Saul Issroff

About Saul Issroff

Saul Issroff was a founding member of the JGS Great Britain and is its current President. His interests include the Holocaust in Lithuania and Southern African Jewish genealogy.

Book Review: The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated History, by Richard Mendelsohn and Milton Shain

Filed Under South Africa By Saul Issroff on October 1, 2008

The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated History, by Richard Mendelsohn and Milton Shain. Jonathan Ball: Johannesburg and Cape Town, 2008; telephone (+27) 11 601 8088. $31.95 Order here: http://www.jonathanball.co.za/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=1097&virtuemart_category_id=1 This is the first comprehensive history of South African Jewry […]

Book Review: Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors. A Guide for Family Historians. Rosemary Wenzerul. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire

Filed Under United Kingdom By Saul Issroff on July 1, 2008

Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors. A Guide for Family Historians. Rosemary Wenzerul. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books Ltd., 2008. Price: £ 12.99 This excellent guide focuses primarily on United Kingdom Jewish genealogy, but also has much to offer to […]

Galitzianer-Litvak Divide: Demolished by Y-DNA Studies

Filed Under DNA Studies By Saul Issroff on October 1, 2007

My Y-DNA cousins, Herb Huebscher and Elise Friedman, wrote (“DNA and Jewish Genealogy Join Forces,” AVOTAYNU, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, Summer 2007) about the use of DNA studies showing possible connections between more than 43 families, collectively termed WIRTH (Wolinsky, […]