorial, Valley of the Communities, Yad Vashem Israel
• Holocaust Memorial, Har Zion, Jerusalem, Israel
• Jenta Iliwicka & Others - Documents
• Kossover Benevolent Association
  • List of People Buried in the Kossover Benevolent Association Plot at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, NY, USA (pdf file)
  • Picture of the gate entrance to the Kossover Benevolent Association Plot at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Queens, NY. USA
• Kossover Rebbe
• Passports
  • Quni-Malka Volansky's (Sarshevsky) passport
• Molchadsky - Letters of Recommendation for Rabbi Yossef Yoshuha Molchadsky
• Pictures of Kossovo from Shmuel Rabinovich
• Receipt of Money Sent to Kosowo to Rikel Kleckyn
• Rikel Kleckyn - Picture from Phyllis Forman
• Pictures from the Meetings of Kossovoers in Israel from Shmuel Rabinovich
• Volansky Family in Kossovo - Family Pictures from Nadav Molchadsky
• Volansky Family in Kossovo  - Family Pictures 2 from Nadav Molchadsky
• Volansky Family Documents in Eretz Israel from Nadav Molchadsky
• Volansky Family in Kossovo - Family Pictures from Robert W. Kraft
• Zshuk-Zukovsky Family in Jerusalem from Shoshana Stern

Ruzhany

• Bits & Pieces of Information from the Belarus Database (Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-1854, Births Database, & Vsia Rossiia 1895,1899,1903,1911 Berdichev, Zhitomir, Tiraspol, Slonim and Volkovysk Uyezds)
• Burial Societies in the New York Metro Area for Rozinoy
  • Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Rozenoy
  • Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Rozenoy - document
  • Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Rozenoy - description of above document
  • Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Rozenoy - Officers 1973
  • List of People Buried in the Anshei Rozinoy Plot at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, NY, USA  (pdf file)
  • Pictures of Entrances to Plots at Mt. Zion Cemetery
  • List of People Buried in the Chevra Adath Kdeishim Anshei Roznoy Plot at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, NY, USA (pdf file)
  • List of People Buried in the Roznoyer Benevolent Society Plot at Mt. Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, NY, USA (pdf file)
• Deportation of Jews -- Operation Reinhardt
• Eby-Spector Family
  • A son's tribute to the heritage of a lost village - Woodbine, NJ
• Etta Yellin, Le Tsatseiey (To My Descendants: My Memories)
• Halprin (Epstein) Family
• Holocaust Memorial, Holon Israel
• Holocaust Memorial, Valley of the Communities, Yad Vashem Israel
• List of Kahal Electors, 1838-1841, Ruzhany
• List of Residents of Ruzhany from the research of Yehuda Klausner
• Elections for Synagogue and Kahal Administration 1838
• Nancy's Trip to RUZHANY - 2002
• Ohel Shem & Material about Rabbis from Ruzhany
• Passports
  • Mordechai Molchadsky's passport
  • Rabbi Yossef (Joshua) Molchadsky's passport
• Pines Family
• Pines Family
• Les Pines: Une Famille de Medecins et D'ecrivains 1954 *
• Photographs of Ruzhany at different times
• 1929 Polish Business Directory Project 1929
  • 1929 Polish Business Directory Project - Kossow page 1
  • 1929 Polish Business Directory Project - Kossow page 2
  • 1929 Polish Business Directory Project - Ruzhany
• Rabbis of Ruzhany
• Rubins/Podorovsky Family
• Ruzhany Businesses, 1895 & 1903
• Ruzhany Cemetery  
  Sometime about 1997, Amy Levinson z"l engaged Oleg Perzashkevich to photograph the remaining tombstones in the cemetery in Ruzhany.  A project is being undertaken to prepare this material for the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry  JOWBR Project. The following links are to the report Oleg prepared.
  
  • Page 1 of Oleg's Report
    
  • Page 2 of Oleg's Report
    
  • Overall Map of the Cemetery
    The following pages are the sections with numbers showing where the remaining tombstones stood.
    
    • Sections 1 - 9
      
    • Sections 10 - 18
      
    • Sections 19 - 27
      
  • Ruzhany Cemetery, about 1925
• Ruznoyer Congregation (NY)
  • Thirtieth Anniversary Booklet 1907 - 1937
  • List of Members in 1937
• Ruzhany, pictures of the Ruzhany and the surrounding area
• Ruzhany Yizkor Book
  • In Memory of our Martyrs - Ruzhinoy and Environs
  • "Once There was a Shtetl"
• Saphieha Palace, 1874 through 1988
• Saphieha Palace, website with floor  plan and collection of pictures
• Shtetl Donor Lists from Rozinoy listed in HaMagid 1871-1872
• Sielecki Family
• Synagogue of Ruzhany 1998 & other sites
• Well-known Emigres and Descendants of Ruzhany

Stories about Ruzhany (published)
Some of the stories are PDF files, in order to read the stories you will need the Arcobat Reader which you can download free from the following site.

• In My Childhood: In Rozinoy written by Etta Yellin, published in To My Descendants: My Memories, "Maariv" Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1938, p. 7-12 (Hebrew)
  
• Rozinoy written by Mordechai Guber, published in Jewish Farmers on Russian Fields, Sifrat Poalim, Ltd., 1965 (originally in Hebrew, translated to English)
  

Bibliography & Resources

Books (Bibliography including names of books in Hebrew)

• Jewish Farmers on Russian Fields, Sifrat Poalim, Ltd., 1965 (Hebrew)
  
• The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Volume 3
  
• Zkor Niz'kor: Keihila Yehudit. Rozhinoy - Ruzhany de'Grodno: Be'hayah' Be'yemay Hashoah U'Be'haslachota le'dorot Mifal Haschipul Publications, Tel-Aviv, 1971. A project produced by students in the Ramat Ha'Hayal High School based on interviews of residents of Rozhinoy.
• I.T. Eisenstadt, Da'at Kedoshim
• Wayne Pines, The Sermons of Jerome Martin Pines with A Partial genealogy of the Pines Family, 1978
• Pinchs Ben-Zvi Grajewsky, Avnei Zikaron 14th pamphlet, 1931
• George Sackheim, Scattered Seeds The family connections of Rabbi Israel, including a long line of Ruzhany rabbis and chiefs of rabbinical courts (ABD's).
• Yaacov Sharat & Tamir Nachman (Eds), People of the Second Aliyah, Mifalei Culture & Education, Inc. Volume 1, 1970 (Hebrew)
  
• Meir Segev (Eds), Rozinoi; sefer zikaron li-kehilat Rozinoi vehasevivah, Tel-Aviv, 1957
  
• David Tidhar, Encyclopedia Le Haluzei HaYishuv VeBonev: Demuot veTmunot (Encyclopedia of the Pioneers of the Yishuv and its Builders: Persons and Pictures), 1971 (Hebrew)
• Etta Yellin, Le Tsatseiey (To My Descendants: My Memories), "Maariv" Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1938, p. 7-12 (Hebrew)
• xxx (Eds), Sefer Yovel PT, Book 1, 1929 (Hebrew)
  

Archives

• Archives of Belarus
  
• Grodno Archives
  
• The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
  Sprinzak Building, Hebrew University, Givat Ram Campus, Jerusalem, Israel
  They have a collection of microfilms & microfische in Russian. They do not accept requests by mail. The material can be viewed at their location and copies of relevant material can be made. Their collection does not include genealogical materials but good back information. You need to bring along someone who reads polish and russian handwriting.
  

Additional Sites of Information

• Belarus Online Newsletter
• Belarus SIG Webpage
  
• Burial Societies in the New York Metro Area - Anshei Rozinoy, Chevreh Adath Kedeyshim Anshe Rozinoy (Mt. Zion), Chevreh Adath Kedeyshim Anshe Rozinoy (United Hebrew), Roznoyer Benevolent Association, Roznoyer Kranken Unt. Verein
  
• Documentary Resources for the Study of Towns in Grodno Guberniya
• Jewish Communities of the Grodno Province
• JewishGen Holocaust Database
• Join the Research Trip to Belarus
• Search the JewishGen Site
• We Remember Treblinka!
• Yad Vashem, Israel The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
  
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archives on Ruzhany

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