The
descendants of Raphael Vorms from Bionville (Moselle) - Part one
: two generations
LOUIS
VORMS AND GUY WORMS, both descending from Raphael
Vorms (deceased around 1763) and his two sons Hayman and Salomon,
trace the family which is the only one to have perpetuated the name
of their place of origin, Bionville (or in German: Bingen) as part
of their family name. The article is illustrated by copies of the
source documents, especially the “plaids annaux”, reports
about the yearly meeting called by the local sire where all family
heads were due to attend.
How
to find and obtain vital records in Poland and Galicia .
BASILE
GINGER AND DANIEL VANGHELUWE publish a practical
and step-by-step “how-to” manual for genealogists in
France who speak no Polish but at least some English. It updates
the Poland chapter in Guide pratique de généalogie
juive en France et à l’étranger, by Basile Ginger,
published by our Society. The changes in on-line accessibility of
the catalogues and databases makes it easy now to obtain most documents
without leaving one’s desk
Vital
records from Constantine (Algeria) 1843-1895
FERNAND
DERAY announces the completion of his opus magnum:
indexing all existing vital records of the Département Constantine,
one of the three administrative partitions of Algeria. The source
is basically the CAOM-Centre des Archives d’Outre-Mer in Aix-en-Provence.
The result of Deray’s work, covering 15,000 events, is searchable
on our website with full access in the Members’ Corner.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Algerian
Jewish assimilation after the Crémieux Decree
JOËLLE
ALLOUCHE-BENAYOUN presents a sociological description
of the life, culture, religious and social practice of the Algerian
Jews after their sudden change of status : the Crémieux
Decree of 1870 transforming “natives” into full-fledged
French nationals. The assimilation process is shown over more
than a century, compiled from a massive bibliography.
Hebrew
Monograms
ELIANE
ROOS SCHUHL takes the cue in Pierre Kogan’s
article about the Marx Brothers in Revue # 95 to pinpoint the
monogram lamed peh quf set on Mordechai (Simon II)
Marx’s headstone (i.e. a graphical arrangement combining
the three characters in one elegant single composition). This
set of three characters “according to the small count”
means that the date that follows does not include the thousands
(thus 5770 would read 77).
ASF
rehabilitates the Jewish cemetery in Créhange, Moselle
PASCAL
FAUSTINI describes the work performed by young
Germans, Poles and Russians from ASF- Aktion Sühnezeichen
Friedensdienste (Action Sign of Atonement and Service for
Peace) during Summer 2007 to 2009 in restoring the Jewish cemetery
in Créhange (Moselle), guided by two members of the Jewish
Museum in Brussels.
The
registers of the commercial school of Nuremberg in the 19th
century
FRANCOISE
LYON-CAEN tells us about the registers of a school
in Nuremberg between 1809 and 1905, that can be used as a genealogical
source.
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