Sierpc Yizkor Book Translation Complete!!!!

I received the following email from Sandra Kirsch, regarding the completion of the project to translate the Sierpc Yizkor Book. Sandra Kirsch and Dorothy Lipsky have been fundraising and coordinating the translation. Sierpc's history is important to me as my grandfather, Charles Lelonek was born in Sierpc. The Israel Moshe Kadetsky family line lists Sierpc as there city of origin. Charles Lelonek's mother Pesa Kadecki was originally from Biezun before she married Yitzchak Meyer Lelonek of Sierpc and moved to Sierpc. Her brother, Yechezkel Kadecki also moved to Sierpc and he and his family perished in the Holocaust. Charles Lelonek was one of the 5 editors for the first edition of the Sierpc Yizkor Book in 1948, Zaml-Bukh Fun Sherptser Sheyres Hakhurbn, published in the US Zone in Germany. Later Ephraim Talmi (Wluka) expanded the Yizkor book and published a second edition in 1959 in Israel. That Yizkor Book's translation is now completed and available online. There will be an opportunity to buy a hard copy of the book and I will share details when they become available. The book offers a complete perspective on the typical lives of our ancestors in the 200 years leading up to Holocaust and the immigration to America, Israel and Argentina.

Here is the email from Sandra Kirsch, one of the translation coordinators:
"Dear friends,

I am delighted to share wonderful news about the Yizkor Book for Sierpc,
Poland. Translation of this 600-plus page volume is now complete and it
is online in its entirety at
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Sierpc/Sierpc.html

I am indebted to Dorothy Lipsky, who shared with me the project
coordination and editing of this extraordinary volume. We had the
benefit of the masterful translations of Alex Weingarten (Hebrew
sections) and Jerrold Landau (Yiddish sections), each a joy to work with.
We are deeply indebted to Perry Rosenstein and the Puffin Foundation
(Teaneck, NJ) for financial support. And of course we acknowledge the
incomparable support of Lance Ackerfeld and his team in making our
work available to all.

If you have ancestral roots in Sierpc or nearby communities (e.g.,
Zuromin, Rypin, Raciaz, Plock) I encourage you to access the translation.
The amount of detail and the quality of the writing are superb. Much of
it is heartbreaking, but all is illuminating.

Sandra Krisch
Carefree, AZ"

Who is Isaac Kadetsky's uncle Marks Block?

Boston Herald, December 15, 1892:

Who is uncle Marks Block of 158 Rivington Street in Manhattan? Great uncle he is getting his nephew arrested! The kid had alot of gall to accuse the cop of stealing his money. I'm sure the parents were very "relieved" that the chutz-pah-dick child was located :).

Pauline Kadetsky (wife of Jacob Kadetsky b. 1851) Obituary

Published in "The Jewish Advocate" in Boston, MA on Sep 19, 1930.
She seems like she was a really sweet lady. We see from the article that all her daughters had married by this time. I knew about the marriages of everyone except Martha Kadetsky marriage to Harry Cooper. Jacob and Pauline had 7 daughter and one son. The son Abraham died when he was 1 year old. There 7 daughter were Augusta married Samuel DeHaan, Fannie married Harry Porcelain, Rosa married Abraham Kalish, Annette married Henry Bowman, Tena married Benjamin Finkelstein, Martha married Harry Cooper, and Edna died on April 3, 1919 at 20 years old.

Isaac Kadetsky (b. 1879) was a trouble maker....BIG TIME!

I have found 2 fascinating articles with accounts of Isaac Kadetsky's troublemaking that included stealing a gun at 8 years old and going on a trip with a friend at 12 years old. Isaac Kadetsky was the firstborn son of Abraham Joseph Kadetsky and Celia (Shifra) Kaufman of Boston, MA. (For more genealogical info on his family see post http://kadetskyfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2009/12/1879-abraham-joseph-kadetsky-and-family.html )

Free newspaper searches.
The library of Congress has put together a digital library of newspapers from across the country from 1836-1922. The project is called "Chronicling America" (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/)

From their website:
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Other free newspaper search engines are the google newspaper archive available here: http://news.google.com/newspapers

Another resource is the Fulton old NY newspaper archive found here: http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
Let me know if you have other newspaper archive resources online.
Here is the article from the (NY) Sun, December 11, 1888. (The story was covered by a newspaper in Omaha as well.)

 

A few years later his shenanigans made headlines again in "The SUN" December 16, 1892:

Did his descendants know that he was a troublemaker?

See my post here about Isaac's uncle http://kadetskyfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/08/who-is-isaac-kadetskys-uncle-marks-block.html