Blood, Spit & Logic (Part 3)

Finding The Kronrots: Surely you, Abq Jew's loyal readers, will recall that in last week's Blood, Spit & Logic (Part 2) and the previous week's  Blood, Spit & Logic (Part 1), Abq Jew offered just the beginnings of this wonderfully interesting and entertaining addendum to his now famous Not Strictly Genealogy Methodology. Dealing specifically with

Finding The Kronrots

A Not Strictly Genealogy Methodology

Blood, Spit & Logic

When last we looked

1. We figured out who Sadaye Kronrot Lakritz was, and where she fit in the Kronrot Family Tree.

2. We figured out that Sarah Kronrot Richlin and Miriam Kronrot Goldman were sisters. And that their father was Jacob Wolf Kronrot.

3. We figured out that Sarah Kronrot Richlin and Bertha Kronrot Kaiman both had significant life events take place in 

4. And then we've got Abq Jew's Kronrot Family Axiom:

All Kronrots are related.

And Abq Jew hears you ask:

OK then. Here is what Abq Jew thinks it means. And yes, It requires a small Leap of Faith.

1.

Sarah Kronrot Richlin and Miriam Kronrot Goldman, we already know, were sisters. Because of the Omaha connection between Sarah and Bertha, Abq Jew believes that Bertha Kronrot Kaiman was the third sister.

2.

Jacob Wolf Kronrot, we already know, was the father of Sarah Kronrot Richlin and Miriam Kronrot Goldman. Abq Jew believes that he was also the father of Bertha Kronrot Kaiman, the third sister in the family.

3.

Abq Jew believes that Jacob Wolf Kronrot was the brother of Max (Mendel) Israel Kronrot and Julius Kronrot, And of Benjamin Kronrot, heretofore unmentioned yet unforgotten. 

Even though Abq Jew has not been able to find any historical record to directly support this fourth-brother hypothesis. 

Then why does Abq Jew choose to believe this? 

First, because Jacob Wolf Kronrot solves the Yankel question that had been really, really bothering Abq Jew (see Blood, Spit & Logic Part 1). 

Second, because Jacob Wolf Kronrot maintains the Kronrot Family axiom -

All Kronrots are related.

Oh, it's not really the end. 

Abq Jew was able to identify Manie Kronrot and Ronnie Kronrot -
among many, many other Kronrots not described in this series of blog posts. 

And Abq Jew must thank Mr A Schapira, whose diligence in keeping to real
physical records has greatly influenced Abq Jew's work. 

Still, it's Abq Jew's

Not Strictly Genealogy Methodology

Blood, Spit & Logic (Part 2)

Finding The Kronrots: Surely you, Abq Jew's loyal readers, will recall that in last week's Blood, Spit & Logic (Part 1), he offered just the beginning of this wonderfully interesting and entertaining addendum to his now famous Not Strictly Genealogy Methodology. Dealing specifically with

Finding The Kronrots

A Not Strictly Genealogy Methodology

Blood, Spit & Logic

When last we looked

Miriam Kronrot Goldman had shown up. With no place to put her on the Family Tree. Ditto for Bertha Kronrot Kaiman. Thus and so -

The city of Shushan was farblonjet.

So, Abq Jew hears you, his loyal readers, ask - exactly where did Bertha Kronrot Kaiman turn up? As it turns out, there is a website called SortedByName.com - which, appropriately, lists a whole bunch (that's a technical term) of Kronrots. Et al.

And Abq Jew recognized the names of almost every Kronrot in the bunch, and successfully placed them in the Kronrot Family Tree.. With just a few exceptions. 

Including Bertha Kronrot, who, at some point, married one Abraham Kaiman. In Omaha, Nebraska, of all places. And who, with said Abe, had a daughter (Rosalie) and a son (Kenneth). (It turned out that their son Bernard had already arrived.) In Omaha, Nebraska. 

The next problem Abq Jew faced was: 

Too Many Saras

Well, not exactly. Depending on whose Tree one trusted (and Abq Jew didn't really trust any of them), there was a Sara Kronrot ... and a Sarah Kronrot ... and a Sadaye Kronrot. Or maybe two of them were the same person ... or maybe they were all the same person ....

Abq Jew started with

Sadaye Kronrot Lakritz

Sadaye turned out to be easy to trace. She was, just as SortedByName.com proclaimed, the daughter of Julius and Dora Kronrot, born in Poland in 1893. 

Thanks to wonderfully knowledgeable help from Sadaye's dear relative-by-marriage S R-Lakritz, Abq Jew learned that Sadaye married Joseph Lakritz in 1914. They had one son, who had two sons ... etc, etc, etc. 

OK so far.

So then Abq Jew had to solve the enigma of

Sarah Kronrot Richlin

SortedByName.com told Abq Jew that Sarah and her husband Isaac had a son, Milton, born in 1922. In Omaha, Nebraska, of all places.

Didn't Bertha Kronrot marry Abe Kaiman in Omaha? Weren't their kids born in Omaha? And then we've got Abq Jew's Kronrot Family Axiom:

All Kronrots are related.

So Abq Jew searched the records (not the Trees). And discovered, in NYC Deaths 1866-1948:

Sarah Richlin! With her birth and death dates. And her husband Isaac. And - and this is important - the name of her father Jacob Wolf Kronrot, and of her mother Rifka Zelinsky.

"How interesting," said Abq Jew.

Could Jacob Wolf be the mysterious Yankel?

Remember Miriam Kronrot Goldman (see Blood, Spit & Logic (Part 1)?

Miriam Kronrot Goldman

Well, Abq Jew never entirely forgot about Miriam. As Abq Jew was futzing around (that's a technical term) on the Genealogy Internet, he found this record in the 1920 US Federal Census:

Miriam Goldman! There she is! In NYC! With her husband Harry, and her children (so far) Milton and Eva. And then - and this is very important - the name of Harry's sister-in-law (and thus, of course, Miriam's sister): Sarah Richlin!

Sarah Kronrot Richlin and
Miriam Kronrot Goldman are sisters!

And Jacob Wolf Kronrot is their father!

But who is Jacob Wolf Kronrot?

And what about Bertha?

See Part 3 ... coming soon!

Blood, Spit & Logic (Part 1)

Finding The Kronrots: People often ask Abq Jew how he manages to find so many long-lost relatives on his Family Tree.

As Abq Jew first mentioned in his classic blog post Blood, Spit & Years - actually, almost nobody asks. But just in case someone should ask sometime, Abq Jew offers this wonderfully interesting and entertaining addendum to his now famous Not Strictly Genealogy Methodology.

Finding The Kronrots

A Not Strictly Genealogy Methodology

Blood, Spit & Logic

First: The Kronrots, Abq Jew must tell you, are Mrs Abq Jew's father's family. Mr & Mrs Abq Jew knew some of them, but not a whole lot.

Plus: The Kronrots do not, for all intents and purposes, believe in DNA testing. So the whole geshichte that follows is based on a delectable combination of official records and personal recollections. 

So let’s talk about the Kronrots.

1. Mrs Abq Jew and her brother HG Kronrot are the children of Burton Kronrot z”l.
2.  Burton Kronrot was the son of Jack (Jacob) Kronrot.
3.  Jack Kronrot was a son of Max Israel Kronrot.

For years, that was about all that Abq Jew knew about the Kronrot line.

And then: One day, purely by chance, Abq Jew took a close look at HG Kronrot's Family Tree on Ancestry.

And Abq Jew discovered that HG Kronrot had added Julius Kronrot - Max Israel Kronrot's brother - to his Tree. Along with Julius's entirely new branch of the Kronrot Family Tree.

However – Abq Jew didn’t want to add Julius to his MyHeritage Family Tree until he was absolutely sure.

Well. A remarkably quick search on FindAGrave.com revealed that Max Israel Kronrot's father's name was Zelig Itzhak - which Abq Jew had not previously known. And that Julius Kronrot's father's name was the same - Zelig Itzhak.

Proof enough for Abq Jew.

So now, in our determined and timeless search for Truth - let's talk about Logic. And the name Kronrot.

One might think that

Kronrot = Red Crown

and that the name must be German. But HG Kronrot spent a few years in Germany (doing Opera!) during the 1970s - and couldn't find a single other Kronrot.

True, that was way before The Internet and MyHeritage and Ancestry. But still, one has to admit (yes, one does!) that Kronrot is a pretty weird name.

Which brings us to Abq Jew's Kronrot Family Axiom:

All Kronrots are related.

It must be noted (one supposes) that Abq Jew is not a linguist; not a philologist; not an etymologist. Also not an entomologist - but that's understood.

However (see April 2018's Fame, Fortune, and Four Wives), Abq Jew was formerly known as The Word Man.

Therefore: We proceed.

Eventually, Abq Jew discovered (to his great surprise, after years of just not looking) that there were several other Kronrot Family Trees on MyHeritage and Ancestry - and that those Trees did include a branch for Julius Kronrot. 

But listed as Julius (Yankel) Kronrot. Which really, really bothered Abq Jew.

Why? Abq Jew hears you ask. Because Yankel is Yiddish for Jacob. According to his headstone, Julius Kronrot's Hebrew name was Yoel Zalman. 

"Strange," said Abq Jew. 

But Abq Jew's research was progressing.

And then Miriam Kronrot Goldman showed up.

Miriam Kronrot Goldman

It all started when Abq Jew randomly discovered that one JE Goldman has quite a few Kronrots on his Ancestry Family Tree. So Abq Jew sent a message to JE Goldman, explaining that Mrs Abq Jew is a Kronrot, so, perhaps ... you know, we should talk?

So, we talked (exchanged emails, that is). And JE Goldman proudly showed Abq Jew that his great grandmother was, indeed, Miriam Kronrot Goldman. Married to one Harry B Goldman. One of Julius and Dora Kronrot's many children.

All was well and good until Abq Jew came to realize that JE Goldman had identified Miriam Kronrot Goldman as Miriam Fisher Goldman on FindAGrave. With a birth date of 1883.

Miriam Fisher Goldman's father’s name - on her headstone - was Yaakob Zev (Jacob Wolf). But Julius Kronrot’s name was Yoel Zalman.

"How interesting," said Abq Jew.

Interesting, yes. But what did it mean? Abq Jew wrote an email to JE Goldman, pleading for help! And pointing out that:

1. Abq Jew had been absolutely unable to connect any Miriam Kronrot to Julius Kronrot.
2. Julius Kronrot was born in 1868; he married Dora in 1892 at age 24; and he had Sara (1910 Census) in 1893 at age 25.
3. If Miriam Kronrot was born in 1883 – well, Julius Kronrot was only 15. Before his marriage to Dora Stone. This was highly unlikely.
4. If Miriam Fisher was born in 1890 – that was still before Julius Kronrot and Dora Stone were married. And there’s still the matter of the wrong father’s name on Miriam's headstone.
5. If Abq Jew drops Miriam off the Julius and Dora Kronrot's children's list, their children show (1910 Census) a nice sequence of marriage, followed by a new child every year or two. Miriam throws the whole thing off.

Now, Abq Jew is forced to concede that Miriam Kronrot does appear on other Ancestry family trees - as one of Julius and Dora Kronrot's children. 

But Abq Jew suspects that this is an all-too-common example of one careless genealogist copying from another careless genealogist without checking the records.

So, Abq Jew hears you ask -

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Almost everything. We've got Julius called Yankel. We've got Miriam not connected to Julius, and Miriam not connected to Max. And we've got Abq Jew's Kronrot Family Axiom:

All Kronrots are related.

So who is Miriam? At this point, Abq Jew just doesn’t know. 

Unfortunately, there’s about a zillion Harry Goldmans and Miriam Goldmans out there – so it looks like it’s going to take a long time to find the right Harry and Miriam. If there's even a record.

Bertha Kronrot Kaiman shows up.

Bertha Kronrot Kaiman

And the city of Shushan was farblonjet.

See Part 2 ... coming soon!

Rosh Hashanah 5787

Dip Your Apple In The Honey: It's Rosh Hashanah! And, as we begin a New Jewish Year, please remember - as Rabbi Adam Rosenbaum of Denver, CO; of Livingston, NJ; and now, once again, of Charleston, SC has taught us -

There is hope for the world.
There is hope for your life.
The way it is now is not the way it must be. 

Abq Jew warmly invites you to check out
this now-classic Rosh Hashanah hit from 5772:

Dip Your Apple!

by The Fountainheads of Ein Prat

No apples, pomegranates, babies, or smartphones

were harmed in the filming of this video.

Please don't feed babies honey.

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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Abq Jew knows (and knows you know), are special times for our Jewish hearts, minds, and souls.

The Ein Prat Fountainheads have - as always! - touched our hearts. 

Now, here is something that will touch our minds and souls.

From award-winning author Dara Horn, a masterful
new work of nonfiction that boldly confronts
and dismantles the myths and lies that have
spread antisemitism from ancient times
until today —and then offers an audacious
but achievable vision for the future.

Dara Horn’s shocking new title hides a serious argument about fighting antisemitism

Five years after 'People Love Dead Jews,' the novelist's new book reframes Jewish hatred as a lie about destruction — and tells Jews they don't have to accept it 

by Gabby Deutch

If you thought People Love Dead Jews — Dara Horn’s 2021 essay collection examining society’s reverence for remembering deceased Jews while failing to support the living ones — was an awkward book to read in public, just wait until you get your hands on Horn’s newest title: The Final Solution to the Jewish Question.

Horn, a celebrated novelist who has become the bard of contemporary antisemitism since Dead Jews was published five years ago, is in on the joke; she likes to say that both titles make great beach reads because no one will dare sit within several feet of you. (Her dad even made a custom People Love Dead Jews beach towel for her to test out the theory.) 

But despite borrowing its title from the name of the Nazis’ infamous plan to rid Europe of its 11 million Jews during World War II, Horn’s latest book, which will be published on Sept. 1, is not a Nazi manifesto.

Instead, the title of Horn’s new book serves as an eye-catching, subversive dog whistle that is meant to pique the interest of antisemites — while also serving as a cheeky summary of Horn’s goal of actually trying to come up with a solution to the wave of antisemitism that has swept the world in recent years. 

Dara Horn tackles enduring antisemitic lies head-on with optimistic ‘Final Solution’  

Inundated by readers sharing painful personal experiences, author of ‘People Love Dead Jews’ parses the hateful phenomenon and proposes an innovative educational fix

by Renee Gert-Zand

For centuries, argues author Dara Horn, people have tried to gain or maintain power by employing the lie that Jews are responsible for destroying whatever a society, government, or institution values most.

Tyrants, totalitarian regimes on both the right and left, and conformist societies in particular, have employed this lie, Horn says, because they are threatened by Jews — and by Judaism’s long history as an anti-tyrannical, countercultural tradition.

It is the central argument of Horn’s new book, “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” which was released September 1. The title is every bit as provocative as that of her 2021 bestseller, “People Love Dead Jews” — and its cover is sure to draw attention in bookstores and on social media.

With its direct reference to the Nazis’ nearly successful extermination of Europe’s Jews during World War II, this collection of related essays is, unsurprisingly, about antisemitism. But its subtitle, “A Love Letter to the Living,” hints from the outset that things are not all doom and gloom.

L'Shana Tova Tikatevu –
May you be inscribed for a good year!