Jewish Genealogy- Wherever we travel, we play Jewish Geography and find kinship with Jews around the world. The flourishing study of Jewish Genealogy takes this form of Jewish networking to the logical extreme. An article published in the January issue of The Philadelphia Jewish Voice.
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Jewish National and University Library Ketubbot Database- The ketubbot digitization project aims to create a worldwide registry of ketubbot (marriage contracts) in public and private collections throughout the world. Based on the collection of the Jewish National and University Library with over 1200 items, the project contains ketubbot originating from dozens of different countries, and covering a time period of over 900 years.
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JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy- JewishGen, Inc. is the primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide.
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Love You, K2a2a, Whoever You Are- There are a lot of things I may never know about K2a2a, one of four founding mothers of a large chunk of today's Ashkenazi Jewish population and the one from whom - I learned last week - I am directly descended. An article publishe in the New York Times (NY), January 22, 2006.
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Sephardim.com- A research tool for Sephardic/Jewish Genealogy. The site contains thousands of Sephardic names with points of research for each name. Also sephardic heraldry, history and links.
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The London Jews Database- A database of names addresses and some other information about Jews who lived in London, UK, in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books- 650 titles; Yizker books, so-called after the Hebrew word for remember used in prayers for the dead, originated in the 13th century and gained enormous importance in the wake of the events of 1933-1945. The rise of this quintessentially medieval genre and its return to the forefront in the twentieth century bracket northern Europe's lengthy run as one of the poles of global Jewish civilization.
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