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The General Assembly of Cercle de Généalogie Juive will take place on Sunday April 11, 2010. Five members of the board will be elected at this date. Candidacies can be sent to our Office not later than March 9.
. Our member Fernand Deray collected more than 15,000 vital records of the Jews of Constantine (Algeria), namely 9,900 birth records, 1,200 marriage records and 3,600 death records. This huge work, covering the 1843-1895 period, was done between 1990 and 2000 from the microfilms deposited in the CAOM (Centre des Archives d'Outre-mer) at Aix en Provence. Fernand Deray noted the whole set of information found on the records, which he was sometimes able to complete by data from other sources. Please note that a few records now available on the Website of the CAOM were absent from the microfilms in 2000. We offer here two
levels of access : Our
member Jacob Benzazon analyzed a certain number of Ketubot (religious
marriage contracts) from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Gibraltar,Turkey,
Greece, Bulgaria, Leghorn, and also a few from Brazil and Portugal. Our
board has prepared a questionnaire
that all members have received. The purpose of this questionnaire was
to understand better what you expect from our society and to know better
who you are Détails dans Publications A new price policy has been decided in April 2008 for our publications. From now on, prices of publications will not include postage dues, which results in a significant price reduction for people buying these publications in our premises. For details Click here.
Members who changed their E-mail address recently are kindly requested to send a short message to our librarian . It would be a pity to loose contact with you. Please also tell us of any change in the future. Thanks in advance;
A
reedition of the book "Les israélites dans l'Armée
Française, 1914-18" (Jews in the French Army
in WW1) has just been published by our Society.
A
census of the Parisian Jews was made by the "Consistoire"
in 1809-1810. The manuscript is kept in the library of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America at New York. Elie Nicolas and Claudie
BLAMONT have fully analyzed this document which provides the most extensive
picture of the Jewish population at that time. Many personal details
are found in this work.
We have implemented
a new Search Engine, which allows you to search the whole Website
for a word or a sentence. Now it is in also in
English at search engine and
you can find instructions for use
in English.
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| NEW FILES |
| THE MEMBERS' CORNER |
| Good
News for our Members |
From now on, all members of our Society will get a 10 % discount on all their orders, i.e. on publications and cassettes.
Moreover members
of the CGJ who have given us their e-mail address, receive a
monthly mail with all the Questions/Answers of the preceding
month. If you don't receive such a message, please contact our office.
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New Cemeteries |
One of our members has sent us 13 beautiful pictures of the Jewish cemetery Saint-Eugène at Algiers. You can see three of them in the Members' Corner. By the way, have also a look at the map of sephardic migrations. If you wish to see the other ten pictures, ask Jacob BENZAZON (his address is in the Members' corner)
The
last registry of this Algiers' Saint-Eugene cemetery has
been restored and copied by Mrs Line Meller.
This registry which spans the period from June 1941 to May
2001, usually provides, for each burial :
- the date
- the family name and given name of the person buried
- the given name of the buried person's father
- the buried person's age
- the husband's name if it is a married woman
- the class of the burial
- the zone of the tomb
- the address of buried person
- whether the was a coffin or not.
Jean-Paul Durand and Philippe Danan have digitalized this registry and they made an index. Click here to see it
To obtain a copy of a page of this register, just send a written request to Cercle de Généalogie Juive, 45 rue La Bruyère – 75009 Paris, France and specify a name and a date. Please also send (with a check on a French Bank or with your Credit Card Number) an amount of 3 euros (2 euros if you are a member of CGJ) for each name and date, with a minimum of 6 euros per order.
The money thus collected, after deduction of our postal charges, will be forwarded to an association for the perservation of the Saint-Eugène cemetery.
NEW
our member Jean-Paul Durand just completed a beautiful Website about
this cemetery :
http://www.cimetiere-steugene.judaismealgerois.fr/
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Our friend Jean-Pierre Kleitz sent us a list of people buried in the
cemetery of Brumath (Bas-Rhin), made with Ruben Honigmann.
It can be found in the Members'
Corner.
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We have noticed an interesting website http://www.harguesshope.com/index.htm
which contains a list of people buried in the cemetery of Philippeville,
in Algeria. From that website, we have extracted a list of Jewish
people that you can find in our Members' corner.
| Just out of Press ! |
The book " Les Inscriptions Tumulaires des cimetières d'Alger" ( Gravestone inscriptions in the cemeteries of Algiers) by Rabbi Isaac Bloch has been republished
Details in Publications. To order, here is the order form
| A work about the Jews of North Africa |
Jacques TAÏEB has just published Juifs du Maghreb. Noms de famille et société.
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This book makes an inventory as comprehensive as possible
of all surnames in North Africa, explains their origin, their meaning,and
yields their frequency and the date of their first apparition. All
these surnames are of course replaced in their social, historical
and geographical contexts.
For details
| Lectures and Meetings |
The next lecture
will be given on Monday , March 1st
at 6.30 pm. Laurent
MOYSE will talk of several families and interesting people of the Luxembourg,
such as the rabbis Samuel and Emil Gustav Hirsch , Hugo Gernsback who
founded science-fiction, Emile and René Worms, famous sociologists
etc ....". see
the poster
The following lecture
will be given on Monday, April 12
at 6.30 pm. Roselyne
ANZIANI will speak of "The History of the Jewish Community
of Pernes-les-Fontaine, in the Papal States"
A new branch of CGJ has been created at Nice and our Lyons branch is active again.
We shall begin to provide summaries of some of the lectures. Here is the summary of Philippe Danan's lecture on September 21, 2008. Previous summaries in French can be found in the French section as well as a few recorded lectures that can be heard on line.
| CD-Roms for the lectures |
We can now provide copies of all older cassettes onto CD-Roms. Ask our Office if you are interested.
| Specialized Groups |
Reunions of the Specialized Groups on Lorraine and Alsace (May 26, 2010), Germany (September 14, 2009), Eastern Europe (November 9, 2009) have been scheduled, as well as of the group on North Africa on April 18, 2010.
Click on Our Meetings for details
| Our members suggest |
NEW DATABASES concerning NORTH-AFRICAN JEWS (05.01.2009)
Our Member Jacob Benzazon extracted from the Census of Jews of Leghorn in the years 1753-1807 by Jean-Pierre Filipini (Document F072 in our Library) all names that seem originating from North Africa. They are to be found in our Members' Corner.
Jacob has also found a Website quoting a great number of weddings in Tunisia. He extracted from this site those where one of the spouses has a Jewish surname. This also can be found in our Members' Corner.
He also noted an interesting Website concerning the Jewish Cemetery of Tangiers. This also can be found in our Members' Corner.
CEMETERY of TUNIS (01.03.2009)
One
of our members, Michel Zaffran, visited the Jewish
Cemetery of Tunisand sent us 15 pictures that can be found in the Members'
Corner.
CEMETERY of BAGNEUX (01.03.2009)
One
of our members visited the Cemetery of Bagneux, which belongs to Paris
and noted the divisions which are purely Jewish and those that are mixed.
He made a map that you can find here
ACCESS TO THE ARCHIVES OF AROLSEN
The
International Research Service (ITS) of Arolsen (Germany) now gives
access to its digitalized archives to searchers and members of the families
of victims of Nazi persecutions. The Center owns 40 millions files coming
from lists of deportation, of deaths in camps or ghettos, of refugees
etc...
Therefore searchers, and in priority those who are kins of victims of
the Shoah, can ask for information:
-either directly from Arolsen www.its-arolsen.org
(English and German, French is coming),
- or at the US Holocause Memorial Museum Museum (USHMM) www.ushmm.org
which has microfilms of a part of this fund (English only).
Searchers should be aware that many documents have already be provided by the ITS to other institutions, that some documents have been destroyed and moreover that the searches at Arolsen and Washington are done by employees or volunteers who have a limited amount of time available and many requests to treat. The spelling of surnames is sometimes hazardous and some deportees had faked documents and were registred under a fake name
It is perhaps needless to say that only deportees selected for work have been registered by the Nazis. The other ones, either deceased during the transportation or directly sent to the gas chambers, have not been registered. Nothing concerning them exists at Arolsen.
| About Naturalizations |
The Cercle de Genealogie Juive has purchased the CD-Rom, edited by "Les Chercheurs d'Ancêtres", which comprises the main information (but not the complete files) concerning all French naturalizations between 1900 and 1950. The complete files are available at Fontainebleau and in the CARAN (Paris). If you are a member of CGJ, one of our volunteers can consult these files for you for a nominal fee. Write to our Office.
This CD-ROM has been recently extended to 1960.
| French-SIG |
A discussion list, in English, entirely devoted to genealogy in France, has opened on JewishGen, under the name of French-SIG. To subscribe, click here.