Reb Yehoshua FELDMAN

Rabbi Yehoshua FELDMAN owned a steamboat from Pinsk to Kiev. Married to Rivka of Pinsk.

• Herschel FELDMAN wanted to bring Ruben (below) to America, but Ruben refused to come. Married to Sarah. Lived in New York.
  • Izzel FELDMAN, pharmacist

• Isaac FELDMAN also lives in New York.
  • 2 daughters
  

• Gute Tova FELDMAN Born 1863, died 5 July 1949.

Other FELDMAN's

• Abraham Jacob FELDMAN married Rivka.
  • Nahum Moshe FELDMAN (b. around 1870 Pinsk). Nahum and Michl left Pinsk around 1890 and changed name to SHINEBAUM. Contact: Great-granddaughter Yael yael@simodan.com
  • Michl FELDMAN
  • brother moved to US

• Abraham Jehiel FELDMAN (b. 1893 Kiev, Ukraine). Reformed rabbi. Immigrated to US in 1906. President of Central Conference of American Rabbis (1947-1949). (Encyclopedia Judaica 22 Volume Set VI p. 1218.)

• Cecelia FELDMAN (b. 28 May 1895, d. 9 Dec. 1979) married Benjamin BAER around the year 1914. I know that at least the BAERs were from Latvia (near Estonia on the Baltic Sea). The FELDMANs were supposed to be on the ship with them as they traveled over to the US to land in Baltimore, Maryland. She is said to have 9 siblings: Joseph, Herman, Maurice, Julis, Edward, Jack, Al, Flora and Isadore. Their mother was called by Lena. No maiden name or spouse is known. Contact: Cecelia's great-granddaughter Michele TYSON Mmarti57 at aol.com

• Clara FELDMAN (b. Kiev about 1878, d. 1897 in US). Contact her great grandson Robert BERNSTEIN 

• Bezalel FELDMAN (b. Pinsk) immigrated to Israel in 1948. Contact: Sharoni FELDMAN

• David FELDMAN feldman at alumni.caltech.edu, my roommate at Caltech, electrical engineer. His brother Phillip FELDMAN. His sister Pam FELDMAN pcosman at ece.UCSD.EDU married Bard COSMAN

• Three sisters:
  • Dora FELDMAN (b. 1879 Pinsk), great-grandmother of Anne BARON SFTDAL at aol.com.
  • Shifreh (Sarah) FELDMAN mother of Ruven GREENSTEIN, grandmother of Molly and Bernie.
  • Rivkeh (Ray) FELDMAN

• Ferdinad FELDMAN , born 1895, resided in Brooklyn, NY and was a taxi driver. Contact: Barbara NOLLMAN BNOLLMAN at aol.com

• Jaclyn Adrienne FELDMAN (b. 9 May 54)

• John Jacob FELDMAN, married Pinkie RUGG. Their daughter Miriam Barbara FELDMAN married LAWTON. Contact: Miriam's granddaughter Brenda EZELL

• Jacob FELDMAN married Zipora
  • Anna (Naomi) FELDMAN (b. around 1865, Pinsk, Belarus). Married Mordechai (Max) HILFMAN. Eight children. Anna and Max immigrated to the U.S.A. in the early 1910's. Contact: great-greatdaughter Laurie TESSIER.
  • Herschel FELDMAN

• Joseph FELDMAN (b. ~1810, d. ~1870) lived in Dubroisk (shtetl outside Pinsk). Contact: his great-great-grandson David RUDO

• FELDMAN married Lena. Travelled to Baltimore, Maryland from Latvia with the BAER family.
  • Cecilia FELDMAN (b. 28 May 1895, d. 12 Sep. 1979) m. (around 1914) Benjamin BAER from Latvia. Contact: great granddaughter Michele TYSON TYSON77777 at aol.com
  • Joseph FELDMAN
  • Herman FELDMAN
  • Maurice FELDMAN
  • Julis FELDMAN
  • Edward FELDMAN
  • Jack FELDMAN
  • Flora FELDMAN
  • Isadore FELDMAN

• Louisia FELDMAN married Ludwig Goerdel in 1870. Emigrated from Hanover Province, Germany c. 1866 to Hamilton Cty, Hamilton, Texas where she is now buried. She was daughter of Justinia ??? and a bricklayer/stonemaster in Germany named ??? FELDMAN.

• Jules FELDMAN writes: "We were the biggest family of FELDMANs in South Africa and our family originates from Skapiskis in Lithuania. In our family there was my uncle Prof. Max FELDMAN - professor of Psychiatry in Johannesburg; my dads cousin Louis FELDMAN, the author of a number of works in Yiddish incuding A History of the Jews in South Africa, and The Jews of Oudtshoorn; his brother Richard FELDMAN a member of the Transvaal Provincial Council in the 30's and 40's and quite a few more."

• Martin L. C. FELDMAN, U. S. District Court Judge, Lousiana Eastern Circuit

• Marty FELDMAN (1933-1982) British comedian

• Melanie FELDMAN caught a 72 pound 12 ounce Tope on December 19, 1986 in New Zealand

• Mendal FELDMAN married Rachel (Rose) DUCHEMAN
  • Benjamin (Benumin Schloima) FELDMAN, born 1889, in the town of Kischinew (also known as Kishinev or Chisinau which is now in Moldova). Came to the United States in 1914 at the age of 24 to Ellis Island onboard the S.S. Potsdam with his 21 year old sister, Clara. Went to live with their uncle, A. Blum, 1519 Washington Avenue, Bronx, New York and worked as an iron worker. Benjamim married Ethel (Yetta) GERMAN or GORMAN (born 1894, Kamenitz, Russia)
    • Isadore (Irving) FELDMAN (born 1921, Bronx, New York) married Geraldine GINSBERG (born 1922)
      • Gene FELDMAN, gene.c.feldman at nasa.gov, oceanographer, NASA Godard Space Center.

• Morris FELDMAN (b. 1895) emigrated from Pinsk, Belarus to Edmonton, Canada with his wife Fanny SHAPIRO (b. 1900) (also from Pinsk) in approx. 1925. Morris has 5 sisters, 4 stayed in Pinsk and perished along with husbands and children except for one brother-n-law that survived and went to Israel after the Holocaust and remarried. Sonya FELDMAN (Morris' sister) is still alive and living in Montreal. Contact: Marla PETAL or granddaughter Marilyn FELDMAN CAMPBELL.

• Morton FELDMAN (b. Jan. 12, 1926, New York City. d. Sept. 3, 1987, Buffalo, N.Y.), American composer associated with the New York group of composers led by John CAGE.

• Nathan (Nahum) FELDMAN (b. Pinsk) married Esther SCHUTZ (b. Shcheretz). Nathan sailed to New York City (November 1898 Werkendam ship) and was joined by Esther and their children who arrived in New York City December 1900 on the H. H. MEIER. They settled on the lower east side near his wife's cousins.
  • Max FELDMAN married to Fanny WOLPIANSKY and lived with her in Perth Amboy.
    • Horace FELDMAN
    • Bernard FELDMAN
    • Norma FELDMAN married ZAHN (originally ZAHNSTECHER).
  • Joseph E. FELDMAN, not married, died in combat during World War 1 in France where he is buried.
  • Hyman Isaac FELDMAN (b. Shcheretz or Szczerec, Poland, about 15 miles from Lviv). Only sibling who attended college (Yale University). Well-known architect in New York City. Father of Naomi FATOUROS (nee FELDMAN) NFATOUROS at aol.com
  • Yetta (Henrietta or Jente) FELDMAN, youngest sibling, married Louis ROSENZWEIG, a pharmacist in Brooklyn. The ROZENZWEIGS had two sons, Murray ROZENZWEIGS and Walter ROZENZWEIGS.

• Nathan FELDMAN known as Feldie. (Worked in various portfolios for the Natal Provincial Administration, South Africa. Lived in Pietermaritzburg. One of the pioneers of the Drakensburg, Champagne Castle area.) His father (name unknown) was a tailor. Nathan and his wife Mabel had 3 children, one boy and twin girls:
  • David Nigel FELDMAN married Jane NOMICO.
    • Craig Oliver FELDMAN. Lives in Johannesburg.
    • Graham Kevin Adam FELDMAN (known as Adam). married Kerry-Ayn FORBES in 2001 (kerry@hpl.co.za). Adam is an electrical engineer and lives in Johannesburg.
  • Dr. Ann FELDMAN married David TAPSON. She has a doctorate and has written books on plants in Southern Africa. Children: John TAPSON, Anton TAPSON and Ross TAPSON.
  • Ruth FELDMAN married Peter Jackson. Children: Chris JACKSON, Lee JACKSON, Kim JACKSON

• Rubin FELDMAN (b. 15 May 1873 Zhytomyr, Volhynia, Ukraine) married (about 1896) Leah GALKIN (b. 1878 Zhytomyr). They immigrated to New York City between 1910 and 1914
  • Israel FELDMAN (b. 29 Oct. 1897 Zhytomyr) m. Anne. Three children.
  • Lena FELDMAN (b. 1 Oct. 1898 Zhytomyr) m. Sam EISENBERG. Three children.
  • Joseph FELDMAN (b. 30 June 1903 Zhytomyr) m. Ruth. Two children.
  • Shirley FELDMAN (b. 1904 Zhytomyr) m. GOLDSMITH. They had one child. Remarried Buddy BURTON.
  • Max FELDMAN (b. 1907 Zhytomyr) m. Blanche. Two children.
  • Claire FELDMAN (b. 1910 Zhytomyr) m. Harry TILOVE. One child.
  • Etta FELDMAN (b. 14 May 1914 NYC) m. Sam ROSENKRANTZ. Two children.
  • Samuel FELDMAN (b. 25 Feb. 1916 NYC), married Pauline SCHWARTZ, and had two sons.
    • Richard FELDMAN married Patricia. Children: Keith Rubin FELDMAN and Kevin Frank FELDMAN
    • Gerald FELDMAN married Marianne.\
      • Jonathan David FELDMAN married Stephanie Carson FELDMAN steph_carson at yahoo.com.
      • Jason Samuel FELDMAN.

• Shneur ZALMAN FELDMAN son of Nochem, who moved to Skapiskis, from place unknown, to marry Musha WEITZ and was still living in 1889 in Skapiskis. Related families: GORDON and DAVIDOWITZ. All known descendants of this family moved to South Africa before World War 2, except for two grandaughters of Shneur ZALMAN who were in Skapiskis with their families when the Germans entered and their brother Itsik FELDMAN who moved to New York, c. 1885, had 2 children there - Sam and Hannah and contact with them has been lost. Contact: Jules FELDMAN jfeldman at yizrael.org.il

• Wilhelm FELDMAN (b. 1861 Zbaras, Galicia, d. 1919), Polish author and critic. (Encyclopedia Judaica 22 Volume Set VI p. 1218.)

• Yaakov FELDMAN from in or around Kobrin (75 miles west of Pinsk). Yaakov married Elke STAFFSKY (b.1905) and had Motel FELDMAN (b.1935) and Louisa FELDMAN (b.1936). Louisa married a man named Monte, and they had Daniel (b.1959) and Golda (b.1967). Contact Adam KANICIPER.

Others collecting information on FELDMANs:

• Carol SITRIN, 83 Prospect St. Marlboro, NY 12542 (914) 236-4137
• Kurt FROEHLICH, Burnie, MD

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