The
Riss family from Niederhagenthal
Gérard
LANG’s family has wandered from Poland
to Upper Alsace and then via Nancy to Paris where it settled
in the early 19th century. The author reconciles
family papers and the 1809 Register of the Paris Consistoire
to trace them back.
From
Czestochova to Tel-Aviv
Nicole
CHAPNIK-PEREZ
has found the gravestones of her paternal great-great-grandparents
at the Nahalat Itzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv. The migrations of
the Chapnik family have been traced thanks to the website of
the Tel Aviv Hevra Kadisha (burial society) and the Yad Vashem
Pages of Testimony and from familial informations.
Jewish
jewellers in Algiers
Gérard
LEVY
has gathered information about jewellers in Algiers from around
1830 to the early 20th century in Paul Eduel’s book L’orfèvrerie
algérienne et tunisienne (Algiers, 1902). He displays
them in a table where many readers might find ancestors.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Eve
Line BLUM-CHERCHEVSKY has spent six years trying
to further the implementation by the French authorities of a
1985 Law which enjoins that on the death record of deportees
who died in the Holocaust be added “mort pour
la France”, a mention already in use for soldiers
dead in action. Here she publishes a faintly optimistic progress
report of her efforts.
Eliane
ROOS-SCHUHL scrutinizes a seal with Hebrew inscriptions
found in the region of Champagne the make of which suggests
that it dates back to the late 13th or early 14th century.
Our
webmaster Georges GRANER
stresses the enhancements of our website www.genealoj.org
: new features, upgrades to the Questions/Answers section, more
displays in the Members’ Corner, etc.
The
LIBRARY has created a new search criterion for cemeteries.
