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Les inscriptions tumulaires des cimetières d'Alger. (Tumular Inscriptions in the cemeteries of Algiers) Isaac BLOCH Publication Cercle de Généalogie Juive 2008,
(Price : 25 euros + postage dues).

The context
In Algeria, before 1830, Jews are not writing, if we except religious books, generally published at Leghorn. Family events such as births, weddings, deaths are not recorded. The mohels (circumcisers) had no registers and there are no memorbuch. Until the French administration introduced the official registration in mid-1836, sources for genealogy are very scarce.
Except partial data found in a few books written by travellers, diplomats or officers and a few scraps of information found in le Moniteur Algérien, we know only three books devoted to the Jews :
Les juifs dans l’Afrique septentrionale, by Abraham Cahen, found on Gallica, Le livre d’Or des Israélites Algériens by Haddey-Devoulx, recently republished by CGJ, and les Inscriptions tumulaires des anciens cimetières israélites d’Alger by Isaac Bloch, that we republish now, with an index.
Isaac Bloch who was Chief Rabbi of Oran, from 1878 to 1882 and Chief Rabbi of Algiers up to 1890, describes forty-eight gravestones that he discovered at the Saint Eugène cemetery, and give the translation of the epitaphs written in Hebrew. The oldest tomb is the tomb of Juda Khallac deceased in 1620, the most recent one is that of Isaac Aboulker, who died in 1815.

The book
In this book, Isaac Bloch sometimes gives historical information concerning people mentioned on the gravestones. For this purpose he has, among others, exploited the archives of the Spanish consulate of Algiers, which provides a certain vision of the Jewish community of Algiers at the beginning of the 19^thcentury.
Although it contains rather few data on the family links of the people mentioned, this book presents a tremendous interest since it yields numerous dated landmarks on the Jewish community of Algiers during nearly two centuries. As such it is a precious help for any research on Algiers at the end of the 18^th and in the first half of the 19^th century.

VANTOUX, VALLIERES, MÉY and GRIMONT. A Jewish community in the neighborhood of Metz from the 17th to the 20th century. History, genealogy, cemetery. by Jean-Pierre Bernard and Pascal Faustini, 279 pages, format 21x29,7, ISBN 2-912785-24-3.

This book traces back the existence of an ancient Jewish community spread on four villages at the door of Metz, on the East side.
The first part, mainly historical, displays the birth and development of this community from the 17th century on. First traces were found by Pascal Fautini in 1639. But its real creation takes place between 1666 and 1702 and it can be followed until the French Revolution and further.
The second part is genealogical It provides in alphabetical order the different family stems originating in this community, beginning with their founders. About fifty families, the most important of which are the families CREHANGE, FRANCFORT, HAYEM, LAZARD (or BENEDIC). In their descendants we find the Préfet Robert HAYEM and Raymond AUBRAC, one of the famous resistants to the nazis.
The last part, due to Jean-Pierre Bernard, is an exhaustive inventory of the tombs of the Jewish cemetery of Vantoux (opened in the 18th century). More than 200 tombs have been inventoried. For each of them, one can find its picture, the name and family links of the deceased as well as the translation of the inscription (due to the kind help of Professor Simon Schwarzfuchs).
Many family trees can be found in the second part.
This book is dedicated to the late Michel CREHANGE, who passed away in May 2001 and was at the origin of this project.
Price : 30 euros + postage dues

Les Juifs à Paris en 1809-1810: le Recensement du Consistoire (Jews at Paris in 1809-1810: the census made by the "Consistoire"), by Elie NICOLAS and Claudie BLAMONT.

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.

Price : 20 euros + postage dues. For details (in French) click here

PUBLICATIONS

GENERAL BOOKS

• Catalogue du Fonds de Documentation du Cercle de Généalogie Juive,
  by Basile Ginger, 49 pages, ISSN 1163-3654- 19^th edition, 2007. 
  A catalog of all documents available in the Library of the Cercle in Paris : books, documents, manuscripts. Description according to nine criteria: location, reference, author, date published, title, number of pages,  date of subject matter, keyword 1 and 2. ca. 2000 items listed.
  Price : 4.50 euros + postage dues
  

• Le Guide Pratique de Genealogie Juive en France et a l'etranger 
  ( A Practical Guide (in French) to Jewish Genealogy in France and Elsewhere)

by Basile Ginger, 278 pages, CGJ 2002

Price : 25 euros + postage dues

Out of its 278 large format pages, 120 are devoted to France or formerly French North Africa. They contain comprehensive basic and practical information about the who, when, where, how, asked when searching for ancestors in France. The remainder of the work deals with other countries. At the end, one can find an index of 380 key-words and another one of 1,340 names of persons and places (including the towns and villages of Alsace and Lorraine for which nominal rolls have been located).

• Listes d'Ascendances de membres du CGJ (ancestry lists),
  This first volume contains about fifteen ancestry lists, some short, some very long.. It is available to our members only
  First volume: Price : 15 euros + postage dues
  
  Second volume: Price : 14 euros + postage dues
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•   Proceedings of the 5^th International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy Paris-France July 13-17, 1997
  published by Anne Lifshitz-Krams, 578 pages, ISBN 2-95110092-9-1- Report on the Paris International Seminar: conferences, workshops. This book includes many useful and practical informations for genealogists wanting to do research in and from France.
  Price : 33 euros + postage dues
  
  
   

  • Index de la Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive, by Pierre LAUTMANN, edition completed by Georges GRANER (2007)

  Price : 2.50 euros + postage dues
  - given free to each new member. It can also be consulted on line. Click on Index.

  • Les Israélites dans l'Armée Française 1914-1918 ( Jews in the French army during WW1), a new edition by the Cercle de Généalogie Juive. 516 pages.
    Price : 36 euros + postage dues
    

    This is a reprint of the second edition (1921) of a work published in 1920 by the "Consistoire". It contains:
    1) an alphabetical list of the Jews killed in the war (with their birthplace, their death date and place, their rank and unit)
    2) an alphabetical list of the Jews who got a "mention in dispatches", with their rank, their unit and the text of the mention. This part constitutes most of the work (p. 93 to 516).
    As Albert Manuel, general secretary of AICP, tells us in the preface, these lists comprise the Jews from Algeria, "included in the French nation and rightly proud of their title of citizens" as well as "foreigners who freely joined the French Army".
    In spite of additions made in the second edition, the work cannot claim "completeness". But it allows the reader to find members of his family, with the text of unknown mentions.
    
    This reprint was made from a copy deposited in the Library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, by the kind courtesy of Mr M.Jean-Claude Kuperminc, librarian.
    

   

  ALSACE

  • Le Dénombrement des Juifs d’Alsace de 1784

  391 pages. A reprint of the comprehensive census of Jews in Alsace at the end of the 18^th century, a must for those researching in this province. 
  Price : 34 euros + postage dues
  

  • Index du Dénombrement des Juifs d’Alsace de 1784

  by Dan Leeson
  337 pages ,A reprint of Dan Leeson’s index, originally in print and on microfiches. This reprint includes the index by surname and given names. 
  Price : 29 euros + postage dues
  

   

  • Index de "Mémoire juive en Alsace, contrats de mariage au XVIII^ème siècle"

  The book indexed is "Jewish Memory in Alsace, XVIII^th century, marriage contracts" from A.A. Fraenckel (éd. du Cédrat 1997)(Information at librairie.cedrat@wanadoo.fr) . 
  Rosanne and Daniel N. Leeson  have made index of this book. It is the printout of a database created by Dan and Rosanne Leeson, retrievable according to six criteria. Includes, besides the bride and the groom, their parents, other relatives, rabbis and witnesses, etc.. cited in the marriage contract. The introduction to each of the six indexes contains all necessary instructions.

  A general introduction in French and in English explains how to use this index.Volume I Bas-Rhin 475 pages - Volume II Haut-Rhin 413 pages
  Price : 29 euros + postage dues
  

  A few errors are present in the huge work of A. A. Fraenckel, which he had no time to correct before his death. We have undertaken a compilation of these mistakes in an Errata File. All those who find such errors are kindly requested to post them to the address Kassells@hotmail.com.

   

  • Recueil des déclarations de prise de noms patronymiques des Juifs, by Pierre Katz.

  In 1808 the Jews in France and in the French Empire were forced to adopt permanent family and given names (click here for details in french) ; their choices were registered in each town hall. These registers constitute a comprehensive census of all Jews, as far as the records have been preserved. They also provide the correspondence between prior and subsequent names.

  Département du Bas-Rhin, 
  2 volumes, 800 pages, ISBN 2-9510092-1-6, 2-4, 3-2, 4-0.
  Price : 46 euros + postage dues
  

  Département du Haut-Rhin, 
  1 volume, 401 pages, ISBN 2-9510092-6-7, 7-5. Also includes the towns of Besançon, Dijon, Carouge (CH).
  Price : 27 euros + postage dues
  

  • Les Communautés Juives du Bas-Rhin en 1851, by Pierre Katz.

  Analysis of the 1851 census, with a map and an index of surnames by P.A. Meyer.
  ISBN 2-912785-17-0.
  Price : 25 euros + postage dues
  

  Les communautés juives du Haut-Rhin en 1851.  
  Analysis of the 1851 census by Pierre KATZ, 256 pages, CGJ 2002.
  Price : 24 euros + postage dues

  For these four last works, there is an index of the surnames and of the places where they can be found. It can also be found on this site (click on Other Research)

  
  
  

  The memoirs of Ascher Lévy have just been translated from German and Hebrew to French. Click here for details (in French) on this interesting character.
  120 pages, CGJ 2003.
  Price : 15 euros + postage dues
  

  Registre du cimetière israélite de Rosenwiller (1753-1980) (Register of the Jewish Cemetery of Rosenwiller (1753-1980)), by Avraham MALTHETE

  This long awaited book concerns the largest Jewish Cemetery in Alsace which has been in use since the middle of the XVII^th century. 5588 burials are registered from one hundred neighbouring villages and cities.
  
  Our members Pierre Katz, Georges Halbronn, and Jean-Pierre Bernard had the idea in 2000 to publish this register which was deposited in the archives of the "Consistoire Israélite de Bas-Rhin" which accepted to be associated to this project. Cerf Picard, rabbi at Rosheim is the author of the first copy, begun in 1936, from documents as old as 1753. He worked on this until 1944 when he was deported to Auschwitz. After him, the register was held until 1980.
  
  Abraham Malthête has been in charge of the traduction (from Hebrew and Judeo-Alsatian) and of the edition of the manuscript. The Introduction explains how to use this work. The first part provides a Chronological List of the burials. The second part is ordered according to the cities. A few pictures of the gravestones with their transcription and translation give an idea of the work which remains to have a total vision of the largest Jewish necropolis in Alsace.
  
  Publication of CGJ and Consistoire Israélite de Bas-Rhin, 2004, 342 pages with maps, color pictures and fac-similes of documents. ISBN 2-912785-29-4.
  Price : 30 euros + postage dues
  

   

  LORRAINE

  • Tables du registre d’Etat-civil de la communauté juive de Metz (1717-1792)      
    
    by Pierre-André Meyer, 462 pages- Reprint of the 1987 edition, amended and commented. The earliest civil life records in Metz, following an order of the Metz bailiff. A must.
    Price : 30 euros + postage dues
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  •       Contrats de mariage juifs en Moselle avant 1792

  by Jean Fleury (3^rd edition, 1999, 255 pages) ISBN 2-9510092-5-9.
  A table of the 2021 marriage contracts (tenaim) deposited with the Royal Notaries, 80% in Metz and the remainder in other places, mostly between 1705-1792. A must for genealogical research before the establishment of civil life records in 1793.
  Price : 28 euros + postage dues
  

  • Recueil des déclarations de prise de noms patronymiques des Juifs

   by Pierre Katz. (see above under ALSACE)
  Départements de Moselle et Meurthe-et-Moselle
  320 pages, ISBN 2-9510092-8-3. 
  Price : 21 euros + postage dues

  For this work, there is an index of the surnames and of the places where they can be found. It can also be found on this site (click on Other Research)

  • Le cimetière israélite régional de Lunéville (1759-1998)

  by Françoise & Sylvain Job, Claude Freund et al., 80 pages,
  An inventory of some 1,000 tombstones of Jews from Lunéville and many surroundings places, located and identified.
  Price : 15 euros + postage dues
  

  •   Les mariages Juifs en Moselle (1792-1892) by Jean-Louis CALBAT
    A listing of Jewish marriages found in the decennal metrical tables. A total of 4900 Jewish marriages have been found in this period in Moselle.1 vol 220 p.
    CGJ 2001

    Price : 24 euros + postage dues
    

    • Les cimetières israélites de Moselle by Jean-Pierre Bernard

    2 volumes: (volume I: 397 pages; Volume II: 373 pages) CGJ 2002

    Price : 74 euros + postage dues
     

    A total of 50 cemeteries in 44 different villages (list of these villages) have been listed. An index with 14,500 surnames makes it easy to find a given gravestone. Note that only gravestones written in French are listed here, except for Phalsbourg. The tombs with inscriptions in Hebrew will still need many years of work by competent people. It was therefore deemed useful to publish now the result of four years of work.

     

    • Tables du Memorbuch de Metz (1720-1849)

     by Jean-Claude Bouvat-Martin- 117 pages CGJ 2001

    Price : 15 euros + postage dues

    The author has analyzed the second part of the Memorbuch of Metz, the first part of which had been previously translated by Simon Schwarzfuchs. Five tables are provided, so that it is rather easy to find an obituary among the 1223 studied.

    • VANTOUX, VALLIERES, MÉY and GRIMONT. A Jewish community in the neighborhood of Metz from the 17th to the 20th century. History, genealogy, cemetery. by Jean-Pierre Bernard and Pascal Faustini, 279 pages, format 21x29,7. See earlier on this page, in the recent publications.

     

    PARIS

    • Les Juifs à Paris en 1809-1810: le Recensement du Consistoire (Jews at Paris in 1809-1810: the census made by the "Consistoire"), by Elie NICOLAS and Claudie BLAMONT

      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.
      
      Price : 20 euros + postage dues
      
      For details (in French) Click here

    • Paris cemeteries – Jewish sections by Gilles Plaut

    Cimetière de Montmartre (division 3)

    184 pages - Price : 17 euros + postage dues
    

    Cimetière du  Père-Lachaise (division israélite)

    168 pages - Price : 17 euros + postage dues
    

    Names and data are copied from the gravestones. Indexed alphabetically.

    Other cemeteries have been listed by Gilles Plaut and are available from the author (Rubrique Cemeteries).

    • Mariages religieux juifs à Paris, 1848-1872,

    by Anne Lifshitz-Krams, 3rd Edition 2000 – 200 pages, ISBN 2-9510092-0-8.
    A table of 2304 marriages, from the records of the Paris Consistoire, cross-referenced with those of the 1872 census.
    Price : 16 euros + postage dues
    

    • Mariages célébrés dans le Temple Israélite de la rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth.

    by Claudie Blamont, CGJ 2003 – 120 pages, ISBN 2-912785-26-X.
    
    A table of marriages from the records of the Paris Consistoire, from November 24, 1822 to December 31,1841.
    Price : 17 euros + postage dues
    
    
    Sources:
    These marriages are recorded in a register at the Paris Consistoire (ref. GG1). It gives the surnames and given names of the spouses, their addresses and the "class" of the marriage. In some instances, one can read that the wedding took place out of the temple for some reason which is explained and the extra-fee is mentioned.
    
    Our Publication:
    In the first part, marriages are given by the husband's surname in alphabetical order. Information concerns the surnames and given names of the spouses, as well as their addresses.
    In the second part, marriages are given by the wife's surname in alphabetical order.
    
    Although we have in hand the 1850 Census of th Paris Jews, that we shall publish soon, it is less useful since only the family head is mentioned.
    
    A map of the (old) 7^th "Arrondissement" is also given as well as two interesting graphs : number of weddings every year and "class" of the weddings every year.
    

     

    OTHER FRENCH REGIONS

    • Etat Civil des Juifs de Nîmes et de Pont-Saint-Esprit (de 1792 à la fin du XIX^ème Siècle) 

    by Dr Lucien Simon - Lists all civil records of these two towns except living individuals, a work by the specialist of the history of the Jews in Nîmes.
    116 pages - 
    Price : 14 euros + postage dues
    

  • Relevé du Cimetière de la Mouche (Lyon)
    
    by Etienne TROLLER and Manuela WYLER, 181 pages, CGJ 2003, foreword by Richard Wertenschlag, Chief-Rabbi of Lyons.
    Price : 19 euros + postage dues
    Listing of more than 4900 gravestones from the oldest Jewish cemetery in the region of Lyons (beginning of the XIX^th century).
    First part: listing according to the location of the gravestones.
    Second part: listing according to the alphabetical order of the surnames.

      FRENCH NORTH AFRICA

    • Juifs du Maghreb. Noms de famille et société (North African Jews. Surnames and society), by Jacques TAÏEB

      This book makes an inventory as comprehensive as possible of all Jewish 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.
      Price : 20 euros + postage dues
      

    Le Livre d’Or du Judaïsme Algérien (1914-1918) :(The Golden book of Algerian Judaism 1914-1918)
    first edition 1919 – republished by the CGJ. - Presents names and decorations of fact of French Jewish soldiers during WW1.
    Price : 22 euros + postage dues
    Not to be confused with the next book.

   

  • Le Livre d'Or des israélites algériens. Recueil de renseignements inédits et authentiques sur les principaux négociants juifs d’Alger pendant la période turque (The Golden Book of the Algerian Israelites. A compendium of unpublished and authentical pieces of information on Jewish merchants at Algiers during the Turkish period) - by M.J. M.Haddey, Alger 1871. Reprint CGJ 2005 (with the kind permission of AIU), Index by Jacob Benzazon, 96 + XVI pages ISBN 2-912785-31-6. Not to be confused with the Golden book of Algerian Judaism (1914-18) just above.
    
    This Golden book has been published in 1871 and 1872. Our publication is made from a copy borrowed from the Library of Alliance Israélite Universelle. An index was needed to make this compendium more tractable. This index has been made by our member Jacob Benzazon.
    
    In the first part, the author gives a history of the Jews in Algeria, the documented list of the Algiers rabbis, followed by the pieces of information he was able to collect about the Jewish merchants at Algiers, beginning at a date from 1685 to 1725, depending on the families. From page 18 on, he procedes in turn (and in parallel) by families and by chronological order until 1826. This mixed classification is only perturbing at the beginning. But later, it helps to beginning a genealogy of these families.The names of ships and of their captains are given, hence possible new sources.
    Price : 19 euros + postage dues
    

  • Les Juifs d’Afrique du Nord: démographie et onomastique 
    by Maurice Eisenbeth, first edition 1936 – republished 1999 by the CGJ & la Lettre Séfarade. 
    Price : 27 euros + postage dues