Another puzzle for your consideration

[Moshe Taube]

Could it perhaps be זוועהיל = today's Новоград-Волынский (since 1795) but previously Звягель, with a Jewish population and a Hassidic dynasty?
Moshe Taube

On Mar 7, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Curt F. Woolhiser wrote:

> Could it perhaps be Shavli (the Russian form of Lithuanian Siauliai)?
> 
> 
> Quoting Helena Tolstoy <tolstoy at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL>:
> 
>> Savelovo?
>> 
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>> Seelangs people in the past have been very helpful in suggesting solutions
>> to
>> questions raised on another list I am on, specifically a Jewish
>> genealogy list.  As you
>> may imagine, many questions arise of Slavic interest.
>> Someone has discovered on pre-WW I immigrant US entry docs the location
>> Savil, Russia.  Although the list has a program that will take
>> distorted English spellings
>> and suggest possible matches in other parts of the world, nothing has
>> come up for this.
>> Any ideas, anyone?
>> Keep in mind that all sorts of distortions are possible, alphabetic
>> as phonetic.
>> Jules Levin
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