Newsletter of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society

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2006 Annual Conference

New Mexico JewishHistorical Society5520 Wyoming Blvd. NEAlbuquerque, NM 87109

Telephone: (505) 348-4471Fax: (505) 821-3351website: www.nmjewishhistory.orgemail: nmjhs@jewishnewmexico.org

Administrator: Debra BlackerbyOffice Hours: Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday 9:00-2:00 pmEditor: Bobbi Jackson

If you have any news or announcementsof interest to our membership, pleasesend it to the above address. Thank you.

INSIDE THIS ISSUEAnnual Conference......................................1President’s Message.....................................2Volunteers Needed ..................................2Dr. Allan Hurst Award............................3Breadcrumbs and Magic..............................4Genealogy Corner.....................................5Some Fun Facts About Candles...................6Victory Ranch Alpacas................................8Déjà Vu.....................................................9Jacob Stern ...............................................10On the Road to Zelva................................11

By Noel Pugach

The nineteenth annual con-ference of the New MexicoJewish Historical Society washeld at the AlbuquerqueHilton, November 11-12,2006. The theme of this

year’s gathering was “Movers and Shakers: TheJewish Difference in the Land of Enchant-ment.” The purpose of the three panels andkeynote address was to explore the contribu-tions which individual Jews have made in vari-ous fields to New Mexico and the nation dur-ing the twentieth century. The planning com-mittee was very successful in securing the par-ticipation of leading figures in their respec-tive fields, who made a very attentive and en-thusiastic audience aware of the significantimpact of Jews in New Mexico.

Michael (Mikey) Weinstein, a graduate of theAir Force Academy, opened the conference.Mikey has become widely known for his op-position to the practice of Christian proselyt-izing and intimidation at the Academy andin the armed forces in general. With a power-ful array of facts, enhanced by revealing an-ecdotes, and a dynamic speaking style, Mikeycertainly awakened his rapt listeners to thedangers posed to our basic constitutionalrights and the principle of separation ofchurch and state.

We then went into our first panel on Medi-cine and Science, moderated by Dr. NoelPugach. Dr. Maurice Katz, a physicist atLos Alamos and a high official in the De-partment of Energy, delivered a paper whichhe co-authored with Dr.Louis Rosen; Dr. Rosenworked on the ManhattanProject and later became thefirst director of the LosAlamos Meson Physics Facil-ity. Their paper highlightedsome of the major Jewish fig-ures who played a vital rolein the development of theatomic bomb and the wholefield of nuclear physics, bothfor military and peaceful ap-plication. These included Dr.Rosen’s contributions to par-ticle physics. The presentation was rich inanecdotes on Oppenheimer, Teller, Bethe,and other personalities.

Dr. Avrum Organick has had an illustri-ous career as a physician and scientist inNew York, Milwaukee, Denver, and NewMexico. His presentation traced the devel-opment of drugs to treat tuberculosis, es-pecially Isoniazid and newer Pyrazinamide.More compelling was his tale of how heand a group of Jewish doctors used them,with very good results, on their NativeAmerican patients at the Public Health fa-cility in Fort Defiance, Arizona. Dr. FrankHesse followed with an account of the con-tributions to medical practice in NewMexico by a group of Jewish doctors whostarted to arrive in the state in the 1950sand whose numbers increased in the fol-lowing decades. He mentioned several whoplayed important roles in the establishmentof the University of New Mexico MedicalSchool in the 1960s. He then discussedhis own contributions, especially in thearea of emergency medicine and ruralhealth care, for which he has received nu-merous honors.

After a brief coffee break, Ms. Sarah Payne(a History Ph.D. candidate at the Univer-sity of New Mexico substituting for the ail-ing Dr. Durwood Ball) called the panel toorder on Law and Politics. Ms. Zora Hesse,

a political activist whoserved as Democratic Na-tional Chairwoman in the1980s and more recentlyon the EnvironmentalPlanning Commission,talked about the major is-sues that brought Jews intopolitics: social justice andconcern for the security ofthe State of Israel. She re-lated some of the majorbattles that she and othersfought over Democraticparty planks on the Mid-

dle East and the furor over the name of thestudent newspaper at New Mexico StateUniversity, The Swastika. It was an excit-ing and moving presentation.

Michael Sutin complemented Mrs. Hesse’stalk by providing another perspective onJewish involvement in the social justicemovement in New Mexico. Mr. Sutin was ayoung political activist and beginning at-torney with the well-known firm of Sutin,Thayer & Browne, when he got involved inthe fight to secure fair housing legislation.The effort was inspired by Sheldon(continued on p. 3)

Mikey Weinstein. Photocourtesy of Harold Melnick

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ing by having functions and programmingaround New Mexico. We have an office atthe Jewish Federation of New Mexico,housed in the beautiful Jewish CommunityCenter (JCC) in Albuquerque.

The Society functions because many of ourboard members freely and willingly offertheir time and talent. We have many mem-bers who we want to reach out to get moreinvolved by sharing and implementing goodideas and just helping out at events like ourBook Sale, Annual Conference, and FilmPrograms or by helping our new adminis-trator, Debra Blackerby, at the office.

For all of those who have helped the Societywith their time and financial contributions,

I say “thank you so much.” For our mem-bers who have the time, talent, ideas or will-ingness to contribute financially to help usfulfill our mission, I say, “Please join in ourexcitement of a truly unique Jewish Histori-cal Society.”

Wait, I forgot to mention all the committeesthat we are seeking help from our members,which are: Annual Conference, Membership,Finance, Book Sale, Allan Hurst Award, Pub-licity, Administrative Support, Web Site De-velopment, Film/Lecture and other Pro-grams.

We graciously want to thank those who havealready filled the following committees: Ar-chives (Stan Hordes) and Cemetery Clean-Up (Gunter and Geri Aron).

Please contact the Society office (505-348-4471) and talk to Debra to share your inter-est about getting involved, and once again,thanks! z

By Lance Bell

s I write this, I’ve beenconfined at home for the pastfew days by a record 30-inchsnowfall. It has given me timeto think about the Society,about history, about Jewish

history.

I know it’s a record snowfall because there arerecords - history. Someone decided long ago torecord the depth of snow; it served no purposeat the time - there were no records to compareit with; it was done for the future, for posterity.Deliberate history. Much more of history wasnot created for posterity, just for its own time:scratchings on a cave wall, petroglyph carvingson rocks, a merchant’s transaction on a stone

tablet. Three thousand years ago our Jewishforebears recorded stories about the past andrules for the future, and we stillhave them today.

Most of us don’t think aboutfuture historians in our day-to-day activities. I sometimesimagine someone a thousand orten thousand years from nowfinding my picture or my bankrecords or a letter I’ve written,trying to understand what my lifewas like, just as we try tounderstand what life was like inNew Mexico a hundred or athousand years ago. Our Society

Atries not only to retrieve the past but also topreserve for the future. Some future historian

will be grateful for what we dotoday. Note that our newsletternow has a name befitting ofour mission – Legacy.

The ability of our Society todo this work depends on itsmembers. Members are thesource of funds and people tocarry out its activities. The year2006 has been one of our best,thanks to the work done byand funding supplied by ourmembers.

Harold Melnick, President (continued on p. 11)

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Steinhauser, the head of ADL in Denver. Healso recounted his involvement in the civilrights movement by his younger brother,Jonathan, who now sits on the New MexicoCourt of Appeals. Robert Schwartz concludedthe session by fielding questions on “Law andOrder.” Mr. Schwartz is very well qualified toenter this arena. A career crime fighter, Mr.Schwartz has served as Bernalillo County Dis-trict Attorney, was justice correspondent forKOAT-TV, and was Governor Bill Richardson’scrime policy advisor. Mr. Schwartz received abarrage of questions, which he answered withaplomb.

We reassembled for a fine dinner in theevening. After being introduced by NMJHSPresident Harold Melnick, Former GovernorDavid Cargo, the keynote speaker, carried onthe theme with his address “Influential Jewsin New Mexico Politics.” Well versed in NewMexico history, Governor Cargo first reachedback into nineteenth and early twentieth cen-turies to highlight the continuous presence ofJews in New Mexico politics and public life. Afixture in politics and public affairs for almostfive decades, Cargo then talked about the po-litical activity of Jews in more recent times.

He knew many of them intimately. The gov-ernor then took questions on a wide variety ofsubjects. The proceedings were then adjournedfor the night.

On Sunday morning, the focus shifted to TheArts. Ms. Naomi Sandweiss moderated a panelthat included two active artists. The first wassculptor Harvey Buchalter, a transplantedYiddishist from New York. Buchalter began hisfascinating presentation by talking about thenegative atmosphere and limited models forJews in the plastic arts. But then, with the useof dramatic photos, he showed how tombstonecarvers used their freedom to express their im-agination and creativity and in turn, inspiredhim to pursue his love of sculpture. He pro-vided samples of his own work, including sev-eral of his more recent abstract pieces in wood.

Diana Bryer, a prolific painter from Los Ange-les, showed dozens of slides of her work as shetraced her development as an artist. Bryer wasdrawn to New Mexico by its beautiful naturalenvironment and rich multicultural heritage.She showed how she fused her Jewish influ-ences with Hispanic and Native Americanthemes.

To conclude the session, David Steinbergbrought these presentations into the largercontext of Jewish involvement in the artsin New Mexico. A newspaperman with theAlbuquerque Journal for many years, Davidis currently its arts writer and book revieweditor. Mr. Steinberg provided a broad andenlightening survey of the more outstand-ing figures in fields ranging from music,dance, and the representational arts.

The goals of the program committee werefulfilled. Nancy Terr did a remarkable jobin organizing the entire weekend. She wasably assisted by Noel Pugach and Phil Saltz.The speakers covered a lot of ground, butit was impossible to treat all fields of activ-ity in which Jews made contributions. Ateach session, the audience engaged thespeakers with interesting questions. Theconference ended with an excellent buffetand brief program chaired by PresidentHarold Melnick. At the end of brunch, theDr. Allan Hurst Award was given to Dr.Noel Pugach. We look forward to intellec-tually stimulating and convivial conferencesin the future. z

n November 12, 2006, theNew Mexico Jewish Histori-cal Society presented the2006 - 2007 Dr. Allan HurstAward to NMJHS boardmember Dr. Noel Pugach

during the Society’s annual fall conference.

The award, named in memory of one of theSociety’s earliest founders, recognizes a per-son, persons, or organization that has contrib-uted to New Mexico Jewish history, culture,and community for a substantial period oftime. Previous recipients of the award includehistorians Dr. Stanley M. Hordes and Dr.Henry Tobias; long-time Santa Fe resident,Leah Kellogg; and former Society presidentClaire Grossman. Last year the award wasgiven to Rabbi Leonard Helman.

Playing an instrumental role in the Society’sVideo History Project that brought to thepublic 13 booklets on pioneer New MexicoJewish families, Dr. Pugach helped train the

Dr. Allan Hurst AwardBy Lance Bell

Ovolunteers, conducted some of the inter-views, did fund raising, and most impor-tantly wrote the scholarly articles for thebooklets. (These book-lets are available forpurchase through theSociety office.)

Dr. Pugach began hiscareer as an instructor atKent State University in1965 and received hisPh.D. from the Univer-sity of Wisconsin in1967. He began hislong and successful ca-reer as a professor at theUniversity of NewMexico in 1968. In re-gard to Jewish history, he has taught classeson early Jewish history to 1492; modern Jew-ish history, 1492 to the present; and the his-tory of the Holocaust. He has published nu-merous articles and reviews relating to Jew-

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ish history, specifically to New Mexico Jew-ish history and Southwest Jewish history.

Bringing history to a general au-dience, Dr. Pugach gives numer-ous presentations in New Mexicoand elsewhere with regard to Jew-ish history, Holocaust studies, theMiddle East, United States his-tory, and China. Try to catch himperforming his notable and ac-claimed Chautauquas on Presi-dent Harry S Truman or NewMexico territorial governor LewWallace. Dr. Pugach receives ravereviews for bringing to life thecharacters that he portrays.

If you have someone in mindwhom you would like to nomi-

nate for next year’s Dr. Allan Hurst award, pleasewrite to the Society’s office. Tell us the person’sname, special qualifications, and why you feelthis individual should receive the award. z

Lance Bell and Dr. Noel Pugach.Photo courtesy of Harold Melnick

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Breadcrumbs and Magic: A Story of TashlichBy Amichai Lau-Lavie

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hen I was 6 years old, myfamily moved from Mos-cow to a little town in thecenter of Israel. There wasa park with a pond in it notfar from our new house.

My brother and I spent many hours play-ing in the park, but the pond, we were told,was off-limits. Once, on a really hot daytoward the end of the summer, we climbedthe wooden fence that surrounded it, anx-ious for a refreshing dive, but suddenly anold man, one of the park guards, appearedout of nowhere and ordered us out.

“The pond,” he frowned, “is for the HolyFish only!” The old man refused a furtherexplanation. “You’ll see,” was all he was will-ing to say. “Soon they’ll be here.”

So we began a pond watch, convinced thatsome magical fish family, complete withwish-fulfillment kits, would rise out of thepond. We lasted a week, finally admittingour boredom. Nothing seems to swim inthat miserable pond and we soon forgotabout the whole thing.

A few weeks later, Rosh Hashanah came.We didn’t grow up traditionally Jewish anddidn’t know much about the holidays, butat school, they told us it was the Jewish NewYear, a good time for new beginnings. Forthe first time in my life, I went to a syna-gogue on the first day of the holidays. Af-terwards, my family went to have lunch withthe Katz family, new friends who lived a fewhouses away.

When lunch was over, Mr. Katz stood upand said, “Well, I suggest we all gather upthe leftover challah crumbs and go over tothe Holy Fish Pond.”

My brother and I looked at each otherstunned, then stared suspiciously at our hostand at everyone else around the table. Every-body was excitedly collecting crumbs fromthe left-over bread and putting them in pa-per napkins. My mother noticed our ex-citement and confusion and turned to Mr.Katz with a shy smile. “What are you talk-ing about?” she asked.

He burst out laughing. “Don’t you haveholy fish in Russia? Haven’t you ever heardof Tashlich?”

We all looked at him like he was crazy.“Don’t worry,” he said, “it’s fun. Come withus to the park and you’ll see.”

I never saw the park as crowded as it wasthat day. Hundreds of people crowded to-gether around the usually desolate pond.Chasidic men in full black garb, womenwith kerchiefs and babies and children eve-rywhere. Everyone was facing the pond,holding prayerbooks and mumbling. Peo-ple took breadcrumbs from their pocketsand threw them in the pond, still mum-bling. When done, they squeezed their waythrough the crowd, leaving someone else totake their place at the pond’s edge.

I tugged at my brother’s arm and we crawledthrough the throngs to our spot. There theywere. Big silver fish, dozens of them, swim-ming in a frenzy, trying to gulp down everycrumb thrown in. The Holy Fish! The oldman hadn’t lied. But I wondered why werethey holy? What did they have to do withRosh Hashanah? So many questions buzzedthrough my head that afternoon. I didn’tknow it at the time, but I had witnessedone of the oldest Jewish rituals.

On our way back from the park, Mr. Katzexplained that this ritual was called Tashlich,which in Hebrew means “throw away.” Tra-ditionally done on the first afternoon of RoshHashanah, Tashlich is an act that symbolizesthrowing away our sins so that we can havea fresh start for the New Year. Usually onethrows away bread crumbs into a naturalbody of water, preferably one with fish thatwill eat the sins and make them disappear.

“So what happens to the fish?” I asked.“Don’t they die from eating everyone’s sins?”He laughed again. “It’s not REALLY sins,you know and they are just ordinary fish.Don’t take it so seriously; it’s just a ritual.”

Over 20 years have passed since that RoshHashanah. We moved out of that townshortly after that day and I never visited the“Holy Fish Pond” again. I have celebratedmany Rosh Hashanah since then and everytime I go to Tashlich, I remember Mr. Katz’swords: “Don’t take it so seriously, it’s just aritual.”

So are rituals serious or are they just a game?Do rituals have any special significance be-low the surface? If so, many people throwcrumbs representing their sins, maybe it doeswork and Mr. Katz is wrong.

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he year was 1998. I had foundout all I could from relatives,and it was time to do some se-rious searching for originalrecords. I was sitting down atthe microfilm reader at our lo-

cal library to see if I could find the Greenbergfamily in the 1920 Federal Census. Just gettingthere and finding the courage to figure out howto find the right film (I hoped) and then to gethelp threading the film on the machine was ac-tually quite an accomplishment. I began to scrolldown through the film. Wow, all these namesand all of this information - some of it was hardto make out, and I didn’t know what all themarks in the columns meant.

Then - there they were! What a thrill to see thefamiliar names all lined up as a family group,recorded with all of their neighbors. At that in-stant, I was transformed into a genealogy ad-dict. They say that the most addictive things ofall are the things that give us an “occasional hit.”I had just gotten my first hit, and I was hooked.Since then, I have gone on to find our familymembers in every census that I can. I nearlyalways find some snippet of information that Idid not know, and I have found lots of misin-formation that was recorded for many reasons.(For example, Grandmother Rachel got youngerthroughout the years.)

By Nancy W. Greenberg

Genealogy CornerGetting the Most out of Census Records - Part I

TIn fact, Grandmother Rachel was a puzzle. Thefamily story was that she came to the U.S. at theage of 16 from Canada, after being raised in Eng-land. However her family was supposed to haveoriginally been from Posen, a part of GermanPrussia (now Poland). Her maiden name wasLipman, and she married a distant cousin, Mor-ris Haas, also from Posen. Her death certificatestated that her father was Gabriel Jacob Lipman,and so I started searching the census records forhis family. Finally, after trying many combina-tions of names and spellings, I discovered JacobLipmann living with his wife Rebeca and daugh-ter Rachel in the 1880 census for New York City.Bingo!! When I discovered that he had arrived in1872, was naturalized, and was a tailor, I thenknew what other records could be searched. Mynext “stop” was the 1871 English census, and therethey were, living in Manchester with anotherdaughter, Yetta, and Jacob was working as a tai-lor. One of the old stories that I have since heardwas that Rachel sewed handkerchiefs for QueenVictoria. Perhaps that was true too.

Just from that first 1920 record, I was able todiscover or confirm the following information:address, names, relationships, ages, marital sta-tus, rental or ownership of home, “race,” yearof immigration, country of origin, naturaliza-tion status, year of naturalization, ability to readand write, mother tongue, ability to speak Eng-

lish, trade, place of employment, and whetherthe head of household earned wages or owneda business. What great information! Each cen-sus gathered different facts on family mem-bers. For example when I looked in the cen-sus for 1910, I also found out how many yearsthe couple had been married and how manychildren had been born to the mother, as wellas how many of those children were still liv-ing. The 1900 Federal Census even gives themonth and year of birth. What a great recordsystem to use as you start the search for yourfamily.

So, how does one go about finding theserecords? The availability of the Federal censusrecords has gotten better each year, and they

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I started researching the history and mean-ing of Tashlich, which led me into the worldof symbolism, Jewish mysticism and manyunanswerable questions. Tashlich, I’ve dis-covered, is indeed a mystery. Nobody knowsfor sure when, how or where the customdeveloped.

During the High Holidays, we are involvedin the verbal process of acknowledging who

we are and how we wish to change ourselvesfor the better. But beyond the words weuse, we “do” many things and experience theseason through our bodies and not just ourminds. We eat certain foods, like apples andhoney and remember the taste and the moodof the holiday. We hear certain sounds, likethe shofar and we re-experience somethinginside that goes beyond words. The sights,the smells and the feelings all amount to one

thing: an integrated awareness, in our bod-ies and our minds, of the New Year.

Just as our holidays would not be the samewithout their special foods, they would bevery dull without the other “acts” we do,anything from spinning dreidels, wearingmasks, or throwing breadcrumbs. Very of-ten, the things we do, rather than the thingswe say, are what we remember most. z

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Chandler was the funny, sarcastic guy onthe TV sitcom “Friends,” but did you knowthat his name means “candle maker”? JacobRodriguez Rivera (1717-1789) certainly wasnot a famous TV star, but he was the mostfamous chandler in American Jewish history.He used sperm-whale oil to make candlesthat were firmer than tallow candles andtherefore less likely to melt in the summer.

Until about 180 years ago, Jews tended to

Some Fun Facts About Candles (From Being Jewish Magazine)By Rena Fruchter

use oil lamps rather than candles to celebrateChanukah because most candles like JacobRivera’s were made from the fat of non-kosher animals. Also, oil lamps remindedpeople of the seven-branched menorah inthe Beit Hamikdash (the Holy Temple),which symbolized God’s presence.

Since the invention of paraffin (a waxysubstance made from petroleum) in the1850s, candles have become central to

Jewish ritual practice. We light candles toinaugurate and conclude Shabbat andholidays, to search for hametz before Pesach,to memorialize the dead, and somecongregations even use candles toaccompany the Torah from the aron kodeshto the bimah on Mondays and Thursdays.

We light one additional candle each night ofChanukah in accordance with the principlethat holiness should only increase. z

Congratulations to Marilyn Bell On Her Special BirthdayMarvin and Sue Berman

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Winifred JacobsHoward JacobsAlice PomeranzDiane & Barry WaxMichael EdelmanMaurice & Betty KatzLouis RosenFrank & Zora HesseArlene & Ira RimsonLorraine HaneykoMarvin & Janet SchwabMr. & Mrs. Robert TaichertLeon & Kathryn RubinDiane Miller

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New Mexico Jewish Historical SocietyGetting the M ost Out of Census R ecords - (continued from p. 5)are now available locally and on the Internet formany people. These are the census records thatare the most familiar to us, but almost all coun-tries had the need to find out who was livingwithin their borders. There are other kinds ofcensus documents that can be researched, includ-ing many from larger cities and individual states.In order to help researchers find their families,many of these have been indexed so that one doesnot usually have to look at every name in the cen-sus district. (Once in a while, I still have had toresort to doing this time-consuming task.)

The United States began conducting a regularcensus soon after the formation of our country.Since 1790, there has been one done every tenyears, and most of these records have survived.(The 1890 census was burned in a fire, and veryfew sheets survived. The very early years alsohave missing records.) Federal law requiresthat these records be made public after 72 years,so the 1930 census did not become availableuntil 2002, and the indexing was only recentlycompleted.

Many names have been mis-indexed for a vari-ety of reasons, so if you cannot find a person, itis good to check another index if you can findone. Almost all of the census years for the U.S.census and many of the English census years,have been fully indexed by Ancestry.com. Thisis a website that has many original records thatare easily accessed from the Internet. It is apaid subscription site, but it is free to librarypatrons in many parts of the state. If one wantsto look at the original microfilm rolls of theU.S. census documents, they are availablethrough many libraries and the Family HistoryCenters of the LDS Church (Church of LatterDay Saints). There are now several sites thatalso offer direct access through the Internet.Start by checking out cyndislist.com androotsweb.com. Many of these sites also havegeneral information about how to use censusrecords effectively.

Some things to keep in mind, and informationthat you will need to successfully find people:Start your search with some preparation. Youwill need exact names (or best guesses), as wellas birth and death dates. Remember that thespelling of names was extremely variable andfluid until recently. Individuals even changedthe spelling of their names many times, and itis often misinterpreted by clerks and others.Birth, death and marriage dates are helpful toknow, as you don’t want to besearching for a family unit before itwas created or if individuals are notliving. If you do not have that in-formation, make an educated guessabout dates; it really will help.

The most important thing to knowis LOCATION. Census records areorganized by state, county, town-ship/city and then by enumerationdistrict. (These enumeration dis-tricts change with each census.) Ifyou can find out the page numberof the E.D. (enumeration district),

it will help youfind your familyfaster. Theremight be manypeople with thesame name inan index, sohaving an ideaabout the location and ageswill save you lots of time.Write down all of this infor-mation for later reference.

Get a copy of a blank form that matches thecensus year. It will give you the different head-ings, and you can use the form to copy the in-formation as you find it. I always copy every-thing onto a blank form, even though I have aphotocopy of the record. Not everything is solegible on a copy, and I find that I pay moreattention to the information if I write it all down.

The big genealogy rule is to start with what youknow, and then go back from there. However,if you can’t find a person/family in one census,go to another year. The information found inone year might help you find them in others.

There are many reasons why a person or familycan’t be found. Mis-indexing, mis-spelling, mis-interpretation, and poor legibility problemsabound in these records, so you need to beopen-minded and creative about how to seekyour relatives. Remember that there might belanguage and literacy issues in the years follow-ing immigration that make it more likely thaterrors occurred. Consider asking for assistancefrom a more experienced genealogist; I have al-ways found them eager to help.

Exploring census records is something that allgenealogists do, and all of us are able to dis-cover wonderful information in these smallsnapshots of our families as they lived in their

early homes,neighborhoods andcommunities. Evenif you have no ambi-tion to be a “genealo-gist,” it is worthlooking for yourpeople so that youcan get a sense oftheir lives in a par-ticular time andplace. Happy Hunt-ing!

Nancy Greenberg isan amateur genealo-gist in Albuquerque.She became involvedin doing family his-tory after her retire-ment from a profes-sional nursing career.She is active in local

genealogy societies and is often called upon to teachabout family history. She became heavily involvedin this pursuit after a NMJHS trip to Salt LakeCity in 1998. z

Rachel Lipman Haas (on the left) andsister Yetta. Census infor mationhelped to identify Y etta and place thistintype as being done in M anchester ,England in 1870.

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Claire GrossmanDiane Bryer999dine.comNancy TerrEl Fidel Hotel

visit to Victory Ranch Al-pacas in the New MexicoMora Valley is like a trip tothe South American altaplano where alpacas thrivein their natural environ-

ment. At an altitude of 7200 feet, hundredsof alpacas graze as visitors take photos.

A rare find, Victory Ranch is the onlyhands-on operation in the United States thepublic can visit 365 days a year. It is a truevertical operation where alpacas are bredand shorn, fiber is sorted and sold to spin-ners, fleece is spun into yarn, and garmentsare created.

A 3,000 square foot store doubling as a visi-tor center is filed with men’s and women’sgarments, yardgoods, blankets and more -all made from soft, warm, durable alpaca.Visitors can watch spinning or weavingdemonstration as well as a video on alpacasand their cousins, the llama, vicuña andguanaco.

Born and raised in Chicago, Ken and Carolhad visited northern New Mexico manytimes. It was their dream to have a ranchwhere Ken could play cowboy. The 1100-acre ranch was purchased in 1990 as a cat-tle operation, which was unsuccessful. Avisiting friend told the Weisners alpacaswere becoming popular as a sheep replace-ment in Australia.

Knowing nothing about them, Ken andCarol bought a starter herd of 10 hucayaalpacas. “We learned by the seat of ourpants and made lots of mistakes - ones that

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we do not want our customers to repeat,”says Carol laughingly.

A working ranch requires a lot of attention,so daughter Darcy manages the livestockand clothing store operation. She knowsevery alpaca by name, lineage and person-ality. She has been responsible for acquir-ing and producing top studs and improv-ing the stock. Her husband Rudy was amedic in the Marines, a vet tech, and anexpert with alpaca health care who also over-saw the operation of the store before hisuntimely death last year.

Ken shears the almost two hundred alpacasand handles the financial aspects of run-ning the ranch. Carol is in charge of thefiber - sorting it and deciding what type ofyarn will be made. Together they work onadvertising and public relations. They makeperiodic trips to Peru for additions to thestore and now have connections that allowthem to have their own designs created ex-clusively for Victory Ranch. Darcy, as aprofessional photographer and artist, cre-ates many of these designs.

“We have seen first hand that investing inalpacas is truly a profitable, fulfilling ad-venture. We have much to offer with ourcompetitive process, prize-winning blood-lines and extensive on-going services,” saysKen. Carol adds, “The joy of working hard,experiencing success and doing it all withfamily is priceless!”

In addition to selling prize-winning alpacas,Victory Ranch boards alpacas and llamasfrom southern states during hot, summer

months, as summer is mild with cool nightsin the Mora Valley.

Victory Ranch Alpacas has grown and flour-ished over the years. Enhanced by its prox-imity to Taos, Angel Fire, Santa Fe and LasVegas (New Mexico), it is rapidly becom-ing one of the most popular tourist attrac-tions in northern New Mexico.

“I said goodbye to retirement long ago andhaven’t been on a horse for pleasure inyears,” says Ken. As winners of the firstGrand National Championship AlpacasObstacle prize, Ken and Carol are proud ofthe gentleness of their alpacas. See for your-self - it is worth a visit. z

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as Vegas, New Mexico, wasmy first home, in 1936, af-ter being rescued from theNazi regime in Germany,along with my parents andbrother, by my great uncle,

Ludwig Ilfeld.

I married Arnold Waxman from Mora inJanuary 1939 at age 18. It turned out to beone of the worst winters ever. Mora, then,was a beautiful little village of about 1,000inhabitants. Mora Valley, surrounded by theSangre de Cristo Mountains, part of theRocky Mountain range, located 10 milesnorth of Las Vegas and about 30 miles south-east of Taos, became my second home.

Recently, my friend and companion MarieKlein and I traveled to the High Country tovisit with all the people I had met (by tel-ephone only). We flew to Albuquerque fromour homes in St. Louis. On the first day, wewere welcomed by one set of cousins on myside of the family, Bob and Pearl Ilfeld, thegrandson of my great-uncle Ludwig. Evieand John Woods, my husband’s cousin, vis-ited with us late that evening. Evie was a“hidden child” for 10 years during the Holo-caust.

Bobbi Jackson, the wonderful administra-tor of the NMJHS, came that day and metwith Barbara Pijoan, my old friend fromCorrales. Barbara lives on a mini-ranch withtwo horses and a huge friendly dog as hercompanion. Her house is adobe, with anadobe fence and gate and looks like an oldhacienda. I loved it every time I visited her.

Bobbi and Barbara (who is also a boardmember of the Corrales Historical Society)hit it off at once and promised to visit againto exchange some vital information onBarbara’s past. She was the wife of a doctorwho tended the Navajo Indians on severalreservations.

Lance Bell, the immediate past president ofthe NMJHS, visited in the afternoon. Wehad many telephone conversations leadingup to this meeting. The next morning, be-fore leaving Albuquerque, we had breakfastwith Alice Stern Keck. I knew Alice’s father

New Mexico – Déjà Vu. My Recent Trip to the High Country of the Land of Enchantment

LBy Lilo Waxman

when I first arrived in Las Vegas in 1936.Alice’s grandfather came to Philadelphia in1873 as a 12 year old from Germany. Hisrelatives there sent him on to Mora, NewMexico, to work for his uncle, BenjaminLowenstein, in the trading post, which yearslater was owned by my husband’s family, theWaxmans. Alice brought pictures of her an-cestors which were taken in Mora at thetime.

Later that morning, we drove to Chimayo,a village 25 miles northeast of Santa Fe. Itwas a typical New Mexico day, sunny andscenic. In the past, we always had lunchand margaritas at the Rancho de Chimayo,but this time, we also stayed overnight intheir ancient adobe hacienda (no television).Seven guest rooms surrounded the patio,updated from what I feel were once livingquarters, kitchen and bedrooms. The unu-sual restaurant was built into a mountainsideon several levels. It was Marie’s first timethere, so we had to do the typical sight-see-ing: the famous weavers (the Ortega fam-ily), who originated in Spain, and theSantuario de Chimayo (the renownedchurch noted for its “healing soil”).

That evening, the president of the NMJHS,Harold Melnick and his wife aj, drove fromtheir home in Santa Fe and met us for din-ner. Louis Terr, who also lives in Santa Fe,joined us. I met Louis by phone monthsago when I sought help in restoring the lit-tle Jewish cemetery in Mora. My ancestors,the Ilfelds, are buried there as well as Arnold’sparents and relatives, the Waxmans and theSteinfelds.

The five of us spent a long, wonderfulevening in the sunroom of the restaurant.We enjoyed fine, authentic Southwestern/Mexican food; a guitar provided us with anunforgettable evening.

After a leisurely breakfast with sappopollas,the small version of sopapillas, we headedfor Mora. We took the High Road towardsTaos, but went south at Peñasco. Again, wewere impressed by the beauty of the land,the azure blue sky, the cool weather duringthe morning hours and the New Mexicolandscape, so wonderfully painted by Peter

Hurd, husband of Henrietta Wyeth. As thehighway ascended to 10,000 feet, the scen-ery again changed with tall pine trees mixedwith golden Aspen everywhere. We stoppedat the village of Tres Ritos and at the ski lodgethere, called Sipapu, with mountain homes,chalets and stores. I, of course, rememberedTres Ritos from when I lived in Mora. Myhusband Arnold and I skied there using arope tow that was driven by an oldStudebaker (automobile) engine.

On we went and soon came to the famous“Holman Hill” (eight miles of curves andswitchbacks. At the next look-out, we couldsee down to the town of Holman at 7,000feet from our impressive 10,000-foot spoton the mountain. We finally reached Cleve-land (a village 3 miles north of Mora) andour motel and RV Park, the Mora Inn.

We were supposed to meet our friend JacobRegensberg from the village of Guadalupita,at 6 p.m. Since we arrived by 2 p.m. we didsome sightseeing on our own and ended upat the famous Victory Ranch, known for rais-ing Alpacas, the smaller version of llamas.The ranch is 2 miles north of Mora on theway to Guadalupita. We arrived in time forthe 3 p.m. feeding and guided tour. Theguide, a woman in her thirties, was terrific.She was the daughter of the owners who,we learned later, were Jewish people fromChicago. The seven Great Pyrenees dogsare gentle with visitors and staff. At night,they are the protectors of the herd againstcoyotes, mountain lions and wolves.

As we returned to our motel, going throughMora’s main street, one city block long, withboarded-up buildings completely devastatedand not rebuilt, we were appalled. We couldnot even locate where our store, granary andhomes were once located. It seems that whatwas once the main street has made way tothe new generations who have moved or re-located on the road from Mora to Cleve-land to live on small ranchitos.

Jacob met us at 6 p.m. at the Kristi Caféwhich is run by the wife of the motel owner,Mike Wolf. She was born in Mora. There

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ple of yester-year. Jacob took us to the “littleJewish cemetery” located at the edge of theCatholic cemetery on the road to Ledoux.Jacob’s Jewish pioneer grandfather is buriedthere as well as the first people (theLowensteins), who ran the trading post in Mora,that was owned by my husband’s family.

Jacob, who is a Jack of All Trades and Mas-ter of All, appointed himself as cemeterykeeper. He even put a Star of David on thenew gate.

Patsy Sanchez, an old friend from long ago,was not available to us that day. Her greatgrandfather, Louis Kahn, is also buried there.

We left Mora for Las Vegas in the late after-noon and Jacob followed us in his truck tohave dinner at the Plaza Hotel in Old Town.This adobe structure is a few hundred yearsold, but the inside furnishings are of the late1890s - very comfortable and cozy.

Good yester-year conversation, good foodand lively music from the bar made this an-

other outstandingevening.

The next day, Mondaymorning, Louis Terr,his mother Mildred,and his sister Danamet us in our hotel

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was a lively conversation between her andJacob, mainly about their ancestors and the“crypto-Jews” in the Mora Valley. Anotheradded attraction was seven hunters fromWisconsin who spent the night at the moteland also had dinner and conversation at theCafé. They had been successful in bagginga huge elk and showed us pictures.

The next morning, which was Sunday, Mariewent to St. Gertrude’s Church where theMass was predominantly in Spanish and newto her. We then went on our way to meetwith Jacob in his Guadalupita home, whichis 14 miles towards the Sangre de CristoMountains, north of Mora. At the moment,he owns 14 horses; some are trained for therodeo and some are race horses. We left ourcar and changed to his big pick-up truck,and he took us another 32 miles north toAngel Fire, which is now a famous ski resortlocated northeast of Taos. We had lunch thereand returned to Mora.

We then visited with Manual Alcon who isthe author of a book about Mora and its peo-

lobby for breakfast. Mildred Terr has livedin Las Vegas since 1958 and knew my un-cle, Ludwig Ilfield, and many of my otherIlfield relatives.

On we went another 100 miles back toAlbuquerque to our motel, this time near theairport. We enjoyed wonderful weather thewhole trip until Monday afternoon when aheavy rainstorm arrived along with outguests: Alice Stern Keck came to visit oncemore in the late afternoon and also NancyTerr, who is a working board member of theNMJHS and her teen-aged son Neal.

Finally, last but not least, Dr. Noel Pugach,History Professor at the University of NewMexico and a board member of the NMJHS,arrived amidst the worst part of the thun-derstorm, dripping wet. I had met Noel byphone and we exchanged many stories: oldsettlers, Holocaust, Mora Cemetery and theNMJHS. We had dinner and talked intothe night. The next day was an uneventfulflight back home to St. Louis.

Reminiscing and knowing - at 86 years old -that was probably the last time I would seethe land, the wonderful people, the sun, theazure sky and moon, the landscape withpiñon trees and sagebrush. I feel comfort-able now, having once more experienced allthat I love about this state - The Land ofEnchantment. z

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ccording to the 1880 MoraCounty Census, JacobStern (age 19) was livingin the household ofMaurice Strauss. Censusreports the relation be-

tween Maurice and Jacob as “other”.

Following are extracts from a 1988 letterwritten by my mother, Eva Stern. Jacobwas a twelve year old boy when he cameto this country. Jacob’s uncle, by the nameof Lowenstein, had a store in the little townof Mora. Jacob came by mule train fromKansas City.

The young boys who came from the stateof Hessen in Germany wanted to go Eastto get wives. When Jacob Stern went East(Philadelphia), he came home with hisbride, Julia Lavenson, by train.

The older son, Morton, was born in Mora.Then when Jay came along, they thought itbetter to go East to have the baby, which theydid. Jay’s mother told me about bringinghome the baby. Of course, there was littleMorton only two years old, so you can seewhat a trip that was. Jacob had a carriagewaiting at the train in Las Vegas and she saidthey had a driver and she and Jacob tried keep-

ing the children warm. On the way out toMora, they stopped at the Priest’s house soshe could feed the baby and they could allget warm. Jay’s birthday was the 20th of Janu-ary. Those big buffalo robes came in handy.I have a picture taken of Morton, Jay andRegina taken at their home in Mora in 1896.

Jacob and family moved to Las Vegas in 1897and started the Stern and Nahm business.Jacob died in Las Vegas in 1921. Julia livedin Las Vegas until her death in 1943. My par-ents, Jay and Eva Stern, lived in Las Vegaswhere Jay worked in the family business un-til it closed in the 1930s. z

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The NMJHS Board’s Appeal to Its MembersOur continued existence depends on the interest and support of our members. We needyour cooperation to interest others to join our Society; we need your help to obtain archivematerial and your ideas. We urge you to please renew your membership when due. If youare already a 2007 member, please encourage your friends and family to join!

We are proud of our accomplishments, but we cannot rest on our laurels. It is your Society– we appreciate your continued interest and support.

As I look forward to 2007 I think of manythings that the Society needs: We need someonein Albuquerque with computer knowledge whocan take care of occasional maintenance andhelp our office staff with advice and problemsolving. It would be great if we had someonewho could do web site creation andmaintenance.

Someone with newsletter or publishingexperience could help with creating ournewsletter. We badly need someone to dopublicity for our events; and someone to handlefacilities arrangements for those events. Our

showings of films with Jewish themes have beenquite popular; we need someone to find morefilms, and arrange several showings a year. If youare able to help with any of these projects, please,contact any board member or me. You don’t haveto be a board member to help with these tasks,but if you would consider becoming an activeboard member, I want to hear from you.

We also need - of course - money. Membersprovide the energy to get things done; dues andcontributions provide the means to get thingsdone. We had to replace our outdated, slow,crash-prone computer; a backup drive was added

so we won’t lose data in case of a crash; our“borrowed” software has been replaced with legal,licensed programs. The cost was nearly $1,500.I would like to see us move to a “paperless” office,which would make record-keeping far moreefficient; to do so we need a document scannerthat costs several hundred dollars.

Have you renewed your membership yet? Haveyou responded to our year-end request fordonations? Your contribution toward these extra,one-time expenses will help assure continuationof the Society’s work, and preservation of JewishNew Mexico history for future generations.

id you know that noted authorand UNM professor history,Stanley Hordes, widely knownfor his research on crypto-Jewsin New Mexico, has familyroots that go back to the

Baltics? In the spring of 2005, Stan explored hisfamily’s ancestral towns in Lithuania and Latvia.

“After doing the family histories of so many otherpeople, I wanted to take some time and researchmy own genealogy,” Stan said. “I rummagedthrough all of the miscellaneous notes gatheredfrom my parents and cousins over the years andtried to connect the various threads.” Thesethreads enabled him to identify the towns wherehis immigrant grandparents originated and heplanned his itinerary accordingly.

Accompanied by his wife, Helen, his niece, Amyand her husband Max, they began their searchin Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where theyengaged the services of a bilingual guide. “Offwe went in search of Zelva, the home of mypaternal grandmother, Sara Feiga Weinstein,about two hours north of the capital.” The tinyagricultural village, with no more than sixtyhomes, mostly constructed of wood, seemeduntouched by the passage of time. “An elderlyresident told us that the town had been inhabitedalmost exclusively by Jews until the summer of1941, when Nazi troops gathered all of the Jews,brought them to the edge of the cemetery andshot them to death.”

Zelva’s cemetery remains intact, containinghundreds of headstones in Hebrew and Yiddish.The old synagogue still stands, although in amuch deteriorated state. “We were thrilled to

find a small museum, located in a classroom ofthe local school, dedicated to the Jews who usedto live in the town.” Among the museum’sholdings were photographs of the religious schooland some ledger books containing names thatStan recognized as his grandmother’s cousins.

“Next we boarded a bus to Riga, capital of Latvia,where we stayed in a charming bed and breakfaston the north side of town.” Stan cajoled the sonof the innkeeper, who was fluent in Russian,Latvian and English, to drive the party threehours up the Dívina River to a town now calledJekobpils. “My material grandparents, theAbramowitzes and Wassermans, know that townas Yacobstadt.” A far larger community thanZelva, Jekobpil’s population today numbers inthe tens of thousands.

“While in Jekobpils, we stopped at the Latvianequivalent of Allsups to purchase a map, whichincluded a reference to a Hebrew Cemetery,” sooff we went. “The cemetery gravestones withtheir Hebrew and Yiddish engravings extendedas far as the eye could see. “As fate would haveit, within ten minutes of our arrival, weencountered a Jewish couple who had left thetown years earlier for New York City.” They had

On the Road to Zelva . Stan Hordes explores his roots in the BalticsBy Dorothy Corner Amsden

just returned to visit relatives still living inJecobpils. “Before we knew it, we found ourselvesin the apartment of the leaders of the remainingJewish community, an octogenarian couple whohad lovingly cared for the two Jewish cemeteries.”

Stan had originally planned on visiting Myadel,in Belarus, the town from which his paternalgrandfather (Bernard Hordes, originallyChodosch) emigrated. Unfortunately, logisticaldifficulties relating to visas, insurance and longdelays at the border prevented him from doingso at that time. He hopes that conditions willbecome more conducive to tourism before longand that he will be able to make another tripback.

Before he left Vilnius, Stan visited the LithuanianNational Archive. “The director was most helpfulin facilitating access to information on the historyof the two branches of my family that had livedin the area.” He provided her with as much dataas he could and she promised to send himwhatever leads she could find. It took a year, butjust recently, Stan received over a dozen citationsto prospective family members in both Zelva andMyadel.

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Mission StatementThe mission of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society is to promote greaterunderstanding and knowledge of New Mexico's Jewish history. The Society'sprograms examine the state's Jewish heritage in all its diversity and strive topresent this heritage within a broad cultural context. The Society is a secularorganization and solicits the membership and participation of all interestedpeople, regardless of religious affiliation.

Calendar of Upcoming Events

NMJHS Board of Directors and OfficersOfficersHarold Melnick, President - Santa FeDorothy Amsden, Vice President and Genealogy Chair - Los AlamosPhil Saltz, Treasurer - Santa FeTony Amsden, Corresponding Secretary - Los AlamosNancy Terr, Recording Secretary - AlbuquerqueDirectorsBarbara Baker - Santa FeNorman Budow - Santa FeSheila Gershen - Santa FeJulie Gordon - Tucson, AZClaire Grossman - Nashua, NHStanley Hordes, Ph.D. - Albuquerque

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Sondra Match - Santa FeStephen Part - AlbuqueruqeNoel Pugach, Ph.D. - AlbuquerqueCarol Olmstead - Santa FeNaomi Sandweiss - AlbuquerqueMarjorie Weinberg-Berman - Kings Point, NYJeffrey Zamas - Albuquerque

Immediate Past PresidentLance Bell, Santa Fe

AdministratorDebra Blackerby, Albuquerque

Taste of Honey event at the Jewish Community Center in Albuquerque on February 11, 2007,from 12 noon to 4:45 p.m., cosponsored by NMJHS. Keynote speaker will be Arthur Kurzweil,an authority on genealogy.

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