About
the Dreyfus family
During the European Day of Jewish Culture, Sept. 3, 2006, an
exhibition in Soultz (Haut-Rhin) displayed a tax register of
1612 where the name Moÿses Dreÿfues appears and the
picture of a nameless gravestone of 1624 from the Jungholtz
(Haut-Rhin) cemetery recognized as Moïse Dreyfus' (viz.
reproductions or analyses). Denis
INGOLD seizes the opportunity to study the Dreyfus
family name, whose origin is still being debated and according
to the author could be Troyes (France) rather than Trier (Germany).
In Le
grand Départ (The great Voyage), taking as example
the Aboulker family, Philippe
DANAN describes how older Jews would travel
to Jerusalem to end their life there. This custom seems to have
been widespread among Algerian Jews in the 19th century.
The article shows tombs of ancestors buried in the Josaphat
Valley, a painting by the British artist William Wyld (1807-1889)
showing the departure from Algiers and a limited family tree
of the author.
Charles
BENITAH’s ancestors Ayache originate
in Ain Kial, a village near Tlemcen (Algeria). The author has
researched them in the marriage records deposited at the Center
of Overseas Archives (Centre des Archives d’Outre-Mer)
in Aix-en-Provence. The discoveries he has made are published
here, in order to benefit possible «cousins».
How
a Jew hires a French language teacher (Metz, 1719)
During his search in the Notary archives Pascal Faustini has
discovered a surprising Notary document : on Jan. 2, 1719 ,
a young Jew, Mayer Salomon Schwaube hires a French language
teacher. After having been kindly sent the contract, Pierre-André
MEYER ponders about the possible meanings of
such a deed with reference to its cultural and social context.
It is also an opportunity to depict the history and the genealogy
of the Schwaube (also Schwabe) family, one
of the most important lines of notabilities of the ancient Metz
Jewish community.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Bernard
LYON-CAEN synthesizes the comments received
from our readers on his article published in Issue 87 of this
Revue about the historian Marc Bloch (1889-1944)
and his ancestors.
In How
two hands join, Peter
STEIN analyzes the Hebrew texts engraved on
two yadim (the instrument used to follow the
text on the Torah). Their comparison contributes to the understanding
of who were their donators/owners, both related to the author,
and especially to the genealogy of the Guggenheim family
(Revue du CGJ # 72 and Maajan-Die Quelle # 69).
Ernest
KALLMANN has discovered the wealth of information
contained in the German indemnification files to reconstruct
the detailed history of people who have suffered physically,
mentally, professionally or financially under the Nazi era.
The claims and attests filed just after WWII provide details
often ignored by present researchers as exemplified in a personal
occurrence.
