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Joined: 17 Sep 2009 / Female ♀
Last Post: 10 Sep 2023
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From: United States, Baltimore
Speaks Polish?: I do not speak Polish; but I understand some basics about Polish pronounciation and transliteration.
Interests: Genealogy (My dad's paternal granddad was a Jewish-Polish Russian who immigrated to Pennsylvania.), history, and other interests

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Nickidewbear   
31 Jul 2014
Genealogy / The Name "Aleksandr[i]a Alicja"-Significance? [3]

Much to my surprise, "Aleksandr[i]a Alicja" ("Alexandr[i]a Alice") was and is a more-common name than I thought. I figured that it was mostly a family name. So, who was the original "Aleksandr[i]a Alicja"? Was she a Roman Catholic saint or Polish heroine?
Nickidewbear   
17 Jun 2014
Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]

Not necessarily. There are Indigenous Mexicans, Guatemalans, Venezuelans, and other Indigenous Latin Americans left.
Nickidewbear   
15 Jun 2014
Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]

So even if your skin got olive color you're still "white".

Actually, we're Olive. There are six "races"/macro-ethnic groups: the White (European), Black (African), Yellow (Asian/"Oriental"), Brown (e.g., Mexica, Taino), Red (as in Native North American; not the general אדום", which אום was ), and Olive (e.g., Israelite/Jewish, Ishmaelite-Edomite/Arab, Iberian) "races". Many of us are products of inter-"racial"/interethnic unions, and we're nonetheless Olive-even if, e.g., we look White because of some Slav who converted to Judaism or because our gene pool microevolved to make us look White.

Here's what an יהודי קדמון looked like, by the way:

failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2009/01/researcher-reconstructs-ancient-jewish-faces.html

And let's be very clear: the man looks like Wolf Blitzer sans glasses or Billy Joel.
Nickidewbear   
4 Jun 2014
Life / Why are Polish so conservative and religious? [240]

So, Poland's historical traditionalism and religiosity has nothing to do with its legacy and its present, as well as its impact on the world and globalization? I see. I didn't realize that the past and present were so disconnected.
Nickidewbear   
3 Jun 2014
Life / Why are Polish so conservative and religious? [240]

"Conservative and religious" does not involve just Roman Catholicism; I assure you. In fact, for example, Liozna (then part of Polish Lithuania) and Podolskie were where Haredi Judaism was founded.

If Poland is so "brainwashed", how come they were one of the more-successful countries in a lot of matters? They even had John Paul the Second, possibly the descendant of a kohenet (Allegedly, Kaczorowska may be "[daughter of] Katzorovski". Even more so, "Katz rov" could be a connection to "כ"צ וראב" or "kohen tzedek v'rav". In Ashkenazi Hebrew and standard Yiddish, "rov" is "Rav" or "Rabbi" or "great". So, John Paul's maternal family may well have come from a rabbi who was a kohen, a great man, or both.).

The globalization and foreign business may well be attributable to Poylishn Yidn in part. For example, the late Warner Brothers and Billy Wilder (significant men in one of the catalysts for globalization, Hollywood) were from Poylisher Yiddish families who were very religious.

I give one solid example:

If you happen to go to the theater recently and be spectate to "Miłosć Blondynki". You'll see that the Polish are becoming more liberal, refined. Public partial nudity has become acceptable albeit to get the sales up, but still, it's a start I think.

Seeing a 1965 film for the first time is really "liberal"
Nickidewbear   
21 Mar 2014
News / Radek Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister, tries to annihilate Polish Slavic identity [19]

Eh...Putin, for one matter. Its Jewish population, for another matter-and ethnic Poles think that they have to put up with Germany and Russia? As my cousin Boleslaw wrote -and he was a Poylisher Litwak, "Germany hosted us well for 5 years so that we could not walk".

He respected the Poles, though. "Poles were shot or hanged for it. And the Poles used ration cards for it, 10 kilo of flour for bread, for one month, a little bith of potatoes and milk from the diary place." He made quite sure to distinguish himself from the Poles, though. As for Stalin (Putin's political "predecessor" [read: "word for the predecessor who influences the heir, and I can't find that word"]), he had this to say:

"But in 1945 a horrible storm came: the Russian front. We had no place, we dug out a shelter in the ground, and whatever we had for clothes and for living we dug it in the ground (uncertain whether they hid it or used it while in the shelter). We had two horses, three cows, four pigs, six sheep and a dozen "birds" (uncertain of the word, but guessing birds meaning chickens), we chased it all into a barn, and we hid in the shelter."

The point is that Polska knows that Polacy and Żydzi have shared similar sufferings at the hands of Germany and Russia, and the Żydzi have suffered all the more. So, Polska has to pull certain favorite cards. Also, many Żydzi with Poylisher and similar (e.g., Litwak roots are watching the situations in Russia, Ukraine, etc. at least to some extent; and Polska knows that.
Nickidewbear   
21 Mar 2014
News / Radek Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister, tries to annihilate Polish Slavic identity [19]

Incidentally, wasn't Sweden a part of Scandinavia, anyway?

joepilsudski: Hitler wanted the same thing...Sound good to you?

Assuming that you're not joking, I venture to say that, that was at least poor wording on Sikorski's part. Assuming that you are, I'm telling you that you have a poor sense of humor. For relatives of Holocaust victims and survivors, and Soviet victims and survivors, there's nothing funny about it.
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Poles born under Russian control - are we Russian? [29]

Yes. There's a difference between citizenship and ethnicity; that's why we have these discussions all the time.

I know that; but on the Ellis Island and other records, only Rochla identified as of the Hebrew "race"/people.
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Andruszkiewicz, Judycki surnames [20]

Pop-Pop would've noted that were that true, though. He tried to connect the Czerneckis (Chernetskis) to Stefan Czarniecki and mentioned no other families. Then he changed his story to "If we had any Jewish blood, I don't know about it." Also, Great-Great-Grandma retained "Andrulewicz" and "Andrulevich". Also, that side of the family doesn't trace the Judyckis beyond 1815 (Josef's birth year, and he was in Białystok), and they couldn't figure out who Franz's dad was until I was able to note the connection (as I recall. Franz was Franciszka's dad and Great-Great-Grandma's brother.).

Great-Great-Grandma's favorite sons were even "Jankie" and "Susi" (two sons who they could give Jewish nicknames), and she was furious when Great-Granddad married a believing Jew (my Great-Grandma Czarnecki, nee Trudnak; the daughter of a Nagy-Trudynak and a Korsch-Munka). She was also furious that he married for love (as shiddukh was the norm even among Anusim who cared about halakhah at all).
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Andruszkiewicz, Judycki surnames [20]

I doubt it. He was born in Polkowo to a Jacob whose dad was a Josef. He was very much a ben-Yudyt (בן-יודית). His mother was a Maryanna Imsencka. His wife (my cousin of blessed memory) was born in Wielanowo, as was her mother (Antonina Seczeniewska). The Andrulevièuses could be found in Bose and Orlinek, but they had no aversion to travel. Great-Granddad, e.g., was born in Tsuman (then Cumań) when his mother was en route to or from visiting Vil'gel'm Andrulevich of Buzhanka (now in Cherkas'ka Oblast). His cousin Nik was in Vilna, and some Andrulevièuses escaped to Hungary as Anusim in the 1700s (which surprised me).
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Andruszkiewicz, Judycki surnames [20]

Originally it must have been "Judycka" and "Judycki".

It was. I misspelled.

As for "Adruszkiewicz"... That's interesting. Does your family has noble roots perhaps?

No. For whatever reason, the Andrulevièus name became played with and got turned into variants like:

- Andrulewicz
- Andrelovich
- Andrelewitz
- Androlowicz
- Andrulev ich
- Andralowitz
- Andrew
- Andrews

"Andruskiewicz" happened to be among those variants. I have no idea why. It was part of the passing game, I suppose.

Harry:Which names did they actually use? In this part of the world at that time the name which somebody used said a lot about who they considered themselves to be. Given the extent of inter-mingling of the various groups, often one's 'nationality' could be self-declared. And somebody who looks as Polish as [insert the most Polish thing you can think of here] but uses a non-Polish first name and a non-Polish surname very possibly doesn't consider themself to be Polish.
Harry, what on Earth are you talking about? Ask an American to read/pronounce the name "Franciszka" lol No wonder she changed it to "Frances" (English equivalent of her name).

The Andrulevièuses (as someone told me here) took their name in Stakliškės. Also, as I showed with the letter, Bołeslaw Andrulewicz made no bones about not being Polish, German, or Russian. If Frances did consider herself Jewish and was more open about it than I would have thought, I'm surprised (I guess that I shouldn't have been given how Orthodox the Andrulevièuses were prior to becoming Anusim-though some did not. After all, her aunt married a Jewish lantsman named Julian Czernecki and called her favorite sons-John Felix and Joseph Paschal-"Jankie" (for Felix) and "Susi" (both of which are Yiddish or Hebrew nicknames).).
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Relatives' Pictures: Do They Look Polish? [44]

There isn't much more we can say about them.

Fair enough, and what about Great-Granddad (Regina's mom's cousin and Ignacy's nephew)? Does he look Central/Eastern European or Jewish?
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Poles born under Russian control - are we Russian? [29]

Not really. Some relatives called themselves Russian, others Polish and Lithuanian, one Hebrew-and that was Rochla Andrelewitz (You have to look closely to see the stroke on the "d".).
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Relatives' Pictures: Do They Look Polish? [44]

That lady (from the first post) looks american to me, and the gentleman - german. :-)

Wow. German? Hmmm. Incidentally, he does remind me a little of Alan Colmes (who I would guess has German or Dutch Jewish roots). Maybe we have German Jewish roots? That would not surprise me.
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Relatives' Pictures: Do They Look Polish? [44]

Though I am your detractor (since I believe only a practicing Jew or Matrineal line is Jewish and that it is not a race) It can be said fairly that both look European.

That's what I wanted to know: that is, how they look.

The ancestry of my Jews also has a Yuditskii...(not direct to me...only the Weiss are direct to me) and they are from around Kiev in my case.

Maybe we do have Khazarate or Slavic ancestry in the Andrulewicz/Andruszkiewicz line. Did you see Ignacy's picture as well? They never did identify their tribal lineages, as far as I know.

I added numbers to pick out a Pole >_<

Ok, but I'm talking about my lines, though.

whats wrong with the link tabs?*edit*

I have no idea. PS Here are pictures of Great-Granddad (an Anusi) for reference. Regina was his cousin's daughter.


  • He is holding Dad on his lap.

  • He's with Dad at Christmas 1962 or 1963.

  • With Dad after Dad broke his collarbone.

  • Same day.
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Relatives' Pictures: Do They Look Polish? [44]

she could have been born in Poland and then emigrated and changed her name in the USA.

She wasn't, but her parents were. Here's what they looked like:


  • Frances Andruszkiewicz Yudisky

  • Anthony Yudisky
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
Genealogy / Poles born under Russian control - are we Russian? [29]

If the Poles were under Russian control for that long, could someone consider them selves part Russian?

By citizenship, yes. Nationality/ethnicity, no. Same with my ancestors as Jews-we are Poylishen Yidn, but not Poles.
Nickidewbear   
31 Jan 2014
History / Alexander the Great - Macedonski. Poland connection? [254]

Nobody has the right to disrespect the history and heritage of Greeks!

I've said that, too; and not because I agree with your sentiments. I've said that the Greeks would laugh at the idea that the Slavs are descended from them, which is part of why Ancestry.com changed their atDNA regional configuration quickly. I wasn't the only one complaining, by the way.