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| sephardic surnames list: Sephardic Genealogy Jeffrey S. Malka, 2009 |
| sephardic surnames list: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire Alexander Beider, 1993 For each name, the author describes the precise geographic distribution within the Russian Empire at the start of the 20th century. The meaning of every name is explained. Spelling variants are given. |
| sephardic surnames list: Jewish Family Names and Their Origins Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer, Eva H. Guggenheimer, 1992 |
| sephardic surnames list: Dicionário Sefaradi de Sobrenomes Guilherme Faiguenboim, Paulo Valadares, Anna Rosa Campagnano, 2009 |
| sephardic surnames list: A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames Lars Menk, 2005 This dictionary identifies more than 13,000 German-Jewish surnames from the area that was pre-World War I Germany. From Baden-Wuerttemburg in the south to Schleswig-Holstein in the north. From Westfalen in the west to East Prussia in the east. In addition to providing the etymology and variants of each name, it identifies where in the region the name appeared, identifying the town and time period. More than 300 sources were used to compile the book. A chapter provides the Jewish population in many towns in the 19th century. |
| sephardic surnames list: Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania Alexander Avram, 2021-09-23 Linguistic and semantic features in names—and surnames in particular—reveal evidence of historical phenomena, such as migrations, occupational structure, and acculturation. In this book, Alexander Avram assembles and analyzes a corpus of more than 28,000 surnames, including phonetic and graphic variants, used by Jews in Romanian-speaking lands from the sixteenth century until 1944, the end of World War II in Romania. Mining published and unpublished sources, including Holocaust-period material in the Yad Vashem Archives and the Pages of Testimony collection, Avram makes the case that through a careful analysis of the surnames used by Jews in the Old Kingdom of Romania, we can better understand and corroborate different sociohistorical trends and even help resolve disputed historical and historiographical issues. Using onomastic methodology to substantiate and complement historical research, Avram examines the historical development of these surnames, their geographic patterns, and the ways in which they reflect Romanian Jews’ interactions with their surroundings. The resulting surnames dictionary brings to light a lesser-known chapter of Jewish onomastics. It documents and preserves local naming patterns and specific surnames, many of which disappeared in the Holocaust along with their bearers. Historical Implications of Jewish Surnames in the Old Kingdom of Romania is the third volume in a series that includes Pleasant Are Their Names: Jewish Names in the Sephardi Diaspora and The Names of Yemenite Jewry: A Social and Cultural History, both of which are available from Penn State University Press. This installment will be especially welcomed by scholars working in Holocaust studies. |
| sephardic surnames list: Out from Hiding Dell F. Sanchez, 2010-09-30 Dr. Dell Sanchez began his journey into the lineage of his Latino family when it surfaced from his research of Jewish survivors of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions of the 15th 17th Centuries. The more Sanchez dug into historical record, the more he began to suspect his own Sephardic Jewish roots. The DNA of his mother and father served to prove his suspicions. Presented as a personal yet factual narrative, Out from Hiding includes six crucial topics that prove the existence of Sephardic Jewish roots among Latinos: Historical and genealogical records DNA evidence corroborating Sephardic Jewish roots among Latinos Onomastics dealing with the Sephardic origin of surnames Material evidence found within the Sephardic Latino community Oral histories disclosing family secrets of thirteen Sephardic Latinos Sanchezs professional observations and prognostications of the Sephardic Latinos future Based on continued research, it has been estimated that there are tens of thousands of Hispanic/Latinos with Sephardic Jewish ancestry in America. The majority of these are not aware of their hidden Jewish roots, arent aware of their hidden backgrounds. Out from Hiding is his journey through history, family genealogy, and personal faith. Perhaps it may be your journey, as well. |
| sephardic surnames list: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Mediterranean Region Alexander Beider, 2017-02-01 |
| sephardic surnames list: To the End of the Earth Stanley M. Hordes, 2005 Drawing on individual biographies (including those of colonial officials accused of secretly practicing Judaism), family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a detailed account of the economic, social, and religious lives of crypto-Jews during the colonial period and after the annexation of New Mexico by the United States in 1846--Jacket. |
| sephardic surnames list: When Scotland Was Jewish Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman, Donald N. Yates, 2013-03-15 The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names. |
| sephardic surnames list: נצור לשונך מרע Zelig Pliskin, 1975 |
| sephardic surnames list: Finding Our Fathers Dan Rottenberg, 1986 In this work Dan Rottenberg shows how to successfully trace your Jewish family back for generations by probing the memories of living relatives; by examining marriage licenses, gravestones, ship passenger lists, naturalization records, birth and death certificates, and other public documents; and by looking for clues in family traditions and customs. |
| sephardic surnames list: The Jews of Rhodes Marc Angel, 1978 |
| sephardic surnames list: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland Alexander Beider, 1996 |
| sephardic surnames list: The Sephardic Onomasticon Baruh B. Pinto, 2004 |
| sephardic surnames list: Crisis and Creativity in the Sephardic World, 1391-1648 Benjamin R. Gampel, 1997 Leading scholars reflect on the 1492 expulsions of the Jews from Spain. |
| sephardic surnames list: Jacob's Children Eli Malka, 1997 This work details the development of a prosperous Jewish community in the Sudan. The author chronicles the history of the original group of eight families, providing family histories and tracing the families to their new homelands as well as providing an autobigraphical account. |
| sephardic surnames list: Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation Miriam Bodian, 1997 An engaging introduction to the tortuous plight faced by exiled conversos in Amsterdam and their methods of response. Choicet; In this skillful and well-argued book Miriam Bodian explores the communal history of the Portuguese Jews . . . who settled in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. —Sixteenth Century Journa Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, and literary works, among other sources, Miriam Bodian tells the moving story of how Portuguese new Christian immigrants in 17th-century Amsterdam fashioned a close and cohesive community that recreated a Jewish religious identity while retaining its Iberian heritage. |
| sephardic surnames list: Conversos on Trial Haim Beinart, 1981 |
| sephardic surnames list: The Sephardim of England Albert M. Hyamson, 2020-04-03 Originally published in 1951, this book explores the development in England of the Sephardi branch of the Jewish community, the co-heirs, with their kinsmen in Holland, in Italy, in North America and in the Middle East, of the Golden Age of Jewish history in Spain. Based on archival history from within the community, it was the first full-length history of the Sephardi community in England and describes how this little Jewish community, the first in England since the Middle Ages, grew, prospered and contributed the wealth and influence of London, and eventually producing in Disraeli one of England’s greatest Prime Ministers. |
| sephardic surnames list: The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World Seymour B. Liebman, 1975 Los inquisidores y los judíos en el Nuevo Mundo (Nueva España, Nueva Granada, el Perú, Río de la Plata); resúmenes de los procesos, 1500-1810, y guía bibliográfica. |
| sephardic surnames list: My 15 Grandmothers Genie Milgrom, 2012 Genie Milgrom was born in Havana, Cuba, into a Roman Catholic family of Spanish ancestry. At the age of five, during the Cuban Revolution, her family immigrated to the United States, and she has lived in Miami, Florida, ever since. Genie was always interested in her family genealogy, but when she learned of the possibility of having Converso Jewish roots, her search for the truth about her family's past took on a deeper significance...She was able to fully document her unbroken maternal lineage, going back as far as 1480, to Pre-Inquisition Spain and Portugal -- Back cover. |
| sephardic surnames list: Jews in Colonial Brazil Arnold Wiznitzer, 1960 Relates the history of Portuguese Conversos who settled in Brazil at the beginning of the 16th century, after they had been forced to convert in Portugal in 1497. States that most of them continued to maintain Jewish customs secretly in Brazil, as they had in Portugal. Ch. 2 (p. 12-42) describe the activities of the Inquisition in Brazil between 1591-1618, due to the intensification of these activities after the unification of Portugal and Spain in 1580. The Inquisition was never formally introduced in Brazil, but about 1580 the Bishop of Bahia acquired Inquisitorial authority which permitted him to prepare judicial proceedings against heretics and to hand over violators of the law to the court of the Inquisition in Lisbon. Pp. 143-167 describe cases of persecution endured by specific Conversos between 1654-1822, until Brazil's independence from Portugal. |
| sephardic surnames list: La America Marc Angel, 1982 The story of the Jewish immigration to the United States in the early years of the century has been fully described in a variety of publications. Less well known is the story of the more than 25,000 Levantine Sephardim who entered the United States between 1899 and 1925. La America, the Judeo-Spanish-language national weekly newspaper founded in 1910 is a welcome contribution to an understanding of this long neglected aspect of the American Jewish experience. Rabbi Angel discovers in the newspaper reports and editorials and brings to the readers attention the fascinating heritage of American Sephardic Jews. |
| sephardic surnames list: Where Once We Walked Gary Mokotoff, Sallyann Amdur Sack, Alexander Sharon, 2002 Gazetteer providing information about more than 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust. |
| sephardic surnames list: Noble Families Among the Sephardic Jews I. DaCosta, 1976-09 |
| sephardic surnames list: Bevis Marks Records Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation (London, England), 1940 |
| sephardic surnames list: Last Century of a Sephardic Community Mark Cohen, 2003 Discusses the history of the final century of the Jewish community of Monastir (now Bitola) in Macedonia, which originated in the Ottoman Empire and ended its days under occupation by Nazi-allied Bulgaria. Ch. 9 (pp. 169-189), The Holocaust, recounts the nazification of policies toward the Jews in Bulgarian-occupied Macedonia, where Nuremberg-like laws and ghettoization were introduced, followed by Aryanization of businesses and robbery by taxation. Registration of all Jewish adults in Bulgaria facilitated deportation which, due to protests by prominent Bulgarian non-Jews, was limited to stateless residents of Bulgarian-occupied territories. Almost all of Monastir's Jews were deported to Treblinka, where 3,276 of them were gassed. The small number who escaped deportation were spared as doctors or foreign nationals. Some Jews managed to flee and join partisan groups. Pp. 203-250 contain a list of names (with addresses, ages, and occupations) of the Jews from Monastir who were killed in Treblinka. |
| sephardic surnames list: The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux Frances Malino, 1978 Describing the tensions that existed between the Sephardic community of Bordeaux and the Ashkenazic Jews of France, the author also depicts their role in the relation of the Jews with Napoleon and the forming of the Grand Sanhedrin. |
| sephardic surnames list: The Jews of Spain Gerber, 1992-11-02 The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large Jewish community noted for its richness and virtuosity. Summarily expelled in 1492 and forced into exile, their tragedy of expulsion marked the end of one critical phase of their history and the beginning of another. Indeed, in defiance of all logic and expectation, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain became an occasion for renewed creativity. Nor have five hundred years of wandering extinguished the identity of the Sephardic Jews, or diminished the proud memory of the dazzling civilization, which they created on Spanish soil. This book is intended to serve as an introduction and scholarly guide to that history. |
| sephardic surnames list: A Life of Menasseh Ben Israel Cecil Roth, 1945 |
| sephardic surnames list: Hispania Judaica XI José Luis Lacave, Shalom Sabar, 2002 Gathered here are thirty ketubot from various medieval Hispanic kingdoms: twelve from Catalonia, four from Majorca, eight Navarrese and three from Castile. The book presents illustrations of the ketubot, some handsomely decorated in full colour and gives a description of the ornamental motifs included. Some of the ketubot appear here for the first time. |
| sephardic surnames list: Melungeons Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman, 2005 Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British, Protestant colonists who fought the Indians, tamed the wilderness, and brought democracy-or at least a representative republic-to North America. To the contrary, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman's research indicates the earliest settlers were of Mediterranean extraction, and of a Jewish or Muslim religious persuasion. Sometimes called Melungeons, these early settlers were among the earliest nonnative Americans to live in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. For fear of discrimination-since Muslims, Jews, Indians, and other persons of color were often disenfranchised and abused-the Melungeons were reticent regarding their heritage. In fact, over time, many of the Melungeons themselves forgot where they came from. Hence, today, the Melungeons remain the last lost tribe in America, even to themselves. Yet, Hirschman, supported by DNA testing, genealogies, and a variety of historical documents, suggests that the Melungeons included such notable early Americans as Daniel Boone, John Sevier, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Andrew Jackson. Once lost, but now, forgotten no more. |
| sephardic surnames list: History of the Jews in Venice Cecil Roth, 1975 |
| sephardic surnames list: Jewish Given Names and Family Names Robert Singerman, 2001 Presents over 3,000 bibliographic entries on the history and lore of Jewish family names and given names in all parts of the world from Biblical times to the present day. This work replaces the compiler's out-of-print JEWISH AND HEBREW ONOMASTICS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY (1977) |
| sephardic surnames list: Secrecy and Deceit David Martin Gitlitz, 1996 Despite the increased attention given to Hispano-Jewish topics, and the conversos or Crypto-Jews in particular, this is the first thorough compilation of their customs and practices. Gitlitz has culled from Inquisition documents and other sources to paint a portrait of the richness and diversity of Crypto-Jewish practices in Spain, Portugal, and the New World. |
| sephardic surnames list: History of the Jews in Aragon Jean Régné, 1978 Contains more than 3,500 regesta in French and a selection of original documents in Latin or Spanish, mostly from the Archivo General de la Corona de Aragon, with a preface and introduction in English. |
| sephardic surnames list: Book of Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Surnames Judith K. Jarvis, Susan L. Levin, Donald N. Yates, 2018-05-10 From unlikely places like Scotland and the Appalachian Mountains to the Bible and archives of the Spanish Inquisition, this valuable resource published in 2018 is the first to cover the naming practices of Conversos, Marranos and secret Jews along with more familiar Central and Eastern European Jewries. It includes Joseph Jacobs’ classic work on Jewish Names, a chapter on Scottish clans and septs, thousands of Sephardic and Ashkenazic surnames from early colonial records and Rabbi Malcolm Stern’s 445 Early American Jewish Families. Appendix A contains 400 surnames from the Greater London cemetery Adath Yisroel. Appendix B provides a combined name index to the indispensable When Scotland Was Jewish, Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America and The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales, all by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates. It contains 276 pages and has an extensive index and bibliography. “Up-to-date and valuable research tool for genealogists and those interested in Jewish origins.” —Eran Elhaik, Assistant Professor, The University of Sheffield |
| sephardic surnames list: First American Jewish Families , 1991 |
| sephardic surnames list: When Scotland Was Jewish Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman, Donald N. Yates, 2015-05-07 The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names. |
Sephardic Jews - Wikipedia
Sephardic Jews, [a] also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, [b] [1] and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, [2] are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish …
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Sephardi | Meaning, Customs, History, & Facts | Britannica
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Who Are Sephardic Jews? - My Jewish Learning
Wherever Sephardic Jews traveled, they brought with them their unique ritual customs, language, arts, and architecture. Sephardic synagogues often retain the influence of Islam in their …
Who Are Sephardic Jews? | Aish
Jun 23, 2024 · The term, “Sephardic Jews,” technically refers to the descendants of the great Jewish community of Spain—infamously exiled in the late 15th century—except that like most …
Who are Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews?
The Sephardic Jewish American Research Study will explore the ways in which self-identified Sephardic and Mizrahi American Jews describe what these categories mean to them. We aim …
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Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or Sephardim (Hebrew: סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Hebrew: Sfaraddim, also יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד Y'hudey Spharad, meaning "The Jews of Spain"), are a Jewish …
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Similar to Spain and Portugal during the Golden Era, the Sephardic upper class in the Ottoman empire were employed as translators. The Sephardic communities in the Arab world were …
Sephardic law and customs - Wikipedia
Sephardic law and customs are the law and customs of Judaism which are practiced by Sephardim or Sephardic Jews (lit. "Jews of Spain"); the descendants of the historic Jewish …
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Welcome to Sephardic Ancestry, a robust collection of original scholarly writings, original primary sources (manuscripts), and peer-reviewed secondary scholarship that illuminate the rich …
Sephardic Jews - Wikipedia
Sephardic Jews, [a] also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, [b] [1] and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, [2] are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish …
Who Are Sephardic Jews? - 19 Facts You Should Know
Sephardic Jews (also known as Mizrahim) are an ancient Jewish community, comprised mostly of the descendants of the Spanish exiles as well as those from historically Muslim lands. The …
Sephardi | Meaning, Customs, History, & Facts | Britannica
May 20, 2025 · The chief rabbinate of Israel has both a Sephardic and an Ashkenazi chief rabbi. The designation Sephardim is frequently used to signify North African Jews and others who, …
Who Are Sephardic Jews? - My Jewish Learning
Wherever Sephardic Jews traveled, they brought with them their unique ritual customs, language, arts, and architecture. Sephardic synagogues often retain the influence of Islam in their …
Who Are Sephardic Jews? | Aish
Jun 23, 2024 · The term, “Sephardic Jews,” technically refers to the descendants of the great Jewish community of Spain—infamously exiled in the late 15th century—except that like most …
Who are Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews?
The Sephardic Jewish American Research Study will explore the ways in which self-identified Sephardic and Mizrahi American Jews describe what these categories mean to them. We aim …
Sephardi Jews - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or Sephardim (Hebrew: סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Hebrew: Sfaraddim, also יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד Y'hudey Spharad, meaning "The Jews of Spain"), are a Jewish …
Judaism: Sephardim - Jewish Virtual Library
Similar to Spain and Portugal during the Golden Era, the Sephardic upper class in the Ottoman empire were employed as translators. The Sephardic communities in the Arab world were …
Sephardic law and customs - Wikipedia
Sephardic law and customs are the law and customs of Judaism which are practiced by Sephardim or Sephardic Jews (lit. "Jews of Spain"); the descendants of the historic Jewish …
Sephardic Ancestry
Welcome to Sephardic Ancestry, a robust collection of original scholarly writings, original primary sources (manuscripts), and peer-reviewed secondary scholarship that illuminate the rich …
