Circumcision Book of Samuel Gomes Atias

BACKGROUND

This is a list of circumcisions conducted by the mohel Samuel Gomes Atias during 1725-1773. For the most part they took place in the southwestern part of France inhabited by the Spanish and Portuguese Jews living around the area of Bayonne, Bidache and Peyrehorade.

The original circumcision book is located in the archives in Bayonne, France. This list is based on the scholarship of the French historian Gerard Nahon (1931-2015) and his article Le registre espagnol des circoncisions de Samuel Gomes Atias (Bidache 1725-1773) in Bulletin Hispanique, tome 76, n°1-2, 1974. pp. 142-182;

doi : https://doi.org/10.3406/hispa.1974.4144

DATABASE

This database includes 77 entries of Jewish boys from Southern France.

The fields in the database are:

• Number (Number of the Circumcision in the Mohel Book)
• Hebrew Date (of the Circumcision)
• Gregorian Date
• Location
• Surname
• Child's Name
• Father's Name
• Mother's Name
• Mohel's Name
• Grandparent(s)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to Claudia Crivisqui who connected to Gerard Nahon and made a connection between him and JewishGen in 2014. The information contained in this database was transcribed by Eric Feinstein. It was researched by Eric Feinstein, Jewish Cemeteries Coordinator of the French Research Division of JewishGen.

March 2025