The unbroken chain: Biographical sketches and the genealogy of illustrious Jewish families from the 15th-2Oth century by Neil Rosenstein

DNA and Tradition: The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews

The Invisible Wall
by W. Michael Blumenthal, W. Michael Blumental

From Generation to Generation : How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History
by Arthur Kurzweil, Elie Wiesel

From Booklist Given the extent of the Jewish Diaspora and the devastation of the Holocaust, it has always been a difficult proposition to trace one's Jewish genealogy. First published in 1980, From Generation to Generation provided invaluable information and research tips for Jews interested in plumbing the depths of their family history. In this latest edition, Kurzweil incorporates the most recent technological advances and innovations into his information-gathering guide. Using the Internet as^B a resource, it is now easier and less time-consuming to gather documents, cross-check references, and peruse government records. Although much of the information provided can be applied to any ethnic group, the author painstakingly outlines how Jewish genealogy substantially differs from all other genealogy. Brimming with worthwhile advice and handy shortcuts, this handbook will have immense appeal for a limited audience. Margaret Flanagan Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Midwest Book ReviewThis is the only definitive guide to Jewish genealogical research, providing clear information on gathering details on family history from both family papers and memories and official records around the world. Recently discovered sources are included in this revised, updated edition, making it of ongoing value to both newcomers and those familiar with a previous edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey
by Victor Perera

A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History
by Benzion C. Kaganoff

Amazon.com Researching the derivations of Jewish names is a complicated task, and one that Benzion Kaganoff takes on with admirable results. He delves into the roots of names from Aaron (and its derivatives Agronsky, Arkin, and Orlik) to Zwirn (German for thread), finding biblical, occupational,
and regional origins for nearly 4,000 names. Because Jewish names have been adapted and modified
so often over the years, it's all the more a triumph that Kaganoff has traced the history of so many common Jewish names and their offshoots.

Tracing Your Jewish DNA for Family History & Ancestry: Merging a Mosaic of Communities
by Anne Hart

 Scattered Seeds: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy
by Mona Freedman-Morris, Mona Freedman Morris, Mona Freedman Morris

Book Description Scattered Seeds provides you, the reader with the tools to help trace your family
tree and discover surprising and interesting facts about your family. The ten fact-filled chapters will easily guide you through your family research project and enable you to creat a family record for generations
to come. Included inthe book are:

-Maps, Charts and Questionnaires -Letter Writing Techniques -Where to Write for What -Judaic Sources -Holocaust Sources -Hebrew Glossary -Visiting a Family History Library -Utilizing Government Records -Using Computers and the World Wide Web

From the Publisher This is the FIRST book on Jewish genealogy written by an actual teacher of the subject. Ms. Morris simplifies, informs and inspires the reader. Scattered Seeds is easy to understand, includes over 65 graphics, can be and
is being used as a textbook for high school through senior students. Included are not only where and what information is available, but HOW to access the information and extract hidden clues. The book gives a brief background of the Jewish people, from the Twelve Tribes through the Pale of Settlement of Eastern Europe. Step by Step you will learn how to
utilize various types of federal and state records, use supplemental resources such as tombstones, synagogue records, questionnaires, Mormon centers and city directories. Different types of charts, and what and where one can find relevant information on the World Wide Web. This is a must book for everyone interested in family history and genealogy.

Finding Our Fathers A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy
by Dan Rottenberg

From Library Journal Rottenberg offers advice on tracing the roots of Jewish families and supplies
the names and addresses of organizations that could aid the search. He includes a long list of names with genealogical information (LJ 5/1/77).Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Book News, Inc.Originally published in 1977 by Random House; reprinted in 1986 and (with a new preface) 1995, by Genealogical Publishing. Provides a catalog of Jewish names and their origins, with an extensive introduction giving a quick course in Judaica, a guide to public records in the US and elsewhere, and discussion of tradition, history, and the Bible. The bibliography is extensive. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Aliyah!!!: The Exodus Continues

Mordecai: An Early American Family
by Emily Bingham

From Publishers Weekly In 1815, Alfred Mordecai, the son of a middle-class Jewish family from Warrenton, N.C., applied as a cadet to West Point, "a bold bid for a Jew." Despite high odds, Alfred was accepted-another step in the complex assimilation of the Mordecai family into U.S. society. Bingham, an independent scholar, draws on a large cache of letters and journals written by members of the Mordecai family and a wealth of other published material, to piece together a detailed history of this remarkable Southern Jewish clan. The Mordecais' history is deftly charted through thee generations beginning with Jacob and Judith moving to Virginia from Philadelphia in 1785, through Jacob's founding, with his grown children, of a renowned primary school and the conversion to Christianity of some family members during the Second Great Awakening of the mid-19th century. From there, Bingham follows the family sundering that occurred in the 1860s, when most of the family supported the Confederacy, and Alfred, refusing either to side with them or to support the war in any way, resigned from the Union army. But as thrilling as this family history is, Bingham's great feat here is to show, through the social, political and religious evolutions of one family, how class, race, ethnicity, region and intellectual affiliation profoundly affected assimilation in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Bingham's prose is as fluid as fiction, but she never sacrifices historical insight for narrative drive or soft-pedals such uncomfortable material as the Mordecais owning slaves. This is an important addition not only to Jewish studies but to the literature on family and gender relations in the 19th century. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

NY Times Review 4/05/98 Archives of Innocence For centuries until the Nazis, Poland was the heart of Jewish life in Europe. More than 75 percent of American Jews, it is estimated, can trace at least one grandparent to somewhere in Poland as it existed before the German onslaught of 1939. Poland's Jews bore the brunt of the Holocaust. But a significant part of their history has survived in municipal and Jewish archives. Jewish Roots In Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (Roots to Roots Foundation / YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, $50), by Miriam Weiner, a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, offers an authoritative guide to what records still exist and where they can be found. A town-by-town index to archives shows, for example, that in Lublin tax rolls go back to 1716 and Jewish community records to 1775. But there is far more than archival listings. There are hundreds of poignant photographs and old tinted postcards of scenes from the early years of the century, panoramas of aching nostalgia, given what we know about what was to come. A 1916 picture of a town square in Oswiecim, near what was to become the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, serves as a reminder that before such places became synonyms for horror, they were just places, with streets where people shopped and children played.

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century : A Genealogy of Modernity (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies)
by Gershon David Hundert

Book Description Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world--an oversight that Gershon
David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century.

"Gershon David Hundert's Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century is likely to be viewed as the standard scholarly survey of the topic of 'classic' Polish Jewry for years to come."--Moshe Rosman, author of Founder of
Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov