| FAMILIES The Worms family : origin of a dynasty in Sarrelouis (Lorraine) in the XVIIIth century Pascal Faustini Traced through the notarial archives the destiny of Jacob Worms and his posterity : how poor butchers become celebrities. Eliane Roos Schuhl Considerations on the Worms signatures History and Genealogy. Nossas Familhas : Portuguese itineraries Lionel Lévy
The author leads us in the maze of his " father’s side families ", fromToledano, Seville and Gibraltar to Nantes and Amsterdam, through Tetouan and Tunis Genealogy of the Nerson family (continued) Ernest Kallmann Thanks to Mémoire Juive en Alsace by Aaron Fraenckel, (Strasbourg, 1997), the genealogy of the Nerson family is retraced
DOCUMENTS The original document of the 1784 general Census of the Jews in Alsace for the village of Rixheim Denis Ingold The transcription of the original document provides new informations, not present in the printed version, to the 1784 Alsatian Jews Census ( i.e. date and place of birth, occupation) Roll of Jewish taxes : Nîmes, (France) 1829 Francis Weill Central Archives for History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem provide information on the Jewish community of Nïmes in 1829
MISCELLANEOUS About the importance of cemeteries in genealogical research Philippe Pierret A database for the old jewish cemeteries in Belgium : modern funerary archeology Hebrew paleography : the signature of rabbi Joseph Steinhardt revisited Laurent Kassel A careful examination of the signatures shows that beyond the hebrew language, French and German languages are present and mixed
NEWS : The Proceedings of the International meeting of Jewish Genealogy (Paris, July 14-17, 1997) are available.
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