Notes for: Paul RAPPAPORT

HISTORY: The Rappoport family name goes back to Abraham Menachem ben Jacob ha-Kohen Rappa (Rapa), who lived in the town of Porto (Northern Italy) at the beginning of the 16th century. According to another version, the surname appeared after the marriage of persons names Rappa and Porto. ("A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Russian Empire" by Alexander Beider, Avotanyu

The name Rappa is derived from Rappe' [Middle High German] raven. Members of the family Rap(p)oport are considered to be of Kohen origin. (EJ 13:1552 Encyclopeadia Judaica).

Brest-Litovsk had a Jewish population of 8,235 in 1847.
27,005 in 1889
30,608 in 1897
The city was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1895 and again in 1901. In the pogroms in the wake of the 1905 revolution several Jews in Brest Litovsk were wounded or killed. Jews comprised 70% of the population prior to World War I.
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1920 CENSUS. Russell Soundex R116. New York State reel #M1578-642 Census Schedules reel #T625-1153 Vol. 145, ED (Election District) 325, sheet 5A, Line 38 54 yo (years old), bp (birth place) Russia, (Arrived) 1902, NA(turalized) 1910 living at 383 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY Occupation - Manager Show Cases
wife, Rose, 49 yo, bp Russia, occupation "-" (eg housewife)
son, Arthur, 25 yo, bp Russia, clerk Army Base [hard to read]
son, William, 23 yo, bp Russia, draughtsman Own Shop
son Mayer, 21 yo, bp Russia, salesman music
son Jack, 19 yo, bp Russia, Machinery battery
daughter Ester (sic), 18 yo, bp Russia, saleslady department store
daughter Gertrude, 10 yo, bp New York [would be born 1909 NOT 1908]
daughter Lillie, 8 yo, bp New York

In a letter, 17 July 1994, Audrey E. Berger's research stated that Paul
manufactured Show Cases, he also invented a stamp dispensing machine. His brother, Meyer, was the infamous "B'yalestoka Magad."

"Bialystok (Russian - Belostok) is an industrial city in N.E. Poland; latterly
one of the principal Russian/Polish Jewish centers; incorporated into Russia
between 1807 and 1921 and administered by the U.S.S.R. between 1939 and 1941, reverting to Poland in 1945. ... Jewish settlement in the village of Bialystok was encouraged by the manorial overlords, the counts of Branicki.
In 1745 the Bialystok community became self-governing.

The position of the Jews deteriorated when Bialystok passed to Prussia
(1795), and subsequently to Russia.

The development of the large textile industry in Bialystok after the
Napoleonic wars owes much to Jewish enterprise.

The Jewish labor movement found strong support in Bialystok, and in 1897 many Jewish workers there became members of the Bund. The intensive activities of the labor movement in Bialystok during the Russian revolution of 1905-06 provoked savage acts of reprisal by the Russian authorities. The pogroms in Bialystok that occurred between June 1 and 3, 1906, were the most violent in the mob outbreaks against Russina Jewry that year, resulting in 70 Jews being killed and 90 gravely injured. The commission of inquiry later appointed by the Duma to investigate the circumstances surrounding the pogrom held both the local police and the central authorities to blame for the tragedy." [Encyclopaedia Judaica, Vol.4 B, 1973]

I am researching the "Maggid of Bialystok". The Hasidim did have one of the first centers in that town, NE of Warshaw.

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New York County Supreme Court Naturalization Petition Index, 1907-24

Name: Paul Rappaport Address: 2 Orchard St. Date: 03 Jul 1911 Volume #: 34 Page #: 68
First Name: Jankel Last Name: Rappaport Ethnicity: Russia, Hebrew Last Place of Residence: Dwinrk Date of Arrival: April 19, 1906 Age at Arrival: 2y Gender: M Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Zeeland Port of Departure: Antwerp Manifest Line Number: 0016
also Moische, 5 Hirsh, 8 Mother is 28 from Dvinsk SHE WOULD BE 36

Name: Samuel Rappaport Age in 1910: 43 Estimated birth year: 1866 Home in 1910: 13-WD MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, New York Race: White Gender: Male Series: T624 Roll: 1028 Part: 2 Page: 157A Year: 1910

Name: Morris Rappapart Age in 1910: 43 Estimated birth year: 1866 Home in 1910: 4-WD QUEENS, QUEENS, New York Race: White Gender: Male Series: T624 Roll: 1065 Part: 1 Page: 270A Year: 1910 Ida wife, Harry, Samuel, Cecelia, Dorothy, Abraham