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Making Comics while Reading (opens the original)
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This is a detour that’s tangential (or if you prefer adjacent) to my family history & migration stories. I’m still working on those and the next section of the story about the my Great-Great Grandmother, Gitel Tolchinsky, and her family family in New York City will be coming soon. And after that, I’ll be making a comic series about how musical theater has been a thread throughout my family history in Ukraine and NY. But, right now, I’m working on a personal project that I wanted to share as well
A Mystery Grandfather (opens the original)
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This story follows on from the discovery that my mother’s paternal grandmother, Lena Tolchinsky (nee Matlin), had a large family who was spread out in the North Eastern United States, Canada, and England. I had been surprised that they weren’t all “New Yorkers.” If you haven’t read that part of the story yet you might want to read that before this section:Getting to… New York?My mother never even knew her paternal grandfather’s name and just assumed he had died when my grandfather was very young
Migration Stories: From the Pale of Settlement to NYC and Beyond (opens the original)
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When I heard about the Migration Stories Project, organized by , I knew I wanted to explore the path of my maternal ancestors. From about 1890 to 1924, millions of Eastern European Jews from the Pale of Settlement—the only part of the Russian Empire where Jews were allowed to live—crossed Europe and the Atlantic Ocean to arrive in New York and other destinations.<img alt=""
Go To America (opens the original)
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As I was writing and drawing the story finding out about my mother’s family in the early 20th century, I realized that it was the cemetery that led me to them first. So many of them are buried together, in cemetery plots named for their home towns in Easter Europe. My father grew up with these Jewish cemeteries, as well as Christian cemeteries, literally in his back yard. You’ll hear about that more in my next post, but right now I want to share a piece I created a few years ago that gives a gli
Getting to... New York? Continues (opens the original)
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This is one part of my family’s immigration story, continued from the previous post. Each of my mother’s grandparents, had a different experience. This month we’ll continue to follow Lena Matlin and her siblings from Ukraine to America. Finding their records was not easy because they changed their names at various points along the way. The Matlins didn’t change their surname, so that part was easy. But Libe became Libby or Lena, Lieb became Louis, Zalman became Simon, and Berl became Benjamin or
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