ARTICLES ON JEWISH GENEALOGY
GENERAL
How to Improve Photos Dramatically using MyHeritage (2024)
The 1931 Census is Coming! (2023)
Breakthrough: Jumping Back 36 Generations
Review: A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America (Kirsten Fermaglich, 2018)
Judische Familienforschung: World’s first Jewish genealogy society
Resource: Street directory of Toronto’s “Ward” — 1913
Two views of Bristol house, 1911 & 1914
Lost photos return home after 17 years
Review: “The Juggler’s Children,” by Carolyn Abraham
World’s Yiddish literature to be digitalized
Genealogical Resource: List of Jewish Names in Cyrillic & Polish
Finding an unclaimed fortune in the family tree
How Toronto’s city directory is compiled (1913)
Toronto’s Jewish ‘Unknown Soldier’ from WWI
Influx of poor Hebrews causes problem (1891)
My search for the sculptor Glicenstein and other Glicenstein cousins
Mormons baptise Holocaust victims
Kurzweil’s classic From Generation to Generation
From A Ruined Garden: a marvelous distillation of memory
Baron de Hirsch: the ‘Moses of the New World’
Don’t wait to interview elderly relatives
A conversation with great aunt Sophie
In genealogy, it ain’t necessarily so
Find your family’s passenger lists
INTERNET RESOURCES
CENSUS RESOURCE: Street-by-street guide to Jewish residents of Toronto, 1911
List of European Jews seeking relatives in Canada, 1922
How Yad Vashem computerized names of Holocaust victims
Diverse subjects on JewishGen discussion group
The miracle called Ancestry.com
Old news is new again (searchable newspaper archives)
About the Polish-Jewish records indexing project & JewishGen
MORMON LDS LIBRARY
Holocaust survivor sees photo of family for first time
Batya Unterschatz, Israel’s One-Woman Search Bureau (2003)
Peter Lande on Holocaust records
Bad Arolsen & the International Tracing Service
How Yad Vashem computerized names of Holocaust victims
Rabbinic ancestry? Prove it first
Unbroken Chain links diverse rabbis, celebrities
A worthy guide to rabbinic genealogical research
The oldest family tree in the world
All in a day’s work: Census takers in ‘the Ward’
From Belarus to Cape Breton & beyond (Rose)
Windows into Toronto’s past (city directories, census)
Bathurst Street ‘treasure trove’: the Ontario Jewish Archives
Library & Archives Canada preserves our history
Canada’s Jews: A People’s Journey
Sephardic Jews in early Canada
The de Solas: a distinguished Sephardic lineage
The 1911 census is a powerful tool
50th anniversary of Belleville’s Sons of Jacob Congregation (Gasner)
Mother & babe held at US-Canada border for two weeks (1931)
UNITED STATES
Adeline Moses Loeb and her early American Jewish Ancestors
Jewish genealogy in Pennsylvania
Canadian Jews fought in American Civil War
Patai’s history of Hungarian Jews
Reconstructing Hungarian-Jewish world
Hungary’s secret Jewish collection
Gluckel’s “seven little books”
Portraits of the Past (Jews in German countryside)
The Jewish ghetto in literature
POLAND & RUSSIA
The Jewish Oil Magnates of Galicia
A concise guide to Krakow — for genealogists
Medical condition leads to genealogy breakthrough
Dubnow’s classic history of Jews in Poland and Russia
Weiner’s Jewish Roots in Poland breaks new ground
Weiner’s Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova
Hundert’s study of 18th-century Opatow, Poland
Shneidman’s study of the Vilna Ghetto
Finding your Jewish roots in Galicia
Jewish Glasgow: An Illustrated History
‘Jewish Victorian’ a fascinating window into British past
SEPHARDIC
Sephardic roots preserved in records of Spanish Inquisition
Sephardic Jews in early Canada
A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
The de Solas: a distinguished Sephardic lineage
The Jewish ‘New Muslims’ of Meshhed, Iran
Markman’s Jewish Remnants in Spain
JEWISH WORLD
Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections
Peddlers All: Stories of the First Ashkenazi Jewish Settlers in Barbados
1839 Travelogue through the Jewish World
Jewish In Places You Never Thought Of
Gone with the Grodtizinsky’s: name changes
Of Berliners, Oppenheimers and Rothschilds
Shining a light on Jewish names
Beider on Russian-Jewish surnames
Beider on Polish-Jewish surnames
MORE BOOKS
Review of YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
An overlooked classic of immigrant fiction (One Foot in America, by Yuri Suhl)
(Zubasky, Brent) Review: Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories
Photos capture ‘the way we were’
Lives Remembered: Photographs of a Small Town in Poland
Two guidebooks from Ruth Ellen Gruber
Translation guide spurred my Glicenstein breakthrough (Frazin’s Translation Guide)
MORE HISTORY & HERITAGE
In Poland, a modern blood libel
Restoring Jewish heritage sites with Sam Gruber
FAMILY HISTORY
PUBLISH OR PERISH: How I Got The Rubinoff-Naftolin Family Saga into Print
A Bacher family reunion in the Catskills, 1983
The Family Orchard, family history novel
A search for six of the Six Million (The Lost)
An exemplary family history (Bernstein)
Mildred Wyman’s ‘Forest of Trees’
From Kamenets-Podolsk to Winnipeg: The History of the Lechtziers
On Jewish memoirs and autobiography
Memoir of a Russian Jewish family
Yiddish letters knit together ‘A Thousand Threads’
Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations
More genealogical adventures (Jassem, McCartney)
Kerry’s family comes full circle
Klaver family ‘together again for the first time’
Descendants of Michigan’s first Jewish settler ‘reunite’
Orchestrating the American Dream (Bernstein family saga)
Profile: Rose Friedman at 100 (Part of Rubinoff-Naftolin family of Toronto)
