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 Ukraine, as his parents were part of that community. His wife Bessie (Americanized from Basya or Batia) Shapiro (c. 1865–1938) came from the Ukrainian town of Pereyaslav. Read More…