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Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel
by Mathilde Tagger and Yitzhak Kerem

This book reveals the wealth of resources on Sephardic Jewish history and genealogy in Israel. Even though research can be conducted abroad, the essential sources and collections are located in Israel. It encompasses important archival collections such as the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People; the Central Zionist Archives; the Jewish National and University Library – Department of Manu­scripts and Archives, the Jewish National and University Library – Institute of Hebrew Microfilmed Manu­scripts; the Ben Zvi Institute Library; Yad Vashem Library; and countless other repositories maintained by research institutes and museums and managed by various immigrant and other ethnic associations in Israel.

The book is divided alphabetically by country as shown in the Table of Contents below. The twenty-nine appendices contain name lists, the majority of which were found in archival material.

7" x 10" 412 pp. hardcover $45.00

Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical

List of surnames in the Consolidated Name Index Appendix

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  VII
INTRODUCTION      IX
CHAPTERS    X
RESEARCH GUIDELINES     XIII
SEPHARDIC & ORIENTAL JEWS – GENERAL 1
AFGHANISTAN 7
AFRICA  See: North Africa or Algeria or Morocco or Tunisia 
ALGERIA     8
ARGENTINA   11
AUSTRIA     12
BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA See: Yugolslavia
BULGARIA   13
BURMA 19
CAUCASUS See: Dagestan and/or Georgia CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN   19
CHINA 20
CRIMEA      20

CROATIA  See: Yugoslavia      21
DAGESTAN    21
EGYPT 21
ENGLAND     27
ERETZ ISRAEL  (Includes the State of Israel)    28
   Selected Hebrew Periodicals- Bibliography 28
   Archival Items    31
   Historical Jerusalem Neighborhoods Outside the Old City  with
   Sephardic/Oriental Population Concentrations    39
   Immigrant & Other Ethnic Associations     52
ETHIOPIA    53
GEORGIA (Asia)    55
GERMANY     56
GIBRALTAR   56
GREECE      57
   Selected Hebrew Periodical- Bibliography  57
   Archival Items    59
   Research Institutions   64
   Immigrant and other Ethnic Associations   67
   Agricultural Settlements      68
   Synagogues  68
Memorials   70
INDIA 71
IRAN  76
IRAQ  80
ISRAEL  See: ERETZ ISRAEL     87
ITALY 87
KOSOVO  See: Yugoslavia 94
KURDISTAN   94
LEBANON     98
LIBYA 99
MACEDONIA  See: Yugoslavia    105
MOROCCO     105
   Selected Hebrew Periodicals- Bibliography 105

   Archival Items    107
   Research Institutions   118
   Immigrant and Other Ethnic Associations   118
   Agricultural Settlements      123
   Synagogues  126
NETHERLANDS 128
NORTH AFRICA      129
PORTUGAL    132
ROMANIA     133
SERBIA  See: Yugoslavia 134
SINGAPORE   134
SPAIN 135
SUDAN 136
SYRIA 137
TUNISIA     144
TURKEY      150
UZBEKISTAN  157
YEMEN 163
YUGOSLAVIA (Former)     170
APPENDICES  174

Appendix 1: Sephardim & Oriental Jews — Index of Ketubot    174
Appendix 2:  Sephardim Deported to Bergen Belsen Death Camp  During World War II     195
Appendix 3:  Afghanistan: Afghans Jews in Jerusalem (1939)  206
Appendix 4: Argentina: Donors from Buenos Aires to the  Jerusalem  Sephardic Council (1927)      207
Appendix 5:  Egypt (Except Cairo): Prominent Jews (193?)    208
Appendix 6: Egypt: Members of Egypt Jewish Historical Society (1926–1930)     210
Appendix 7:  Eretz Israel: Exiled Sephardim in Alexandria (1915)  211
Appendix 8:  Eretz Israel: Haifa Voters to the Sephardic Community  Congregation (1939)     212
Appendix 9:  Eretz Israel: British Nationals (Citizens)/Protected Held by 219 Sephardic Jews      214
Appendix 10:  Eretz Israel: Jerusalem Voters to The Sephardic Community  Council (1939)    218
Appendix 11:  Eretz Israel: 104 Requests to Move to Agricultural Settlements Presented to the Jerusalem Sephardic Community Council  1926–1931 (333 Persons)     228
Appendix 12:  Eretz Israel: Safed Sephardic Archival Material     236
Appendix 13:  Eretz Israel: Safed Voters (up to 20 years old) to the  Sephardic Community Congregation      238
Appendix 14:  Greece, Thessaloniki- Foreign Consulates Requests Sent to the Thessaloniki Jewish Community Committee About Thessalonikans Jews
Living Outside Greece (1929–1931)   240
Appendix 15:  Italy: Family Trees in the Library of the Center for the Study of Italian Jewry, Jerusalem  242
Appendix 16:  Libya: Rabbis Birth and Death Dates (1588–1960)     243
Appendix 17:  Libya: 152 Victims’ Names of the 1945, 1967 Riots   244
Appendix 18:  Libya: Synagogues in Israel Arranged by Locality    246
Appendix 19:  Netherlands, Amsterdam: Personal Files of  Members of the Portuguese Community  (1661–1883) at CAHJP    249
Appendix 20:  Eretz Israel: Safed Talmud Torah Pupils (1927)      253
Appendix 21:  Portugal: Microfilmed Inquisition Trials (1583–1653)      254
Appendix 22: Syria, Aleppo Immigration (Aliya) Requests  Covering 117 Individuals (1933–1951)      259
Appendix 23:  Syria: Aleppo Rabbis- Years of Death    263
Appendix 24:  Tunisia: Tunis Children and their Guides  Killed in an Air  Crash near Oslo, Norway, 1949 266
Appendix 25:  Turkey: Diyarbakir Immigrants in Jerusalem (1940–1948)    267
Appendix 26:  Turkey: Urfa Immigrants in Jerusalem (1947)   268
Appendix 27:  Yemen: Yemenite Rite Synagogues in Israel Arranged by  Locality & Name   270
Appendix 28:  Yugoslavia: Belgrade, Serbia-Census of the Jewish Population (Family Heads Only) (1856)      273
Appendix 29:  Yugoslavia: Split, Croatia Names of  Victims of the Holocaust (1941–1945)   279
Appendix 30:  Consolidated Name Index     280


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