Russian Jewish Puns

My wife's side of the family, and therefore my children too, have Soviet Jewish Blood. But "proving" that is hard. This is JUST for our own family history. But we cannot remember the Russian word for this jewish proof. Somethjng like Keshit? I'm also yiddish so my brain js scrambmed with this langjage puzzle. . Anyone have a clue what word i might be talking about?

Hi Reddit, this is a challenging one - two weeks ago during a taxi ride in Russia I was listening to a song that’s been stuck in my head ever since. It was on video, so I could see it was performed by two acoustic guitarists. The lead guitarist was an older man. The song seemed to be performed on a Russian tv show, but it was definitely not sang in Russian - I think it was in Hebrew. The chorus was the older man singing “Aaaaah-aah-ah-ah ah ah” several times. Anyone have any idea?

So I'm looking for a middle grade book where a girl immigrates to America with her family. The girl is detained (probably at Ellis Island), it has something to do with her losing her hair and the worry that no man would marry a bald woman so she would become a ward of the state.

The girl is a Russian Jew escaping the Holodomor or maybe the Holocaust, but I do remember it she was Russian in WWII era. While she is detained she ends up taking care of a much younger Russian boy who is also detained. I remember one of the problems was that the boy was a Russian peasant who was sent to get away from the war, and the girl is upset or jealous because she thinks people like her family deserve to seek refuge more than the boy. I might have some of the details wrong on that though.

I read this between 2012 and 2015. It was definitely middle grade but I don't remember if it was newer when I read it or not.

Thanks in advance!

These images are from a Russian revision list from 1851, and I would love some help with the names on them. The last name is a variation of Shackvitch, and these are the female children of the two families I posted a couple of days ago.

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If you aren't familiar with Jewish names, this pdf with Jewish names in Yiddish and Cyrillic might be helpful.

Thank you so much for your help with my family history research!

His name was Ivan Vladimirovich Pivovarov (1919-2004). I have nearly nothing on his paternal side, his father was Vladimir Pivovarov (abt. 1885-1923), I know he fought in WWI, likely died of Tuberculosis and was born and lived in Ukraine, but I haven't found any records on him. My grandpa tells me that the last name was likely originally Pivovar. But, that's it, that's all I know

I've had a bit more luck on my great-grandpa's maternal side. His mother's name was Akulina Makarovna Pesyholovets' (1887-1967), there's not really a good English translation for her last name, in Ukrainian it's spelled Песиголовець. I know she was born in Kobeliaki, Poltava, Ukraine and died in Sakhnovshchyna, Kharkiv, Ukraine. She likely had brothers, but all I know is she had two younger sisters named Grunya and Natalia. Her father was Makar Maximovich Pysygolovets born around 1840. Makar's father was Maxim. Akulina's mother was a woman named Pisisinia Nikolayevna, no idea what her maiden name was. I know she died after 1945 and lived to 106 years old, so she was born around 1840. Pisisinia's father was a man named Nikolay, but it's possible he was documented under the Ukrainian version of that name, so Mykola (Мыкола).

But that's it, that's all I know. Any help would be wonderful. I'd assume there are some church records somewhere, but I've had no luck finding anything, the only reason I know these people is from family memory.