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Int’l Inst. of Jewish Genealogy: Riga House Registers in 1918 – 1940 Latvia

Filed Under Latvija By Olga Aleksejev on July 1, 2011

This paper by Olga Aleksejeva utilized the new searchable database of the 20-21,000 Jews living in Riga in the inter-war period and is accompanied by an extended historical and sociological narrative, contextualizing the findings in the database.  The work was […]

Resources to Find Any Location in the Austro-Hungarian Empire; Similar Resources for Imperial Russia and Imperial Germany

Filed Under Deutschland, Eesti, Latvija, Lita, Polska, Беларусь, Россия, Україна By Edward David Luft on October 1, 2010

The three large 19th-century European empires—Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Russia—all collapsed either during, or as a result of, World War I. New countries and altered boundaries emerged, often with different names or different spellings of geographical locations. Fortunately, finding aids for […]

Bibliography for Records of the Former Soviet Union

Filed Under Eesti, Latvija, Lita, Беларусь, Россия, Україна By Benjamin Nathans on July 1, 2010

At the IAJGS conference in Los Angeles, July 2010, Professor Benjamin Nathans presented a report on the archives of the former Soviet Union. As part of his talk, Professor Nathans distributed the following list of sources. His book, Beyond the […]

Another Brother in My Family

Filed Under Latvija, South Africa By Basil Sandler on December 1, 2008

On a visit to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1999, I telephoned my cousin, Ronnie Levinsohn, whom I last had seen as a child. I was telling him of our visit to Latvia the year before and that we had […]

The 1897 All-Empire Russian Census

Filed Under Eesti, Latvija, Lita, Беларусь, Россия, Україна By Alexander Dunai on October 1, 2008

The 1897 All-Empire Russian Census was the first and only census conducted in the Russian Empire prior to World War II. Its major interest and value both for personal genealogy and for the history of Jewish communities is that the […]

Jewish Surnames Adopted in Various Regions of the Russian Empire

Filed Under Eesti, Latvija, Lita, Polska, Surnames, Беларусь, Россия, Україна By Alexander Beider on October 1, 2008

This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the IAJG Conference in Chicago, August 18, 2008—Ed.      Generally speaking, it is relatively easy to distinguish Sephardic surnames from Ashkenazic surnames. For example, if one sees two lists, the […]

A Website List of Latvian Jewry Prior to World War II

Filed Under Latvija By Rita Bogdanova and Ruvin Ferber on October 1, 2008

This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the IAJGS Conference in Chicago, August 2008—Ed. The purpose of the Latvian Holocaust Jewish Names Project is to recover the names and the identities of Latvian Jews who perished during World […]

Bringing the “Great Terror” Home

Filed Under Eesti, Latvija, Lita, Россия, Україна By Donald Szumowski on April 1, 2008

Family stories had Mowshe (Morris) Rosenfeld coming from “Minsk, Pinsk, Russia.” As my research progressed, I learned from Morris’ ship’s passenger list that he had, in fact, come from a place called Turovo. Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwo Poliskich, the multi-volume, standard […]

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