Peter,
I'll keep this brief because it is veering off-topic.
"Litvak" sounds like it refers to Latvia but it truly refers to
the Jewish community of Lithuania. Perhaps it also is used by
Latvian Jews since even their religious-intellectual capital
would have been Vilna (or as it is often called, Vilnius or
Vilensis).
Cheers,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia
> Tom; Just one ammendment to this is that if Hyman and
> his wife were referred to as Litvak as Mick indicates
> they would have been from Latvia which was absorbed
> into the Soviet Union in 1940, after a breif period of
> independence from Russia from 1918 through 1940. Three
> of my grandparent were from Latvia, and they never
> considered themselves Russian, although technically
> they were. They considered themselves Latvian Jews.
>
> Peter Naiman
> Shorewood, WI
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> --- Thomas Rawson <twrawson@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Forwarded with Flash permission
> >
> > Tom Rawson
> > Oakland, CA
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "flash" <flash@flashq.de>
> > To: "Peter Naiman" <hetchinspete1@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: "Michael Butler" <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>;
> > "linda j pernice"
> > <lpernice@juno.com>; "Tom Rawson"
> > <twrawson@comcast.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: Alf Hetchins origins.
> >
> >
> > > Y'all,
> > >
> > > Alf was born on 24 Sept 1923, in 780 Seven Sisters
> > Road, Tottenham.
> > > Alf's parents, Hyman and his wife, fled Russia in
> > 1917.
> > >
> > > There is a rather disturbing foto of World's
> > Champion Toni Merkens
> > > riding a track iron and wearing a jersey with a
> > swastika on it; Len has
> > > a fotocopy of of it. Merkens was not German, but
> > rode for German teams.
> > > He was later sent to the Russian front and never
> > heard from again. There
> > > is no small irony in his having won World's and
> > Olympic Championships
> > > riding on a London Jew's bikes.
> > >
> > > The SuperSpecial model was introduced before
> > anyone ever heard of the
> > > SS.
> > >
> > > Flash
> >
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