Mordechai Zvi Smolizanski

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Mordechai Zvi Smolizanski, birth ± 1820 Kalvarija, Lithuania, died 11 Aug 1891 Rishon LeZion, Israel, buried 12 Aug 1891 Rishon LeZion, Israel, son of Aron Ben Eliezer Smoliczanski and Leah Bat Moshe
Married 1841 Filipove, Poland to:
Rachel Gedalia Rosengold, birth 1827 Filipove, Poland, died 29 Jan 1898 Rishon LeZion, Israel, daughter of Wolf Rosengold and Pesha Zymanski

1) Chaye Sorah "Ida" Smolizanski, birth 5 May 1843 Kalvarija, Lithuania, died 25 Oct 1916 New York, USA, death cause: myocardial insufficiency to:
Judel Judah Reisel, birth 1844 Shaki, Lithuania, died 2 Aug 1922 Tiberias, Israel, son of Jakov Zvi Reisel and Leya(?) Kaplan
According to two different ships manifests ("Prinzesse Alice", fromBremen to NY in May 1907 and "Nieuw Amsterdam" from Rotterdam in Sept1917) he spelled his name Judel

He came with his wife Chaje Sorah (a month after his daughter Rebecca(Jeanette Chiona Rivka ))
to the US in 1907 and again in 1917 from Holland, this time alone

I think that in 1907 he visited Wolf his son in Berlin before leavingEurope
and in 1916 when his wife died he left for Holland to be with Wolf again,before going back in 1917.

He told the immigration officer that he had lived in the US in 1907/08.
I never heard that he would have been living without his wife, in Hollandfrom 1908 to 1917
so I assume he was in Holland only a year...

His son Aron came to the US in 1892 according to the 1920 NY census.
Pesche Malke (Later Molly Rosen Finkelstein) came in 1895 when she saidshe was 18. She arrived on the "Obdam".
Rueben came in 1901(17 years) with Rachel, who had a son already 10months old, Yankel Gedalya Kaplan.(Her husband Fischel Kaplan was alreadyin the US.) They arrived with the "Kensington"

2) Moshe Nissim Smolizanski, birth 7 Feb 1849 Kalvarija, Lithuania, died 24 Jul 1894 Rishon LeZion, Israel
Moshe Nissim came to Palestine in 1884 with his six children, and boughta large
plot of land in the newly established agricultural settlement of RishonLeZion.
His parents Mordechai & Rachel came a few years later
together with his sister Bertha and brother Yaakov.
Moshe died in Rishon LeZion in 1894. When his son Bernard
died in Paris in 1953 his grandson Roger discovered the land
that Moshe Nissim still owned in Rishon LeZion.
The grandchildren then sold the land after a long process in 1961
for 200,000 French Francs so it must have been a really big plot!
Married 1870 Marijampole, Lithuania to:
Rachel Frank, birth ± 1850 Marijampole, Lithuania, died ± 1920 Paris, France, daughter of Lazarus B. Frank and Suzie Suzanna NN

3) Jacob Wolf Zeev Smolizanski, birth 1853 Kalvarija, Lithuania, died 1932 Rishon LeZion, Israel
Jakov Zeev Smolizanski was the president of the grain exchange inLiepaja, Latvia.
He sent his sons to study agriculture at the Mikve Israel AgriculturalSchool in Palestine in the
beginning of the 1880's. They presumably came with their uncle MosheNissim in 1884.
In 1890 Zeev came to Palestine (together with his parents Mordechai andRachel, who are
buried in the old cemetery of Rishon LeZion)
In Rishon Zeev was one of the four founders of Carmel Mizrachi (theRothschild Winery)
and was it's director for many years, until his death in 1932.
He is buried under the Sycamore tree in Rechov Rothschild. to:
Rosa Reisl Zilberman, birth 1857 Serbentai, Suwalki, Poland, died 1937 Rishon LeZion, Israel

4) Bertha N. Smolizanski, birth ± 1854 Kalvarija, Lithuania, died 1932 New York, USA to:
Sol Epstein

5) Jenny P. Smolizanski, birth Dec 1864 Kalvarija, Lithuania, died 1919 New York, USA to:
Michael M. Blumgarten, birth 1864 Russia, died 10 Feb 1910 New York, USA

6) Simon Eliezer Smolizanski, birth ± 1865 Kalvarija, Lithuania, died ± 1925 Cairo, Egypt to:
NN NN

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