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Bibliography

Audiotapes and CD-ROMs

AUDIOTAPES
  • Frank, Werner. How I Found 14,000 Relatives in Three Years. Recorded 7/12/98 at the 18th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.
  • Frank, Werner. A Methodology for Researching Rabbinical Dynasties. Recorded 7/9/00 at the 20th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.
  • Rosenstein, Neil. Advanced Rabbinic Genealogy. Recorded 9/8/99 at the 19th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.
  • Rosenstein, Neil. Advanced Rabbinic Research: The Choice is Yours. Recorded 7/12/98 at the 18th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.
  • Rosenstein, Neil. An Introduction to Rabbinic Genealogy. Recorded 7/12/98 at the 18th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.
  • Rosenstein, Neil. Rabbinic and Chassidic Dynastic Origins. Recorded 9/8/99 at the 19th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.
  • Rosenstein, Neil. Rabbinic Dynastic Origins and Their Descendants. Recorded 8/14/96 at the15th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.
  • Sackheim, George. Is There a Rabbi On Your Family Tree? Recorded 8/14/96 at the 15th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.

Audiotapes are available from www.audiotapes.com (all in English).

CD-ROMS

  • Bet Eked Sefarim (The Library)
  • Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Jerusalem: EPI & The Institute for Hebrew Bibliography, 1994.
    • Sponsored by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Bialik Institute, and The Israel Ministry of Education and Culture. Covers 90,000 titles and 12,000 authors of Hebrew books, 1473-1960. The format of the records are in MARC coding with authority control of names and places. It has more books than Bet Eked Sefarim and can be searched by date, author, or title. This CD-ROM is an excellent source for early Hebrew monographs.
  • Responsa Project: The Global Jewish Database. Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar Ilan University, 1996.(H)
    • This CD-ROM database, compiled by Bar Ilan University, brings together over a thousand years of Jewish scholarship: Tanach (Bible), Midrashim, the Babylonian Talmud, Rashi, Maimonides, 253 books of rabbinical responsa, and many other Judaic texts. Contains more than 60,000 halachic Responsa - over 96 million words of halakha - and more than 260,000 hypertext links between the databases. Extensive biographical data on the authors of Responsa texts has been added as well, along with a unique context-sensitive dictionary of abbreviations. See: Responsa Project, Bar Ilan University.
  • Rosenstein, Neil and Dov Weber. Avnei Zikaron: Stones of Remembrance. Elizabeth, NJ: Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy, 1999. (E)
    • 921 pre-WWI Eastern European epitaphs from 51 communities with 20 genealogical charts. Detailed database of all burials of rabbis, cantors, community leaders, wives, and other prominent personalities. Includes CD-ROM containing handwritten Hebrew epitaphs as originally transcribed by the pre-WWI compiler. [Comment by Dr. Neil Rosenstein] (see entry for the book under General Bio-Bibliographical Works)
  • Rosenstein, Neil. HaMagid CD-ROM.
    • A CD-ROM with the indexed obituaries of the first-ever Hebrew weekly, HaMagid, which was in print from 1856 to 1903. [Comment by Dr. Neil Rosenstein]

4Information on rabbinical genealogy published on the Internet may be found separately in the extensive Links section of the Rav-SIG web site. See: Links Index.