Alla Chastina

Published in Russian, Romanian and Yiddish, the newspapers present all too often overlooked by genealogist’s source of information of all the aspects of Jewish everyday life throughout the region. Virtually every page has data related to Bessarabian Jews. Bessarabian Provincial Gazette of 1884 published a list of Chisinau Jews subjected to conscription... Chisinau Voice in 1916 wrote about Jewish touring troupe ran by N. Spivakovsky performing in the famous Gorishteyn theater... Bessarabian Word wrote about singer Anna Gelber, actor Misha Fishzon, lecturer Davidzon performing in Ismail. About Joint allocating $13,000 to the needs of Jewish hospitals in Bessarabia... With Jewish merchants and pharmacists, rabbis and jewelers, cultural and financial institutions, charitable foundations and hospitals – the newspapers are “time capsules” containing vast information of the once thriving and now all but extinct Jewish life in the historic Bessarabia.