Bulkin Family

This page contains some information about members of the Bulkin family in Vilna. It is an offshoot of the Cherlin family pages.

Ruchel Tvia Cherlin, daughter of Elye Velvel, was born about 1878 and married a man named Bulkin who made fur hats. We have records for Chaim and Rokha Bulkin which we believe are hers, given on that page.

As seen in the 1926-1930 Polish Business Directories for Vilna, this is actually Bułkin, with the Polish L:

				Street #
Name	Prof. (Pol./Fr.)	Prof.	Street	1926/7	1928	1929	1930
Bułkin Icek	galanterja mercerie	notions	Niemiecka	27	17	17	17
Bułkin Mendel	galanterja mercerie	notions	Sawkz	6	8	8	8
Bułkin Mowsza	spra skór cuirs	leather	I Jatkowa	14		14	14
Bułkin Rocha i Codyk (1926/7)	galanterja mercerie	notions	Wilenska	3	5	5	5
Bułkin Z.	spra skór cuirs	leather	I Jatkowa			14
Bułkin L.	czapnieze dodatki fournitures casquettes	haberdasher	Rudnicka				11

Information was found in a Vilna city directory (business and residential) for 1914-1915 concerning the following Bulkins. There were no Bulkina's listed separately.

• B. A. Bulkin
Owner of haberdashery at #6, Andreevskaia Street.
• B. Bulkin
#51, Zaval'naia Street
• I. L. Bulkin
Owner of haberdashery at #27, Nemetskaia Street.
• Itsko Lipmanovich Bulkin
#24, Nemetskaia Street
• Kh. Bulkin
Owner of haberdashery at #19, Nemetskaia Street.
• Kh. Ia. Bulkin
Leather trade, #3 Stekliannaia Street.
• Kh. Bulkin
Leather trade, #18, Ignat'evskii Lane.
• L. Bulkin
#27, Mostovaia Street
• Osher Leibovich Bulkin
#32, Zaval'naia Street
• M. L. Bulkin
Corner of Vilenskaia and Gubernatorskaia Streets, #1
• M. M. Bulkin and M. Ia. Bulkin
#6, Andreevskaia Street.

Eight of the Memorandum Books for 1890-1904 were investigated (1866, 1867, 1872, 1879, 1888, 1890, 1900, 1904). No Tsirlin or Bulkin was found.

There are photographs showing a teacher named Bulkin at the Childrens' Aid Society, specifically the Vilna Jewish Home for Girls. Dates 1916-1918. URL http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org, registration required.

Joseph Buloff

Interestingly, Stew Cherlin observes that the Lithuanaian/American actor Joseph Buloff is actually a Bulkin as well. And indeed, it is possible that his father Benjamin Bulkin is on the list shown above. Apparently Bulkin alternated with Bulow (perhaps depending on what language was being spoken). Yosef Bulkin was born in 1899 in Vilna to Benjamin Bulkin and Sarah Rotlast. There is an intriguing birth record of a Samuil Bulkin born to Benjamin Bulkin and Sara Roitbord in Vilna in 1899. Since the Russians relied on the patronymic system, if Yosef's name was in fact Shmuel Yosef then only the first name would be recorded. We have assembled a few snippets of information (some of it contradictory) about Joseph Buloff from various internet sources, which are collected in this text.

A review of the English translation of ``From the Old Marketplace'' by Joseph Buloff was published in the New York Times in March, 1991.

From http://www.kalter.org/search.php#0 via Stew Cherlin (DejaVu reader required for search):

Bułkin listings in the Polish and Danzig Business Directories
					Street	Directory Year
						1926-27	1928	1929	1930
					bldg address
Bułkin	Icek		galanterja	mercerie	Niemiecka	27	17	17	17
Bułkin	Mendel		galanterja	mercerie	Sawkz	6	8	8	8
Bułkin	Mowaza		spra skór	cuirs	I Jatkowa	14		14	14
Bułkin	Z1		spra skór	cuirs	I Jatkowa		14
Bułkin	Rocha	i Codyk2	galanterja	mercerie	Wilenska	3	5	5	5
Bułkin	L.	I Muniches L.	czapnieze dodatki	fournitures p. casquettes	Rudnicka				11
1	Z is probably a typo in the 1928 Business Directory, should be M[owaza]
2	Codyk name only appears on the 1926/1927 Business Directory.