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. Our board has prepared a questionnaire that members should have now received. The purpose of this questionnaire is to understand better what you expect from our society and to know better who you are This
questionnaire is in French but if you have some difficulties to understand
the questions, the webmaster will be happy to help you. 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 help to support actions related to the Algerian judaism, such as a rehabilitation of Saint-Eugène cemetery, a gift to the synagog Ribach & Rachbats of Netanya through Mr Simon Darmon, or anything of similar purpose.
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We have obtained from our members a list of French Jews buried in a San Francisco cemetery at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20 th century. It can be found in the Members' Corner.
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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.
| 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 take place on Monday, September 8. As it is now usual, it will be devoted to free contributions by our members about their recent findings and about the difficulties they have met. Those wishing to participate should contact Bernard Lyon-Caen or our office.
An exceptional lecture will take place on Sunday, September 21 at 10 a.m. Philippe Danan will deal with "The Jews of Algiers in the beginning of the French conquest after 1830".
The following lecture will be given on Monday, November 3 at 6.30 p.m. Hervé Le Bret will talk about the d'Eichthal family, and especially about the two brothers Adolphe and Gustave d'Eichthal.
| CD-Roms for the lectures |
We will progressively copy all older cassettes onto CD-Roms. Ask our Office if you are interested.
| Specialized Groups |
Reunions of the Specialized Groups on Lorraine (January 16, 2008), Alsace (May 14, 2008), Germany (October 3, 2007), Eastern Europe (December 17, 2007) have been scheduled, as well as of the group on North Africa on June 22, 2008
Click on Our Meetings for details
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Our members suggest |
MEMORIAL of KUTNO (07.27.2008)
One
of our members, José KLINGBEIL, whose family
comes from KUTNO (Poland), informed us that a Website has been opened
concerning the Jewish community of this city.
Here is the link .
DATABASE on ISTANBUL (07.27.2008)
We
have earlier given the adress of a database concerning the Jews of Istanbul.
This address is no more valid. The new adress is http://www.benkazez.com/dan/istanbul/
ACCESS TO THE ARCHIVES OF AROLSEN (02.04.2008)
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.
The WARSAW CEMETERY (02.04.2008)
The Warsaw
Jewish cemetery now yields a part of its secrets.
According
the Website Internet Aroutz 7, the director of this cemetery, dating
from the XIXth century, Przemyslaw Isroel Szpilman, has decided
to rebuild the archives of the site, burnt by Nazis in 1943. This cemetery
contains ca. 250,000 graves. Szpilman has already written 60,000 archives
– i.e about 25% of the work planned – after 5 years of research. A Website
concerning the cemetery has been created : www.cemetery.jewish.org.pl.
« This is History. This place is the last dwelling of a community
which lived here for decades. To work here is an honour and a priviledge»,
says Przemyslaw Isroel Szpilman.
To see the paper of Aroutz 7(in French) , Click
here
The CASABLANCA CEMETERY (02.04.2008)
A working
group has begun to digitalize the graves of the Jewish cemetery Ben
M'Sik of Casablanca (Morocco). To reach the Website, Click
here
2,000 YEARS OF HUNGARIAN JEWISH HISTORY (01.17.2008)
Our friend Vivian Kahn, who lives in California,
is the moderator of H-Sig, the Special Interest Group devoted to Hungary
in JewishGen. She sent us an interesting timeline which integrates key
events in world and Jewish history with important dates in the history
of Hungarian Jews. Click here..
THE REGISTERS OF ALIENS IN BELGIUM (12.17.2007)
Our correspondent Jan Bousse, from Oostende,
has written a very interesting note on the Registers of Aliens in Belgium.
Click here..
On Bob Cassutto's Website, one can now
find, as an help for research in Tunisia,
"Les Registres Matrimoniaux de la Communauté juive
Portugaise de Tunis aux XVIIIème et XIXème
siècles".(Wedding registers of the Portuguese Jewish
community of Tunis in the 18th and 19th centuries)
Click here for the
home page.
For Vol I (1788-1823) (original number 2/10, 1962 individuals, 198 names)
, Click here
For Vol II (1853-1878) (original number 5/10, 1962 individuals, 229
names) , Click here
For Vol III (1843-1854) (original number 4/10, 929 individuals, 139
names) , Click here
For each name, genealogical information is given.
At the origin, 10 volumes existed. Only 3 have been found. Where are the other ones ?.
Note that Jacob Benzazon has a copy of
these three volumes and would be pleased to help.
A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF RABBIS (06.15.2007)
The French National Archives and the CFAJ
(French Committee for Jewish Archives) have prepared a large biographical
dictionary of all rabbis and other Jewish ministers for France
and Algeria during the period 1808-1905. Details and a subscription
form are to be found by clicking
here. This book is now available.
THE KETOUBOT OF PARIS (06.13.2007)
Our member and former secretary Véronique
CAHEN has produced a work "Relevé des Ketoubot au Consistoire
de Paris 1872-1884", a detailed analysis of the Ketoubot of
Paris between 1872 and 1884. Details and a subscription form are to
be found by clicking here. This book
is now available.
Our member José Klingbeil sent us interesting information concerning
Turkey and Greece
1. Phone number of the Izmir Jewish Community : (++90) 23 24 21 12 90.
One can ask for:
A/ the birth registry from 1933 on (the registers of previous years
have burnt).
B/ marriages from 1923 on.
2.Phone number of the Istanbul Jewish Community :(++90) 21 22 93 87
94
3. Phone number of the Salonika Jewish Community : (++30) 23 10 27 57
01
For further details, contacy José Klingbeil. His E-mail address
cn be found in the Members' Corner
The New Book of Serge KLARSFELD (04.28.2007)
The long-awaited new version of Serge KLARSFELD Book "Le Mémorial
de la Déportation des Juifs de France"is beginning
to appear. The first Volume (out of 8) is now available. More details
are given on this new Edition in our section DEPORTEES.
To see the cover page of this first volume, Click here
Volume 2 is now also available. To see the covers, Click here and also here
The Convoy #50 from Drancy to Maidanek (04.28.2007)
Our member Ernest Kallmann obtained and exploited unpublished documents
concerning the preparation of the "reprisal convoi # 50"
that left Drancy on March 4, 1943 bound for Maidanek.
These documents have been indexed, with the help of other CGJ members,
and led to an interesting study of the wandering of foreign Jews in
France during WW2.
It appears that, among the 920 persons found, the fate of 73 of them still remains unknown.
The
resulting study can be viewed on the Website « Un exil ordinaire
» (in English) which is devoted to the French internment camps
between 1939 and 1945 at the following address Click
here.
The PAPAL JEWS (05.13.2007)
The ACJP (Association Culturelle des Juifs du Pape) has organized a
meeting in Avignon on April 14 and 15, 2007, devoted to discussions
and lectures about the Papal Jews and to visits of historical sites.
For a small report (in French) on this event, click
here.
Moreover recently (end of 2006), Jean-Paul BOURLAC has opened a very useful Website http://genebour.free.fr/newjufoxy/ giving many genealogies based on Jean-Claude Cohen's work. Moreover one can see in this site the pictures of 1600 acts, mainly weddings.
For those who have forgotten, let us recall the page devoted to the Papal Jews on the present site.Click here.
The MORMONS' Microfilms (12.25.2006)
It is now possible to have these microfilms sent in one of their FHL centers by an on-line order.
The CEMETERY of HEGENHEIM
The listing of the gravestones of Hegenheim, awaited for two or three
years, has just been published. It is a superb work : 144 pages, list
of names, death dates, position and pictures of the graves, color map
of the cemetery, and a cederom. It can be obtained from Mrs Léa
ROGG - 9 rue des Coteaux, 68220 Hégenheim, France. Price 24.00
euros plus postage.
| 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.
