Jewish History

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• Florida Jewish History Month kick-off, Jan. 3

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Florida Jewish History Month launches with a panel discussion, "Cultural Identity Through Art," at the Jewish Museum of Florida, on Sunday, January 3. Because defining whos a Jew and Jewish art are challenging questions, the program will feature a panel discussion, in an effort to answer the questions: How does ...
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• Canary Islands: Crypto-Jewish history

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Thanks to Harry Steins Sephardim.com, Tracing the Tribe learned about a century-old paper on Crypto-Jews in the Canary Islands, delivered by Lucien Wolf to the Jewish Historical Society of England in London on December 12, 1910. The paper is a treasure chest of Jewish names and history. Heres a map of the islands: ...
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• December 26: This day in Jewish history

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  "This Day in Jewish History" is an excellent compilation of what happened each day throughout our history. The blog is part of the study program of the Jewish History Study Group at Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and compiled by Mitchell A. Levin. Here are some of the events listed for today, December 26: ...
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• Singing in the snow!

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Tablet Magazines Marc Tracy wrote a piece about the top 10 Christmas songs written by Members of the Tribe. As a kid growing up in the Bronx (Parkchester), I always loved the music of the season. There was a sort of tent-igloo where Santa resided, opposite Macys, and the loudspeakers filled the air with many of these ...
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• Asarah BeTevet (Fastday 10 Tevet)

  
  Shearim — Authority: 140
  Source: Jerusalem.Com B"H Even if the Jews outside Israel dont really like to hear it, I cannot imagine that Jews abroad are able to commemorate certain events in Jewish history as authentic as we do in Israel. And especially in Jerusalem. The latest example was Chanukkah. What do Jews who ...
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• The News That Brittany Murphy Was Jewish

  
  Kingdom of Priests — Authority: 515
  ..., in the sense of having a Jewish mother , raises an interesting question apart from the tragic moral enigma of a beautiful young actresss  sudden death . Forgive me if it seems impertinent to ask now, but just how many Jews are there in the world? The figure you always hear is about 13 million. But imagine the ...
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• Food: Chinese food and Jews

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Where do you find the best Chinese restaurants in the US? Look for the Jewish neighborhoods. There is an age-old affinity between Members of the Tribe (MOTs) and Chinese food. MOTs contemplating moves to a new neighborhood or city have a priority list: Where are the best schools, the best doctors, and the nearest ...
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• Oregon: Jewish Museum reopens

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  The Oregon Jewish Museum has moved to a new home in the northwest part of Portland. Its resources include art exhibits and much more, including the Jewish historical societys archives and library (open by appointment to researchers). Back in the 1950s, the citys Old South Waterfront was a vibrant Jewish and ...
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• Bulgaria: Jewish surname dictionary online.

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Bulgarias Jewish community is a fascinating one and a new database on SephardicGen.com will help researchers of this mostly Sephardi community. If your families of interest lived in Bulgaria at one time, search the Dictionary of Jewish Bulgarian Surnames at Jeff Malkas site , which offers extensive resources for ...
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• Two New Books on Medieval European Jewry

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 424
  H-German has a review of two new books on Medieval European Jewry. The first book is Susan L. Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France . The second book is David Joshua Malkiel, Reconstructing Ashkenaz: The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250 . I ...
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• The Stolen Infamous Auschwitz Camp Sign Was Found

  
  Blogoncherry — Authority: 144
  The Polish police said early Monday that they had found the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign that was stolen Friday from the gate of Auschwitz.More than one million people, mostly Jews but also Gypsies, Poles and others, died in the gas chambers or from starvation and disease while performing forced labor at ...
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• Music: Whose Christmas is it?

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Musician and author Michael Feinsteins New York Times op-ed - Whose Christmas Is It? - is an interesting read, focused on the fact that much popular Christmas music was written by Members of the Tribe. Tracing the Tribe has written on this previously; click here . Read Feinsteins piece here . He addresses a ...
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• New York: Unique Sephardic programs at the JCC

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  The Upper West Side Jewish Community Centers goal is to celebrate the diversity and richness of the Jewish people. The JCC has scheduled some unique programming - lectures, travel, food and music - to discover different facets of Jewish life from January-March 2010. The JCC is located at 334 Amsterdam Avenue and ...
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• Why Make Aliyah?

  
  Esser Agaroth — Authority: 457
  7th Candle of H anukkah 5770 For a Jew there is no better place than the State of Israel. Yoel Meltzer 30 Kisleiw/December 17, 2009 Roughly 15 years ago I made a personal decision to leave the comfortable lifestyle and familiar surroundings of America in order to settle down and build my life in Israel. ...
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• Ancestry: The UK-Wales death index

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Ancestry.co.uk posted a very low key release of an important dataset, according to our good friend Laurence Harris, "our man" in London. He reported that theres now a full name searchable death index for all deaths in England and Wales for 1916-2005. Instead of having to search for a name visually on multiple images ...
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• GenAmi: Paris Archives, journal articles

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  GenAmi (Paris, France) has announced information on new online access to the Paris Archives and the list of articles in its new issue. Read on for more. If your quest includes family that had lived in Paris, remember that GenAmi is an important resource. Click GenAmi for more information on the organization, its ...
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• Latkes: What do YOU put on yours?

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  While latkes are often considered to be a staple of Chanukah, European Jews had never even seen potatoes - that "New World" crop - until the late 16th century. In fact, food columnist and author Matthew Goodman says latkes and other potato dishes werent popular in the Russian Empire until the mid-19th century, as ...
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• Jews of the Caribbean: Jamaica

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  Here are some well-known Jews of Jamaica: -- Poet Daniel Lopez Laguna ( 1635-1730), a survivor of the Inquisition who converted biblical Psalms into poems. A book of these poems, Espejo Fiel de Vidas (The True Mirror of Life), was published in 1720 and was the first book to be published in Jamaica under British ...
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• Los Angeles: Sephardic programs, AJS conference, Dec. 20

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) conference is in Los Angeles this year. On December 20, from 2-4pm, the following panel is part of an AJS panel on "(Re)articulating the Sephardic Americas." The conference is at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. For more on the conference, click here . According to the ...
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• Israel: Persian Gulf Jewish Communities

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 529
  A conference held by the Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies (University of Haifa) now features the presentations via video online. The international colloquium, titled "The Jewish Communities of the Persian Gulf: New Themes in Their Modern History," took place May 15, 2006. Among the speakers: ...
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