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Aleppo Jewish Surnames Index

Filed Under Indexing Projects, Surnames, Syria سوريا By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on November 2, 2023

The slow decline of the Aleppo Jewish community began during the 19th century following the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and was accelerated following the turmoil of World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in […]

The Surprising Origins of the Coryell Family of Colonial New Jersey

Filed Under Collaboration, DNA Studies, New World, Portugal By Lea Coryell, Michael Waas and Adam Brown on January 15, 2023

[The following article is reprinted by permission of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The article originally appeared in the Winter 2023 edition of AMERICAN ANCESTORS on pages 27-31. For more information about AMERICAN ANCESTORS magazine and the New England […]

Genealo-J Days – Paris 11/19-20/2022

Filed Under Conferences, DNA Studies, Français, Mediterranean By Adam Brown on November 12, 2022

The Cercle de Généalogie Juive is pleased to invite you November 19 and 20, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Genealo-J Days.to be held at Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, 71 rue du Temple – Paris […]

À la rencontre de nos ancêtres Juifs Marocains et Algériens : NAJMA, la nouvelle association de généalogie dédiée aux juifs du Maroc et d’Algérie.

Filed Under Algerie الجزائر‎, Collaboration, DNA Studies, Maroc المغرب‎, Mediterranean, Uncategorized By Adam Brown on December 21, 2021

La présence de Juifs au Maroc et en Algérie est attestée dès le IIe siècle de l’ère moderne. Arrivés avec les Phéniciens, les Romains, les Arabes, ou à la suite des expulsions d’Espagne et du Portugal, ils forment un patchwork […]

Origine ancestrale des Juifs marocains par l’étude du chromosome Y

Filed Under Crowdsourcing, DNA Studies, Maroc المغرب‎ By Raquel Levy-Toledano on December 21, 2021

Comment identifier nos origines ancestrales ? Il existe malheureusement très peu de sources historiques, familiales ou documentaires pour identifier nos ancêtres Juif marocains. Au mieux, nous avons connaissance d’un ou de deux ancêtres nés au 18e ou au 19e siècle parce qu’ils […]

Surname list of the Jews of Damascus: 2021 update

Filed Under Syria سوريا By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on December 21, 2021

Like many other Jewish communities in the Levant, that of Damascus declined from a thriving community with 12,000 members in 1943 to only a handful by 2010. Its members largely left for Mandatory Palestine, and later to the State of […]

Sephardic Genealogy Society Announced

Filed Under Carribean, Mediterranean, Western Sephardim By Abrao Sebi on July 27, 2021

While everyone has been locked indoors, the Sephardic online community has been thriving. This is largely thanks to weekly Sephardic World talks hosted by Ton Thielen and David Mendoza, which have reached an international audience. Sephardic World was put together […]

Index of Jewish Surnames in Alexandria in the 20th Century (updated December 2022)

Filed Under Mediterranean, Mizrachim, Surnames By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on April 7, 2021

Like the Jewish community in Cairo, the community in Alexandria increased from few thousand members at the end of the 19th century to a vibrant body of around 40,000 members at its peak in 1948.Many factors contributed to this fast […]

Index of Jewish Surnames Found in 20th Century Cairo – Updated December 2022

Filed Under Crowdsourcing, Indexing Projects, Mediterranean, Surnames By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on December 6, 2020

The last two decades have witnessed a remarkable surge of publications, both academic and literary, about Jewish life in Egypt during the 20th century. The latest is the Ph.D. thesis by Dr.Liat Maggid Alon from the Ben Gurion University, a summary […]

Étude du Chromosome Y des Hommes Juifs Marocains

Filed Under Français, Maroc المغرب‎ By Raquel Levy-Toledano and Adam Brown on August 6, 2020

Résumé : Cette étude, réalisée sous l’égide de l’Université de Haïfa et du Technion, fait partie intégrante de l’étude génétique globale des hommes Juifs sépharades et des juifs du Levant, non ashkénazes. Elle est menée sur une cohorte d’hommes d’ascendance paternelle […]

A Consolidated Index of Jewish Surnames in 20th Century Damascus

Filed Under Crowdsourcing, Mediterranean, Surnames, Syria سوريا By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on June 5, 2020

Like many other Jewish communities in the Levant, the Jewish community of Damascus dwindled from a thriving community with 12,000 members in 1943 until only a handful remained by 2010. Its members largely left for Mandatory Palestine and later to […]

Principes directeurs du projet Avotaynu

Filed Under Algerie الجزائر‎, Français, France, Maroc المغرب‎, Tunisie By Raquel Levy-Toledano and Adam Brown on May 20, 2020

Le projet Avotaynu a pour objectif d’étudier les origines et les migrations du peuple juif à travers les âges en s’aidant de l’ADN. Il est dirigé par une équipe multidisciplinaire, principalement universitaire, constituée de scientifiques, de généalogistes et d’historiens. Au […]

Étude Génétique des Hommes Juifs Sefardes et Mizrahi

Filed Under Algerie الجزائر‎, Français, France, Maroc المغرب‎, Tunisie By Adam Brown on May 11, 2020

Résumé: Une étude sur des hommes qui ont prouvé leur ascendance paternelle parmi les membres des communautés séfarades et autres communautés non-ashkénazes du monde entier. Des signatures détaillées des séquences d’ADN du chromosome Y seront obtenues à partir de la […]

Working by the Book in Sephardic Research: The Gedalia Family of Nis, Serbia

Filed Under Mediterranean By Lea Gedalia on March 23, 2020

When he was 50, my husband, Nahum Gedalia, who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1948 and had not previously shown any interest in his genealogy or family history, asked me for a family tree. Having no living family members […]

Jewish Emigration from Aleppo In the 19th and 20th Centuries

Filed Under Mediterranean, Mizrachim, Syria سوريا By Avraham Sfadia on March 22, 2020

    Jews began to settle in Aleppo at the time of the Babylonian Diaspora in 536–538 BCE and continued to do so until the creation of the modern State of Israel. The trade opportunities that Aleppo’s location offered made it […]

History and Genealogy of the Jews of Tuscany

Filed Under Italia By Nardo Bonomi Braverman on March 22, 2020

The Mediterranean is the name of the sea that lies “in the middle of the lands,” these lands being the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia. The Italian peninsula is located centrally on this sea. Because of its strategic position, […]

London’s Portuguese Jewish Community

Filed Under Mediterranean, Portugal By Edgar Samuel on March 22, 2020

When the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, half went to Turkey, Morocco and Italy and half moved to Portugal.1 By 1495, the Jewish population of Portugal had risen from three thousand to some thirty-five thousand in a total […]

Genealogy and the Settlement of Jews in Brazil

Filed Under New World, Portugal, Western Sephardim By Israel Blajberg on March 22, 2020

According to its census, Brazil, with 123 million Roman Catholics, is the largest Catholic nation in the world. If one considers its DNA legacy, however, we find that many white Brazilians descend from Portuguese Jews and New Christians who arrived […]

The Lost Jews of St. Maarten

Filed Under Carribean, Western Sephardim By Dana Sprott on March 22, 2020

The first time I visited the half-Dutch, half-French island of St. Martin/St. Maarten in 1991, I heard that it once had a Jewish community. St. Maarten is a 36-square-mile island in the eastern Caribbean, located between St. Thomas and St. […]

Guiding Principles of the Avotaynu DNA Project

Filed Under Carribean, Collaboration, DNA Studies, Mediterranean, Mexico, Mizrachim By Adam Brown on January 8, 2020

The AvotaynuDNA-sponsored Genetic Census of the Jewish People enters its third year with active DNA testing being carried out within Jewish communities on six continents. As described previously in the pages of AVOTAYNU, the purpose of the project is to […]

Inferring Sephardic Origins for Rabbi Meir Katzellenbogen from his Published Philosophies

Filed Under Mediterranean, Rabbinic genealogy By Alex Gurvits on April 21, 2019

Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, the Maharam of Padua, remains an influential religious and historical figure both for his contributions to Talmudic and rabbinical interpretation and for his role as the father of several noteworthy rabbinical lineages. Jewish genealogists as well as […]

Sephardi Tombstones found in Suriname – Index of Surnames

Filed Under Carribean, DNA Studies, Mediterranean By Adam Brown on January 13, 2018

For the benefit of the genealogical community, AvotaynuDNA team member Rachel Brown has compiled an alphabetized index of all surnames found in the outstanding volume Remnant Stones: the Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname: Epitaphs by Aviva Ben-Ur and Rachel Frankel, available […]

The Avotaynu DNA Project Advances to Its Second Phase

Filed Under Collaboration, DNA Studies, Mediterranean, Mizrachim By Adam Brown on October 18, 2016

One year ago we announced the new Avotaynu DNA Project AVOTAYNU, Fall 2016), an initiative managed by Adam Brown, Raquel Levy-Toledano and Michael Waas of the Avotaynu Research Partnership LLC that intends to compile a database comprising the DNA test […]

The Jews of Tetuan, Morocco: Genealogy and Iconography

Filed Under España, Maroc المغرب‎, Mediterranean By Philip Abensur on August 31, 2016

Tetuan Jewry, founded at the end of the 15th century by Spanish-speaking Jews, is a community apart in Morocco. Most other Moroccan Jewish communities were created much earlier and spoke Arabic. In this article, we review the major genealogical resources […]

Spanish-Jewish `Nobility’ of Aleppo, Syria

Filed Under España, Mediterranean, Portugal, Syria سوريا, Uncategorized By Anne de Sola-Cardoza on August 31, 2016

As recently as 1992, more than 4,000 Jews were being held against their will in Syria, unable to leave and kept under watch, branded as “Mussawi,” followers of Moses. At that time, 50,000 Jews from Syria lived in Brooklyn’s Flatbush […]

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