by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 5, 2018 | Family History Center
Undoubtedly the terrible persecution, repression, and economic deprivation that our ancestors confronted in Czarist Russia led them, along with millions of other Russian Jews, to immigrate to the United States. America was a land of freedom and opportunity, but still,...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 4, 2018 | Family History Center
Amidst the poverty and the persecution that defined Jewish life in the Russian Pale of Settlement, there was one potential way out of the misery – immigration to America, di goldeneh medina, the Golden Land. Between 1881 and 1920, approximately three million Ashkenazi...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 3, 2018 | Family History Center
Unbeknownst to Nathan Polonsky and his family when they arrived in Brooklyn in 1914, they were on the cusp of one of the most epic periods of history that America, and arguably the world, has ever known. Over the next three decades, the country would experience two...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 2, 2018 | Family History Center
We are extremely fortunate that our Polonsky ancestors immigrated to America between 1905 and 1914, prior to World War I. Immigration to America was dramatically curtailed after 1914, and very few Russian Jews were permitted entry to the United States after that...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 1, 2018 | Family History Center
The patriarch of the Polonsky family in America is Nathan Polonsky (c. 1863–1929). Nathan’s birth name in Russia was Menakhem Nahum Polonsky. Nathan was most likely born in the town of Shpola, in the Zvenigorodka uezd (district) of the Kiev guberniya(province) of the...