Welcome to the Jewish Zolkiew research page. There are a number of
resources here for genealogy researchers whose relatives came from
Zolkiew. This town has a few other names. It's known today in Ukrainian
as Zhovkva or Zovkva, with the leading Z pronounced like the Z in Dr.
Zhivago. It was known in Yiddish as Zholkva. During the Soviet era it
was known as Nesterov. Zolkiew is the Polish name.
Zholkva is about ten miles north of Lemberg(German name) (aka L'viv,
Ukranian name; and L'vov, Soviet name) in what was once the
Austro-Hungarian province of Western Galicia. You can see its location at google maps and on these old maps of Galicia just north of
Lemberg/Lviv, map1,
map2, and on these modern maps Zhovkva and Lviv.
Because of its proximity to Lemberg many
families had members in both places.
I have put together a list of Ellis
Island arrival records for Jews from Zolkiew. This page has direct
links to the passenger arrival records and manifests on the Ellis
Island web site. I removed a few references that were not to Zolkiew
that were found by the search criteria. These lists are not complete in
that the search page only records passengers listed as Hebrew on their
arrival records. Many Jewish passengers were listed simply as Polish or
Russian.
Over 100 people from Zolkiew are listed on the JewishGen database of
the
1891 Galicia Business Directory. Enter "Zolkiew" in the text box
and choose "Town - Exact Spelling" from the popup menu on the search
page. You can also download the Zolkiew page from the 1929 Poland
Business Directory. Enter "Zolkiew" in the search box and choose
"Town - Exact Spelling" from the popup menu. Choose the Page 0817
result, the other result is for another town.
Jewish Records Indexing -
Poland, an independent non-profit organization (hosted by JewishGen), is indexing many
Jewish vital records of current and former areas of
Poland. The AGAD archive in Warsaw, which holds Polish vital
records older than 100 years, also holds records from Eastern Galicia,
much of which was part of Poland between WWI and WWII. Vital records
from Zolkiew and the surrounding towns are held at the AGAD
archive. Here are more details about the Zolkiew Indexing Project.
The family names I'm searching from Zholkva are ADLER and FISCH, and
possibly also SOBEL. All of the
ADLERs listed on the page mentioned above are my relatives and most of
the FISCHes also. I also have more info about my ADLER and FISCH relatives from Zholkva.