JOIN OR CONTRIBUTE TO THE ZOLINER SOCIETY

Erste Zoliner Chevra Anshei Sfard

The First Zoliner Congregation Anshe Sfard was founded in New York City in 1901 by Jewish immigrants from Zolynia and some of the smaller surrounding villages in Poland.

It has functioned as a religious and social support organization for the hundreds of Zolynia Jews who came to America in the 19th and 20th centuries. This landsmanshaft (hometown association) also owns group sections in three Jewish cemeteries in the New York metropolitan area. Over the years, more than three hundred Jews from the Zolynia area received religious burial rites and are interred in Society plots (for more information on these burial plots and on the history of the organization, see the Research section).

Annual membership options begin at $10 (ten United States dollars). Financial contributions to help support the organization's activities are very welcome. Among other activities in 2003, the organization has made substantial contributions to a hospital emergency room in Israel, and has begun planning repairs and improvements to its New York cemetery plots. Donations can be made in honor of relations or loved ones from Zolynia and its surrounding villages.

Please write to us for more information about joining the Chevre Zoliner Society, about making a financial contribution or about supporting the organization and its membership in other ways.