The Weils
are many, but some are special
The
author JB develops
his Alsatian genealogy started in the early 1980ies and identifies
his great-great-grandmother Weill remembered in the family lore,
finding in sequence her actual given name Rachel, her birthplace
Schirrhoffen and finally her parents. Her father Elias Weil
originates in Sulzburg, Baden, Germany. The well-read JB also
remembers a footnote read in 1938, about Alexandre Weill (1811-1899),
born in Schirrhoffen, journalist and writer. Shortly after World
War II, JB read Alexander Weil’s memoirs and novels and
was shocked by the description of the backward way of life lead
by the Alsatian Jewry in the early 19th century. But he discovers
that Alexander is not only related to both his ancestral lines,
he writes the full history of their common family, which belongs
to the Stühlingen/Sulzburg rabbinical Weil dynasty, including
Meir Rothenburg, and has been broadly discussed and published.
The lesson: read, read, contact others and combine.
Bollwiller,
the berth of the Grumbach family.
DENIS
INGOLD compiles all and any citation of Jews
in Bollwiller, from 1449 to the 18th century, in
order to assess the advent of family names. In addition to well-known
sources the author makes a wide use of forensic documents from
the Bollwiller lordship.
More
about the ancestors of Claude Lévi-Strauss
GUY
WORMS elaborates on the article by Bernard Lyon-Caen
in the issue 96 of this very journal, written and published
shortly after the 100th birthday of Claude Levi-Strauss.
He complements the list of ancestors over five generations,
all of them originating in Alsace.
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MISCELLANEOUS
The role
of given names in North African Jewish anthroponimy
JACQUES
TAÏEB develops a statistical analysis of
given names that are found in North African Jewish family names,
according to their linguistic origin. He uses the data of his
own book, published by our Society in 2004, complemented by
additional new information. He analyses the social meaning and
the aim (conjuring, votive, etc.) of these given names. Their
use within the tradition-bound North African Jewish society
reflects its concept of the world.
How to
use the search engines of our website?
Our
webmaster GEORGES GRANER
elaborates on the online instructions for using the three available
search engines: the general search engine, the library search
engine and the question-answer search engine. All three tools
benefit from online French and English instructions.
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BOOK
REVIEW
Analysis
of books recently included in our Library.:
La communauté juive
de Metz et ses familles (1565-1700) by Pascal Faustini
La Plage de Trouville
by Carole Achache
Les Litvaks
by Henri Minczeles, Yves Plassereaud, and Suzanne Pourchier.
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IN OUR LIBRARY
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PRESS REVIEW
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