Where Once We Walked
Where Once We Walked

Author: Gary Mokotoff

Publisher: Bergenfield, NJ : Avotaynu

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13:

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Gazetteer providing information about more than 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust.

A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research
A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research

Author: Foster Stockwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-09-18

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0786484381

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Genealogists can sometimes require obscure resources when in search of information about ancestors. Tracking down records to complete a family tree can become laborious when the researcher doesn't know where to begin looking. Many of the best resources are maintained regionally or even locally, and aren’t widely known. This reference work serves as a guide to both beginning and experienced genealogy researchers. The sourcebook is easily accessible and usable, featuring approximately 270 entries on all aspects of genealogical research and family history compilation. The entries are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced so any researcher can quickly find the information he or she is seeking. Each state and each of the provinces of Canada has its own entry; other countries are listed under appropriate headings. The author also provides more than 700 addresses from all over the world so that the genealogist or general researcher may contact any one of these organizations to obtain specific information about particular births, deaths, marriages, or other life events in order to complete a family tree.

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age

Author: William David Davies

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 766

ISBN-13: 9780521219297

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Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Jewish Childhood in the Roman World
Jewish Childhood in the Roman World

Author: Hagith Sivan

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-17

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1107090172

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The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. Explores the lives of minors both inside and outside the home.

The American Jewish Experience
The American Jewish Experience

Author: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience

Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780841909342

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Eliyahu's Branches
Eliyahu's Branches

Author: Chaim Freedman

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 714

ISBN-13:

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"After decades of research, a noted Israeli genealogist has produced a book about the Vilna Gaon that contains a rare portrait of the illustrious 18th-century Eastern European sage, a discussion of his substantial influence on the Jewish world and a thoroughly-documented family tree listing more than 20,000 descendants of the rabbi and his siblings ... Besides exploring the life and times of the Vilna Gaon, the 704-page book identifies, provides documentation for more than 20,000 descendants of the Vilna Gaon and his siblings. There is an index listing all persons in the book. The Gaon's descendants seem as diverse as the Jewish people itself, Freedman said. Some descendants were prominent rabbis and academicians. Some were involved in a rare agricultural settlement experiment in Russia, while others variously served in the American Civil War and emigrated to places like England and Australia well before the mass migrations of the 1880s.

Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies
Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies

Author: Sarah Bowen Savant

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0748644989

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These case studies link genealogical knowledge to particular circumstances in which it was created, circulated and promoted. They stress the malleability of kinship and memory, and the interests this malleability serves. From the Prophet's family tree to the present, ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities in Muslim societies. So an understanding of genealogy is vital to our understanding of Muslim societies, particularly with regard to the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge.