Harold Rhode

About Harold Rhode

Harold Rhode (born September 19, 1949) is an American specialist on the Middle East. Harold Rhode studied in and traveled extensively throughout the Islamic world and has studied and done research in universities and libraries in Egypt, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. He speaks Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, French, and Turkish. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Rhode

The Genetic Origins of the Jews of Kaifeng, China: Preliminary Findings

Filed Under DNA Studies By Adam Brown, Michael Waas, Harold Rhode, Myrna Gabbay, Danil Shimonov, Aaron Pinkhasov, Bennett Greenspan, Wim Penninx and Raquel Levy-Toledano on July 15, 2024

[This subject matter of this announcement is presently in the pre-publication process and will be published in full with accompanying data following peer review.] The Avotaynu DNA Project is pleased to announce that its advanced genetic testing of men from […]

A Method for Deducing Unknown Surnames And First Names of Female Ancestors

Filed Under Surnames By Harold Rhode on April 1, 2008

Most 19th-century Eastern European archival documents rarely tell us all we would like to know about the people and families we are researching. Very often, for example, the maiden names of mothers are missing on birth records. We, therefore, cannot […]