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Avotaynu is asked from time to time to assist organizations who want to start
a genealogy library. Below is our recommendation for purchasing
books shown in priority order. Select the items from top
to bottom to the extent of your budget. All are available
through Avotaynu. If you would prefer discussing your selection,
phone us at 1-800-AVOTAYNU (286-8296). Outside the U.S. call 475-202-6575.
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on a title for additional/ordering information
- Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy.
Primer for Jewish genealogy. $14.50
- Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy
The most comprehensive book on Jewish genealogical research.
$85.00
- Annual
subscription to Avotaynu.
Magazine of Jewish genealogy keeps you current on latest
resources. $38.00/year
- Where
Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed
in the Holocaust (WOWW) .
Gazetteer of 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe
where Jews lived before the Holocaust. $85.00
- Sourcebook
for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories.
Jewish genealogies and family histories, both published
and unpublished, for more than 10,000 family names. $45.00
- Sephardic
Genealogy.
Comprehensive guide to Sephardic research. $45.00
- Practical Guide to Jewish Cemeteries, Comprehensive guide to Jewish cemetery practices including chapter on how to read
tombstones. $39.00
- A
Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Russian Empire.
Landmark work on 50,000 Jewish surnames from the Russian
Empire showing etymology, districts of the Empire where
they appeared and variations of the names. (Currently
out of print. A revised edition if planned for late 2008.)
- A
Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia.
More than 25,000 Jewish surnames from Galicia showing
etymology, districts of Galicia where they appeared and
variations of the names. $85.00
- Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames. 13,000
German-Jewish surnames from the area that was pre-World War
I Germany. $89.00
- Following
the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide.
Helps translate vital records (and other documents) for
13 European languages. $29.00
- A
Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names.
Comprehensive history and dictionary of names. $85.00
- Genealogical
Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Hungary. Information
about more than 12,000 towns within the 19th century
borders of the Kingdom of Hungary. $46.00.
- Dictionary
of Sephardic Surnames. A
compilation of 17,000 surnames presented under 12,000 entries.
$50.00.
- Russian-Jewish
Given Names: Their Origins and Variants.
More than 6,000 variants of Russian-Jewish given names
of the 19th and early 20th centuries. $35.00
- Jewish
Personal Names.
1,200 Jewish given names showing Hebrew/Yiddish variants.
$15.00
- In
Their Words: A Genealogists Translation Guide - Russian.
Detailed translation guide to Russian documents. $35.00
- Genealogical
Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Hungary. Information about
12,000 towns in 19th century Kingdom of Hungary.. $46.00
- Encyclopedia
of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust.
Comprehensive encyclopedia of the Jewish presence in
more than 1,000 towns in central and eastern Europe.
$325.00 $99.00
- New
Encyclopedia of Judaism. Award-winning one-volume
encyclopedia of Jewish history. $89.95 $60.00
Compiled genealogies
are published family trees, in the cases below, listing tens
of thousands of persons, from the earliest ancestor to living
persons.
- Vilna Gaon: Eliyahu's
Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His
Family 20,000
descendants of this great rabbi and scholar. $69.50
- Katzenellenbogen: The
Unbroken Chain 25,000
descendants of the founder of the Katzenellenbogen family.
$48.00
- Luria/Lurie: The
Lurie Legacy.
History and genealogy of the Lurie/Luria family. $85.00
- Bulgaria: Dictionary of Bulgarian Jewish Surnames. $20.00
- Germany: Library
Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy $20.00
- Germany: Diaries
of Bernhard Cahn: A Man of His Time.
$29.00 Life in Germany in the 19th century.
- Germany/Poland: History
of the Jews of Schneidemühl: 1641 to the Holocaust.
$46.00
- Lithuania: Jewish
Vital Records, Revision Lists and Other Jewish Records
in the Lithuanian Archives Complete
inventory of holdings. $35.00
- Lithuania: Jews
of Kopcheve. $35.00
- Poland: Polish
Sources in the Central Archives for the History of the
Jewish People.
Annotated inventory. $25.95
- Poland. Jews-Officers
in the Polish Armed Forces 1939-1945.
$30.00
- Poland: History
of the Jews in Russia and Poland.
One of the great histories of the Jews of that area.
$39.50
- Poland: Naturalized
Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835.
List of 5,173 Jews. $34.95
- Sephardic: Guidebook
for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel.
$45.00
- Slovak
Republic: Between
Galicia to Hungary: The Jews of Stropkov.
Yizkor book for this town. $35.00
- U.S.: Lost Synagogues of Brooklyn. Buildings that were former synagogues. $26.00
- U.S.: Lost Synagogues of Bronx/Queens. Buildings that were former synagogues. $26.00
- U.S.: Lost Synagogues of Manhattan. Buildings that were former synagogues. $26.00
- Deutsch-fremdsprachiges
Ortsnamenverzeichnis. Name-change gazetteer
of pre-World War I German and Austro-Hungarian
Empire. Where
Once We Walked should satisfy most needs.
$89.00
- The
German Minority Census of 1939: An Introduction and
Register. Finding
aid for persons who want to use the LDS (Mormon)
Family History Library microfilm collection of this
important Holocaust-era census. $9.50
- Chinese
Exile.
Experience of one Jewish family in Shanghai during
the Holocaust period. $25.00
- Avnei
Zikaron:
Stones of Remembrance. Pre-WWI Eastern European epitaphs
from 51 communities. $59.95
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