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Avi
Goldstein dressed to kill (abt 1960).
Simeon Goldstein (son of Abraham Haim)
and his 1st
cousin Sue Matenko Levy
Abraham
Haim Goldstein
(October 1942).
Moshkevitch Family
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Abraham
Goldstein’s Family
My paternal grandfather Abraham
Haim Goldstein was born in 1873 in Bessarabia, possibly
in Shvartsabe which is in Ukraine
today. He immigrated to Canada via England awol
from the Czar's army. In England he worked
as a carpenter. He traveled to Montreal (possibly
via Ellis Island,
NY). We believe
that he married his first wife Rachel Riva Taylor, just after the turn of the
century
Abraham and Riva's children Minnie
and Harry were born in Montreal. The
family then moved to Winnipeg where Riva
died in 1909. No record has been found of Riva’s death or burial
nor have Minnie and Harry's birth records.
About
1911Abraham moved to Toronto , married
Celia Moshkevitch, an immigrant from Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine, and had
three sons Reuben, Simeon (my father) and Berl. Abraham worked as a
tailor for Eaton's for many years. Abraham died in Toronto in 1946
and Celia in 1978. In the spring of 2001 I visited the
Dawes
Road
Cemetery in
Toronto where both
Abraham and Celia Goldstein are buried and discovered that
Abraham was the son of Yitschak Isaac.
Minnie Goldstein married Fishel Walerstein and they lived in
Toronto but
retired to Israel. Harry
married Anne Nyman of London, England and they
lived in Toronto. Reuben
Goldstein moved to New York and
married Bertha Brooks, Simeon (my father) married Esther Esterson of
Montreal in
Montreal and except
for a brief period they lived in Montreal.
Berl married of Freda Weber of Montreal and they
moved to Philadelphia.
The
Moshkevitchs
Celia Moshkevitch Goldstein, (my
paternal grandmother) born in Ekaterinoslav (Dniepropetrovsk), Ukraine in April 1889, was
the youngest of five children of Rosa Manusoff (born in Nikapol, Ukraine in
1855) and Chaim Abraham Moshkevitch. Celia's older siblings were Yelia,
Bunya, Mosya and Viera. Celia's oldest sister Yelia married Isaac
Matenko in 1900 and immigrated to Toronto, Canada via Ellis
Island in 1906. Shortly thereafter Celia and her other sisters also
migrated to Toronto together
with or followed shortly their parents. Chaim Moshkevitch died in April
1912 and Rosa in 1937.
Mosya Moshkevitch, his wife Clara
and their children Syome (Sam Moskoff) and Anna (Moskoff) joined his sisters
and parent in about 1920.
Bunya Moshkevitch married Tzodek
Sable (whose original name was Zodek Zablodofsky) in Toronto. Their
only child, Henry was born in Toronto in 1918
and in 1942 married Florence Molien of Buffalo and thereafter moved to
Cleveland.
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The Matenko Journey to Ellis
Island and Toronto
On April 30 1906 Isaac
Matenko (erroneously recorded as Itko Matenko) and his family which
included wife Yelia and their children Pessach (Percy) and Theodore arrived
at Ellis Island aboard the SS Caledonia, which had sailed from
Glasgow, Scotland on April 21. Isaac’s half brother Fivish
Frumhartz arrived with them as Fiivish Matenko, Isaac Matenko’s
son. Yelia and Theodore were sent to the
Ellis Island Hospital where Theodore passed away. The Matenkos passed
through Ellis Island as Non Immigrant Aliens on their way to
Toronto to join Hilliard Soboloff Yelia’s cousin Chana
Manusoff’s husband.
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The
Moshkevitch - Jabotinsky Connection
So is
there a connection? For years I have been told of a family
connection to Zev Jabotinsky though no one seemed to know how. It was never
questioned but no one I talked to seemed to know what it was. The
Moshkevitchs were ardent Workmans
Circle and in years back he was
considered a black sheep. I have now have been told that Chaim Moshkevitch
(my great-grandfather) and Ze'ev Jabotinsky were first cousins and it with
this as the starting point I will start my search. I begin at a
disadvantage as I don't know my great-grandfather's mother's first name or
maiden name and I suspect that it is through her that we are linked. If this is the link and it is to Zev
Jabotinsky's mother then it makes it an even more difficult task.
Geographically my search will begin in Ekaterinoslav (Dniepropetrovsk), Nikapol
and Kokhovka Ukraine from whence the
Moshkevitchs originate.
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The Manusoffs
Rosa
Manusoff Moshkevitch had a brother David who married Miriam Brodsky.
David died in the Ukraine as did
their daughter Yelia but Miriam and Chana Manusoff both migrated to
Toronto.
Yelia
Manusoff married Jacob Izchac Shilitsky and they had three children. I know
nothing of them and their descendants if any.
Chana
Manusoff married Hilliard Soboloff in Dniepropetrovsk in 1901 and they then
moved to Toronto a few years later. The
Soboloffs had four children Sara, Ann, John & Dora.
Moshkevitch/Manusoff
Connection to Zev Jabotinsky
The Moshkevitch and Manusoff
families have long talked of being related to Zev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky
however no one alive today knows how. Was it through the Manusoff's or
Moshkevitch's. Sue Matenko Levy, daughter of Isaac and Yelia
Moshkevitch Matenko, who supplied most of the information on this branch of
the family wrote on March 31,
1998: "Too bad... he was one of Israel's
historical giants (even though I remember my father making sarcastic remarks
about his political ideology and dreams). That is all that I can tell you
about Jabotinsky."
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Michael Goldstein
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