Laurent
KASSEL and Jean-Pierre KLEITZ have co-operated in publishing
the list of 16 first- born boys (1756 - 1868)
who have been redeemed according to Jewish Law. The list is part
of a Hebrew manuscript which the French National Library has recently
acquired. The authors explain this redemption mitzwah which is
documented for the first time in Exodus III, 1, thus just after
the Hebrews fled from Egypt. The list has been set up by two successive
Cohanim. The first is Jacob Kahn, easily identified. Finding the
second Cohen proves more difficult but succeeds, thanks to the
authors’ competence.
Eliane ROOS-SCHUHL recalls
L. Blum, who operated a Jewish library in Paris
from 1860 to 1889 and also published ritual books, which he might
have translated or even written himself. As his full given name
appears nowhere, there has been no clue yet to show that he is
the same as the “teacher” Leopold Blum from the 1850
census. Eliane ROOS-SCHUHL discovers in one of his books his full
name in Hebrew and confirms the identity ; she reconstructs his
genealogy and the family’s history.
Ernest
KALLMANN publishes the third part of his article “The
racist obsession of the National-Socialists and its impact on
German-Jewish genealogy”. He provides the identification
of the sources and their repositories, while showing that additional
documents can be found and that research is not limited.
Renato
MINERBO has excerpted and translated an article by Abrahao
GITELMAN in “Arquivo Historico Judaico Brasileiro”
about the Jews from Alsace-Lorraine emigrated to Brazil from 1844
onward. After their native provinces had been annexed by Germany
in 1871, they had to choose whether to remain French or become
German (option de nationalité). A list of 49 individuals
having chosen France is published (surname, given name, year of
immigration, place of residence, département of origin).
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RECENT EVENTS
Danièle
FAREAU on her return from the International conference
on Jewish genealogy in Jerusalem (July 2004) compliments
the Israeli organizations and societies for the huge computerization
of data bases available now. A list of these bases and their Internet
addresses complements the article.
Georges
GRANER, webmaster of Cercle de Généalogie
Juive announces the availability of a “Member’s
corner” on its website. It contains information
accessible to subscribed members only and requires a password.
He also mentions a website of the well-known Rodrigues-Henriques
family, a “Portuguese” Jewish family traced
back to the 17th century in Bordeaux.
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