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READING BETWEEN THE LINES: MINING JEWISH HISTORY THROUGH EXTRACTION OF POLISH ARCHIVE DATA
Judy Golan • www.find-‐my-‐roots.com • [email protected]
Observing that the number of “other towns” appearing in the Polish State Archive record extracts from the town of Opatów seemed atypically high, detailed analyses were conducted on birth and marriage data, benchmarking statistics from the Opatów Archive against those from the Działoszyce Archive. The differences in statistics and the presence of specific towns in the Opatów Archive are explained in the context of historical background. PRESENTATION OUTLINE Overview Opatów Archive record extract and observations Comparison of Five Archive Town Birth Extracts Two Towns: Opatów and Działoszyce
• Geographic locations • Brief early history • Congress Poland era
Identifying towns on records and their locations
• Purpose • Town identification task and issues • Identification logic and distance assignment
Birth Analysis (1836-‐1865)
• Comparison of archive town (count and percent) in relation to “other towns” in town archive birth record extracts
• Comparison of highest contributing “other towns” in birth registrations and Opatów anomaly
• Historical factors underlying the representation of larger “other towns” o No Jews allowed o Critical mass o Three towns reviewed
Marriage Segment Comparison (1836-‐1865)
• Comparison of brides from archive town in relation to total town archive • Bride-‐groom segmentation comparison
• Both marriage partners from outside the archive town (nT-‐nT) • Spouses who came to marry a partner from the archive town (T-‐nT, nT-‐T)
o Segmentation within/farther than 20-‐mile radius of archive town o Top ten contributing towns to this segment
Historical currents forging Opatów interaction with specific “other towns”
• Council of Four Lands regional administration • Extensive merchant trading • Hasidic Courts
Mapping of 43 towns > than 20 miles in Opatów marriages T-‐nT, nt-‐T and mapping the maps
Record Examinations • A groom from Kozienice • The outlier from Kępno, Prussia
Summary REFERENCES Opatów and Działoszyce Town and Environs Hundert, Gershon David, The Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1992. Kirshenblatt, Mayer and Kirshenblatt-‐Gimblett, Barbara, They Called Me Mayer July. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2007. http://jri-‐poland.org/ http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Opatow http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/opatow/5,history/ http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/dzialoszyce/5,history/ http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/cmielow/5,history/ http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/nowa-‐slupia/5,history/ http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/lagow/5,history/ http://jri-‐poland.org/kr-‐sig/journals/Kielce-‐Radom%20Journal_Vol%205,%20No%204_Autumn%202001.pdf http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol7_00058.html http://jri-‐poland.org/kr-‐sig/journals/Kielce-‐Radom%20Journal_Vol%205,%20No%203_Summer%202001.pdf Page 12, Łagów 1859 Petition Congress Poland History and Administration References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_Poland http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Poland/Q2.htm Privilegium de non tolerandis Judaeis http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Poland/Questions.htm#q13 http://www.aapjstudies.org/index.php?id=145 American Association for Polish-‐Jewish Studies: Sources for the History of Jews in Polish Lands during the Nineteenth Century
Polish Jewish History http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Poland/Poland_from_1795_to_1939 http://www.polishjews.org/history2.htm http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4705-‐council-‐of-‐four-‐lands Maps http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podzia%C5%82_administracyjny_Kr%C3%B3lestwa_Polskiego 1816-‐1844 http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gubernia_radomska 1844-‐1866 http://www.mapcustomizer.com/map/Opatow%20Marriage%20imports From Opatów Archive 1836-‐1865 marriage record extracts, this is a map of the locations greater than 20 miles from Opatów from which came a spouse to marry someone (either bride or groom) who was from the town of Opatów Hasidic References Rosenstein, Neil, The Unbroken Chain. Lakewood, New Jersey: C.I.S. Publishers: 1990. http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Apt_Hasidic_Dynasty http://www.hebrewbooks.org/41359 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Isserles.html http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pagefeed/hebrewbooks_org_20628_79.pdf R. Jakob Joel ORENSZTAJN http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=1731 Natan Neta SHAPIRA, page 74 http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9608-‐landau http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Landau1.html
