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THANK YOU IN 2021:
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SECOND QUARTER:
PYDH (Preserving Yiddish & Defending History)
Daniel Childers
Betty Codell
Rebecca Cook
Sarah Hirsen
Robert D. King
Anna Kramer
Rebecca Krause
Linda Judith Lipsky
Litvak World
Maryagnes Mikalauskas
Nessa Olshansky-Ashtar
Peter Rahbaek (most consistent DH supporter for ten years! Thank you, Peter!)
Robert Shapiro
Michael Strmiska
Jerrold A. Zoloto
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FIRST QUARTER:
PYDH (Preserving Yiddish & Defending History)
Daniel Childers
Rebecca Cook
Chaya and Dov-Ber Fried
Pearl Herzog
Robert D. King
Sara Klompus
Rebecca Krause
Risa Pulver
Peter Rahbaek
Sara Russell (“In memory of my father, Rabbi A. Leon Rosenblum z”l)
Robert Shapiro
Alan and Rifke Steinfeld
Michael Strmiska
Stephanie K. Wolfson
Oleg Yunakov
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THANK YOU IN 2020:
FOURTH QUARTER
Daniel Childers
Shoshanna Ehrlich
Vivian Felsen
Chaya & Dov-Ber Fried (Vilna cemetery campaign)
Phil Ginsburg
Marvin Hershenson
Robert D. King
Rebecca Krause
Risa Pulver
Peter Rahbaek
Kenneth Sachar
Robert Shapiro
Sheri Smith
Michael Strmiska
Mark Weissman
Shulamis Weissman (Vilna cemetery campaign)
Jerrold A. Zoloto
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THIRD QUARTER
Pearl Barr
Daniel Childers
Rebecca Cook
Olaf Dreyer
D. Fainman
Chaya & Dov-Ber Fried (Vilna cemetery campaign)
Louis Gerber
Ben Gotz
Robert D. King
Rebecca Krause
Maryagnes Mikalauskas
Peter Rahbaek
Roy Rosenstein
Robert Shapiro
Brian Simblist (on the yórtsayt of his great grandfather Zalman-Dovid Godashevich; to honor the Felendler family’s newest addition)
Michael Strmiska
Neal and Leah Stulberg
Hodl (Odile) Suganas
S. Chic Wolk
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SECOND QUARTER:
Stanley H. Barkan
Rebecca Cook
Dov-Ber and Chaya Fried (Vilna cemetery campaign)
David Jeremias
Robert King
Rebecca Krause
Lukas Mikelionis
Teuma and Shvanke Pan
Peter Rahbaek
Brian Simblist
Barbara Stamp (Vilna cemetery campaign)
Michael Strmiska
Jerrold A. Zoloto
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FIRST QUARTER:
Jan Carp
Rebecca Cook
Brian Herman
Levi Keller
Robert King
Sara Silverman Klompus
Rebecca Krause (Yiddish Cultural Dictionary)
Georgy Malygin
Peter Rahbaek
Brian Simblist (in memory of the Godashevich family)
Michael Strmiska
Aharon Subar (Vilna Cemetery Campaign)
Dr. Jerrold A. Zoloto (Litvak World)
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THANK YOU IN 2019:
Joan Alexander
Antonio Chiaese
Rebecca Cook
Eagle Chair Inc. in memory of Mendel Kac-Kacas
Leann Ferguson
Victor Gilinsky
Philip Ginsburg
Jennifer Anne Gollop
Leslie Green
Peter Hansen
Susannah Juni
Sara Silverman Klompus
Benjamin Krinsky
Bernardo Mario Kuczer (Vilna Cemetery Campaign)
Judith Lerner (in memory of Rivke Feldman Katz)
Maryagnes Mikalauskas
Myrna Oppenheim
Yaël Pachet
Jeremy Rauch
Joseph Reich
Prof. Earl Jeffrey Richards (Yiddish Dictionary project)
Prof. Sidney Rosenfeld
Prof. Roy Rosenstein
Leonard Sachs
Ema Segal
Louise Silverstein
Brian Simblist (in honor of Jonathan Felender)
Jerry Stulc
Hodl Suganas
John Wolfstone
Chic Wolk
Dr. Ian M. Young
Oleg Yunakov
Jerrold Zoloto
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THANK YOU IN 2018:
Jon Becker
Toby (Herman) Birney
Ruta Bloshtein (Vilnius): Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery project
Zahava Bublick
Denis Daneman (Toronto)
Vivian Felsen (Toronto)
Dov and Chaya Fried: Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery project
Samuel Gansburg
Victor Gilinsky (Los Angeles)
Sarah Greenberg
Vidas Gvozdzius (Oregon, USA)
Peter Hansen
Marcia Kaplan
Michael H. Klein (Brooklyn, New York)
Leigh-Ann Kopp
David Leigh (UK)
Professor Sid Leiman (New York): Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery project
Carole Lemee (Bordeaux, France)
Linda Lipsky (Toronto)
Gila Manolson
Batsheva Medows
Lilianne Milgrom
Noah Perlman
Uriel Preiser: Old Vilna Jewish Cemetery project
Lucinda Rinaldo
Thomas Rome (Hartford, Connecticut)
Ian Rose
Prof. Roy Rosenstein (Paris)
Leonard Sachs
William Schwartz (Teaneck, New Jersey)
Neal Stulberg
Roland Thele (Berlin)
S. Chic Wolk (Santa Monica, California): Yiddish Cultural Dictionary project
Dr. Jerrold A. Zoloto (Chicago)
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THANK YOU IN 2017:
Rachel Barrett (London)
Blake Street Hebrew Congregation (South Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia)
Cheryl Brownstein (Winder, Georgia)
Stephen Edelstein (Lexington, Kentucky)
Vivian Felsen (Toronto)
Teresa Ford (Center Conway, New Hampshire)
Judith Freier
Dov Fried (New York)
Rabbi Walter Friedman (New York)
Victor Gilinsky (Santa Monica, California)
Peter Hansen
Suzanne Hoffman (Chicago, Ill.)
Anna Kremer (Toronto)
Andreas Kuck (Marl, Germany)
Joseph Maran (Plankstadt, Germany)
Kate Morgan (Scranton, Pennsylvania)
Andrew Orkin (Ontario, Canada)
Prof. Sidney Rosenfeld (Oberlin, Ohio)
Prof. Roy Rosenstein (Paris)
Ken Schwartz (Flushing, N.Y.)
Raphael Schrire Smith (London)
Odile Suganas (Paris)
Sam Waldron (Mordialloc, Australia)
Dr. Jerrold A. Zoloto (Chicago)
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THANK YOU IN 2016:
Lisa Abrahamsohn (London)
Matt Bell (Plano, Texas)
Hyman Bielsky (Sullivans Island, South Carolina)
Zane Buzby (Los Angeles)
Denis Daneman (Toronto)
Debra Ellerin (Hull, Massachusetts)
Peter Hansen
Vincent Homolka (London)
Paul Levey (Ontario, Canada)
Linda Lipsky (Toronto, Canada)
Brocha List (St. Louis, Missouri)
Joseph Maran (Plankstadt, Germany)
Daniel Meyrowitz (Victoria, Australia)
Faye Ran (New York City)
Sidney Rosenfeld (Oberlin, Ohio)
Roy Rosenstein (Paris)
Raphael Smith (London)
Jacob Sysser (Riga) [for Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle]
Christian Tengblad (Farsta, Sweden)
Michael Yashinsky (Amherst, Massachusetts)
Mount Scopus Memorial College (Caroline Springs, Australia)
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SPECIAL 2015-2016 THANKS:
TARGUM SHLISHI, INC. (AVENTURA, FLORIDA) FOR ITS GENEROUS SUPPORT
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2009-2015:
Elkanan Avilev (Jerusalem)
Matthew Bell (Plano, Texas)
Roland Binet (Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium)
Steven Brown (Hanahan, South Carolina)
Celia Kaplan Booth (Santa Monica, California)
Zane Buzby (Los Angeles)
Carol Crawford, nee Lehrer (Sydney)
Albert Dobmeier (New York)
Robert Freedman (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
Alex Gartlan (Allenstown, Australia)
Henry Gass (Los Angeles)
Rupert Glanville (Vancouver)
Tuula-Hannele Ikonen (Helsinki)
Esther Ipson (Richmond, Virginia)
Peter Hansen (Stockholm)
Jay Ipson (Richmond, Virginia)
Deborah Jacobson (Tel Aviv)
Roman Jockel (Ashburton, Australia)
Anton Katz (Sydney)
Ronald Kent (Madison, Wisconsin)
Gertrude Novin Kline (Margate, New Jersey)
Cate Legnoverde (Melbourne)
Monica Lowenberg (London), in remembrance of Paul Loewenberg, sent at age 19 to the Riga Ghetto on 4 October 1941
Anna Lvova (Issaquah, Washington)
Peter Lynch (Manchester, Michigan)
Joseph Maran (Plankstadt, Germany)
Mersey Marketing (Perth)
Jaan Murphy (Narrabundah, Australia)
Craig Nudelman (Johannesburg)
Mark Piron (Vancouver, Canada)
Ruben Rock (Woodbridge, Connecticut)
Sidney Rosenfeld (Oberlin, Ohio)
Joyce L. Rudnick (Port Washington, NY)
Myer Sampson (New South Wales, Australia)
Jonathan Simon (Rockville, Maryland)
Targum Shlishi, Inc. (Aventura, Florida)
United Synagogue of Great Britain (London)
David Wakil (Sydney)
Anastasia S. Weigle (Maine, USA)
Rosa Wilson (Melbourne)
S. Chic Wolk (Los Angeles)
Olga and Sid Zabludoff (Washington DC)
Attendees of the Jay Ipson Rewriting History screening, Richmond Virginia, 18 April 2013
Attendees of Prof. Danny Ben-Moshe’s screening of Rewriting History at Limmud Oz, Sydney, Australia, 10 June 2013
Attendees of the Council of Christian and Jews’ screening of Rewriting History in Melbourne, Australia, March 2014