| OUR
SOCIETY'S LIFE
Forthcoming
meetings and activities in Paris and in our regional groups. Report
about the last meeting of the Alsace SIG, a visit to Petite Alsace,
a hamlet in the 13th Paris section, by Eliane ROOS SCHUHL
and Bernard LYON-CAEN. Conference by Félix PEREZ on our regular
Monday meetings about the sociology of the Jews accepted at Ecole
Polytechnique from 1794 to 1927.
_______________________________________________________
MISCELLANEOUS
The Jews
in Tripoli at the eve of colonization (1911)
French readers generally know little about Libya and its capital
Tripoli, which was colonized by Italy cotrarily to Tunisia,
Algeria and Morocco, the other countries of Maghreb, Northwest
Africa. Written sources, even in Italian, are sparse. In order
to bridge this gap, Jacques TAÏEB
reverts to a chronicle in Hebrew by Mordekhay Cohen, a well-known
writer. His paper is built around two themes: demography and
onomastics.
Alsatian
given names: Schlumen, Heymann, Eitzig, Mayer, Scheinel, Marianne,
Claire and all others
Eliane ROOS SCHUHL
exploits a wedding agreement executed in 1771 in Haguenau and
deposited at the Archives Départementales du Bas-Rhin
in Strasbourg. It is mentioned in Mémoire Juive en Alsace,
by André-Aaron Fraenckel. She analyzes some usual equivalences
between Ashkenazi given names in Alsace and thereupon among
descendants of Alsace and Lorraine families widely scattered
from the 19th century onward.
__________________________________________________
FAMILIES
The
daughters of Lucie Lang or my "cousin" Maurice Leblanc
Andrée
LANZ-MARGOLIN has discovered an amusing “relationship"
with Maurice Leblanc. Leblanc has become mainly famous as the
author of detective stories featuring Arsène Lupin, the
"gentleman burglar". Leblanc and Lupin are as familiar
to French readers as Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot, her
Belgian detective. The genealogical demonstration is worth the
visit.
Alexandre,
a Jew from Wittersheim
Laurent
KASSEL devotes this article to one of his forebears,
Alexandre, a figure in the Jewish community of Wittersheim (Bas-Rhin)
during the second half of the 18th century. He follows up the
recurrence of this given name along his descendants. The same
person is mentioned by Pierre-André Meyer in his article
about the Jewish origins of the French President Alexandre Millerand
(Issue 80 of this Revue). The author resorts to Mémoire
Juive en Alsace, by André-Aaron Fraenckel, the 1784
Census of the Jews in Alsace, the 1808 name adoption registers
of the Jews and eventually the civil records covering all French
nationals since 1792.
_______________________________________________________
BOOK REVIEW
An encyclopedic
monograph by Eve Line BLUM-CHERCHEVSKY
Nous sommes 900 Français, in 6 volumes,
1999-2006, Publisher : the author
The author has
labored over 10 years on the 2159 pages of this work. It is a
memorial for the 878 deportees of convoy 73, which left Drancy
on May 15, 1944 toward the Baltic States. The author's efforts
and research have found 315 relatives of the victims, one by one;
their co-operation was essential to what is now a collective production.
Each volume is made of two parts, providing an encyclopedic aspect:
the first part documents the history of convoy 73 and also about
deportation from a broader point of view; the second part devotes
each deportee an individual section. The book is reviewed in detail
by Basile Ginger in this issue.
______________________________________________________
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
|
