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Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel
This book reveals the wealth of resources on Sephardic Jewish history and genealogy in Israel. Even though research can be conducted abroad, the essential sources and collections are located in Israel. It encompasses important archival collections such as the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People; the Central Zionist Archives; the Jewish National and University Library - Department of Manuscripts and Archives, the Jewish National and University Library - Institute of Hebrew Microfilmed Manuscripts; the Ben Zvi Institute Library; Yad Vashem Library; and countless other repositories maintained by research institutes and museums and managed by various immigrant and other ethnic associations in Israel. The book is divided alphabetically by country as shown in the Table of Contents below. The twenty-nine appendices contain name lists, the majority of which were found in archival material.
Sephardic Surnames Index of Research Sources
Index of research sources for 68,000 Jewish surnames from the Sephardic diaspora. Designed as a research aid, over 200 sources include books, archives, cemeteries, city directories, government records, rabbinic dictionaries, ketubot, synagogue records, genealogical databases, websites, and onomastic studies.
The Jewelers of the Ummah
Algeria's Arab Jews were renowned for their metal-working and jewellery-making skills, and these jewellers of the ummah-the Arabic community-are, for Azoulay, the symbol of a world that can still be reclaimed and repaired. In a series of letters written to her father, her great-grandmother, and her children-and to the thinkers and artists she claims as intellectual kin, such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt-Azoulaytraces the history of Arab Jewish life in Algeria, and how it was disrupted by French colonialism. She begins by asking how her family became assimilated into the identities of "Israeli," "Jewish," or "French." As she does, she finds a whole lost world open up to her - the world o...
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Years of Glory
The compelling true story of Nelly Benatar—a hero of the anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for the "last million" escaping the Second World War. When France fell to Hitler's armies in June 1940, a flood of refugees fleeing Nazi terror quickly overwhelmed Europe's borders and spilled across the Mediterranean to North Africa, touching off a humanitarian crisis of dizzying proportions. Nelly Benatar, a highly regarded Casablancan Jewish lawyer, quickly claimed a role of rescuer and almost single-handedly organized a sweeping program of wartime refugee relief. But for all her remarkable achievements, Benatar's story has never been told. Wi...
