þÿ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-16be-with-bom"> <title>Elias Rosenberg</title> <meta family tree> </head> <body> <h2>Elias Rosenberg</h2> Rabbi Eliash-Hirsh (Elias<sup>1</sup>) (Eliahu Zvi) Pushkantser[50] was born 15 Oct 1863 in Rumshishok (Rumsiskes), Lithuanian region of Russia[43]. Rumshishok is near Kovna (Kaunas) on the Nieman river across from Poland. His father was Hilel Pushkantser[43] who, in a second marriage on 25 Jan 1861, married his mother Chavka (Chava-Matla) daughter of Chaim Zodikov[43]. Elias was the second child of this marriage. An older brother died at the age of three[43], but he had a younger sister named <a href="http://art.poskanzer.org/photos/Fine/pages/Pia.html" title="Paya-Molka" target="_blank">Paya-Molka</a> (Fannie)[43, 78]. At the age of ten Elias is still listed as living in Rumshishok[45]. At the age of 19 he married Chaya-Michle (Matla-Ida) daughter of Israel (Srol) Ikowitz/Itzkowitz on 21 Nov 1882 in Rumshishok[43]. At the age of 25, after 15 years of study[198] in Kovna, he immigrated to the US on 1 Aug 1889[197,198]. He first settled in Meriden for a few months and then in New Britain, Connecticut in 1890[198]. At some point he adopted the name Rosenberg. One and three-quarters years later his wife and first four children (who were male) came on 24 Apr 1891 with the name Puskanzer on the <a href="http://www.theshipslist.com/pictures/breslau.htm" title="SS Breslau" target="_blank">SS Breslau</a> from Hamburg to Glasgow, Scotland[193] and then with the name Puskanza on the <a href="http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/shipping/shipImages/Pomeranian.jpg" title="SS Pomeranian" target="_blank">SS Pomeranian</a> from Glasgow with a stop in Moville, Ireland to New York[181]. Because of problems in taking male children out of Russia, they were listed on the Hamburg <a href="ChajePuskanzer.jpg" title="Hamburg manifest" target="_blank">manifest</a> as two girls and two boys. Arriving in New York they were <a href="Puskanza.jpg" title="New York manifest" target="_blank">listed</a> as three girls and an infant, although the youngest was almost two years old. This immigration is also listed in a book called Russians to America [194] as a mother with three girls and an infant boy. Elias  sister Paya-Molka immigrated in 1905 and was met at the boat by Elias[49]. He became a US citizen at the age of 42 on 4 Sep 1906 when he was living at 34 Willow St. in New Britain, CT[197]. Elias and Ida had 12 <a href="http://art.poskanzer.org/photos/Rosenbergs/pages/Rosenbergs1919.html" title="Rosenbergs1919" target="_blank">children</a>[131], of which one died at the age of five. There are <a href="http://art.poskanzer.org/photos/Rosenbergs/index.html" title="Rosenbers" target="_blank">photos</a>[131] of many of the children. <p>Elias  father died of pneumonia at the age of 80 on 10 Mar 1913 in Rumshishok[43]. Elias then brought over his 72 year old mother on 4 Aug 1914 on the <a href="http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/search/shipImage.asp?MID=13544491900001074624&amp;pID=100504100292&amp;fromEI=1" title="SS Vanderland" target="_blank">SS Vanderland</a> which sailed from Antwerp[71]. She was admitted to the Ellis Island Hospital at noon the next day and died there five months later on 17 Jan 1915[<a href="Charda.jpeg" title="Chavka Pushkantser" target="_blank">199</a>]. Elias died at the age of 63 on 28 Oct 1926 and is buried at Beth Alom <a href="http://art.poskanzer.org/photos/Rosenbergs/pages/EliasIdaGrave.html" title="Elias and Ida grave" target="_blank">cemetery</a> in New Britain[198]. Ida died in 1943[50] and is buried with him. <p>There are 138 of his descendants in the Poskanzer Family <a href="http://art.poskanzer.org/PoskanzerTree/" title="Poskanzer Tree" target="_self">Tree</a>. <ul> <li>43. Lithuanian State Historical Archives,  7/20/00, obtained by Olga Zabludoff.</li> <li>45. Revision List,  Rumsiskes, 1874, All Lithuania <a href="http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/all.htm" target="_blank">Database</a>, 11/11/02.</li> <li>49. Marjorie Tiven story,  Martha Davidson, 1987, Sonny Poskanzer, Albany, NY.</li> <li>50. Rosenberg family tree from Marjorie Tiven,  11/16/98.</li> <li>71. Ellis Island Passenger Record,  12/20/03, Michael Gilbreath.</li> <li>78. Email from Ina Fine, 11/06.</li> <li>131. Photos from Ed and Dave Rosenberg,  7/24/05.</li> <li>181. New York Passenger <a href="http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&amp;dbid=7488&amp;offerid=0%3a7858%3a0" title="New York Passenger Lists" target="_blank">Lists</a> , 12/13/06, 3/28/07.</li> <li>193. Hamburg Passenger <a href="http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&amp;dbid=1068&amp;offerid=0%3a7858%3a0" title="Hamburg Passenger Lists" target="_blank">Lists</a>  3/28/07.</li> <li>194. Russians to America, 1850-1896, Genealogy.com, <a href="http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/ifa/co_360toc.html" title="Russians to America" target="_blank">CD360</a>, 12/1/04.</li> <li>197. citizenship application,  <a href="EliasCitizenApplic1.jpg" title="citizen application front" target="_blank">front</a>, <a href="EliasCitizenApplic2.jpg" title="citizen application back" target="_blank">back</a> 9/4/1906, New Britain, CT.</li> <li>198. Elias Rosenberg Obituary,  <a href="EliasObituary1.jpg" title="obituary top" target="_blank">top</a>, <a href="EliasObituary2.jpg" title="obituary bottom" target="_blank">bottom</a> New Britain Herald, 10/28/1926, page 1, newspaper.</li> <li>199. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Records of Aliens Held for Special <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=0&amp;indiv=try&amp;db=nypl&amp;h=4038140408" title="Aliens for Special Inquiry" target="_blank">Inquiry</a> , 4/14/07.</li> </ul> 1. Another Elias Pushkantzer was born in Kiev on 6 Aug 1876. He immigrated on the SS Moltke from Hamburg on 5 Dec 1903 to Hartford, CT to his sister s husband Hersch Horowitz. He was a cooper and then a cabinetmaker. He applied for citizenship in Brooklyn in 1914. I have not yet been able to fit him into the family tree. </body> </html>