Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames: Second Edition (Dicionário Sefaradi de Sobrenomes)  by Guilherme Faiguenboim, Paulo Valadares, Anna Rosa Campagnano Winner: Best Judaica Reference Book (2003) by the Association of Jewish Libraries. A compilation of 17,000 surnames presented under 12,000 entries. All names were used by the Jews who lived in Spain and Portugal for 15 centuries and later spread across the world as Sephardim, marranos and conversos. Hundreds of rare photographs, family shields and illustrations. It is more than a dictionary; it also contains a 72-page summary of Sephardic history, before and after the expulsion from Spain and Portugal and a 40-page linguistic essay about  Sephardic names, including an interesting list of the 250 most frequent surnames. The dictionary itself has 274 pages and appendices: geographic glossary, remissive index (replacing the soundex), a detailed list of all 335 bibliographical sources on which the book is based. The period covered by the dictionary is of 600 years, from the 14th to the 20th century. The researched area includes Spain and Portugal, France, Italy, Holland, England, Germany, Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Ottoman Empire, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America (including colonial times), Australia and others. The text is bilingual: Portuguese and English. 8½" x11" 528 pp. softcover $65.00 Sample page from Dictionary  (2.5MB PDF file) Contents Foreword (Marcio de Souza) 10 Introduction (Guilherme Faiguenboim) 20 Historical Introduction (Reuven Faingold) 25 Jews in Spain: Myths and Legends Visigothic Legislation The Strength of the Councils (450-711) Muslim Spain The Dhimi Status (711-1212) Christian Spain during Reconquest (1212-1492) Jews in the Royal Courts (1148-1496) Pogroms and forced Conversions (1391-1506) Religious Controversy in Spain (1263, 1412-1414) Literature against Converts and Christianized Jews Expulsion Edicts: Spain, 1492 – Portugal, 1497 Jews in the Age of Discoveries Exile and Redemption after the Iberian Expulsions Judaizers and Iberian Inquisitions The Sephardic Dispersion (Paulo Valadares) 79 The Sephardic Dispersion after the Expulsion Expulsion as Disruption Diaspora within the Diaspora Routes and Centers of Attraction North Africa (The Magreb) Izmir Salonika Bordeaux Leghorn, Tuscany Aleppo London Amsterdam New York São Paulo Sephardic Onomastics (Guilherme Faiguenboim) 101 Entries, Basic Forms and Variations Transliterations, Languages and Alphabets Cultural and Social Criteria to be considered a Sephardi Reliability on the Names in this Dictionary The more Sources, the more Sephardi will it be Entries based on One Source Only (Mono-Entries) Medieval Names Compound Names Names Associated to Historical References Names Associated to Historical Personalities Names with an Allusive Note Classification of Sephardic Surnames Toponymic Patronymic Occupational Personal Characteristic Artificial Biblical References Compound Rabbinical Origin Linguistic Origin of Sephardic Names Alexander Beider’s Methodology and the Sephardic Dictionary Methodology Different Historical Timing Different Linguistic Timing Geographic and Temporal movement The problem of Transliteration The List of Sephardic Surnames Most Mentioned 143 (250 most common Sephardic surnames classified according to number of sources) How to read this Dictionary 154 The Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames 161 Geographical Glossary 439 Bibliographical References 453 Main Sources Other Sources Referral Index (equivalent to Soundex) 470 The Authors 525 Acknowledgements 526