I've been looking at your site and it is fascinating,
even though I can't really read Russian. I love the kosher pizza parlor
picture in the Diaspora section of the gallery.
I searched Slonimsky using Cyrillic on Google and got to the migdal.ru Russian-Jewish web site. If you know other people who have connections to family names Slonimsky and Slabodnik
(Слабодник?), please show this email to them.
My grandfather was named Slonimsky. He was a Russian/Yiddish speaker from Nikolayev, Ukraine. I'm looking for possible cousins who might have lived there. I think some of them moved to Leningrad, but we lost touch when Stalin started his purges.
Here are some names:
My grandfather - Elimelech Eliyahuvitch Slonimsky (born in Nikolayev in 1891, acted in traveling Yiddish theater in Russia and in Chicago, also called Melech and Maurice, moved to Chicago 1912, changed his surname to Solon). His brother - Aron(?) (they say he was an officer in the Red Army until the purges). Their father - Eliyahu (patronymic unknown) Slonimsky (he was a rabbi or scholar, and edited a Hebrew or Yiddish dictionary in Nikolayev)
other languages I can read: Español, Português, Français, ײדיש
If you can only write Russian, I'll find a translator. Thanks!
Miriam Solon
Сайт создан и поддерживается
Клубом Еврейского Студента
Международного Еврейского Общинного Центра
«Мигдаль»
.
Адрес:
г. Одесса,
ул. Малая Арнаутская, 46-а.
Тел.:
(+38 048) 770-18-69,
(+38 048) 770-18-61.