This Day in Goodlove History, February 1

• This Day in Goodlove History, February 1

• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove

• jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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• Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove

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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) etc., and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with -George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

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• The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx

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• This project is now a daily blog at:

• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/

• Goodlove Family History Project Website:

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/

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• Books written about our unique DNA include:

• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.

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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.

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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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A point of clarification. If anybody wants to get to the Torah site, they do not have to go thru Temple Judah. They can use http://DownhomeDavarTorah.blogspot.com and that will take them right to it.



The Goodlove Reunion 2011 will be held Sunday, June 12 at Horseshoe Falls Lodge at Pinicon Ridge Park, Central City, iowa. This is the same lodge we used for the previous reunions. Contact Linda at pedersen37@mchsi.com.



Birthdays on this day: Roby F. Sckett, Agnes L. Rutledge, Machelle A. Nunemaker, Kathleen E. Kruse, Frederick Kierby, Nancy S. Inskeep, Marc E. Hoover



In a message dated 1/23/2011 7:58:49 P.M. Central Standard Time, pedersen37@mchsi.com writes:

Hi Jeff, I tried to leave you a phone message this weekend. For the 2007 Goodlove reunuion you included information on your Goodlove website. Would you do that again for the 2011 reunion?

Date will be Sunday, June 12, 2011 at Horseshoe Falls Lodge, Pinicon Ridge Park, Central City, Iowa. This is same location as in 2007.



Thanks, Linda



Linda, Sorry I missed your call. I will try to put that information on the Goodlove website. Thanks for all of your work on this project. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the Reunion this year! Jeff

This Day…

February 1, 682: Visigoth King Erwig pressed for the "utter extirpation of the pest of the Jews," and made it illegal to practice any Jewish rites in an area that corresponds to much of modern day Spain. This put further pressure on the Jews to convert or emigrate.[1]

When in 682, Pope Martin I was accused of friendly dealing with the Moslems, he explained that his motive was to seek permission to send alms to Jerusalem.[2]

February 1, 1733: King Augustus II of Poland passed away. Born in 1670, Augustus II was the Elector of Saxony (Germany) before gaining Augustus gained the Polish throne. His rise to power was facilitated by his “court Jew” and financier Issachar Berend Lehmann.[3] Several DNA matches indicate their earliest known ancestor is from Poland.

February 1, 1794

Harrison County, Kentucky created 1793 from Bourbon and Scott Counties to commence Feb. 1. 1794.

Harrison County was named for Col. Benjamin Harrison, an early resident of Bourbon, the first Sheriff of that county, and its representative in the State at the time of the formation of Harrison County. He was a native of Pennsylvania and removed to Bourbon prior to its formation as a county in 1785, where he held many prominent positions, etc.[4]

Harrison advanced to the site of Fort Meigs with an army which ultimately numbered 4,000 men (mainly militia) and began construction of the fort on February 1, 1813. Harrison contemplated a hit-and-run attack across the frozen Lake Erie against the British position at Amherstburg, but found that the ice was breaking up and returned to the half-finished fort.[1] He found the officer he had left in charge, Joel B. Leftwich, had left with all his men because the enlistment period of the militia units assigned to the task had expired. Construction had halted, and the wood that had been cut was being used as firewood.

As the enlistments of Harrison's Ohio and Kentucky militia were also about to expire, Harrison disbanded his force and departed for Cincinnati, Ohio, to raise a fresh army. He left Engineer Major Eleazer D. Wood to complete the construction of the fort. The garrison consisted of several hundred men from the 17th and 19th U.S. Infantry, who were inadequately clothed, plus militia from Pennsylvania and Virginia whose own enlistments were soon to expire.

The fort was on the south bank of the Maumee, near the Miami Rapids. Across the river were the ruins of the old British Fort Miami and the site of the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. Fort Meigs occupied an area of 8 acres (32,000 m2), the largest constructed in North America to that date. The perimeter consisted of a fifteen-foot picket fence, linking eight blockhouses. The north face was protected by the Maumee, and the east and west faces by ravines. The south face was cleared of all timber to create an open glacis.[2]

The poor weather of early spring prevented a British attack while the fort was still vulnerable.[3] The British commander on the Detroit frontier, Major General Henry Procter, had been urged to attack Presque Isle (present day Erie, Pennsylvania), where the Americans were constructing a flotilla intended to seize control of Lake Erie, but Procter refused unless he received substantial reinforcements. Instead, he decided upon an attack on Fort Meigs, to disrupt American preparations for a summer campaign and hopefully capture supplies.[4] Harrison received word of Procter's preparations, and hastened to the fort with 300 reinforcements, increasing the garrison to a total of 1,100 men.[2] Embankments were hastily thrown up inside the fort as a protection against artillery fire. Harrison had persuaded Isaac Shelby, the Governor of Kentucky, to call up a brigade of 1,200 Kentucky militia under Brigadier General Green Clay. Clay's brigade had followed Harrison down the Maumee, but had not reached the fort before it was besieged. [5]



February 1, 1799: The French army under Napoleon left for Palestine to forestall a Turco-British invasion through the Palestinian land-bridge.[6] Ancestor Joseph LeClere was said to have been in Napoleon’s Body Guard unit.

1804 - February 1 - Letter, Charles Dehault Delassus to Henry Peyroux. Have received suit of Messrs. Waters and Olive vs. Benjamin Harrison, Sr. but pressing current work has prevented paying any attention to it. [7]

February 1, 1809: Ordered that Daniel McKinnon be allowed Eight Dollars and ninety cts for his Services done for the County from the first of December 1808 till February 1, 1809 Summoning the grandjury at January Term 1809.[8]



February 1 1813



The Siege of Fort Meigs took place during the War of 1812 in northwestern Ohio. A small British army with support from Indians attempted to capture the recently-constructed fort to forestall an American offensive against Detroit, which the British had captured the previous year. An American sortie and relief attempt failed with heavy casualties, but the British failed to capture the fort and were forced to raise the siege.



Ancestor and Major-General William Henry Harrison was placed in command of the Army of the Northwest, replacing Brigadier-General William Hull after his surrender at Detroit. Harrison's objective was the recapture of Detroit, but after the defeat of American forces at the Battle of Frenchtown, Harrison gave orders for the construction of several forts to protect the rivers and trails which his army would use in any renewed advance. Two of the most important were Fort Meigs (named for Return J. Meigs, Jr., the Governor of Ohio) on Maumee or Miami du Lac River, and Fort Stephenson on the Sandusky River.



Harrison advanced to the site of Fort Meigs with an army which ultimately numbered 4,000 men (mainly militia) and began construction of the fort on February 1, 1813. Harrison contemplated a hit-and-run attack across the frozen Lake Erie against the British position at Amherstburg, but found that the ice was breaking up and returned to the half-finished fort.[1] He found the officer he had left in charge, Joel B. Leftwich, had left with all his men because the enlistment period of the militia units assigned to the task had expired. Construction had halted, and the wood that had been cut was being used as firewood. [4][9]



* * *February 1861

Abraham Lincoln Inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States.[10] Perhaps a McKinnon had a hand in helping Abe along the way.

Our Theopolis McKinnon said in 1880 said, “I claim to be the first man who named “Honest Old Abe” for President.”[11] This claim has some merit, but needs more research. Theopolis, was also from Kentucky, and the following story adds an interesting connection.

Abraham Lincoln, while a teenager borrowed a book from a neighbor, as he did often from anyone in the area who had a book, as there was no library in the area. When not reading it, he laid it away in a part of the cabin where he thought it would be free from harm, but it so happened that just behind the shelf on which he placed it was a great crack between the logs of the wall. One night a storm came up suddenly the rain beat in through the crevice, and soaked the borrowed book through. The book was almost utterly spoiled. Abe felt very uneasy, for a book was valuable in his eyes, as well as in the eyes of its owner.

He took the damaged volume and trudged over to the neighbors in some perplexity and mortification.

“Well, Abe, what brings you over so early? said the neighbor. “I’ve got some bad news for you,” answered Abe, with lengthened face. “Bad news! What is it?”

You know the book you lent me, the “Life of Washington?”

“Yes, yes.”

“Well, the rain last night spoiled it,” and Abe showed the book, wet to a pulp inside, at the same time explaining how it had been injured.

“It’s too bad, I vum! You’d ought to pay for it, Abe. You must have been dreadful careless!”

“I’d pay for if I had any money. ”

“I’ll do whatever you think right.”

So it was arranged that Abe should work three days for Neighbor, “pulling fodder,” the value of his labor being rated at twenty five cents a day. As the book had cost seventy five cents this would be regarded as satisfactory. So Abe worked his three days and discharged his debt.[12]

The neighbor Abe borrowed the book from was from old Josiah Crawford.[13].

Theopolis’ claim of being the originator of the saying “Honest Abe” for president is interesting because of the McKinnon/Crawford/Washington connection. It is possible that Theopolis did come up with that saying, as William Crawford and George Washington were lifelong friends. It is not surprising that an ancestor would have the book “Life of Washington.” I think I would like to find that book. I have not made the connection from Josiah Crawford to our Crawford at this point, but in time I would not be surprised if I do.





February 1, 1861:

Texas secedes from the Union.[14] Texas becomes the seventh state to secede from the Union when a state convention votes 166 to 8 in favor of the measure.

The Texans who voted to leave the Union did so over the objections of their governor, Sam Houston. The hero of the Texas War for Independence was in his third term as the state's chief executive; a staunch Unionist, his election seemed to indicate that Texas did not share the rising secessionist sentiments of the other southern states.

But events in the year following Houston's election swayed many Texans to the secessionist cause. John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859 raised the specter of a massive slave insurrection, and the ascendant Republican Party made many Texans uneasy about continuing in the Union. After Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency, pressure mounted on Houston to call a convention so that Texas could consider secession. He did so reluctantly in January, and he sat in silence on February 1 as the convention voted overwhelmingly in favor of secession. Houston grumbled that Texans were "stilling the voice of reason," and he predicted an "ignoble defeat" for the South.

Texas' move completed the first round of secession. Seven states--South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas--left the Union before Lincoln took office. Four states--Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas-- waited until the formal start of the war with the firing on Ft. Sumter at Charleston, South Carolina, before deciding to leave the Union. The remaining slave states--Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri--never mustered the necessary majority for secession. [15]

February 1, 1865: Job Kirby, son of William Kirby, was born in 1816, and came to America with his mother in 1849. He was unmarried, and when the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in a New York State regiment (Company G, 104th Regiment, New York Volunteers), and went to the front. After one year of service he was taken prisoner by Confederates. He was paroled, but his patriotism led him back into the army and he was taken prisoner a second time. He was held in a stockade at Saulsbury, North Carolina, where from exposure and neglect he died and was buried February 1, 1865, aged forty-eight years. [16]



Zebulon Vance to James A. Seddon, February 1, 1865:



(Zebulon Vance is at the time, the Governor of North Carolina.)



Dear Sir:



I beg leave to call your attention to the conditions of the Federal prisoners of war at Salisbury, N.C. Accounts read me of the most distressing character in regard to their suffering and destitution. I earnestly request you to have the matter inquired into and if in our power, to relieve them, that it be done. If they are willfully left to suffer when we can avoid it, it would be not only a blot in our humanity, but would lay us open to severe retaliation. I know how strained our means are, however, it will cast no blame upon any one without further information.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Z. B. Vance

(Zebulon Vance to James A. Seddon, February 1, 1865.)

(Zebulon Vance is the compilers 3rd cousin, six times removed. JG)





ZEBULON VANCE AS A YOUNG MAN, WITH HIS RIGHT HAND INSIDE VEST.



http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/MOH/vfpcgi.exe?IDCFile=/moh/DETAILS.IDC,SPECIFIC=1079,DATABASE=40381957,









February 1, 1865

Job Kirby[17], son of William Kirby, was born in 1816, and came to America with his mother in 1849. He was unmarried, and when the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in a New York State regiment (Company G, 104th Regiment, New York Volunteers), and went to the front. After one year of service he was taken prisoner by Confederates. He was paroled, but his patriotism led him back into the army and he was taken prisoner a second time. He was held in a stockade at Salisbury[18], North Carolina, where from exposure and neglect he died and was buried February 1, 1865, aged forty-eight years.[19]









In February 1865 a new exchange program was finally approved. Men at the Salisbury Prison were divided into two groups in order to be liberated. The largest group consisted of 3729 of the more able-bodied prisoners who were marched to Greensboro, North Carolina and then taken by train to Wilmington, North Carolina to be received by Confederate Major Robert F. Hoke. The second group, containing 1420 of the sickest prisoners was sent to Richmond. The Prison then became a supply depot, but it had no prisoners when on April 12, 1865 (3 days after Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox) Union General George Stoneman arrived in Salisbury to free the Federals. The Prison was burned, the only one recorded as having been destroyed in this manner. A confederate Government flag that once flew over the gates is now housed at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. [20]







CSA NATIONAL, 2ND DESIGN; ASSOCIATED W/ THE SALISBURY PRISON.[21]



The young lady visiting the Salisbury prison where Job Kirby died and William Harrison Goodlove arrived only weeks later to rescue and guard the trains carrying the former prisoners to safety is descendant Jacqulin Kirby Goodlove, my daughter.

























11,700 unknown Union soldiers are thought to be buried in 18 trenches, each 240 feet long, dug in an abandoned corn field outside the Confederate Prison stockades. Government records indicate about half that many. Salisbury National Cemetery encompassed this mass grave site, now a grassy expanse marked by a head and foot stone for each trench.

In the upper end of the stockade was a spring that supplied the water for the prison. The lower end of the stream was the latrine area. There were also trips made outside the prison to a nearby stream for fresh water. Unaware that bacteria could travel upstream, the rest is history.

General George Stoneman burned the prison buildings April 12-13, 1865







February 1, 1865

Illinois becomes the first state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery in the United States.[22]



• February 1928: DNVP, pushed by its pragmatic (economic) wing, reenters government in January 1927 but leaves again in February 1928. Unemployment rises but reaches no dramatic levels. Quiet year in Weimar politics.[23]

February 1, 1933





• “I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.” Adolf Hitler[24]

February 1939

The Congress of the United States rejects the Wagner-Rogers Bill, an effort to admit 20,000 Jewish refugee children under the age of 14 from Nazi Germany.[25]



February 1939

Thousands of Nazi sympathizers have gathered in Madison Square Garden and there are reports of Nazi spies operating on American soil. [26]



February 1, 1941: Prime Minister Churchill instructed his Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, to send a warning to Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu telling him “that we will hold him and immediate circle personally responsible in life and limb” if the Iron Cross did not stop their murderous attacks on the Jews.[27]



• February 1, 1942 : The SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (Economic-Administrative Main Office; WVHA) is established, under Oswald Pohl.

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• A nationalist government is formed in Norway under Vidkun Quisling.[28]



February 1, 1943: Most of the 1,500 Jews remaining in Buczacz who had not been sent to Belzac were murdered.[29]





February 1, 2010:



I Get Email!





In a message dated 1/30/2010 6:42:53 P.M. Central Standard Time, pedersen37@mchsi.com writes:



Hi Jeff. This one not on-line, but it sounded interesting, if you could find it.



"Dickore, Marie (trans.) Hessian Soldiers in the American Revolution: Records of Their Marriages and Baptisms of Their Children in America...1776-1783. Cincinnati: D. J> Krehbiel Co., 1959."







Above title cited on page 504 in Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, 2nd edition. Val D. Greenwood; published 1990, Baltimore, MD.







Linda







Thanks Linda! I will be at the library today tracking this one down. Jeff







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[1] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[2] The First Crusade by Steven Runciman, page 24.

[3] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[4] (History Bourbon etc., p. 220) Chronology of Benjamin Harrison compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giuvezan. Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html

[5] Antal, Sandy (1997). A Wampum Denied: Proctor's War of 1812. Carleton University Press. ISBN 0-87013-443-4.

Berton, Pierre (2001). Flames Across the Border. Anchor Canada. ISBN 978-0385658386.

Elting, John R. (1995). Amateurs to Arms: A military history of the War of 1812. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80653-3.

Hitsman, J. Mackay; Donald E. Graves (1999). The Incredible War of 1812. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio. ISBN 1-896941-13-3.

Latimer, Jon (2007). 1812: War with America''. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-67402-584-9.
[6] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[7] (New Madrid Archives #1429) Chronology of Benjamin Harrison compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giuvezan. Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html

[8] Champaign County Clerk

[9] Antal, Sandy (1997). A Wampum Denied: Proctor's War of 1812. Carleton University Press. ISBN 0-87013-443-4.



Berton, Pierre (2001). Flames Across the Border. Anchor Canada. ISBN 978-0385658386.



Elting, John R. (1995). Amateurs to Arms: A military history of the War of 1812. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80653-3.



Hitsman, J. Mackay; Donald E. Graves (1999). The Incredible War of 1812. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio. ISBN 1-896941-13-3.



Latimer, Jon (2007). 1812: War with America''. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-67402-584-9.

[10]Civil War Journal, Woman at War, HIST, 1994

[11] Theopolis McKinnon, August 6, 1880, History of Clark County, page 384.

[12] Cc.gatech.edu/people/home/idris/

[13] (statement of Mr. Lamon).

[14] On This Day in America by John Wagman.

[15] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/texas-secedes

[16] (The Career of a Family, History of William and Esther Kirby and their Family up to the Present time (December, 1914 by John Kirby, Adrian, Michigan.) Page 10.

[17] By coincidence, on the same day that I discovered that Job Kirby was at the Salisbury Prison, I found out that that my daughter, Anna Lee Goodlove was to play in a soccer tournament the weekend of July 22, 2006 and be staying in nearby Winston-Salem.



Upon arrival to Salisbury, North Carolina:



The librarian at the History room at the Rowan County Library in Salisbury N.C. had done some research for me prior to our arrival. Upon our arrival, she shared some interesting information that was not what we had suspected.



Phillip Barton

Library Director

Rowan Public Library

PO Box 4039

201 West Fisher Street

Salisbury, NC 28145-4039



There was no record of Job at the Salisbury National Cemetery. There was a record of his being treated at the Salisbury Prison Hospital and being released.

There was a record of him in the “Index of Prisoners of War of the United States Army Who Enlisted in the Rebel Service at Salisbury, N.C.”



This of course was not what we expected and after doing additional research at the Salisbury Library, my 15 year old daughter, Jacqulin Kirby Goodlove and I made our way to the nearby Salisbury National Cemetery.



There is strangeness that permeates this place that is difficult to explain. It is clearly a

memorial to those who gave their lives for the ideals of the Union, located in a place surrounded by those who fought for the south or were from descendants of slaves and slave owners and their families. It represents more than that however, to those who have friends or family members who were POW’s or soldier’s that are missing or whereabouts are “unknown.” There are many unanswered questions at this place. More questions than answers. “Unknown” graves and unknown stories. What is Job’s story?



During our visit I learned from a former employee of the cemetery that the museum at the cemetery has been closed for years. We arrived prior to the 4:30 PM closing time however we learned that the people that assist in finding graves often leave early. There are many markers that indicate “Unknown Soldier” at the cemetery. Also there is a large area with no markers. These are the eighteen trenches that many were buried without markers because there were too many. The lady at the library said that they know virtually everyone that died at Salisbury. Perhaps they just don’t know who was buried where. It is a solemn place that stretches about sixteen acres. This is not the prison, or the yard. Only the grave area that was outside the prison, across the train tracks in a nearby corn field. A train passed on those tracks while we stood and watched. It reminded me of how that sound of the train must have made those feel that were already in the prison while it brought more men to an already starved and overcrowded prison yard. There are now many more questions than answers. Questions about Job Kirby, of how and where he died. Questions about his desertion to the confederate army and when he was admitted and released from the Salisbury prison hospital.



[18] On a knoll in the beautifully maintained Historic Salisbury National Cemetery lies an area marked by the absence of individual tombstones. Under the grassy mantle and stately tree are the remains of some of the men who died at the Salisbury Confederate Prison.

[19] The Career of a Family, History of William and Esther Kirby and their Family up to the Present time (December, 1914) by John Kirby, Adrian, Michigan. Page 10.

[20] (www.salisburyprison.org/prisonhistory,htm)



[21] http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/MOH/vfpcgi.exe?IDCFile=/moh/DETAILS.IDC,SPECIFIC=62169,DATABASE=40016926,

[22] On This Day in America by John Wagman.

[23] http://www.colby.edu/personal/r/rmscheck/GermanyD4.html



[24] Remnantofgod.org/NaziRCC.htm

[25] www.wikipedia.org

[26]Decisions that shook the World, FDR and WWII. 10/26/2004

[27] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[28] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1770.



[29] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/