From
Joselmann from Rosheim (1478-1554), représenting the Jews of
the Empire under Charles V, to the french sociologist Emile
Durkheim (1858-1917),
Pascal
Faustini invites the reader to
the journey of a precious manuscript belonging to a Jewish family
expelled from Alsace at the end of the 16 th century They came
back two centuries later bringing the Durckheim manuscript which
was transmitted from generation to generation.
From
the Danube to the Rhine, from Swabia to Alsace: Ulmo's, Ulman's
andGünzburger's crossed itineraries.
Denis
INGOLD traces vagaries of Ulm and Günzburg
families. When expelled from Ulm in 1500 to settle in Günzburg
their descendants took alternatively the names Ulmo, Ulman and
Günzburger or derivates.
The old jewish cemetery of Tunis : anthroponymy of the
Jews in the city.
Jacques
TAÏEB
has studied the epitaphs of the ancient Jewish cemetery in Tunis from
which he derived the anthroponomy of the Jews in the city with
emphasis on the Twânsa community. A small dictionnary
of rare and of frequent names is presented.
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