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Book: Sephardic Genealogy's new edition

Posted by Schelly Talalay Dardashti on July 19, 2009 at 6:00pm

Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog

Here's excellent news for Sephardic researchers!Jeff Malka contacted me some time ago about the upcoming expanded and completely updated second edition of his award-winning book, "Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World" (Avotaynu).The 2002 edition received the Association of Jewish Libraries "Best Judaica Reference Book." The original book is the most referenced Sephardic genealogy book in my library, along with Pere

Book: An Ashkenazi given name handbook

Posted by Schelly Talalay Dardashti on July 19, 2009 at 5:30pm

Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy blog

Avotaynu has announced the publication of Alexander Beider's "Handbook of Ashkenazic Given Names and Their Variants."This softcover book is the dictionary section of his previously published and massive volume, "Dictionary of Ashkenazi Given Names." It does not contain Beider's 300-page introductory section - his doctoral thesis for the Department of History at the Sorbonne (Paris).Included is the description of each name's origin and evolution, demo

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