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If you are looking for a rare or out-of-print book, try any of the
sources listed below for assistance. Often, asking your local
library may be helpful. It is possible that either a main or
University library, or some other source can supply a book on loan,
rather than having to buy a book, file or microfilm. Check also with
the Family History Center Library and your local Jewish Genealogy
Society's libraries. Some have very extensive holdings.
The books listed
below, are for the most part, general informational books. Books
covering specific countries may also be listed under the specific
country.
Anna Olswanger, a literary agent in New York
City, offers an independent and free web source for information on
authors of Jewish themed books worldwide. The site is searchable
by name, location and genre and each listing includes the author's city,
book titles, lecture topics, areas of travel and contact information.
Also available are links to author interviews and podcasts.
http://www.host-a-jewish-book-author.com/index.php
Where you see 'Buy From Amazon.com' you can just click on
that phrase and you will be instantly taken to a site where you will
find more information about the book and the author, as well as the
cost and estimated delivery schedule.
Thehome of the earliest known completeHebrew Bible is
St. Petersburg,
Russia
It was written in Egypt in 1008 to 1010 and is
known as the Leningrad Codex. Most of the books listed
below can be ordered directly through the link to Amazon. com and
from the other links noted.
(Please note that the following books are in alphabetical order by
title. Books dealing specifically with a country or a subject will
also be listed by the specific country or subject in my web page and
may not be listed on this page.)
WorldCat (the OCLC®
Online Union Catalog) is the world's most comprehensive reference
resource, with over 44 million bibliographic records representing
400 languages. It is a fee based commercial site. WorldCat covers
information dating back to the 11th century and includes holdings
information from libraries in 45 countries
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Life Magazine
Google Books offers every copy
of LIFE between 1936 and 1972. That's 1,800 weekly copies.
Each copy is available in its entirety. You can read every
story and view every photograph. There' a contents page for
each issue. It has navigation links, for easy access.
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"2000 Idiomatic Expressions in Yiddish" - authored by Yosef
Guri and published by Hebrew University Press. 430 pages.
Here you will find in this new dictionary idiomatic equivalents in
English, Hebrew and Russian. Distributed by Magnes Press
e-mail magnes@huji.ac.il
"Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a Lost Tribe of Israel"-
authored by Hillel Halkin and published by Houghton Mifflin. After
years of searching for traces of the Los Tribes of Israel throughout
Asia, the author, like most of the serious scholars, hadn't found a
single document, artifact or tradition that could prove any links
between tribal peoples and the Lost Tribe. Makes for and
interesting story. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"And You Shall
Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the
Records We Have Loved and Lost" authored by
Roger Bennett
(Author),
Josh Kun (Author)
(Hardcover with CD included). The authors
have been collecting early 20th century Yiddish phonograph records -
and include the Barry Sisters, Hava Nagila by Joe Guijano and a
Fiddler on the Roof Medley along with Johnny Mathis singing Kol
Nidre. Available through my Amazon.com link. www.trailofourvinyl.com
"The
Bielski Brothers" - authored by Peter Duffy and published by
Harper Collins.
"A Bintel Brief" - authored by Isaac Metzker - who has edited
a summary of 60 years of letters from the section of the Daily
Forward known as "A Bintel Brief." It is a study of the
problems, struggles and history of real people from the Lower East
Side of New York as reflected in their letters to The Daily Forward
during this time. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The
Book of Jewish Customs" - authored by Harvey Lutske. All
of those superstitions that you learned from your mother and/or
grandmother come to light in this book. ISBN 0-87668-916-0 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names" - authored by
Alexander Beider
"A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History" - authored
by Benzion C. Kaganoff
"A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire" and
"A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland" -
authored by Alexander Beider. Beider is a Moscow born
Jewish émigré living in Parisand is a proven skilled and
savvy name smith. He is a computer consultant and project
analyst by day, and moonlights in libraries and archives, in Paris and elsewhere, to research his favorite topic -- Jewish
names. His books are published by Avotaynu, Inc. of New
Jersey.
ASIN: 0962637394 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Linguistic Atlas of Eastern European Yiddish" authored by
Jean Jofen and published in 1964. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe" - authored by Ben Frank and
published by Pelican in 2001. A guide to Jewish sites in
twenty European countries. Reviews Jewish history in each
country and identifies and describes its significant cultural and
historical sites, including synagogues, museums and kosher
restaurants. Focuses primarily on large cities or major Jewish
communities and includes photographs and an index. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming
America" authored by Boston Globe reporter Adam Pertman and
published by Basic Books The book doesn't pertain to
genealogical research, but it does have direct relevance for the
genealogical realities in many of our trees. Jewish Genealogy etc.
ISBN 0-465-05650-4
"A Family Remembers: How to Create a Family Memoir Using Video
and Tape Recorders (Self-Counsel)" - authored by Paul
McLaughlin ASIN 0889082936 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Guide To Research In Paris" - authored by Archives de
Paris, and Published by The Archives de Paris at 18 d. Serurier,
75019 Paris, France, is a guide to biographical & genealogical
research in Paris. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People" - authored by
Martin Gilbert contains many diagrams that illustrate Jewish
migrations starting from Biblical times to the present. ISBN:
0805241272 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People" - from the time
of the Patriarchs to the present. General Editor Eli Barnavi;
English Editions Editor Miriam Eliav-Feldon. Published by
Schocken Books, New York City.
ISBN 0679403329 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Historical Atlas of Ukraine" - authored by Paul Robert
Magocsi and published by the University of Toronto Press.
ISBN: 0802034284 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A History of the Jews in America" - authored by Howard M.
Sachar Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Preservation Guide: Saving the Past and Present for the Future"
- authored by Barbara Sagraves Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Student Guide to Jewish American Genealogy" - American Family
Tree Series - Jay Schleiter. ISBN 0897749774 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"After Long Silence" - authored by Helen Fremont deals with
Jewish ancestry and identity. ASIN 9992321210 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"American Jewish Yearbook 1960" - published by the American
Jewish Committee.
"American Jews In World War II" - authored by I. Kaufman
and published by Dial Press in 1947, Volume One Jewish Genealogy etc.
"An American Hebrew's Heroic Life" - a tribute to Elias L.
Hyneman by his cousin, Alice H. R. Sotheran Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Passion for Truth" - authored by Abraham Joshua Heschel
ASIN 0374511845 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide to Family History and Genealogy"
- authored by Jim Willard
"A Student's Guide to Jewish American Genealogy" - authored
by Jay Schleifer
"And the Policeman Smiled" - a story relating to many
(10,000) Czech children coming on the Kindertransport - authored by
Barry Turner in 1990 ISBN 0 7475 0958 1 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field
branches" Salt Lake City: published by Ancestry, 1988
"Are Yentas, Kibitzers & Tummlers Weapons of Mass Instruction?"
- authored by Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe and published by Malka
Publications, 19 Market Drive Syosset, NY 11791 $12 USA $14 Canada
$3 shipping & handling. A book of Yiddish Trivia.
When researching our Jewish roots, we remember that before
1939, when the mass murder of the Eastern European Jews began, there
were 11 million people in Europe who spoke Mama Loshen, i.e., the
language of their Mothers. Yiddish. We also
recall that in 1883, the Russian government banned Yiddish
performances, and Yiddish actors and dramatists joined the mass
emigration westwards across Europe to Paris, London, and New York.
discusses the
"Yiddisha Mama," Abraham Goldfaden (Father of the Yiddish Theater),
The Jewish Daily, "gefilte fish" (Jacques Cousteau--alev a
sholem--is still looking for it), "Yamaha" (a religious skullcap for
women) a Kulikov trial, "fancy-schmantzy" and the abbreviation
"VD"--Voo Den? ... or volume discount? Learn which Rabbi
said, "No chuppa, no shtuppa," and which critic rates some
restaurants as "farkacht!"
"Atlas of the Holocaust" - authored by Martin Gilbert
ISBN: 0718121600 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Atlas of Modern Jewish History" - authored by Evytar Friesel.
The book is presently out of print but there is one copy available
in Melbourne, Australia. Use one of the Book resources to find
a copy of this, and other books. ASIN: 0195053931 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Atlas of Russian History" - authoredby
Martin Gilbert, published in 1972 by Dorset Press. ISBN:
0195210611 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Avengers: A Jewish War Story" - authored by
Rich Cohen and published in New York by Knopf in 2000. A story
about a guy and two teenage girls who risked their lives in the
Vilna ghetto and subsequently bombed their own city as they
helped pave the way for its liberation.
"Back to the Soil, the Jewish Farmers of Clarion" - authored by
Robert Alan Goldberg. This book deals with the Clarion colony.
ASIN 0874802636 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Bashert: A Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest"-
authored by Andrea Simon and published by University Press of
Mississippi Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
American Jewish writer exposes Brona Gora massacre and Holocaust
tragedy. When Andrea Simon separated from her American tour
group to hunt for ancestral traces in the village of Volchin
in Belarus, she met a tragedy no one had written about. $28.00,
hardback, ISBN 1-57806-481-3 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Becoming a Professional Genealogist" - authored by Nancy E.
Carlberg - ASIN: 094487813X Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Beginner's Guide to Family History Research" - authored by
Desmond W. Allen ASIN: 155867019X Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Being Jewish During the Second World War" - a project made by a
6th grade student about being Jewish during WW II (1935-1948)
http://jewsinwwii.homestead.com/Home.html
"Beit Rabbanian: Sources of Rabbinical Genealogy" - authored by
Chaim Freedman and published in 2001. It offers a survey of
Hebrew sources for rabbinical genealogical research which may be
unknown or inaccessible to those not fluent in Hebrew. In
English, the volume is a review of 130 texts which are the main
sources for this field. 69 page, large format paperback. Price
in Israel, NIS 40 including postage. Order directly from Chaim
Freedman, Hayasmin 7/2, Petah Tikva 49650 Israel; or email
chaimjan@zahav.net.il In the US, orders can be sent to
Avotaynu, $20 including postage. http://www.avotaynu.com
"The Beilis Transcripts: The Anti-Semitic Trial That
Shook the World" - authored by Ezekiel Leikin (Editor) Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Better Than Gold: An Immigrant Family's First Years in Brooklyn"
- author Oshry Efroim ISBN: 0966044002 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Between Two Streams: A Diary from Bergen-Belsen" - authored by
Abel J. Herzberg and published in New York by I. B. Tauris ISBN:
1860641210 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Big Book of Jewish Baseball: An
Illustrated Encyclopedia & Anecdotal History" authored by
Peter Horvitz & Joachim Horvitz
ISBN: 1561719750
"The Big Book
of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium Of Sports History
& The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Starts" - authored by
Peter Horvitz SPBooks.com, or 212 431 5011 $19.95
"TheBook of Jewish Food" -
authored by Claudia Rodin, offers a look back in the types of foods
influenced by Jews. ISBN: 039453258 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Brave Old World" - this book claims Chernobyl was at one
time a Hasidic center and there is a prominent Chassidic family by
the name of Twersky. ASIN: 0805281355
"Building Jerusalem - Jewish Architecture in Britain" -
authored by Sharman Kadish and published in 1996 by Vallentine
Mitchell in London. It's more than an architectural book since
it intertwines Jewish history with the buildings that were produced
for the Jewish community and has chapters on cemeteries, mikvot and
other subject that could be of genealogical interest. It lists
the names of many families.
"The Chase Is The Game: The Journeys of an
American-Israeli Pioneer" - authored by Saadia Gelb and
published by Dworkin and Co./Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc.
$16.95. This is the author's autobiography who starts with his birth
in Galicia, his move to Minneapolis, where his father was one of my
Hebrew teachers and ends in a Kibbutz (Kfar Blum) in Israel
as the director.
"The
Chosen People" - authored by A. N. Oppenheim, a professor at the
London School of Economics. The book contains a list of the
'exchanged Jews' with dates and places of birth. The story
itself is a worthy successor to Schindler's List, according to Dick
Plotz who reviewed it. "In 1944, a group of 222 concentration
camp inmates (mostly in Bergen-Belsen and of Dutch origin) were
exchanged, under the auspices of the International Red Cross, for an
equal number of German civilians interned by the British mandatory
authority in Palestine. This story is little known, even in
Israel. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History"
authored by
Benjamin Blech
"Concentration Camps: A traveler's guide to WW II Sites" -
authored by Marc Terrance and published by Universal Publishers in
1999. A detailed travel guide to concentration camps,
memorials and other sites related to the Third Reich and the
Holocaust. Provides a map and directions for reaching each
site via car, bus and train, contact information, hours of
operation, entrance fees, tour provisions and a description of what
remains at each site today. Includes maps and photographs,
travel tips, helpful websites and an index.
"Carved Memories: Heritage in Stone from the Russian Jewish Pale"
- authored by David Noevich Goberman, Robert Pinsky (Introduction),
Gershon D. Hundert ISBN: 0847822567 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Child Apprentices in America, from Christ's Hospital, London,
1617-1778" ISBN: 080631270X Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Children of Willesden Lane, Beyond the
Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love and Survival" -
authored by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen. Published by Warner
Books
"Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-By-Reign Record of
the Rulers of Ancient Israel" - authored by J. W. Rogerson
ISBN: 0500050953 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Cite Your Sources: A Manual for documenting Family Histories and
Genealogical Records" - authored by Richard S. Lackey ISBN:
0878052860 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Commemorative Book of Ukraine" lists fallen soldiers in
WWW II by Oblast
"TheComplete Book of Emigrants" - in four volumes
(1607-1660; 1661-1699; 1700-1750; 1751-1775) ISBN: 0806312211 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"TheComplete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775" -
authored by Peter Coldham Wilson ASIN: 0806310030 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography" - authored by
Jacob Rader Marcus and published in 2 volumes in 1994, provides
citations in periodical and newspaper articles and obituaries, etc.
ASIN: 0926019740 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Crossing the Narrow Bridge" A Practical Guide to Rebbe Nachman's
Teachings" - authored by Chaim Kramer ISBN: 0930213408 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Cultures of the Jews: A New History" - edited by David Biale
and published by Schocken Press ISBN: 0805241310 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Dear Diary: The Art and Craft of Writing a Creative Journal"
- authored by Joan R. Neubauer ISBN: 0916489612
"A Dictionary of Selected Jewish Names" - authored by
Benzion Kaganoff Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Dictionary of Genealogy" - authored by Terrick Fitzhugh
& Susan Lumas ASIN: 0389205656 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Russian Empire"
including their origins, structures, pronunciations and migrations
is authored by Alexander Beider and published by Avotaynu, Inc. is
728 pages in length and lists more than 15,000 Ashkenazic given
names and variations, linking their derivations to a pool of about
735 root names. ISBN: 0962637335 Jewish Genealogy etc.
http://www.avotaynu.com/beider.htm
"Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Poland"
including their origins, structures, pronunciations and migrations
is authored by Alexander Beider and published by Avotaynu, Inc.
ISBN: 0962637394 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Hebrew and Aramaic Words in the Yiddish Language - Their Phonetic
Spelling and Translation into English and Russian" -
authored by Dr. Moisey Wolf. The dictionary is available for
$12 from the Jewish Federation of Portland, Oregon Phone: (503) 245
6219
http://www.jewishportland.org/index2.html
Multi-Lingual Dictionaries along with Translations between
European languages and much more. This site provides the most
comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related
products and services with more than 1,800 dictionaries with more than
250 languages. It is great!
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
"Yiddish Words and their Meanings" - English to Yiddish
"Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors" - a comprehensive
beginners guide rich with illustrations and examples - authored by
Barbara Krasner-Khait. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Diaspora: Homelands in Exile" - authored by Frederic
Brenner, is a two volume set of photographs and essays and published
by HarperCollins. Brenner roamed five continents living with
and photographing indigenous Jews -- from Azerbaijan to Yemen and
Brooklyn to Jerusalem. He also authored "Jews/America/A
Representation" in 1996.
"Documents of Our Ancestors" - authored by Michael J.
Meshenberg. Here you will find a selection of reproducible general
forms and tips. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Eight Chapters In The History of Jamaica" (1508 - 1680) by
Richard Hill and published by M. DeCordova McDougall, Kingston,
Jamaica. Published in 1868, the book illustrates the Jewish
settlement on the Island. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and his
Family" authored by Chaim Freedman and published by Avotaynu in
1997. It includes 20,000 names and a host of biographical and
historic details. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Eliyahu's Roots" - authored by
Chaim Freedman. The library of the Israel Genealogical Society
has this book. The library is open on the day of the monthly meeting
from 18.00 to 19.30.
"Ellis Island Interviews, In their Own Words" authored by
Peter Coan This book offers first hand accounts of
the immigration experience.
ISBN 0816035481 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Emigrants from England to the American Colonies, 1773-1776"
"Encyclopedia.com - more than 50,000 articles plus links
giving you access to millions of articles and pictures in Electric
Library. Free trial.
www.encyclopedia.com/
"Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular
Culture"
edited by Jack R. Fischel with Susan M. Ortmann and published by
Greenwood Press. This is a topical guide to literature
politics and Yiddish theater -- and so much more.
"Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities" is an important resource.
It is in three volume set.
"Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture" - covers everything
from anti-Semitism to Zionism and includes a glossary, bibliography,
biographies, articles, virtual Israel tour, original documents and
more at
http://www.JewishVirtualLibrary.org
"Encyclopedia of Judaica" - is of great research value and
can be found at most JGS Society Libraries and Public
Libraries. A CD version is also available. You can do a global
search of the 16 volumes and 8 yearbooks in the CD version.
Published in New York by Macmillan Publishing in 1971 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Fame, Fortune and Sweet Liberty" - is considered by many,
as an excellent book on the Great European Emigration, published in
Bremen both in English and German editions.
"TheFamily Tree Kit: International Edition, 103
Countries"
"FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions About Jewish Genealogy" -
authored by Warren Blatt
"Far Away Place: Lessons In Exile" -
authored by Howard R. Wolf. Essays on Turkey, Malaysia, India,
Hong Kong, South Africa, Finland, Manhattan, the Niagara
Frontier and Broward Country. A blend of traditional travel
material, Cultural exploration and autobiography in which a Jewish
American educator searches for the meaning of personal and national
identity.
"Fear No Evil: The Classic Memoir of One Man's Triumph over a Police
State" - authored by Natan Sharansky and Stefani Hoffman Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy"
Authored by Dan Rottenberg and published in New York by Random House
in 1977. ISBN 0-8063-1151-7 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"First American Jewish Families, 600 Genealogies, 1654-1988" -
authored by Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy" -
authored by Dan Rottenberg
"TheFlying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North
African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage" - edited by Loolwa
Khazzom and published by Seal Press. A story of 17 feminists
of Sephardi and Mizrahi backgrounds - religious and secular, North
American and Israeli - share their stories of discrimination,
insecurity and sometimes rebellion.
"Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide"
- authored by Jonathan D. Shea
"Fortune Teller's Kiss" - authored by
Brenda Serotte and published by the University of Nebraska Press.
A story about a Turkish Jew in the Bronx, in a
fortune-telling, belly-dancing family. www.BrendaSerotte.com
"For All Time: A Complete guide to Writing Your Family History"
- authored by Charley Kempthorne Jewish Genealogy etc.
"From Generation to Generation: How To Trace your Jewish Genealogy
and Personal History" Authored by Arthur Kurzweil. Revised
Edition. Published in New York by Harper Collins in 1994.
ISBN-0-06270097-9
"From The Spirit of the Ghetto" - authored by Hutchins
Hapgood and published in 1905. Book has information about the
Yiddish stage founded in Romania in 1876 by Abraham Goldfaden and
reached it's highest development in New York with 70-80 actors, 12
playwrights.
"Fragile Branches: Travels Through the Jewish Diaspora" -
authored by James R. Ross and published by Riverhead Books, 229
pages. The author reports on the result of his research into
finding Jews in remote parts of the world, including Peru,
Brazil, India, Karaites and others.
"Genealogical Research and Resources: A Guide for Library Use"
- authored by Lois C. Gilmer
"Genealogical Resources in the N.Y. Metro Area" - authored by
Estelle M. Guzik
"The Genealogist's Address Book" - authored by
Elizabeth Petty Bentley
"TheGenealogist's Companion & Sourcebook" - authored
by Emily Anne Croom
"The Genealogist's Handbook: Modern Methods for
Researching Family History" - authored by Raymond S. Wright Jewish Genealogy etc.
"TheGenesis of Your Genealogy: Step-By-Step
Instruction for the Beginner in Family History" - authored by
Elizabeth L. Nichols Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy" -
authored by Gary Mokotoff and Warren Blatt
"Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy: A Handbook for Beginners
with Supplementary Information for Advanced Research" - Third
Edition, November 2002 and compiled by Dr. Ronald D. Doctor. Buy
direct from Jewish Genealogy Society Oregon P.O. Box 19736,
Portland, Oregon 97280 $21.00 including shipping. E-mail:
rondoctor@earthlink.net
"Ghetto Diary" - authored by Janusz Korczak and published by
Yale University Press. A true story of how Korczak refused to
leave the 200 destitute orphans in his care in a Ghetto orphanage
when the Nazis yelled out "All Jews out". He, and the children
were taken to Treblinka where they were promptly sent to the ovens.
Korczak had kept a diary and tried to make sense of his own life as
a doctor, educator and writer even as he tried to make sense of the
evil all around him. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"God & Country" - published by Old China Hand Press in
Hong
Kong, will be of interest to those who may be researching families
who formerly lived in Shanghai. There are
pictures of buildings and portions of tombstones, maps and text
relating to both Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews who at one time lived
in Shanghai.Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Going to Salt Lake City to Do Family History Research" -
authored by J. Carlyle Parker
"The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish Immigration to
America" - authored by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin and published by
Crown Publishers/Harmony Books. A concise history of Jewish
immigration to America from 1654 with the arrival of the Sephardic
Jews to today.
"TheGreat Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern
Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow
and Budapest" - authored by Eli Valley
"Guide For the Deaf on Jewish Mourning" - Our Way/National
Jewish Council for the Disabled has published a new guide for the
deaf on Jewish mourning. The guide features the traditional
prayer recited at a mourner's home in Hebrew, English and Sign
Language, as well as Jewish laws about death and mourning. The
guide is available for no cost, although contributions are welcome.
For information about receiving the guide or for sponsorship
opportunities, contact Rabbi E. Lederfeind 1 212 613 8234 or by
email at
ourway@ou.org
"Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives"
Revised edition published by the National Archives Trust Fund Board
in Washington, DC in 1991. This is an excellent resource especially
if you intend to visit the National Archives in Washington.
"Guide to Jewish Europe" - authored by Oscar Israelowitz and
published by Israelowitz Publishing in 1995. Presents general
Jewish information about nineteen different countries or regions in
Western Europe with considerable information provide about France,
Germany, Italy and Spain. Lists synagogues, mikva'ot and
kosher restaurants by city as wells a non-Jewish museums and places
of interest. Includes maps, photographs, Sabbath timetables, a
brief bibliography and an index. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel" - authored by
Sallyanne Amdur Sack, PhD
"Guide to the YIVO Landmanschaften Archives" - listed are more
than 200 Landsmanshaft organizations and other benevolent societies
at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Studies in New York.
Ordering information and a list of all towns represented in the book
http://avotaynu.com/yivo.htm
"HaMadrij: A Guide to the Values and Practices of Modern Judaism"
- a Spanish guide to Judaism - authored by Rabbi Jacques
Cukierkorn, spiritual leader of The New Reform Temple in Kansas
City, Missouri.
www.guidetojudaism.com
"Handbook for Genealogists, United States of America" -
published by The Everton Publishers, Inc. in 1997. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Hasidic Wisdom: Sayings from the Jewish Sages" - authored by
Simcha Raz (Compiler), Dov Peretz Elkins (Translator) and Jonathan
Elkins (Translator) Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Haven" - authored by Ruth Gruber who was a special
assistant to Harold Ickes and was given the rank of simulated
general, in case she was shot down by Nazi planes and taken
prisoner. She brought Jews to the US from Italy to Oswego, NY
refugee camp. It's a fascinating book and does have photos and names
of some of those who were interred there. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Hear My Story: What Jews Really Think and Feel" - authored by
Michael Jaffe Garbutt and published by Jonathan David Publishers,
Inc., in 2000. Garbutt interviewed 420 Jews in North America,
Australia and England over a two year period to find out what being
Jewish means.
"Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish women in America from
Colonial Times to the Present" - authored by Hasia R. Diner and
beryl Lieff Benderly. This is a book by and about Jewish women. Some
of the material included is based on some interesting letters
written by a German Jewish immigrant Rebecca Samuel, to her parents
in the 1790s and others in the revolutionary war period.
This book includes the story of a woman who arrived in St. Paul,
Minnesota and another who lived on Madeleine Island trading with the
Indians, in 1852. Published by Basic Books, 459 pages $35.00 A
complete review of the book, by Ruth F. Brin, can be found in the
American Jewish World issue of August 23, 2002. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Heshel's Kingdom" authored by Dan Jacobson is about a
South African writer traveling to his grandfather's shtetl of
Varniai. Hardcover, 256 pages published by Northwestern
University Press in April, 1999
ISBN: 0810117045 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Hidden Sources: Family History in Unlikely Places" - authored
by Laura Szucs Pfeiffer
"Hiding in the Open: A Holocaust Memoir" - authored by Sabina
Zimering. Zimering, at the age of 16, watched as her town of Piotrkow became home to the first Jewish ghetto in
German
occupied Poland. The book details her life, along with her
mother and a sister, as they lived and worked in a German labor
camp, using passports supplied by Polish neighbors, and later found
employment in Regensburgat the Hotel Maximilian.
To order the book, contact Molly Grisham, 612 338 7816 or e-mail
Molly@Minn_DakJCRC.org
"Hippocrene Insider's Guide to Poland's Jewish Heritage" -
authored by Joram Kagan and published in New York by Hippocrene
Books, Inc. in 1992. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraine" - authored by
Linda Hodges and George Chumak Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Historical Atlas of East Central Europe" - authored by Paul
Robert Magocsi - shows what happened to the boundaries of the
countries of East Central Europe over the past centuries. It
may no longer be available, but try the libraries and used book
shops. It was published in 1998 by the University of
Washington Press in Seattle, WA. Although its main emphasis is
Italy and Germany to the west and the borders of the old Russian
Empire on the east, because of the fluidity of the eastern
boundaries, it also includes a substantial part of present day Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.Jewish Genealogy etc.
"History of the Jews in Russia and Poland" - authored by Simon
Dubnow and Israel Friedlander Jewish Genealogy etc.
Holocaust- various books relating
to this subject can also be found at my 'Holocaust Page' by clicking
here >
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"Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's
Courts" - authored by Michael J. Bazyler and published by New
York University Press - 352 pages
"Holocaust Testimonies: European Survivors and American Liberators
in New Jersey" - published by Rutgers Press
"How to Climb Your Family Tree: Genealogy for Beginners" -
authored by Harriet Stryker-Rodda
"How to Climb Your Family Tree Without Going Out on a Limb: A
Guide to Family History" authored by Elizabeth M. Queener
"How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust"
- authored by Gary Mokotoff
"How to Trace Your Family Tree: A Complete and Easy to Understand
Guide for the Beginner" - authored by the American Genealogical
Research Institute Jewish Genealogy etc.
"If I Forget Thee" - the destruction of the shtetl
Butrimantz by Riva Lozansky (Editor), Dvora Reznik, Victoria
Golombewski, published by Sheinker Paperback, January, 1999
Remembrance Books ISBN: 0966934903 Jewish Genealogy etc.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/database.html
"Immigrants to Freedom" - (Jewish Communities in rural
New Jersey since 1882) authored by Joseph. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the
Unfinished Business of WW II"- authored by Stuart E. Eizenstat
and published by Perseus - 400 pages Jewish Genealogy etc.
"In Memoriam" - 40 Jewish boys and girls who lived in a
"Kibbutz" in the village of Hummeloin Holland
from
1941-1943 ISBN 9012091785 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"In Memory's Kitchen" - a collection of recipes that
survived the Terezin concentration camp. Edited by Cara De
Silva and translated by Bianca Steiner Brown and published by Jason
Aronson, Inc. Northvale new Jersey/London 1996. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"In our Own Hands: The Hidden Story of the Jewish Brigade in
World War II" - a wonderful documentary about the Jewish
Brigade, the all-Jewish fighting unit in the British Army in the
Second World War, and about its activities immediately after the war
"In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov; The Earliest Collection of Legends
About the Founder of Hasidism - Shivhei Ha-Besht" - authored by
Dan Ben-Amos (Editor) and Jerome R. Mintz
"International Guide to Nineteenth-Century Photographers and Their
Works" - authored by Gary Edwards and published in 1988 in
Boston, MA by G. K. Hall. Possible interesting information
about professional photographers ISBN 0-8161-8938-2 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"In The Beginning" - the story about an Am Kedoshim Society
in New York which functioned in the 1920s-30s to aid emigration from
Galicia to America, helping those financially and morally to come
and settle in America - authored by Chaim Potok. Am Kedoshim
means 'Holy People' and according to Naomi Fatouros
NFatouros@aol.comshe believes that it is a 'fictional'
name for the real "HIAS" (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Association) or for
"HICEM".
HICEM was formed around 1929 when the Jewish colonial Association
and HIAS united to avoid duplication of efforts and the
complications which could arise from such duplication.
"In the Wake of the Plaque: The Black Death and the World It Made"
- authored by Norman F. Cantor and published by Free Press. The Black Death was actually a series of plagues
that began in the 14th century.
The major outbreak of 1347-50 killed off almost half of Europe's
population and resulted in vast social, economic and cultural
upheavals. Through his stories of individuals affected by the
plague, landowners, kings, abbots and ordinary people -- Cantor's
popular account presents both the awful reality of one of the great
disasters in the history of human civilization and its sometimes
surprising beneficial effect visible only in hindsight. Jewish Genealogy etc.ISBN:
0684857359
"Irving Berlin: American Troubadour" - authored by Edward
Jablonski and published in 1999 offers an insight into the lives of
Jews emigrating from Belarus to New York including a detailed
itinerary. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Jewels and Ashes" - authored by Arnold Zable, a writer
from Melbourne, Australia who writes about his travels through
Bialystok area. ISBN: 0908011202 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The New Jewish Encyclopedia" - edited by David
Bridger and published in New York by Behrman House, Inc. in 1976 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Jewish Farmers of the Catskills" - authored by Abraham
Lavender and Clarence Steinberg, is a book on the largest of Jewish farming areas in the Catskills. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Jewish Heritage Travel" -authored by Ruth E. Gruber and
published in 1992 by John Wiley & Sons, New York. A guide To
East-Central Europe is a cultural and historical travel guide to
Jewish heritage in Poland, The Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, former Yugoslavia
and Bulgaria. Updated editions 1994 (Wiley)
and 1999 (Jason Aronson).
"Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York,
1880-1939" authored by Daniel Soyer Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the U.S.A.: Guide to the
Oral History Collection of the Research Foundation for Jewish
Immigration" - authored by Herbert A. Strauss
"Jewish Life in Small-town America: A
History" - authored by Lee Shai Weissback and published by Yale
University Press
"Jewish Soldiers -- Soviet Union -- Registers"
(in Russian) Kniga Pamiati Voinov-evreev Pavshikh v Boiakh s Natsizmom
1941-1945 / [red. kol. M.F. Marianovskil, N.A. Pivovarova, I.S. Sobol].
Gedenk. A copy of this book is in the University of Illinois
Library as well as Stanford University. OCLC ID No.: 37127239
"Jewish Travel Guide" - edited by Stephen W. Massil and
published in association with the Jewish Chronicle, London. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Jewish Travel Guide 2001: International Edition" - edited by
Michael Zaidner - describes Jewish sites of interest in over 110
countries. Provides a brief summary of Jewish history in each,
followed by a town-by-town listing of synagogues, museums,
libraries, organizations, hotels, restaurants, grocers, bakeries,
mikva'ot, etc and includes a list of kosher fish worldwide, an
abridged Jewish calendar and an index. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Jewish Vital Records, Revision Lists & other Jewish Holdings in
the Lithuanian Archives" - authored by Harold Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Jews in Places You Never Thought Of" - a 305 page hardback that
discusses Jewish groups around the world. $29.50 from Kulanu,
1217 Edgevale Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20910. 301 681 5679
"Jews in the Ukraine: 1989-1994: Shtetls" - authored by Rita
Ostovskaya (Photographer) and Josh S. Southard, Rita Ostovskaya, Ute
Eskikisen (Editor) Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate" was authored by
Eli N. Evans and published by The Free Press in New York in 1988. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Justyna's Narrative" - authored by Gusta Draenger - a story of
the
Krakow resistance and published by University of
Massachusetts Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Kantonistn" - tells the life of the Jewish men and boys in
the
Russian Imperial Army. Author: Abraham Lewin.
Available at the New York Public Library and on microfilm in Hebrew
character Yiddish.
Another book, "Berko Cantonist" by Sergey Grigo'ev, was
published in
Moscow, and though it is fictional, it was based on real life
stories. Michael Chepovetsky at
chepm@earthlink.net has a 1935 edition and may be able to
help.
"Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of the Hebrew Union College
Skirball Museum and Klau Library"
"Ketubot: Marriage Contracts from the Jewish Museum" -
authored by the Jewish Museum
"Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland
During the Holocaust" - authored by Shimon Huberband and
published in New York by Yeshiva University Press in 1987
"Koros Podolia Vkadmoneyos Hayhoodim Sham" (in Hebrew) is a
listing of an 1895 book published in Odessa by Menachem Litinsky.
"The Land of Riddles (Russia of To-Day)" - authored by
Hugo Ganz and published in English in 1904 by Harper & Brothers.
Ganz describes his tour of Russia "an empire of one hundred and
thirty millions of prisoners and of one million jailers," of
"gendarmes in gray coats," and "greasy Jews with their long coasts
of uncertain color," and never absent "secret police with their
questionable gentility."
"Last Walk in Naryshkin Park" authored by Rose Yoffe Zwi
and by Serge Klarsfeld in Paris, 1978
"Legacy ... A Step by Step Guide to Writing Personal History" -
authored by Linda Spence
ISBN 0-8040-1003-X Jewish Genealogy etc.
"TheLibrary of Congress: A Guide to Genealogical and
Historical Research" - authored by James C. Neagles Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Library Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy (Avotaynu
Monograph Series)
"Life is with People" The Culture of the Shtetl" - authored
by Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog and published in New York by
Schocken Books in 1962 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" -
untold tales of men of Jewish descent who fought for the Third Reich
- authored by Bryan Mark Rigg
"Looking Back" - authored by Joseph Eisenbruch - a
story of Joseph Eisenbruch, a native of Lvov, Holocaust survivor and
one of the founders of the "Bricha" movement that brought Jews from
Europe to Eretz Israel. He made Aliyah in the summer of 1945. For
further information contact:
BerLis@comcast.net
www.lookingback.co.il
"Lost and Found" - authored by Sheldon Green. A
Holocaust survivor discovers miracles of ordinary life in an
American shtetl. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Lost in America: A Journey With My Father" - authored by
Sherwin B. Nuland and published by Knopt. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Lower East Side Memories" - authored by Hasia R. Diner,
Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, and
published by Princeton University Press. $27.95 ISBN 0691095450 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Mamma Used to Say: Pearls of Wisdom from the World of Yiddish"
- authored by Rahel Rozmarin (Editor) Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Memoirs" - David Ben Gurion's autobiography published in 1970,
states that he was born David Gryn in Plonsk on October 16,
1886. He was the fourth child of Avigdor Gryn. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Memoirs of My People" - authored by Leo W. Schwarz and written
in 1943 deals with how the Jews got from the Russian pale to
Argentina with the help of baron Hirsch. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Migration From the Russian Empire" - authored by Ira
Glazer is currently a six volume series identifying emigrants in
the late 1800s - from January 1888 to May 1889. The next two
volumes (5 & ^) were to be published in the Fall of 1998. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Miriam's Kitchen" by Elizabeth Erlich, published by
Penguin Books, 1997 hardback and 0 14 02.6759 X paperback
ISBN 0-670-86908-2
"Mitla Pass" - offers a descriptions of the life in Jewish
Shtetls of Eastern Europe in the outgoing 19th / beginning 20th
Century in the book. descriptions of the life in Jewish Shtetls of
Eastern Europe in the outgoing 19th / beginning 20th Century in the
book. Authored by Leon Uris Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary" - authored
by Uriel Weinreich
"Mosaic - A Chronicle of Five Generations" - authored by Diane
Armstrong who is a member of the Australian Jewish Genealogy
Society. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Mottel The Cantor's Son" - authored by Shalom Aleichem.
This is a story that describes, in detail, attempts of a Jewish clan
to embark from several different European ports, including London
and Antwerp. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Musicians of a Wandering Race" includes a list of
Jewish composers, violinists, conductors and singers. The
book was copyrighted in 1927.
Included are names of George Bizet, Paul Dukas, Gustav Mahler;
Darius Mihaud; Jacques Offenbach; Maurice Ravel; Camille
Saint-Saens; Oscar Straus (no relation to the Straus of Waltz fame);
Otto Klemperer; Serge Koussevitzky; Pierre Monteux; Bruno Walter;
Alma Gluck; Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink and more.
Further name information may possibly be obtained from Lou Fine
loufine@juno.com
"My Bones Don't Rest in Auschwitz" - authored by Gitel Donath
and published in Montreal by Kaplan Jewish Genealogy etc.
"My Family Tree Workbook: Genealogy for Beginners" - authored
by Rosemary Chorzempa
"My Generations, a Course in Jewish Family History" -
authored by Arthur Kurzwell
"My Shoshanna: A Father's Journey Through Loss" - a miniature
book by Rabbi Rafael Grossman and published by Anna Olswanger Books
http://www.olswanger.com/shoshana.html
"Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835"
- authored by Edward D. Luft Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Neighbors", a book by Polish émigré Jan Tomasz Gross, has
helped blow the cover off decades of communist propaganda, and
forced Poles into sober reassessment of their sell-image as victims
-- and never collaborators -- in Nazi oppression. The
book, "Neighbors," was based, in part, on witness accounts
from Jewish survivors and non-Jewish townspeople. There were
1,600 Jedwabne Jews who were murdered and were burned to
death. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Not Just Stories: The Chassidic Spirit through its Classic Stories"
- authored by Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, M.D. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Odessa - A History 1794-1914", Harvard University
Press, 1986 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Odyssey" - by John Bierman published by Simon & Schuster
(1984) Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Only My Life" - authored by Louis de Wijze - a Dutch survivor -
published by St. Martin's Press Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Organizing Crime - Essays in Opposition" by Alan A.
Block. Format: Library Binding, 264pp. Publisher Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Jan. 1991. ISBN: 0792310330
"Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the NY Jewish Community,
1900-1940" by Jenna Weissman Joselit Publisher -
Books on Demand ISBN: 0783737149 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Out of This Furnace" by Thomas Bell (nee Belejchak) called
one of the best accounts of the immigrant experience. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Pinkas Ha KaHilot" - this is a series of books that describes
all of the towns in Europe that had Jewish populations prior to WW
II and are published in Hebrew, but there is a list in the front of
each one in English that lists the towns covered. You can find
these books in larger libraries.
"Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the West" - authored by Harriet
Rochlin, this is a book that follows the author's family who
received a land grant from the Spanish Conquistadors in the 1500s.
After centuries of secrecy, she wrote this book. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York
city Epidemics of 1892" - authored by Howard Markel Jewish Genealogy etc.
"TheRebbe's Daughter: Memoir
of a Hasidic Childhood" - authored by Malkah Shapiro and
translated by Nehemia Polen. Published by Jewish Publication
Society, 272 pages. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Record and Remember: Tracing Your Roots Through Oral History"
-authored by Ellen Robinson Epstein, Jane Lewit Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Rememberings: The World of a Russian Woman in the Nineteenth
Century" - authored by Pauline Wengerof and translated by Henny
Wenkart. Edited and with an after word by Bernard Dov
Cooperman. Published by University Press of Maryland.
The story of Pauline Wengerof who lived from 1833 to 1916 and is the
earliest published record of Eastern European life written by a
woman. She tells the story of her whole life, from
assimilation and 'enlightenment' she experienced during her
marriage, the abandonment of Jewish customs and the fact that three
of her gifted children, as well as one of her brothers, converted.
The book is available in both hardcover and paperback. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Rescued Images: Memories of a Child in Hiding" - authored by
Ruth Jacobsen and published in New York by Mikaya Press Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Research in Court Records" - The Source. A Guidebook of American
Genealogy" Revised edition Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston Area"
"Restoration of Zion As A Response During The Holocaust" (Em
Habanim Semeha) - authored by Yissakhar Shlomo Teichthal (Pesach
Schindler, ed.) published in Hoboken, New Jersey by KTAV in 2000.
"While hiding in Budapest as a refugee from Slovakia, Yssakhar
Teichthal, a Hasidic rabbi, wrote what is surely one of the classic
religious works and expressions of spiritual resistance" of the
Shoah." Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews" - authored by Howard
Jacobson Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Russia's First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov"
- authored by David E. Fishman and published by New York University
Press in 1995. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Scattered Seeds: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy" - authored by
Mona Freedman Morris Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan" -
published by Indiana Press
"Searching for Your Ancestors: The How and Why of Genealogy"
- authored by Gilbert H. Doane & James B. Bell Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Sefer Milchamot Elokim" - the 1914 biography and collection
of polemical writings of Rabbi Bernard Illowy (1814-1871). The
English portions may be on line at Jewish-American History web site
http://www.jewish-history.com/Illoway/
"Sefer Yizkor Myikhov Charshnitsa un Kshoynzsh"
"Shaking Your Family Tree: A Basic Guide to Tracing Your Family's
Genealogy" - authored by Ralph Crandall Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Shaking Your Family Tree Workbook: A Basic Guide to Tracing Your
Family's Genealogy" - authored by Maureen Elizabeth McHugh Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Shalom Y'all: Images of Jewish Life in the American South" -
photographs by Bill Aron and text by Vicki Reikes Fox.
Published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 164 pages of black and
white photos telling the story of the Jews living in
Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas.
www.algonquin.com
"Shores of Refuge: A Hundred Years of Jewish Emigration" -
authored by Ronald Sanders
"Shtetl Book" - authored by Diane K. Roskies and David G.
Roskies Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Shtetl Finder" - authored by Chester G. Cohen helps to
locate your ancestral shtetl. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Sistine Chapel" - a rabbi and a Vatican docent reveal the
Jewish content Michelangelo secreted in his Sistine frescoes.
Language English; ISBN-10:
1906217556;
ISBN-13:
978-1906217556
"Some Archival Sources for Ukrainian Jewish Genealogy" -
authored by Alexander Kronik.
"Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories" -
authored by David S. Zubatsky & Irwin M. Berent Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Sources in the United States and Canada" (The Encyclopedia
of Jewish Genealogy, Vol 1) - authored by Miriam Weiner
"Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and
Jewish Immigrants in the United States" - authored by Matthew
Frye Jacobson Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Stalin Against the Jews" - authored by Arkady Vaksberg and
Translated by Antonina W. Bouis
"Stalin's Secret Pogrom" - edited by Joshua Rubenstein and
Vladimir P. Naumov. 527 pages $35.00 The story begins in
March 1942 and ends with the deaths of the collapse of the Soviet
system and the opening of the secret files of a brutal judicial
system revealing a vast machinery of destruction, brutality and
inhumanity. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Suddenly Jews: Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover their Jewish Roots"
- authored by Barbara Kessel is a book of interviews of 25 people
who find they are suddenly Jewish.
"Tales off Mendele the Book Peddler" - authored by S. Y.
Abramovitsch Jewish Genealogy etc.
"TheComplete Idiot's Guide to Learning Yiddish" -
authored by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
"The Detroit Yiddish Theater 1920 - 1937"
- authored by James Albert Miller (a good source in searching for
Yiddish actors). Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Earth is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in
Eastern Europe" - authored by Abraham Joshua Heschel and
illustrated by Ilya Schor. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the
Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July
1941-January 1943" authored by Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski,
Shmuel Spector (Editor) Jewish Genealogy etc.
"TheFrontier Jews" - authored
by Rabbi I. Harold Sharfman, was written in 1977 and published by
Citadel Press.
ISBN 0-8065-0649-0 Jewish Genealogy etc.
Contains information about early Jewish communities in Texas,
Pennsylvania, the Great Lakes etc.
"The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak
Family" - authored by Chaim Potok
"The Genealogy Sourcebook" - authored by Sharon
DeBartolo Carmack.
"TheGolden Land: The Story of Jewish Immigration to America"
- authored by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin and published by Crown
Publishers/Harmony Books Jewish Genealogy etc.
"TheGolden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in
Eastern Europe" - by Lucy S. Dawidowicz (Editor) Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A
Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Crakow and
Budapest" - authored by Eli Valley, a guidebook that discusses
everything related to the history and current affairs of Jewish life
in these four cities by an American Jew who lived in Prague for
several years during the 1990s. The book is published by Jason
Aronson, Inc.
http://www.judaicalibrary.com
"The Handybook for Genealogists, United States of
America", Eighth edition published by the Everton Publishers,
Inc. in 1997 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Holocaust Chronicles" - I don't know if this
book is of value. If someone has read the book, I would appreciate
your advising me via e-mail
Jwebindex@gmail.com
"The Jewish Boxers Hall of Fame, 1988"
- authored by Ken Blady and published by Shapolsky Books. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The
Jewish Traveler" - Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's
Jewish Communities and Sights, edited by Alan M. Tigay
"The Jewish Victorian" - authored by
Doreen Berger. Contains genealogical information from
the Jewish newspapers from 1871 to 1880 - six hundred pages
with more than 20,000 entries. Births, marriages and deaths of
the Jewish community of England and with links to the
British Colonies.
ISBN 1 899536 38 8 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Jews of Khazaria" authored by
Kevin Alan Brooks, published by Jason Aronson, Inc., New Jersey:
1999, aims to capture the History of Khazaria, a Jewish state
near the Caspian sea that reigned between the 7th to 11th centuries,
starting as a small tribe and growing in size and in power. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The
Jews of Russia: their History in Maps and Photographs" -
authored by Martin Gilbert
"The Landmarks of New York II" -
authoredby Barbaralee Diamonstein.
Library Catalog Number: c1993 F128.7 D56 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The
Last Hope" - authored by Teresa Krol and Halina Weglarska
about their search to identify who they are though they know they
are Jewish sisters from
Poland:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/ryszar.htm
"The Light Beyond: Adventures in Hassidic Thought"
- authored by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
"TheLone Survivor" - authored by Michael Diament
- a diary of the Lokach, Ukraine ghetto published in New York and is
available at the Holocaust Library Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Meshuggenary:
Celebrating the World of Yiddish" - authored by Payson R.
Stevens and Charles M. Levine; Sol Steinmetz, ed. and published by
Simon & Schuster Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot" - authored by
Trudi Alex. The subtitle is "Marranos and Other
Secret Jews" Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Nazi Officers Wife" - authored by Edith Hahn Beer
with Susan Dworkin, is the story of how one Jewish woman survived
the Holocaust. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Path of the Baal Shem Tov: Early Chasidic
Teachings and Customs" - authored by Dovid Sears Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas" - authored by Gerard
Chaliand Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Promised Land" - authored by Mary Antin who
describes in vivid detail her childhood memories of her town and the
trip she took in the 1890s to come to America as a child emigrant.
"The Rabbi King: David of Khazaria" - here is a
web page for a historical novel by Monroe S. Kuttner about the last
Khagan (King) of a remnant of the Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria in the
twelfth century.
http://www.xlibris.com/THERABBIKING.html
"The Religious Thought of Hasidism: Text and
Commentary" - authored by Norman Lamm (Editor) Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy" - authored by Jane Leavy and
published by HarperCollins.
"TheSeven Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbes" -
authored by Chaim Dalfin
"The Shtetl Book"
- authored by Diane K. Roskies and David G. Roskies and published by
Ktav in 1975. It contains a lot of information pertaining to
genealogy in Eastern Europe
ISBN 0-87069 456-6 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"The Source" - authored by Loretto Dennis Szucs
with Sandra Hargreaves Luebking and published by Ancestry in 1997 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Studies in Polish Jewry - Volume 8: Jews in Independent Poland
1918-1939" authored by Antony Polonsky and published in
Washington, DC by The Littman library of Jewish Civilization in
1994. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"TheSynagogue" - edited by Uri Kaploun and published
in Philadelphia by The Jewish Publication Society of America in 1973 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"There Once Was A World" - authored by Professor D. Yaffa
Eliach at Brooklyn College about Jews of Lithuania. A 900
year chronicle of the Lithuanian shtetl of Eishyshok. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"They Became Americans" - authored by Loretto Dennis Szucs and
published by Ancestry in 1998 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's
Ship" - authored by John Philip Colletta Jewish Genealogy etc.
"This Jewish Life: Stories of Discovery, Connection and Joy
- The website of award-winning author Debra B. Darvick
offers book excerpts, reviews, booking information and more. The 52
true-life stories in "This Jewish Life" encompass an entire year of
holidays and life cycle events. Drawing from all paths and practices
of Jewish life, Ms. Darvick's book is a gentle primer on Jewish
ritual, a moving portrait of contemporary Judaism and, as reviewed
by Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, "
http://www.debradarvick.com/
"Titanic's Predecessor: The S/S Norge Disaster of 1904 -
authored by Norwegian writer Per Kristian Sabask and published by
Seaward Publishing. The story of the sinking of the S.S. Norge
off the Hebrides on June 28, 1904, killing 635 people - 10 years
before the titanic's fateful voyage. Though there were
survivors, the Norge disaster was the worst in the history of
Russian Jewish emigration. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"To Our Children's Children" - this book can help you better
understand how to interview relatives who have knowledge of your
family's history and contains a list of over 1,000 questions you
should consider asking. The book's Table of Contents
http://www.avotaynu.com/toourchildrens.htm
"Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi
Nahman of Bratslav" authored by Arthur Green Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Tracing Survivors and Documenting Victims" of the
Holocaust available through Avotaynu publication
http://www.avotaynu.com
"Tracing Your Ancestry: A Step-By-Step Guide to Researching Your
Family History" - authored by F. Wilbur Helmbold Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Tracing Your Roots: Locating Your Ancestors Through Landscape
and History" - authored by Meg Wheeler Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Traveler's Guide to Jewish Landmarks of Europe" - authored
by Bernard Postal and Samuel Abramson and published by Fleet Press
in 1971. Identifies, locates and describes thousands of major
and minor sites throughout Europe, including Jewish cemeteries and
small memorials to Holocaust victims. Each country's section
has an overview of its Jewish history up to 1971 and includes
photographs and an index. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia & Ukraine" - authored by Ben G.
Frank ISBN: 1565543556 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"A Treasury of Chassidic Tales on the Festivals: A Collection of
Inspirational Chassidic Stories relevant to the Festivals" -
authored by Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin ASIN: 0899069010 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto. Book Two:
From the Depths I Call You, 1940-1942 - authored by Chava
Rosenfarb published by The University of Wisconsin Press
www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3800.htm
"Tsava'at Harivash: Testament of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov" -
authored by J. Immanuel Schochet Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Two Hundred Years of Records" - authored by Michael Neill .
This article, while not discussing Jewish genealogy, offers many
helpful hints for preparing to use 'new' sources of genealogical
data. The article can be found in the January 24, 2004 issue
of Ancestry Daily News, Weekly Digest Version at Ancestry.Com
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/8071.asp
"TheUnbelievable Truth" - authored by Jeanne Ran
Tcharnyi. There are a limited number of copies of this book
which describes her growing up in Jonava, Lithuania and her
life in the Vilnius ghetto, working for Nazi headquarters in Minsk posing as a non-Jew, spying for the partisans, and ending
up in the Russian Gulag. The book was originally published in
Russian and Lithuanian and now in English. Buying a copy
benefits Jeanne personally as she lives on a very meager income.
If still available, it can be purchased from
www.Avotaynu.com
"TheUnbroken Chain" - authored by
Dr. Neil Rosenstein is an excellent resource and can be found in
many JGS and public libraries. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Unfinished People, Eastern European Jews Encounter America"
- authored by Ruth Gay and published by Norton in New York in 1996.
It tells the story of about 3 million Jews that came to America from
Eastern Europe between 1880 and WW I. The book is written in a
very vivid and touching way, with lots of anecdotes about the daily
life of the newcomers.
"Unofficial Guide™ to Online Genealogy" - authored by Pamela
Rice Hahn - This opinionated guide can help. Published by
Hungry Minds ISBN: 0-0286-3867-0 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Upon The Doorposts Of Thy House" - Jewish Life in East-Central
Europe, Yesterday and Today - authored by Ruth Ellen Gruber is a
book of essays and more than 50 photographs. Published by John
Wiley & Sons, New York in September, 1994. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater" -
authored by Nahma Sandrow
"Voices in Your Blood: Discovering Identity Through Family
History" - authored by G. G. Vandagriff Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Wanderings World Jewry" - authored by Chaim Potok, relates
to largest migrations from Spain to Poland after 1492 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Western Jewish History Center: Guide to Archival and Oral
History Collections" - a book by the Western Jewish History
Center Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed
in the Holocaust" - authored by Gary Mokotoff & Sallyanne
Sack - a 'must have' 736 page gazetteer divided into four sections
and contains more than 41,000 town names for 23,500 towns in Central
and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Where She Came From" - subtitled "A Daughter's Search for
Her Mother's History" - authored by Helen Epstein and published by
Little, Brown and Company in 1997 Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Without Fate" - an autobiographical account of the life and
experiences in the Holocaust authored by Imre Kertesz - who recently
won a Nobel prize for literature. He also has written another
book "Kaddish for a Child Not Born" in which he condemned a
world that permitted the Holocaust. Jewish Genealogy etc.
The Sholom Aleichem Network - information about Solomon
Rabinovitz who was born in Russia in 1859 and created many memorable
characters is at
http://www.sholom-aleichem.org/
"Who Wrote the Bible?" - this book, authored by Richard Elliott
Friedman and published in 1987 as a paperback, presents an
encapsulation of modern scholarship on the Bible. It reads
like a detective story as it unravels the history of the biblical
text Jewish Genealogy etc.
"World Guide For The Jewish Traveler" - authored by Warren
Freedman Jewish Genealogy etc.
"World of Our Fathers" The Journey of the East European Jews to
America and the Life They Found and Made" authored by Irving
Howe Jewish Genealogy etc.
"World War II Day by Day" - a 728 page documentary on the 2,175
days of WW II including hundreds of photos and maps and covering the
military and diplomatic developments, as well as doings in films,
art and literature. $50. Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Would God It Were Night: The Ordeal of a Jewish Boy from Cracow -
Through Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Gusen" - authored by Zvi
Barlev-Bleicher Jewish Genealogy etc.
Yad Vashem - JewishGen Mall Store carries over 40 Yad Vashem
titles - some in English - some in Hebrew - and even one in Spanish.
These include the 15 volumes of Pinkas Hakehillot (Books of
Remembrance) as well as four volumes currently available of the
projected 18 volume series "Comprehensive History of the
Holocaust" (Toldot Ha'Shoah) all in Hebrew. The
three-volume 'Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the
Holocaust' in English, 'Documents on the
Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of
Germany and Austria, Poland and the Soviet Union'. A
hardcover edition is available in Spanish.
http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgenmall
"Yiddishland" - authored by Gerard Silvain and Henri
Minczeles is a book of Mr. Silvain's collection of postcards
"that brings to life the immutable rhythm of the shtetl with its
busy streets and markets, professional marriages brokers, inerrant
water carriers, bright-eyed yeshiva students, porters, politicians
and celebrated intellectuals." Published by Gingko Press,
Inc. 5768 Paradise Dr. Ste. J, Corte Madera, CA 94925 E-mail
gingko@linex.com
"The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews
in Eastern Europe" - edited by Gershon David Hundert in 2 volumes and
published by Yale University Press. 2,448 pages relating to
today's Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, the
BAltic States and Finland, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
Offers 1,800 entries, over 1,000 illustrations and 55 maps.
"The Zaddik: The Doctrine of the Zaddik According to
the Writings of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef of Polnoy" - authored by
Samuel H. Dresner Jewish Genealogy etc.
"Zimmerman's Teffilin" - a tapestry of interwoven stories -
authored by Ronald Pies, MD.
"Zionism and
Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlements in Palestine,
1870 1918" authored by Derek J. Penslar
Book and Photo
Resources
If you are interested in publishing your own book, there are a
number of book publishers who are known as vanity publishing and
include Xlibris. They will publish as many or as few copies you
choose, and you only pay for the number of copies you actually
create. The book is stored in digital format, which allows you
to create and recreate as many books as you wish at any time.
www.xlibris.com
Advanced Book Exchange (ABE) is a wonderful source and has
a great web site. They claim to be the world's largest network
of independent booksellers
http://www.abebooks.com/cgi/abe.exe
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/IList
Amazon - the largest on-line bookstore offering the widest
selection of titles can be easily searched for books dealing with
researching one's Jewish roots, travel and a lot more by clicking
here > Jewish Genealogy etc.
Aronson Bookstore - In addition to Jewish Books, this web site
offers a Jewish Book Club, Games, Travel and a whole lot more of
some very interesting links including a Khazaria Information
Center
http://www.aronson.com/jbookstore/resources/links.shtml
Avotaynu - Jewish book publisher offers a catalog of their
many (73 at last count) holdings
http://www.avotaynu.com
Snail mail to PO Box 99, Bergenfield, NJ 07621 or 1 800 286 8296.
In Israel: Lexicom Ltd. PO Box 10053, 91 100 Jerusalem Phone
(02) 679 7730. Also available are postcards from the turn of
the century of some 100 towns. A list can be obtained at
http://www.avotaynu.com/postcards/
Bibliophileonline used & rare book service - fine press
volumes, rare editions, old books, new books, maps, autographs,
manuscripts - you'll find them all here
http://www.bibliophile.net/
CDs - How can comedy relate to genealogy? Many of us are
related, in some way to the comedians, actors, actresses, etc. of
yesterday and I have found a site that publishes some of the old
timer's routines and shows. Take a look at this site as I
found it very interesting
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?laughstore+KLDcaH+index.html
Dan Wyman Books A specialty publisher, offering a catalog of over 200 tiles in
Jewish Art and Design and related subjects
http://danwymanbooks.com/art1/art1.htm
Specializes in publishing genealogical and historical manuscripts,
particularly transcripts of original church records, tax lists,
court records, town vitalo records, town vital records, tombstones
inscriptions and early military records from the 17th, 18th and 19th
centuries. www.heritagebooks.com
The Holocaust Bookstore
On-line British based
bookshop selling wide range of books, videos, posters specifically
related to the Holocaust at
http://www.holocaustbookstore.net/
Jewish Book Guides
The National Yiddish Book Center publishes
monthly guides for Jewish books. The Amherst, Massachusetts's
museums free guides will feature a different literary work each
month and provide essays, study questions and interviews with the
author. Materials are available at
http://www.jewishreader.org
A publisher for nearly 40 years,
specializing in genealogical and historical research material of the
17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. www.pictonpress.com
In the U.S., Arcadia Publishing has published a large number of
books about towns both big and small throughout the U.S. Some
are:The Jewish Community of Savannah, JewishChicago: A Pictorial History, JewishDetroit, The Jewish
Community of North Minneapolis,Jewish Pioneers of
St. Paul 1849-1874, Lost Jewish Community of theWest Side Flats:
1882-1962,Jewish Life in Omaha and Lincoln, A
Photographic History, The Jewish Community around North Broad
Street (Philadelphia),Jewish Community of West
Philadelphia, The Jewish Community of South Philadelphia
and Strawberry Mansion Jewish Community.
www.arcadiapublishing.com
Rubin Mass Ltd. - is an exporter of all books and periodicals
published in Israel. They have published more than 1,500
books, and are distributors of books and periodicals for several
academic and governmental institutions. They also distribute
the publications of Yad Vashem - the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes'
Remembrance Authority and the maps and guides of Carta's - the
Israel Map and Publishing Company. E-mail
rmass@inter.net.il
http://www.id-knowledge.com/mas/index.htm
Skokie Illinois Brandeis Used Book Sale - this huge, annual
world's largest outdoor used-book sale fills three large tents and
benefit's the university's library. The North Shore
Chapter of the Brandeis University National Women's Committee
sponsors the sale.
TES - Software resellers offers a Video Series and DVD set
'Heritage - Civilization and the Jews' - a nine hour series of the
history of the world with emphasis on the role and impact of the
Jewish people. -
www.jewishsoftware.com
John T. Zubal, Inc. Scholarly, O.P & Antiquarian Books
Bought and sold: Zubal Auction Co. is a licensed auction house
specializing in the sale of books, periodicals, documents, etc. at
Public Auction. 2969 W. 25th St., Cleveland, OH 44113 Fax: 216 241
6966
Zora Books offers many types of books on East European
Countries including dictionaries, Art, Music, Cookery, Travel, and
much, much more. Worth viewing.
http://www.btinternet.com/~zorabooks/index.html
Films/Documentaries
and
Yiddish Theater
Between 1890 and
1940, as many as a dozen Yiddish theater companies performed on the
Lower East Side, the Bronx and Brooklyn. Another 200
plus traveled to other cities and towns in North and South
America from Montreal to Buenos Aires. Yiddish theater
provided Yiddish speaking immigrants with laughs and crying at the
losses and contradictions in their own lives. A more
comprehensive discussion about Yiddish Theater can be found in the
American Jewish Historical Society's Newsletter Fall/Winter 2003
edition.
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/ytheatre.htm
The Aryan Couple
Martin Landau stars as a
Hungarian Jewish steel magnate and art collector who signs over all his possessions
to Nazi Himmler in 1944 in exchange for his life and that of his
extended family. The movie is based on an actual case.
www.aryancouple.com
"Ghetto" Fish Market in 1903 video
The view was photographed from an elevated
camera position looking down on a very crowded New York City street market.
Rows of pushcarts and street vendors' vehicles can be seen http://www.open-video.org/
Iasi, Romania
Considered the birthplace of the
Yiddish
theater. A rustic Jewish tavern stood in the city center,
facing Iasi's state theater, and in the late nineteenth century, the
city's population was over a third Jewish. Today there are
only a few hundred Jews. The first Yiddish folk plays were Purimshpiels (Jesters).
The site is to promote Jewish
news, features, entertainment, and culture in a compelling video
format
http://www.jewishinternet.tv/
"TheLast Jews of Baghdad: End of an Exile, Beginning
of a Journey"
A documentary of the lives of Iraqi Jews who
endured imprisonment and torture before they escaped to Israel.
www.lastjewsofbaghdad.com
Movietone News Clips
A free web site of one minute movies of
famous people divided into categories, including entertainment,
personalities, lifestyles and travel, back to 1929
http://www.movietone-portraits.com/
Launched a project to put hundreds of Jewish movies
on-line. Besides offers films, the site offers other streaming
media, educational materials, social networking resources and a
forum for new Jewish stories and films created specifically for
emerging media platforms. The web site will include the Jewish
Heritage Video Collection, which consists of hundreds of videos and
educational resources that explore Jewish history and culture
through film.
http://www.documentary.org/content/san-francisco-jewish-film-festival-2009-call-entries-deadline-feb-20-2009
Thomashefsky,
Boris and Bessie
In 1891, 12 year old Boris Thomasefsky
arrived in New York City from this shtetl. He had a
beautiful voice and on Saturdays, young Boris earned money by
singing at the Henry Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side.
During the week he worked as a cigarette maker in a sweatshop where
he heard his fellow workers sings songs from the Yiddish theater
they had attended in the "old country". At age 13 he
became producer and director of a traveling company presenting a
wide repertoire of Yiddish plays. He and his wife Bessie
became the most famous Yiddish theater impresarios.
"A Stoop On Orchard
Street"
A musical relating to the life of immigrants on the
Lower East Side around 1910 and authored by Writer-Producer Jay
Kholos - shown at the Mazer Theater in New York
www.astooponorchardstreet.net
"Angelos' Film"
A historic account of Athens during WW II
which uses footage of amateur filmmaker and Greek Naval Officer,
Angelos Papanasstassiou presented at the Nuremberg Trials as
evidence of Nazi war atrocities. Information available at
www.walkerart.org
"Atlantic Drift"
The story of the 2,000 Jewish refugees who
were packed aboard the ship Atlantic and drifted for three months in
a desperate attempt to reach Palestine. They received a brutal
reception from the British Navy who locked them in shackles.
"Auschwitz-The Final Witness"
"Berga: Soldiers of Another War" - this film is the result of
50 years of investigation by filmmaker Charles Guggenheim into
finding out the truth about his Jewish fiend who disappeared while
fighting in Germany during WW II. More information available at
www.pbs.org/berga
"The Danube Exodus" is a film of captain Nandor
Andrsovits, set on the Queen Elisabeth, one of two vessels hired for
the 1939 exodus of 900 Jews from Budapest to Vienna.
Information available at
www.walkerart.org
"Gefilte Fish" - this film followed three generations of women
in the family as they prepared gefilte fish. The grandmother
made it from scratch and the granddaughter opened a jar. The
intent of the film is to encourage a wide range of discussion on
topics ranging from assimilation, dedicating time to family and
tradition, family connections, etc.
"The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in
America" - authored by Lawrence J. Epstein and published by
Public Affairs
"Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 WW II Refugees and How They Came
to America" - authored by Ruth Gruber is a moving true story of
the author. It is being shown on PBS.
"Into The Arms Of Strangers" - is a Warner Bros. documentary
dealing with stories of the Kindertransport and was directed by Mark
Harris and inspired by producer Deborah Oppenheimer's journey of
discovery about her late mother's past. A review is available
at
http://www.nitrateonline.com/2000/rkindertrans.html
See also "One Thousand Children, Inc." (OTC) that documents
the experiences of people who came to the U.S. as children between
1934 and 1945 to escape persecution and genocide and stayed with
foster families and in other facilities across America at
http://www.onethousandchildren.org/
"L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin!" - a documentary of the birth of
the Jewish Autonomous Region created by Joseph Stalin in an
unsettled stretch of land on Siberia's border in 1928.
"Mayn Lebn in Teater" ("My life in the Theatre") in Yiddish -
authored by Boez Yong, and published in New York in 1950 by the
Yidisher Kultur-Farband.
"They Came For Good: A History of the Jews in the United States"
- a film that traces the first 200 plus years of Jewish life in the
New World from 1654 -- when 23 Brazilian Jewish refugees landed in
Dutch New Amsterdam in what is present day New York -- to 1880, the
beginning of the massive Eastern European Jewish immigration.
The New Amsterdam Lord Mayor, Peter Stuyvesant initially refused
those pioneering Jews -- whom he called a "deceitful race" that
wanted "to infect" the colony -- permission to remain on the land
until his superiors in Holland overruled him.
Even then, Jews had to care for their own sick and needy and were
not a first allowed to own property. The documentary's producer and
director is Amram Nowak.
"Undying Love" - intimate interviews with Holocaust
survivors, archival footage, film excepts and current chronicles
that give a glimpse of life and loves in the midst of the Holocaust.
"A World History of Yiddish Theater" - authored by Nahma
Sandrow and reissued by Syracuse University Press
"The Yiddish Theater in Omaha, 1919-1969" - an
article in the YIVO Newsletter details how theatrical
companies with prominent personalities such as Ben Bonus, Samuel
Goldenberg, Pola Kadison, Bertha Kalish and Isa Kremer who performed
in this Nebraska city.
One of the best ways the Internet can be of assistance, is directing
you to the nearest library most likely to have the resources you
need. Here are some sites that provide directories of
libraries with genealogy related holdings.
Located in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The Library holds the largest public library collection of
genealogical materials in the world. Its Family Histories
collection includes more than 38,000 volumes of compiled genealogies
on American and European families, almost 5,000 genealogies on
microfiche, and numerous family newsletters plus Census records and
military records.
http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/
This is also the
National Library
of Finland - the only pre-revolutionary depository of the Russian
Empire that ended up in the West after 1945.
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/english/index.htm
Inter-Library Loans
A brief note on solving the
Inter-Library loans is reviewed in the archives of JewishGen
dated Nov. 12, 1999
www.Jewishgen.org/
Jewish Theological Seminary and Yeshiva University
are not
only open during the day, but into the evening, as well. Both
Libraries have an excellent Yizkor Book collection
http://www.yu.edu/aboutyu.htm
The ultimate
source of authentic and reliable information about the Library
resources of the world on the net. The links in this directory will
guide you to the official sites of the libraries that you are
looking for.
http://www.123world.com/libraries/index.html
Probably the largest and most
comprehensive library in history. The collections include
books, maps, music, movies, graphic arts and much more.
http://catalog.loc.gov/
The ProQuest® online information service
provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers,
many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986 and
is a service offered only to libraries
www.proquest.com
Public Libraries in the US
Through
AGLL as
well as The National Archives or The Family History Centerscan join AGLL for free. This membership will allow you
to rent a film, from your local public library, for $3.25 plus
shipping for one month and you can extend the rental by having your
librarian call AGLL (800 658 7755) and extend it for further month
to month at this same rate. You can also purchase the
film for $17.95 plus shipping.
A treasure trove of rare Hebraica
assembled over centuries by the Jewish community in Copenhagen
can now be found here. The collection includes more than 2,000
works printed in over 115 locations dating as far back as 1517.
Like the Jews of Denmark, the library was saved from Nazi
destruction. The story about his library is that it was hidden
in church crypts and returned, intact, to the Jewish community after
Denmark's liberation. It was later purchased by a private
party who in turn, sold it to the University. The rare books
collection includes Bible and Talmud texts and commentaries,
liturgy, rabbinical responsa, treatises on Halacha, scientific works
written in Hebrew, kabala and even poetry.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/
Over
45,000 books and 360,000
journal, magazine, and newspaper articles
www.questia.com
Music
An indispensable element for most cultures and especially true of
the Jewish culture where family, friends, food and fun mix with
music.
CDs
How can comedy relate to genealogy? Many of us are related, in
some way to the comedians, actors, actresses, etc. of yesterday and
I have found a site that publishes some of the old timer's routines
and shows. Take a look at this site as I found it very
interesting
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?laughstore+KLDcaH+index.html
If you are
interested in Yiddish / Israeli / Ladino / Cantorial / Jewish
Theatre and similar music and culture, there is a site with about
5,000 historical and modern recordings, including some old 78 rpm's.
It's a real treasure, sorted by artist, label, title, genre, etc.
http://www.jmwc.org/announcements/2008/06/judaica_sound_a_1.html
Klezmer is a Yiddish
word that combines two Hebrew words: kle, which means vessel or
instrument, and zemer, which means song. Early on, klezmer
denoted a professional eastern European Jewish dance musician.
Today it also considers any musician who identifies themselves with
that same tradition. Klezmer ensembles typically feature the
clarinet, whose breadth ranges from melancholy to flirtatious and
pure unadulterated joy; the violin that both mimics the clarinet and
adds its own interpretation of the emotion; and the accordion that
provides a steady rhythm yet distinct rendering of the melody.
Want to hear some Klezmer?
http://www.klezmershack.com/
What would 'being Jewish' be like without music ... and
without Klezmer music? One source of information about klezmorim is
Henry Sapoznik who has written two often cited books whose titles
are "Klezmer! From Old World to Ours".
"The Complete Klezmer".
A film documentarian, Yale Strom, is writing a book on Klezmorim and
he also plays in a Klezmer band. His e-mail address is
yitztyco@aol.com
NPR celebrates the
'golden age' of Yiddish radio in the 1930s to 1950s with the Yiddish
Radio Project.
Here you will find such gems as "The Greedy Mother," a radio drama
by Nahum Stutchkoff and 'Joe and Paul'.
http://yiddishradioproject.org/
Boca Raton's Florida
Atlantic University's Wimberly Library's Judaica Department has an
extensive project which involves the preservation of Yiddish music
collections, donated by both individuals and organizations. Nat
Tinanoff, a member of the JGS Palm Beach County, Inc., is heading
the volunteer project.
Newspapers
and
Magazines
Tip: to find the newspaper of most towns, do a 'search' using one
of the many search engine choices available at both the 'Genealogy'
page and my 'Searching' page. Some newspapers charge a dollar
or two to access full text of an article, sometimes though, they
will offer a discount for multiple searches. Some newspaper
Archives offer additional links to other research services. If
you can't find what you are looking for, or the newspaper doesn't
have the search capabilities, search and contact the local library
of the cit. Many libraries have links on their web sites to
on-line reference help.
Newspapers play an
important role in recording history and as a source for genealogy.
These are some on-line projects, on both the state and city levels:
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/
Archive Newspaper
Publisher
Paper of Record, a
commercial site that works with newspapers and media companies
to build and e-publish newspaper archives that are currently stored
on microfilm - over 8,094,873 pages are digitized
http://www.coldnorthwind.com/
Ben Gurion University, Center of German Studies,
Jerusalem
Yad Vashem
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Virtual Jerusalem, World Jewish Congress
East German Property Claims
Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington,
D.C.
Holocaust Studies Center
Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles
JDate.com
Established Jewish single site
JMatch.com
Avotaynu
Magazine
Avotaynu Magazine - published
quarterly for Jewish genealogists. 155 N. Washington Ave.,
Bergenfield, NJ. Paid subscription magazine. http://www.avotaynu.com
Their web site has made available for use in Jewish genealogical
research on the web, the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index-
information about more than 230,000 Jewish
surnames in more
than 28 different databases.
British Newspaper
Library Catalogue
Offers over 50,000 newspaper and periodical
title holdings in Colindale. The catalogue includes all UK
national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1810 to the present;
most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the
early 18th century upwards; selected newspapers from around the
world in western and Slavonic languages dating from the 17th century
upwards, including extensive holdings from Commonwealth countries
and many other nations, and a wide range of UK and Irish
popular periodicals coverall subjects from fashion, pop music, and
cinema, to sports, hobbies and trades.
for further information or for the site itself
www.bl.uk/collections/newspaper/newscal.html
The British Library - Newspaper Library
- Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HE, United Kingdom - Telephone: +44
(0) 20 7412 7353 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7412 7379 E-mail:
newspaper@bl.uk
The
Canadian Jewish times of 1909 to 1914
On-line although you have to pay a nominal fee for searching the
files located at
www.ancestry.com
Early American Newspapers
The Godfrey Library in CT. has added
Early American Newspapers to their Godfrey Scholar Online Portal.
These original 17th, 18th and 19th Century newspapers are ideal for
genealogists and are only owned by a small group of libraries. Now
they are available online. The First Series contains 141 newspapers,
and they are every word searchable. Find articles, obituaries,
marriage announcements and more.
http://www.Godfrey.org
At this site, you will also find a list of other Jewish news
sources. The Daily Forward a Yiddish newspaper was
founded in 1897 and had a circulation of over 250,000.
Past issues of this all Jewish newspaper can be viewed at The New
York Public Library on Fifth Ave. and 42nd Street in New York.
The YIVO Institute may also holds a collection of pre-war
issues.
www.nypl.org
Front Pages
(current) ofNewspapers Around The World)
Type in Jew and you will be amazed at what will
come up in your search. Now you can read such magazines as
Ancestry on your monitor - full and complete editions - at no cost! http://books.google.com/books?as_pt=MAGAZINES&rview=1
The first weekly Hebrew newspaper appearing
from 1856 to 1903. Jeff Marx
Rabjamarx@aol.com
has information on this subject. Jeff indicated that he
expects to have a full index to shtetl names which appear in the
donor lists of HaMagid for all issues between 1856 and 1900 soon(?).
Microfilms of HaMagid are found at the following repositories:
Brown University; Columbia University; Cornell University; Harvard
university; Hebrew College, Boston; Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati
and Los Angeles; Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem;
Jewish Theological Seminary, New Your; Library of Congress; New York
Public Library; Northwestern university, Chicago; Stanford
university; University of Ann Arbor; University of California,
Berkeley; Washington University, St Louis; Yale University
Hamelitz
A Jewish newspaper
published until 1904 in the Pale of Settlement. From the
perspective of a genealogical research, the donation lists printed
in the paper could be useful. It is available on microfilm at
several libraries throughout the world.
http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak/db_desc/hamelitz.htm
Jewish Orthodox weekly
newspaper published in separate editions in the US, UK and Israel
and covers topics of interest to the Jewish Community. Not
available on-line
http://www.hamodia.co.uk/
Hebrew Newspapers, Magazines and Journals
This web site
provides (only available in Hebrew) useful directory links to a
variety of resources
http://www.kria.co.il/
This is one place
where you'll find a link to all daily and weekly U. S. newspapers
known to have a web site. http://hometownnews.com/
Jewish News
(Northwest New
Jersey)
A local Jewish
paper in northwest New Jersey. Forerunner newspapers include
American Jewish Ledger 1946-1963; Jewish Chronicle 1921 to 1943;
Newark Jewish Times 1943 to 1945
A list of Jewish print publications devoted to reporting of Jewish
News, not only in the US, but other countries, as well. Many
have archives as well as birth, marriage and obituary information.
http://shamash.org/listarchives/jewishdigest/jprintne.html
The English Jewish
newspaper, The Jewish Telegraph, offers a totally-free Roots
Directory for people trying to locate lost family. To post a request
email to
mike1cohen@aol.com
or write to Jewish Telegraph, 11 Park Hill, Bury Old Road,
Prestwich, Manchester, England M25 0HH. Include a full postal
address.
Jewish Transcript
A Jewish newspaper in
Seattle
which has been published for most of the past century.
The largest news and information site on the
Internet. It offers Radio and Newspapers links from every
State, and from every Country in the World.
www.MediaMarvel.com
Newspaper Links
This link will point you in the
right direction to locating information from the current, or past,
edition of any US newspaper by state, city or by newspaper name.
Click on the county where the paper was published. Not all papers
are included in the collection, but you may also be able to find out
who may have the exact records you are looking for.
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/nysnpcy.htm
'Index to the New York Times Index'
which includes such things as death notices. Surely if a
library has the Index, they would probably have the Index to the
Index. It is a great resource for NYC people and those who
might have done something of national interest
Here is an
enormous directory of newspaper web sites from around the world --
more than 5,300 in all. The site includes search tools that
let you find newspapers by country, U.S. state, language and other
criteria
http://www.thepaperboy.com.au/
Paper of Record
A commercial site that works with
newspapers and media companies to build and e-publish newspaper
archives that are currently stored on microfilm - over 8,094,873
pages are digitized
http://www.paperofrecord.com/
The ultimate source of authentic and reliable
information about the publications of the world on the net. The
links in this directory will guide you to the official sites of the
publications you are looking for.
http://www.123world.com/publications/index.html
An
inexpensive program that I have been using for many years.
Reunion Planner
A
program
for planning and coordinating high school, college, family reunions
- you can download working demos for free
http://minutiaesoftware.com/
Telephone
Books
The
Library of Congress has a great collection of
telephone books, including telephone books and reverse
directories for nearly every place in the US, both current and back
several decades.
They also have Israeli telephone books, both new and old in
both Englishand Hebrew.There is no access via
the Internet at this time, but you may find some of the phone books
in larger city Public Libraries.
On-line Telephone Books - the following sites make it possible
to find telephone numbers from around the world.
History Magazine - you can obtain a trial copy of the April/May,
2000 issue with articles "The 1918 Influenza Pandemic that Killed
More People than WW I".
http://www.history-magazine.com
Jewish Web/Net Week serves as a central link to 613 other Jewish
sites - the same as the number of mitzvoth, or commandments,
required of observant Jews. The links are quite diverse and
range from Chasidim to the Reform movement; from sites for Orthodox
yeshivas in Israel to one for Washington, D.C.'s gay and lesbian
synagogue; from a site by and for African-American Jews to one
providing shopping for gifts from Israel.
www.jww.org
Jewish World Review - This
site may not offer a great deal of genealogy information today, but
it is of possible interest, so it is being included in my review of
Jewish sites
http://jewishworldreview.com/
Yad Vashem
Holds the largest collection of Yizkor booksworldwide. A
list of missing and "stolen" Yizkor books
http://www.navitek.com/igs
Yad Vashem will copy most Yizkor Books in their possession for a
fee. www.yadvashem.org.il
Yizkor Books
Yizkor books are memorial books that were written after the
Shoah by survivors, in remembrance of what was once their own Jewish
shtetls. Each offers an insight into the former typical Jewish
life and usually includes the local celebrities, the community
achievements and the names of the various Jewish institutions. Many
of the Yizkor books are available in Yiddish or Hebrew only and in
quite limited numbers and many of these books are getting old and
worn and not very well preserved.
Many times, these books detail the deeds of the martyrs and heroes
who fought against the Nazis. In many cases, the Yizkor
books are often the sole remaining testimony of the presence of
Jews in the shtetls of Europe. You will also find reference to Yizkor Bookswithin the country web site i.e.Ukraine,
Lithuania, Poland, etc. Yad Vashem will copy most
Yizkor Books in their possession for a fee.
Dena Abrams wrote: "Yizkor books were written after the Holocaust as
memorials to Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust.
They were usually put together by survivors from those communities
and contain descriptions and histories of the shtetl, biographies of
prominent people, lists of people who perished, etc. They are
often embellished with photos, maps, and other memorabilia.
Yizkor books are valuable to genealogists, since the books may
include biographies or photographs of relatives, or may include
family members in a list of people who perished. Yizkor books
also give important background information about the history and
Jewish life in a particular shtetl. The Yizkor Project Home page is
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/index.html
"Yizkor Books Online" section in the New York Public Library
Website, DOROT Jewish Division. They seem to have almost
completed the job, reporting that 650 out of 700 books are available
for viewing - then click on "Yizkor Books Online".
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/yizkorbooks_intro.cfm
There's another way to view the Yizkor books that are on the
New
York Public Library website. Steve Morse has a one-step
webpage that let's you go directly to any page in the book.
From the NYPL site you need to step through by 1, 10, or 50 pages at
a time, but you can't go directly to a specific page. Steve's
viewer is in the Holocaust Section of his one-step website
http://stevemorse.org
All of the Yizkor Book
Project's Resources can be found on a searchable database
on the JewishGen web site
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/
Where known, I have indicated that a Yizkor Book exists within the
lines of information about the town or shtetl.
Yizkor Books - The DOROT Jewish Division of the New York Public
Library has begun posting digital copies of Yizkor books on their
web site. They have promised to make all Yizkor books
available in this format, in conjunction with
reprints-on-demand becoming available from the National
Yiddish Book Center. This is a great development for researchers and
makes these books, previously available only at select research
libraries, available whenever you want to review them. The quality
appears to be good and a web browser plug-in is made available for
enlarging pages with pictures or drawings.
Note: you will also find whether there is a specific Yizkor
Book for a shtetl at the web page that offers information about the
shtetl i.e. Talnoye, Ukraine would be found on the
Ukraine City and Town page.
This database contains 1313 contact entries include identification
of the 77 chapters from 62 Yizkor books that are translated in the
2nd edition of "From a Ruined Garden" authored by
Zachary Baker, former YIVO head.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html
Translations are available for several towns in each of these
countries: Austria, Belarus, Bukovina (Region),
Romania/Ukraine, Poland, Ukraine, Germany (Country),
Rheinpfalz (Region) Germany, Moldova, Lithuania
(Country), Hungary, Galicia Region, Latvia. Yizkor Books
are listed, where known, in each Country's Web Page
on my web site.
JewishGen Yizkor Book Site
Open the site and
go to the database section, insert the name of the shtetl you
are interested in and you will get a bibliographical details about
the book, if it is currently available.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/
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