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The Malka Family
Family history of the Malka family from 1280 in northern Spain to the 20th century.Family history of the Goldenberg family of Romania, Egypt, and Sudan.
The Ornstein Gelfand Family
This is the personal story of two families. Two Jewish families who both came to America in the first decade of the twentieth century. Neither family knew each other before settling and marrying in Philadelphia.The Magyar speaking Ornstein family came from Serednye and the Carpathian mountains which were then part of Austro-Hungary but today are in western Ukraine. The Russian speaking Gelfand family came from Belarus. This profusely documented and illustrated book tells the story of these two families. Some stayed in the old country and fought the Nazis as part of the Russian army while others emmigrated and started a new life in the United States.
Sephardic Surnames Index of Research Sources
Index of research sources for 68,000 Jewish surnames from the Sephardic diaspora. Designed as a research aid, over 200 sources include books, archives, cemeteries, city directories, government records, rabbinic dictionaries, ketubot, synagogue records, genealogical databases, websites, and onomastic studies.
The Ornstein-Gelfand Family
Well documented history of the Hungarian Ornstein family and the Gelfand family of Belarus both before and after their arrival in the USA at the turn of the twentieth century. The book researches the Magyar speaking Ornstein family which lived in Serednye, Komorocz, and Carpathian villages. It follows fourteen year old David Ornstein arriving alone to NYC where he meets and marries Jennie and they both move to Philadelphia where the story continues.The Gelfands have a fascinating history in Belarus during World War II and later in the USSR. Jacob Gelfand escaped all that by coming to Philadelphia at the turn of the century.
Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora
This three-volume work is a cornerstone resource on the evolution and dynamics of the Jewish Diaspora as it played out around the world—from its beginnings to the present. Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture is the definitive resource on one of world history's most curious phenomenons, encompassing the communities, cultures, ethnicities, and experiences created by the Diaspora in every region of the world where Jews live or Jewish ancestry exists. The encyclopedia is organized in three volumes. The first includes 100 essays on the Jewish Diaspora experience, with coverage ranging from ethnography and demography to philosophy, history, music, and business. The second and third volumes feature hundreds of articles and essays on Diaspora regions, countries, cities, and other locations. With an editorial board of renowned Jewish scholars, and with an extraordinarily accomplished team of contributors, Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora captures the full scope of its subject like no other reference work before it.
The Family Tree Guidebook to Europe
Your passport to European research! Chart your research course to find your European ancestors with the beginner-friendly, how-to instruction in this book. This one-of-a-kind collection provides invaluable information about more than 35 countries in a single source. Each of the 14 chapters is devoted to a specific country or region of Europe and includes all the essential records and resources for filling in your family tree. Inside you'll find: • Specific online and print resources including 700 websites. • Contact information for more than 100 archives and libraries. • Help finding relevant records. • Traditions and historical events that may affect your family's past. • Historical time lines and maps for each region and country. Tracing your European ancestors can be a challenging voyage. This book will start you on the right path to identifying your roots and following your ancestors' winding journey through history.
Genealogy
Here is the third edition of this best-selling book, completely revised and updated. We've checked all the website reviews in the previous edition, re-written some reviews, deleted some reviews and added in new ones.
Early Modern Diasporas
This book is the first encompassing history of diasporas in Europe between 1500 and 1800. Huguenots, Sephardim, British Catholics, Mennonites, Moriscos, Moravian Brethren, Quakers, Ashkenazim... what do these populations who roamed Europe in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have in common? Despite an extensive historiography of diasporas, publications have tended to focus on the history of a single diaspora. Each of these groups was part of a community whose connections crossed political and cultural as well as religious borders. Each built dynamic networks through which information, people, and goods circulated. United by a memory of persecution, by an attachment to a homeland—be it ...
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