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#volp-56: Isser Yehuda Unterman (1886 - 1976)
#volp-57: Yude Avrom Perski, the town 'shoykhet' (ritual slaughterer). "He is 92 years old and he goes to the synagogue three times a day to pray"

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My maternal grandfather, Shimon Chaim Kovarsky from Vilna, who became Rabbi Herman Simon of St. Paul, MN, studied at Mir and Volozhin and was ordained at Volozhin. After he died in 1946, my grandmother was finally able to obtain the key to his safe deposit box, to which he had never allowed anyone access. My mother accompanied my grandmother to the bank--both of them filled with great anticipation as to what great treasures they might find in the carefully guarded bank box. To their surprise, the box contained only one thing: my grandfather's ordination papers.

Marjorie Rosenfeld
.....photo I have of my grandfather at my Svencionys
ShtetLinks site, along with the poem I wrote about him. The page there
is:

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Svencionys/kaddish_de_rabbanan.html

Although my grandfather's male forebears--his father, grandfather, and great grandfather--were all from Svencionys (then Russian Sventsiany), his mother was from Vilna; and since my grandfather always said he was from Vilna, in this case I believe Vilna was the correct place of origin for him and not the smaller town approximately 50 miles from Vilna.

Thanks for the link to Kowarski family members at your site. Paul, the Canadian cantor whose photo you have on your page, was in our Kovarsky/Kowarski/Kovar Research Group for awhile. We have quite a large Research Group composed of people all over (Israel, the U.S., South Africa, South America, etc.) with ties to this family from Svencionys. One of my numerous Kovarsky "cousins" in this group found the photos of some Kovarsky/Kowarski family members at your Vilna site a couple of months ago; so I saw those, though I couldn't place the people in them. Some of us have a family tree book published in Libava in 1904 which notes the move in 1760 of a "Iosip" (Joseph) from Kovarsk to "Wenty." That Iosip was obviously the first member of our family to be called "Kovarsky." Supposedly, all Kovarskys from Svencionys or Vilna are related, though Kovarskys from other places may not be part of the same family.

Best--
Marjorie