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Author : Anthony Joseph
Publisher : Society of Genealogists
ISBN 13 : 9781903462638
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)
Download or read book My Ancestors Were Jewish written by Anthony Joseph and published by Society of Genealogists. This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Krasner-Khait
Publisher : North Salt Lake, Utah : Heritage Quest
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors written by Barbara Krasner-Khait and published by North Salt Lake, Utah : Heritage Quest. This book was released on 2001 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Rottenberg
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806311517
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Finding Our Fathers written by Dan Rottenberg and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1986 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Dan Rottenberg shows how to successfully trace your Jewish family back for generations by probing the memories of living relatives; by examining marriage licenses, gravestones, ship passenger lists, naturalization records, birth and death certificates, and other public documents; and by looking for clues in family traditions and customs.
Author : Janet Hovorka
Publisher : Family Chartmasters
ISBN 13 : 9780988854871
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (548 download)
Download or read book My Jewish Ancestor written by Janet Hovorka and published by Family Chartmasters. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come on the quest of a lifetime-the search for how your family came to be and why you are the way you are. Here are the super activities, games, and questions that will help you discover the exciting lives of your Jewish ancestors. You can: . Learn about Jewish history, traditions and culture . Make and braid Challah bread with your family . Solve a Jewish calendar crossword puzzle . Record your family's recipe for Charoset . Find your family's place in the Diaspora . Learn the Hebrew Alphabet . Complete a genealogy word search . Enjoy a Yiddish folktale and Mizrahi Nasrudin stories . Color, cut out and tell stories with Jewish Ancestor paper dolls and other activities. Simple projects, recipes, and worksheets make it easy for your busy family to celebrate their Jewish heritage. No matter what your age, you can help your family accomplish these activities together. As you learn, you can record your family history here to create a new family keepsake and pass your great Jewish heritage down to future generations.
Author : Max R. G. Freeman
Publisher : London : Caxton Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book British Jewry Book of Honour written by Max R. G. Freeman and published by London : Caxton Publishing Company. This book was released on 1922 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Kessel
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683025
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Suddenly Jewish written by Barbara Kessel and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic personal stories of the unexpected discovery of a Jewish heritage.
Author : Harry Ostrer MD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199702055
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Legacy written by Harry Ostrer MD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the Jews--a race, a people, a religious group? For over a century, non-Jews and Jews alike have tried to identify who they were--first applying the methods of physical anthropology and more recently of population genetics. In Legacy, Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist and authority on the genetics of the Jewish people, explores not only the history of these efforts, but also the insights that genetics has provided about the histories of contemporary Jewish people. Much of the book is told through the lives of scientific pioneers. We meet Russian immigrant Maurice Fishberg; Australian Joseph Jacobs, the leading Jewish anthropologist in fin-de-siècle Europe; Chaim Sheba, a colorful Israeli geneticist and surgeon general of the Israeli Army; and Arthur Mourant, one of the foremost cataloguers of blood groups in the 20th century. As Ostrer describes their work and the work of others, he shows that to look over the genetics of Jewish groups, and to see the history of the Diaspora woven there, is truly a marvel. Here is what happened as the Jews migrated to new places and saw their numbers wax and wane, as they gained and lost adherents and thrived or were buffeted by famine, disease, wars, and persecution. Many of these groups--from North Africa, the Middle East, India--are little-known, and by telling their stories, Ostrer brings them to the forefront at a time when assimilation is literally changing the face of world Jewry. A fascinating blend of history, science, and biography, Legacy offers readers an entirely fresh perspective on the Jewish people and their history. It is as well a cutting-edge portrait of population genetics, a field which may soon take its place as a pillar of group identity alongside shared spirituality, shared social values, and a shared cultural legacy.
Author : Diahan Southard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734613902
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Your DNA Guide - the Book written by Diahan Southard and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to learn everything about genetic genealogy before asking specific questions of your DNA! That's the premise of Diahan Southard's brand new book, Your DNA Guide - the Book, now available for pre-order at a special sale price. Your DNA Guide - the Book is like no other genetic genealogy book on the market. Instead of learning more-than-you-need-to-know in textbook style, you'll choose a specific DNA question to start exploring right away. You'll follow concrete step-by-step plans, learning important DNA concepts--in plain English--as you go. Do you want to learn who your 2X great grandmother is? Turn to page 23. Do you want to know how you are related to one of your DNA matches? Page 37. As you proceed, you check your progress and get new guidance based on your specific results at each stage. (Including troubleshooting, like when your matches just aren't responding or your great-grandparents turn out to be first cousins.) This powerful, hands-on approach is based on Diahan's 20 years of experience in the genetic genealogy industry and especially in the past five years, as she helps clients one-on-one make DNA discoveries. It became clear to her that while each client's situation may be unique, there are patterns in how you can find solutions that you can apply yourself. Your DNA Guide - the Book is for anyone who has taken a DNA test or may want to. It helps genealogists reconstruct family trees. It helps adoptees identify biological relatives. It can help you identify a specific DNA match. In short, it helps anyone explore what their DNA--and their DNA matches--can tell them about their origins.
Author : Abigail Pogrebin
Publisher : Fig Tree Books
ISBN 13 : 1941493211
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (414 download)
Download or read book My Jewish Year written by Abigail Pogrebin and published by Fig Tree Books. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs and Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler comes Abigail Pogrebin’s My Jewish Year, a lively chronicle of the author’s journey into the spiritual heart of Judaism. Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized how little she knew about their foundational purpose and contemporary relevance; she wanted to understand what had kept these holidays alive and vibrant, some for thousands of years. Her curiosity led her to embark on an entire year of intensive research, observation, and writing about the milestones on the religious calendar. Whether in search of a roadmap for Jewish life or a challenging probe into the architecture of Jewish tradition, readers will be captivated, educated and inspired by Abigail Pogrebin’s My Jewish Year.
Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786455225
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (552 download)
Download or read book When Scotland Was Jewish written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non–Celtic influence on Scotland’s history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland’s history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland’s identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors’ wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786464623
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America written by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have learned in elementary school that their country was founded by a group of brave, white, largely British Christians. Modern reinterpretations recognize the contributions of African and indigenous Americans, but the basic premise has persisted. This groundbreaking study fundamentally challenges the traditional national storyline by postulating that many of the initial colonists were actually of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry. Supporting references include historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA test results, genealogies, and settler lists that provide for the first time the Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Jewish origins of more than 5,000 surnames, the majority widely assumed to be British. By documenting the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent economic, political, financial and social positions in all of the original colonies, this innovative work offers a fresh perspective on the early American experience.
Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813541891
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book An Island Called Home written by Ruth Behar and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the author's return to learn about and meet the people who are keeping Judaism alive in Cuba today.
Author : Gary Mokotoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998057132
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy written by Gary Mokotoff and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tovia Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996091329
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Let's Get Biblical! written by Tovia Singer and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Jewish and Christian Scriptures with the world renowned Bible scholar and expert on Jewish evangelism, Rabbi Tovia Singer. This new two-volume work, Let's Get Biblical! Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah?, takes the reader on an eye-opening journey through timeless passages in Tanach, and answers a pressing question: Why doesn't Judaism accept the Christian messiah? Are the teachings conveyed in the New Testament compatible with ageless prophecies in the Jewish Scriptures? Rabbi Singer's fascinating new work clearly illustrates why the core doctrines of the Church are utterly incompatible with the cornerstone principles expressed by the Prophets of Israel, and are opposed by the most cherished tenets conveyed in the Jewish Scriptures. Moreover, this book demonstrates how the Church systematically and deliberately altered the Jewish Scriptures in order to persuade potential converts that Jesus is the promised Jewish messiah. To accomplish this feat, Christian "translators" manipulated, misquoted, mistranslated, and even fabricated verses in the Hebrew Scriptures so that these texts appear to be speaking about Jesus. This exhaustive book probes and illuminates this thought-provoking subject. Tragically, over the past two millennia, the church's faithful have been completely oblivious to this Bible-tampering because virtually no Christian can read or understand the Hebrew Scriptures in its original language. Since time immemorial, earnest parishioners blindly and utterly depended upon manmade Christian "translations" of the "Old Testament" in order to understand the "Word of God." Understandably, churchgoers are deeply puzzled by the Jewish rejection of their religion's claims. They wonder aloud why Jewish people, who are reared since childhood in the Holy Tongue, and are the bearers and protectors of the sacred Oracles of God, do not accept Jesus as their messiah. How can such an extraordinary people dismiss such an extraordinary claim? Are they just plain stubborn? Let's Get Biblical thoroughly answers these nagging, age-old questions.
Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525516492
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Letters from Cuba written by Ruth Behar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, where she works to rescue the rest of her family The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises to write down everything that happens until they're reunited. And she does, recording both the good--the kindness of the Cuban people and her discovery of a valuable hidden talent--and the bad: the fact that Nazism has found a foothold even in Cuba. Esther's evocative letters are full of her appreciation for life and reveal a resourceful, determined girl with a rare ability to bring people together, all the while striving to get the rest of their family out of Poland before it's too late. Based on Ruth Behar's family history, this compelling story celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the most challenging times.
Author : Janet Jacobs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520936612
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Hidden Heritage written by Janet Jacobs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of contemporary crypto-Jews—descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition—traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past. Janet Liebman Jacobs masterfully combines historical and social scientific theory to fashion a brilliant analysis of hidden ancestry and the transformation of religious and ethnic identity.
Author : Michael Wex
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429909900
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Born to Kvetch written by Michael Wex and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases, idioms, and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a millennium of unrelenting persecution: they never stopped kvetching---about God, gentiles, children, food, and everything (and anything) else. They even learned how to smile through their kvetching and express satisfaction in the form of complaint. In Born to Kvetch, Michael Wex looks at the ingredients that went into this buffet of disenchantment and examines how they were mixed together to produce an almost limitless supply of striking idioms and withering curses (which get a chapter all to themselves). Born to Kvetch includes a wealth of material that's never appeared in English before. You'll find information on the Yiddish relationship to food, nature, divinity, and humanity. There's even a chapter about sex. This is no bobe mayse (cock-and-bull story) from a khokhem be-layle (idiot, literally a "sage at night" when no one's looking), but a serious yet fun and funny look at a language that both shaped and was shaped by those who spoke it. From tukhes to goy,meshugener to kvetch, Yiddish words have permeated and transformed English as well. Through the idioms, phrases, metaphors, and fascinating history of this kvetch-full tongue, Michael Wex gives us a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile.
