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Carpentras Synagogue
A valuable site to help find a person, maps, etc. is Global Gazetteer is a great web site. It is a directory of 2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town. A tab separated list is available for each country World-Wide Gazetteer Art Source International offers a selection of antique maps, prints and globes at Art Source International Greece Jewish life in Greece dates back 2400 years. The first Greek Jew whose name is known was "Moschos, son of Moschion the Jew," a slave identified in an inscription dated to approximately 300 BCE-250 BCE. This information was found in an inscription unearthed in Oropos, a small coastal town between Athens and Bocotia. Jews later became traders, craftspeople, farmers and silk growers. When the Romans gave the Jewish community autonomy, the Jews became known as Romaniotes, some of whose descendants still live in Greece today. Jews did well until the 1821 Greek War of Independence. Many were massacred along with the Turks and the remaining Sephardic community emigrated, or moved south to Athens. Out of 77,377 Jews living in Greece, before WW II, only 10,000 survived (87% of the Jewish Community) the Holocaust. In 2006, Greece has about 5,000 Jews of which 3,000 call Athens their home Remains of an ancient Greek Synagogue
"Italian Genealogical Records: How to Use Italian Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Other Records in Family History Research, authored by Trafford R. Cole "Italians to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899: Passengers Arriving at New York January 1880 - December 1884" - authored by P. William Filby, Ira Glazier Volume 1 Volume 2 January 1885 - June 1887 Volume 3 1887 - July 1887 - June 1889 Volume 4 July 1889 - October 1890 "Jewish Sites and Synagogues of Greece" - authored by Nicholas Stavroulakis and Timothy DeVinney and published by Talos Press. Excellent introduction to Jewish travelers. "Legacy of Courage" - authored by Dr. Frederic Kakis. Most Holocaust survival stories are based on characters who, by the grace of God, survived the horrors of the Death Camps and were able to describe the brutality and torture they had have endured as well as the fate of million of other innocent victims that died in the gas chambers. "War-Time Jews: The Case of Athens" - (Eliamep) - a brief monograph on why and how Greeks rescued Jews in Athens in WW II. General Greece Greece is the home of the longest continuous Jewish presence in the European Diaspora, going back 2,300 years. The Jews who first settled in Greece, called themselves Romaniotes and preserved their distinctive synagogue rites, liturgy and dress long after Sephardic Jews -- expelled from Spain and Portugal -- became the majority. "The Romaniotes have lived in Greece since the time of the Second Temple, and developed their own rites, rituals, customs and patois. Eventually, they The Romaniote Jews were the majority of Greek Jewry until the 15th century when there was an influx o Jews from Spain. The Romaniote Jews trace their descent to the Jews who were taken to Rome as slaves after the destruction of the Second Temple. Note that these Jews were not of Sephardic origin. Before WWII, there were 100 synagogues in the country, now there are 14 including two in Athens. A total of 78,000 Jews lived in Greece, of which 50,000 lived in Salonika prior to the Holocaust. Eighty seven percent of the Jewish population were murdered (about 65,000) during the Holocaust. The Greek Jewish community has two historic threads. The first is the Romaniote branch that predates the Ashkenazic and Sephardic branches. It dates back to Roman times having arrived from Alexandria as early as 2,300 years ago. The Hellenized Jews who spoke Greek acclimated easily. Ioannina, in northeast Greece, was their center. Jewish communities later spread to Corfus, Thebes and Athens. The second part of Greek Jewish history are Sephardim who came after the Spanish expulsion and the Inquisition. Over 20,000 Iberian Jews arrive in Thessaloniki in 1492. More than 36,000 Jews left later from their first stop in Sicily to settle in the Balkans. Jewish communities existed in Thessaly, Beoetia, Macedonia, Aetolia, Attica, Argos, Corinth, and throughout much of the Peloponnese, and on the islands of Euboea and Crete. There were synagogues in Philippi, Thessalonica, Veroia, Athens and Corinth. Benjamin (Ben Jonah) of Tudela, a Jewish traveler of the second half of the twelfth century, visited Jewish communities in Corfu, Arta, Patras, Corinth, Thebes, Egripo (Halkida) Salonika and Drama. More than 65,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. There is a synagogue in New York, the Kehila Kedosha Janina, which is located on Manhattan's Lower East Side (280 Broome Street off of Allen St. New York 10002) ( Fax:1 212 673 4441), which is the only synagogue in the Western hemisphere, built by the Jews in 1927, and still operating today In 2007, it is estimated that there are about 2,00 Jews living in Athens, 750 in Salonika and 300 in Larisa. At this site, there is a great deal of information, in a Newsletter format including info on: Congregation Kehila Kedosha Janina 'The Janina Cemetery' located in Ioannina; The Museum (Open 11 a.m. to 4 p. m. on Sundays or by appointment) including a list of over 200 names of the rescuers of Greek Jews in Yad Vashem's archives; Romaniote Piyuttim (poems); Corfu Holocaust Memorial; and more. There is an article printed in the January/February 2001 issue of The Jewish Monthly, published by B'nai Brith, that offers a great deal of information about these Jews. Archives - Archivio Centale dello Stato (Central Archives of the State) site is in Italian The Association of Friends of Greek Jewry (AFGJ) is an organization established to help preserve what is left of the Jewish presence in Greece. Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos is the AFGJ president. E-mail AFGJ@msn.com Athens - the Jews of Greece's largest city were integrated into the Greek community and because of this fact, it helped save many of the Jews from the Nazis. Today, it is the largest Jewish community and dates from the first century C.E. After the sixth century, Jewish life left, and in 1705, the city had 20 Jewish families, the descendants of exiles from Spain. In 1834, after the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire (1821-1829) it attracted some families from Germany. In 1917, after the Balkan Wars and especially after the great Thessalonica fire, more Jews came to Athens. Several attempts were made by the Germans to deport the Jews, but were thwarted by the Greek community by hiding Jews in their homes. Unfortunately, 1,500 Athenian Jews were deported. After the war, there were about 5,000 Jews in Athens; of these, 1,500 later emigrated to Israel. Beth Shalom Synagogue - is Athens 'old' synagogue and is at 5 Melidoni. Telephone 325 2773. Rabbi is Jacob Arar, chief rabbi of Athens since 1968. A site in the ancient Greek agora (marketplace) is said to be a synagogue from the third century, destroyed in the sixth century. Nearby are Athens' two surviving synagogues facing each other on Melidoni Street in Thission, a neighborhood once populated by Jews. The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece - located at 36 Voulis, Athens 10557. Telephone 324 4315 e-mail hhkis@hellasnet.gr Etz Hayim Synagogue - built in 1904, is at 8 Melidoni. It is also known as the 'Ioanniotiki Synagogue (i.e. Jews from Ioannina). To visit, contact the Athens Jewish Community on the ground floor (325-2773) Jewish Cemetery - located on Agios Giorgiou and is part of the city's Third Cemetery in the Nikea quarter has a memorial to the Jewish soldiers who died in the Greco-Italian War, 1940-41 and another to the Jewish communities of Greece destroyed by the Nazis in WW II. It has been in continuous use since the 1940s. The Jewish Club - headed by Rachel Raphael-Sasson, holds lectures, Hebrew classes and community gatherings and is located at 9 Vissarionos, corner Sina; Telephone 360 8896. Rachel can be reached at 211 3371; Cell Phone: 094 452 1848; e-mail rasraf@hellasnet.gr Jewish Museum of Greece - founded in 1977, the museum has artifacts from more than two millennia, reflecting the life, customs, rites and traditions of Greek Jews. Located at 39 Nikis, Athens. Telephone 30-210-322 5582; fax 323 1577; Interesting and colorful site Nea Genia (New Generation) reports Jewish news countrywide Central Board of Jewish Communities - known by its Greek abbreviation KIS. Chalkis - there is a Jewish presence today. Chios - an island in the Aegean Sea that at one time had a Jewish Community. Also review my Rhodes information. Search this site for information Constantine - a contested consistorial election in 1880 (with the list of the 53 Jews who contested the election) is available in the June 2006 issue of Etsi Euboca (Evia) a one hour bus ride northeast of Athens and is an island where the Jews of Chalkis (today Chalkida) claim theirs is the oldest Jewish community in Europe, dating back to the Second Temple period. There are about 150 members and they have a white stucco synagogue and community headquarters at 35 Kotsou as well as a cemetery on Mesapion Street. Some graves are as old as 1539. Jossif Ovadia can arrange a visit to the synagogue and cemetery. Telephone 0221 74567 or 24990 ETSI - Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Society - The purpose of "ETSI" is to help people interested in Jewish Genealogical and Historical Research in the Sephardi World. "ETSI's" field of study covers the Ottoman Empire (Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Egypt); North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia); Spain, Portugal, Italy and Gibraltar. The study of every Sephardi community or family who lived in other regions is equally within the society's aim E-mail laurphil@wanadoo.fr Europages - business 2 business company directory and business in Europe, yellow pages access, international and European business directory (professional services, addresses and business classifieds Florina - "List of Jews Deported From Florina by the Nazis"; "Florina, Remembrance of a Forgotten Community"; "Florina - Nostalgia de Una Communidad Olvidada" - Greek Jewish Hero of War Memorialized - Greek Jewish History "Illusions of Safety" - authored by Michael Matsas tells us of the duplicity of the American government, but it also includes stories of Greek Jews and how they fared during WW II and the Holocaust. The book is available through the Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue Museum Ioannina - there is a Jewish presence today. There were some 2,000 Jews who remained in this city, many had been killed by Hitler though some were able to emigrate to New York - today there are about 40 Romaniote Jews still living here. Jews of Greece - History and Demography Kol ha Kehila: the Newsletter of the Jewish Monuments in Greece http://www.he.net/~archaeol/online/features/greece/index.html Larissa - there is a Jewish presence Museums of Athens (The Small) - Patras - once had a Romaniote synagogue. The carved wooden interior is now located in the Jewish Museum of Athens. "Preserving Jewish Heritage in Greece" - an interesting site featuring an article detailing, from an archaeological view, remnants of Jewish life in ancient and recent times in Greece Romaniote Jews - pronounced roe-MAH-ni-ote, currently number somewhere around 8 to 10,000 people worldwide. This is a virtually unknown minority barely known by most Jews. A book, "The Jews of Ioannina", published by Cadmus Press in 1990 and authored by Rae Dalven, herself a Romaniote Jew, maintains that the first Jews settled near what was eventually called Ioannina (Janina), Greece, in 70 C.E. after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. The Romaniotes are the original Jewish population of the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans and have lived in the area since antiquity. The story told is that the Roman emperor, Titus, after capturing Jerusalem, was transporting Jews to Rome, to serve as slaves, when his ship was driven onto the Albanian coast. Titus, instead of killing the Jews, allowed them to fend for themselves. Before WW II, the Jewish community in Janina numbered around 1,850; after there were 163 and today 51 Jews still live in the town. They speak their own Judeo-Greek language and have their own customs and foods. They call themselves "Yinotes" - people from Janin. Salonika (now called Thessalonica) - When the Jews of Spain were expelled centuries ago, by Ferdinand and Isabella, a goodly number of them found refuge in Greece. The city of Salonika became one of the most prosperous Jewish centers. Territorial shifts in the Balkans throughout the early twentieth century brought changes in the composition and character of the Jewish communities of Greece. Salonika, a Jewish city throughout Ottoman times, became part of Greece in 1913 after the Balkans Wars weakened the Ottoman Empire strategically and territorially. During the 16th century, the city was known as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans". There was a huge fire in 1917 which devastated Salonika's Jewish community to some extent. At one time there were more Jews than Greeks or Turks and the port was closed on the Jewish Sabbath and Ladino was the only language heard on the street as the majority of the Jews of Salonika were Sephardic.. In 1900 there were approximately 80,000 Jews out of a total population of 173,000. There were 31 Jewish communities in Greece, during the 1930s. The largest, in Salonika, had more than 50,000 people and no fewer than 60 synagogues and midrashim (oratories) to serve a diverse population with roots all across the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe. On April 9, 1941,the Nazi army occupied the city and in early 1943, the Germans annihilated 87 percent of the country's Jews and destroyed most of the synagogues. Ninety five percent of the Salonika Jewish population were deported. One thousand of Greece's 5,000 Jews live here today. The synagogue has a regular Minyan. Before WWII, there were more than 20 Zionist organizations in the city. Andrea Sefiha is the President of Salonika's Jewish Community as of 4/2000 A photograph of the interior of the Italia Synagogue of Salonika and the exterior of the Monastirlis synagogue are available at In July, 1942, the Jewish Community was forced to pay several million to the Nazis to ransom Jewish men who were forced into working for the Germans, with the understanding that they would be freed later and the community would be left alone. Predictably, 46,091 Jews from Salonika were later deported to the death camps. A bust of a Greek-Jewish officer killed in action on the Albanian front during WWII is displayed at the Jewish Heroes Square in Salonika. He was Army Colonel Mordechai Frizis, who in December 1940 became one of the first Greek Army officers to die during the Greco-Italian War. He was one of nearly 13,000 Jews who served in the Greek armed forces in WW II. Frizis' remains were buried in the Salonika Jewish Cemetery with full military honors. "The Holocaust in Salonika - Eyewitness Accounts" - the first official witness of the final solution to the Salonikan Jews. Yomtov Yacoel was the lawyer for the community and liaison with the Nazi civilian representatives. Dr. Matarasso was the post-war physician for the survivors in Salonika. His report includes the earliest eyewitness stores of the fate of the Jews in Auschwitz. Dr. Isaac Benmayor translated the text from the original Greek and Judeo-Spanish and St4een B. Bowman did the editing. There is a description of the Jews of Salonika in 1734 (after a missionary narrative) in the June 2006 issue of ETSI Sephardic Sites - Smyrna - the graduates of the Alliance school of boys of Smyrna from 1873 to 1879 (with the full list of the 240 pupils who attended the school during this period) published in the June 2006 issue of Etsi, the Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Review Synagogues - can be found today in Rhodes, Corfu, Crete, Ioannina, Trikala, Volos, Chalkis, Larissa, Thessaloniki, Chalkida and Athens. Thessalonica (see Salonika) - "icaroon Salonie: Gedulata ve-Hurbana Shel Yerushalim de-Balkan; Grandeza i Destruyicion de Yerushalim del Balken" (In Memoriam of Salonike) - A Holocaust memorial was established in this city. Nearly 90 percent of Greece's 80,000 strong pre-war Jewish community perished in Nazi death camps. Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) - http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm When the port of Haifa was built under the British Mandate in the early 1930s, Abba Khoushi wanted Jewish laborers to do the work. The future mayor persuaded some 500 Jewish dockworkers from Thessalonica to come. Thus they were spared the fate of their compatriots, most of whom died in Nazi concentration camps. Trikala - there is a Jewish presence today. Volos - there is a Jewish presence today. Translating Translating Services - Click Here  LingvoSoft Dictionary software English <-> Yiddish for Windows - 400,000 wordsWith this LingvoSoft smart dictionary software on your computer, you can easily switch between English and Yiddish, (as well as Italian or Greek to English) for prompt translations of 400,000 words both ways! Download Free Trial now Translating - there are many translating services, some for free, available to help with your translating needs in most languages including Italian and Greek. One of these sites is Just in case you didn't think of it, contact a nearby university or college's foreign language department. They may offer to write letters and translate letters into English. A nominal fee is usually charged. Translation Service - a commercial site offering many language translating programs Italy Ponte Vecchio Bridge - Jews own (ed) many of the shops located on this bridge Originating in the time of the Roman Empire, the Italian Jewish community is the oldest in Europe. Jews were known to live in Italy from the days of the Maccabees, but the best years for Jews was during the time of Lorenzo de Medici (1437 to 1494). Jewish intellectual life blossomed in the rich achievements of the Italian culture. During this period, Jewish literature, poetry and learning flourished, even though the Medici duke, named Cosimo I, banished the Jews to ghettos. The community was enriched in the late 15th and 16th centuries by Sephardic refugees from Spain and Portugal and also over the centuries by Ashkenazi newcomers from Central Europe. The ghetto was a lively, dynamic melting pot of distinctly different European and Mediterranean cultures, including Jews from other areas of Italy including Sicily and Calabria, Spain, Portugal, Germany and the Ottoman Empire. In the district, one would hear many distinct languages spoken, including German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Hebrew, Yiddish and Giudeo-Veneziano, the Jewish-Venetian dialect that survived into the 21st century. Amos Luzzatto is the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, located in Rome. Dr. Riccardo Di Segni, a practicing physician and rabbi, is the new chief rabbi of Rome replacing Elio Toaff, who retired at age 86 after 50 years in Italy's most prominent Jewish religious post.. Leone Paserman is the president of the 15,000 member community. Jews lived in many small towns during the past two millennia, and often left their traces in hundreds of towns, cities and villages up and down the peninsula including remnants of synagogues and cemeteries. Some 8,000 Italian Jews were deported to their deaths in the Holocaust. Today, the small Italian Jewish community consists of about 38,000 souls. The total population of Italy is 60 million. Annie Sacerdoti, a Jewish writer based in Milan, wrote a Jewish guidebook to Italy in 1986 and, throughout the 1990s, edited a series of separate guide books dedicated to Jewish heritage in individual Italian regions. She is the editor of Milan's monthly Jewish magazine, Il Bullettino. More than 7,600 Italian Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, but many were saved by the Italians that harbored the Italian Jews. Today, Italy's Jewish community numbers about 30,000 with the majority living in Rome and Milan. St Marks Square 1900
"Finding Italian Roots: The Complete Guide for Americans" authored by John Philip Colletta and published by Genealogical Publishing Co., in 1993 in Baltimore "For Them, Life in America Began in 1944, Behind a Fence". It is about a group of about 1,000 Jews brought to the US from Italy in 1944 and kept in an internment camp in upstate New York for seven months after the war was over until President Truman allowed them to apply for citizenship. The article mentions the emotions of the US official charged with choosing who would be allowed to travel on the ship. I believe a free registration is required to view articles on the NY Times web site New York Times "Guide to Jewish Italy" - authored by Annie Sacerdoti and published in 1989. a systematic survey of Jewish settlements in Italy, broken down first by region, then by city. Describes the synagogues, museums, cemeteries and other cultural or historical sites for each location listed. Includes numerous photographs, a bibliography, a glossary and an index. "The Jews in Italy", Vienna 1936, published by Volksschriften Sozius. It lists the following: "La Comunita Ebraica di Pitigliano dal XVI al XX Secolor" - authored by R. G. Salvadori, Giuntina, Firenze in 1991. There is an index of about nine pages and a short family trees of some families from Pitigliano, Italy for the period 1880-1960 "Mangiare alla Giudia" (Eating the Jewish Way) - authored by Ariel Toaff, a professor at Bar-Ilan University, who is the son of Rome's chief rabbi. It is not a cookbook and does not include recipes. Rather, it details the history and development of Italian Jewish cuisine from the Renaissance to modern times. General Italian Jewish Ancona - Adriatic port city and there was a Jewish presence in the 18th century. An account dating from 1683 indicated that the "rich" matzo baked in this Adriatic port was so renowned for its quality that wealthy Jews in Venice spared no expense to import it for their Seder tables. Archives - Archivio segreto vaticano - in Rome Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) - http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm State Archives - in Rome Arezzo - there was once a Jewish presence Bnei Anussim (Children of forced converts) - this Hebrew term is used rather than crypto-Jews or conversos, in Italy. Bologna - located due east of Genova in the region of Emilia Romagna and due south of Venice. There was once a Jewish presence in the city. It was also the site of the first university in Europe to offer a Jewish studies program which was founded years ago and continues to function. According to one of my favorite sites, Travelzine, the synagogue is on Via dei Gombruti 9. Capua - located in southern Italy where a Jewish community existed for many centuries since Roman times until the Jews were expelled from all of southern Italian peninsula in the first half of the 1500s. In the 1490s and first decade of the 1500s, the cities in southern Italy (Kingdom of Naples) received considerable numbers of Sephardi refugees from the expulsions of the 1490s from the Spanish kingdoms of Aragon, Castille and probably Navarre, and to some extent from Portugal (though most of the Jews were not initially permitted to leave Portugal and were instead subjected to a mass forced conversion in Lisbon). From a posting by Leon Taranto LBTEPT@aol.com on Jul 28, 2000 Carpi - a small town located near the city of Modena in northern Italy. The Jewish community can be traced back to the 14th century; a contract for the first synagogue dates to 1488. The current synagogue was inaugurated in 1861. Nearby is the former concentration camp at Fossoli. Created by the Mussolini government for use as a prisoner of war camp, it was used to detain political opponents and later, when the Nazis took control, Italy's Jews were brought here before being deported. During the seven months of 1944 that the German SS controlled the camp, eight trains left the station at Carpi, five of which went directly to Auschwitz-Birkenau. About half of the approximately 5,000 deportees at Fossoli were Jews. Further information may be available by e-mail to levchadash@libero.it Centro Bibliografico - Italian Jewry, Lungotevere Sanzio 5, 00153, Rome http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/sefardim.htm http://www.jewishgen.org/sephardicsig/ Centro di Documentation Ebraica - Italian Jewry - Via Eupil 8, 20145, Milan, Italy. Corinaldo - there was a Jewish presence at one time ETSI - Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Society - The purpose of "ETSI" is to help people interested in Jewish Genealogical and Historical Research in the Sephardi World. "ETSI's" field of study covers the Ottoman Empire (Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Egypt); North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia); Spain, Portugal, Italy and Gibraltar. The study of every Sephardi community or family who lived in other regions is equally within the society's aim. E-mail laurphil@wanadoo.fr Family Names Jewish Italian - (Site is in English)
There are two kosher butchers and one kosher restaurant (Il Cuscussu at Via Farini 2/A). The center of the Jewish community is located at Via Luigi Carlo Farni 4. This is where the Florence Synagogue, one of the most beautiful in Europe, is located. There is a Jewish day school and offices of the Jewish community, along with a mikva'ot'oth and the headquarters of B'nai Brith and other Jewish organizations. The synagogue has successfully withstood wars, barbarism and floods. The Germans tried to blow up the structure during WW II, but the main building withstood their efforts. Bayonet marks are still visible on the doors of the Holy Ark which the Nazis used as a garage to repair their tanks. On the second floor is the Jewish Museum of Florence which was opened in 1987. It offers a collection of Kiddush cups, prayer shawls, silver ornaments and embroidered vestments along with a pictorial display which is occasionally changed. Outside of the synagogue, there is a stone monument. with the names of 248 Jewish deportees engraved on the face. Just across the Ponte Vecchio, in the maze of old lanes that face the Pitti Palace, is the via Ramagliau (once called Via dei Giudei or "Street of the Jews") which remains unchanged from the Renaissance. The streets are about 10 feet wide and are framed in by gray and yellow, three story houses with brown shutters. The famous Duomo, was started in 1296, and what most people don't see, are the wooden side doors on the south side of the cathedral, where one can see one Tablet of the Law with the first five commandments written in Hebrew. Another set of carved doors were started in 1425 and finished in 1452. They are the 10 carved panels on the doors of the Baptistery, which represent 10 scenes from the Bible as carved by Lorenzo Ghiberti. Heraldry - Jewish "History of the Jews in Italy" authored by Cecil Roth. In his book, he states that "While Jews may have settled in Rome in the third century BCE, it was the Maccabees' successful revolt against the Syrian king Antiochus in the second century BCE that put the community on the map. The festival of Hanukah was established on the 25th of Kislev, 165 BCE, when Judah Maccabee, his brothers and his volunteer army held a ceremony to rededicate the Temple after their victory." "Only four years later, in 161 BCE, Judah sent a diplomatic mission to Rome in an attempt to forge an alliance against the Syrians and preserve the Jews' precarious independence. "it was natural to solicit the sympathy and support of the great new power in the west." Check with my link to Amazon.com for this and other books on the subject by clicking here > Jewish Genealogy Italiangen - there are records available in Italy and John P. Colleta, author of 'Finding Italian Roots', mentioned this site Italian Jews - Marc Margarit has developed a web site that offers 7,800 bibliographic notes representing 20 years of personal effort. From what I can determine, the links include an Archive Guide; Family Names, Emigration, Family History, Local Authority Archives, Franco-Italian Connections, Public Notaries, Local History, Jews, Private Archives, Archives of Public Notaries concerning naturalizations, State Archives, Biographies, Places, Bibliography and information on Corsica, Tessin, San Marino and Malta. The site, however is in French Italian Jewish Community Italian Jewish Culture - (both sites in Italian) Italian Jewish Genealogy |
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