Barnett Newmann (U.S.A. 1905
- 1970)
whose paintings inspired the design of the site. One of the principal
artists to be associated with the movement that came to be known
as Abstract Expressionism.
List of 121 Porges names from the SSDI.
List of Porges, Porgesz, Porjes, Porjesz, Purjes.
The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is generated from the U.S.
Social Security Administration's Death Master File. It contains
the records of deceased persons who were assigned Social Security
numbers and whose deaths have been reported to the SSA.
U.S. records
(New York directory 1869 & 1890 / Montgomery (Alabama) directory
1880-1895 / New York naturalization index 1907-1927 / New York
census 1790-1890 / Illinois census 1810-1890 / New York births
1891-1902)
History of Brnö (1848-1918)
" Another important factory, which was located in Brno was
Lederer and Porges, founded in September 1889."
The Frankists (concerns Moses and
Leopold Judah Porges)
1759, A converted Jew, J. J. Frank, forms a sect called the Frankists
at Lemberg.
Grand Dukes
and Diamonds by Raleigh Trevelyan. Concerns Jules Porgès.
tells the story of one of the world's most fascinating families,
the Wernhers of Luton Hoo.The family fortune was made by Sir Julius
Wernher, the financier and mining magnate who was one of the creators
of modern South Africa. Self-effacing and cautious, he was the
perfect partner for the brilliant Alfred Beit, and together they
made a vast fortune. Both were generous philanthropists; Wernher
was also a collector and he acquired Luton Hoo, a country house
in Bedfordshire, to house his magnificent collection.
Czechoslovakia and The Habsburg rule
HAPSBURG RULE, 1526-1867 The Hapsburgs and the Czechoslovak Lands
THE DUAL MONARCHY, 1867-1918 Formation of the Dual System
Hitler's Vienna by Brigitte
Hamann, Ph. D. and author of several works on nineteenth- and
twentieth- century Austrian history. Oxford University Press,
1999
1 . Jews
in Vienna Historical Background, Eastern Jews' Mass Migration,
Parliamentary debates, Western and Eastenr Jews, The Specter
of the Jewish world Rule, Was Young Hitler Anti-semite?, Two
examples
2 . Czechs in
Vienna A wave of immigrants around 1900, The battle for the
Nibelung districts, The battle for the Komensky schools, Attempts
at mediation, Hitler on the Czechs
Beit Theresienstadt,
an organization dedicated to the memory of those who perished
in Terezin. Beit Theresienstadt at Kibbutz Givat Chaym Ichud
was erected in memory of the Jews of Ghetto Theresienstadt who
perished during the Nazi persecution.
The Genocide of
the Czech Jews, by Miroslav Karny. This commemorative
book has been written to pay homage to all the Jewish victims
deported between 1941 and 1945 from the Protectorate of Bohemia
and Moravia and to describe their fate.
Map of the concentration
camps, It is estimated that 15,000 camps were established
in the occupied countries. The complete list of camps can be
found on the following web sites ....
Terezin, "model ghetto",
During the war, small bits of information about the extreme
and horrific episodes perpetrated under the Third Reich reached
an unbelieving world. The Nazis needed to answer the world's
growing concern and yet they wanted to continue implementing
their "solution" to the Jewish Question. The Nazis decided to
use Theresienstadt to solve the growing outside pressure. Through
deceit and subterfuge, the Nazis transformed Theresienstadt
into a "model ghetto."
With photos, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
I newer saw
another butterfly,
Children's Drawings and Poems, from Terezín Concentration
Camp, 1942-1944
A Book Review by Amanda Kaufman, Cold Spring Harbor High School,
New York
Overview of Theresienstadt,
Theresienstadt (Czech, Terezin) was run by the SS and commanded,
in turn, by Siegfried Seidl (November 1941 - July 1943), Anton
Burger (July 1943 - February 1944), and Karl Rahm (February
1944 - May 1945). Czech gendarmes served as the ghetto guards,
and with their help the Jews were able to maintain contact with
the outside world.Adapted from the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.
A visit to Terezin,
by Chuck Vadun [part of Web Travel Review's Berlin/Prague story]
or click any underlined
name to access the relevant page.
Adolf
Porges (b. Cajle - Slovakia 1843, d.1931) and his descendants
who live in the U.S.A.
Includes Stephen W. Porges, professor of psychophysiology
at the University of Illinois.
Alfred
Porges Vienna 1902-1978 who had a prominent role in the
Austrian Government in the 1970's, and his siblings who live
in Austria, Australia and U.S.A.
Alois
Porges (b. ca 1830 Bohemia) and his descendants who live
in the U.S.A.
Includes the artist, writer and cartoonist Paul Peter Porges
(aka PPP)
Eleazer
Porges b. Vienna ca 1835 and his descendants who live in
the U.S.A.
Includes Pr Robert F. Porges of NYC
Friedrich
Porges (b. Vienna 1890, d. Holywood 1977) Movie director
Gyula
Eduard Porges (b. Slovakia ca 1860) and his descendant Tibor
Porges who emigrated to Santiago de Chile where he became exporter
of hard woods to Europe. Author of "Judeas Odysee"
a book of poems, published in Santiago in 1967.
Heinrich
Porges (b. ca 1875 Schestajowitz Bohemia, d. ca 1942 KZ
Poland) and his descendants who lived in Prague. Most perished
in concentration camps.(not related to the musician Heinrich
Porges)
Henry
Porges (b. Prague 1831, d. Chicago 1914) and his descendants
who live in Chicago.
Ignac
Porges (b. Prague 1812, d. 1890) Painter. Provided the portrait
of Rabbi Salomon Judah Rapoport in 1843.
Irwin
Porges and his descendants who live in New York City, Philadelphia
and Miami.
Jabob
Porges II (b. Prague 1850) who migrated to the U.S.A. ca
1870, and his descendants who live in Atlanta and Salt Lake
City.
Jabob
Porges III (b. 1830) and his descendants who live in the
U.S.A. (New Jersey, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama). Includes
Gregory J. Porges, attorney in Florida.
Jonas
Simon Porges (b. prague ca 1770) and his descendants, who
live in France, Australia, U.S.A.. Includes Théodore
and Jules Porgès (1839-1921), diamond magnate
and mining entrepreneur who settled in France where he built
the Rochefort en Yvelines château.
Jules
Porgès : biographies and articles about his residences
and social life in Paris.
Joseph
Porges (Austria, b. 1875, d. 1920) moved from Austria to
Butler, Pennsylvania, and his descendants who live in New York.
Includes Dr Andrew J. Porges (NYC).
Moses
Israel Naphtaly Porges (b. ca 1600 Prague, d. 1670 Jerusalem)
Rabbi and emissary of the Ashkenazi community of Jerusalem.and
his descendants : the prominent Porges von Portheim family.
Biographies of Moses, Leopold Juda, Eduard & Max Porges
von Portheim.
Memoirs of Moses Porges von Portheim in German
and French.
Nathan
Porges (b. 1848 Prossnitz (Moravia), d. 1924 Würzburg
(Germany))
Rabbi and bibliographer, and his descendants who
live in Australia and Germany
Nenad
Porges (b. Zagreb 1946) Croatian politician, Minister Counselor,
Adviser to the Prime Minister, Deputy Minister of Economy, Croatian
Embassador in Washington)
Philipp
Porges (b. Bohemia 1856, d. Vienna 1925) Industrialist in
Brnö and his descendants who live in the U.K.
Porges
- press releases and internet quotes about :
David L. Porges, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer of Equitable Resources Inc.
Gustave Porges, Quartermaster, American Expeditionary Force
WWI, and his immediate family. d. 1940
Lars-Ingo Porges, Engineer in Chemnitz (Germany)
Michael A. Porges, Manager of Andersen Consulting's New
York Dot-Com Launch Centre Robert E.
Porges, Chinese immigration lawyer jailed in NYC (sept
2000)
Dr. Yair Porges, Head of Einayim, the Kiryat Ata Eye Clinic
in Israel
Salomon
Porges (b. Vienna ca 1830) and his descendants who live
in France.
Founders of Porges Laboratories, a French manufacturer of catheters
and medical devices.
Salomon
Porges (b. Neuern/Nyrsko, Bohemia 1842, d. Spittal an der
Drau, Carinthia 1918)
Physician and his descendants who live
in Austria, Columbia, Germany, Holland, Sweden, U.K.
Darke
Zion by Mose ben Israel Naftali Porjes (Mose Präger)
(b. ca 1600 Prague, d. 1670 Jerusalem)
Rabbi and emissary
of the Ashkenazi community of Jerusalem. Nicknamed "Prager".
Born in Prague, he was a relative of Isaiah ha-Levi Horowitz,
whom he followed to Erez Israel, settling in Jerusalem,
where he became a scribe.
When, after the Chmielnicki massacres
of 1648-49, the contributions from Poland ceased, and the
Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem was overwhelmed with debt, Porges was sent as their emissary to Germany.
During
this mission he published, in Prague, Frankfurt and Amsterdam
(1650), a small illustrated work "Darkhei Ziyyon" in judeo-german
(see below) designed to arouse sympathy and obtain support
for the Jewish community in Erez Israel.
Shmuel ben Leib
Porges
Scribe of the Jewish community of Bonzlau (Bohemia) (ca 1734)
Sigmund
Porges (Bohemia ca 1830) and his descendants who live in
the U.S.A. ( Idaho, Texas, New York, Maryland)
Simon
Porges (1801- 1869) and his descendants. Includes the musician
Heinrich Porges (b. Prague 1837, d. München 1900)
and his daughter, the dramaturg Elsa Bernstein (b. Vienna
1866, d. Munich 1949)
About Heinrich Porges,
Wagner .... Wagner, Rehearsing
the 'Ring'
This
book presents Wagner's view of how the Ring should
be performed.
He requested Heinrich Porges, a member of
his circle and an able writer as well as an accomplished musician,
to 'follow all my rehearsals very closely and note down everything
I say, even the smallest details, about the interpretation
and performance, so that a tradition goes down in writing'.
In the opinion of the eminent Wagner scholar, Curt von Westernhagen
(expressed in his recent biography), Porges's
conscientious record shows 'amazing insight and perception'
since what distinguishes it is his 'ability always to locate
the endless detail of Wagner's instructions in an overall
intellectual context'.
The book is therefore required reading
not only for conductors, producers, instrumentalists and singers
but also for musicologists and critics.
In addition it is
a fascinating read for anyone who knows and loves the Ring
since it takes the form of a blow-by-blow commentary on the
stage action as it unfolds.
The writing has vitality and flow
and one is caught up in the spirit of the thing as Wagner
felt it.
It provides a re-experience of the Ring through his
eyes.
The Bühnenproben was originally published in the
monthly Bayreuther Blätter in instalments that
were not completed until 1896, when the Ring was first
given again at Bayreuth ; its publication in book form was
equally protracted. Its translation now is a sign of the times.
Wagner in his black moods longed for an 'invisible theatre'.
He did not foresee the electronic revolution that has enabled
countless people to sit comfortably at home, hi-fl equipment
at their elbow, vocal score on their lap, revelling in his
fusion of music and poetry and - guided by his stage directions
- envisaging his 'invisible theatre' in their minds.
The
Wagner controversy By Lili Eylon.
"When, in 1985, the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth,
Germany, opened an exhibition entitled "Wagner and the Jews",
its organizer, museum director Manfred Eger, said it was a
plea not for Wagner but for the truth.
The truth is that some
Germans, like many Israelis, still cannot "digest" Wagner,
and that the antisemitic composer continues to be an issue
- lukewarm in Germany, hot in Israel.
In his exhibition introduction,
Eger tries to prove that the roots of Hitler's antisemitism
did not have their origins in Wagner.
The exhibition brochure
dwells heavily on Wagner's appreciation of Jewish composers
such as Mendelssohn (his "Hebrides Overture") and Halévy
(his opera "The Jewess").
Eger cites in detail Wagner's friendships
with Jews such as the choirmaster Heinrich Porges and
the conductor Hermann Levi, a rabbi's son." Richard Wagner Tempo Diaries of Cosima Wagner
(1878-1883) Reference to Heinrich Porges
