Izmir (Turkey) Marriages — 1820-1933

11,308 Records

Marriage · Vital Records · Izmir, Turkey · Sephardic · Jeff Malka Collection

Background

At the 1997 Annual Conference of Jewish Genealogy Professor Dov Cohen presented in Paris a list of names of 7,300 Brides and Grooms from the Jewish community of Izmir. The names were extracted from several Izmir community notebooks currently preserved at the CAHJP. These notebooks were written in the Sephardic solitreo script which Professor Cohen, one of the few academics still able to read solitreo, transcribed into latin alphabet.

The marriages took place between 1820 and 1933 in Izmir.

Some names appear several times. On the one hand the names may be homonymous (more than one individual bearing the same name), but it could also be the case of a remarriage of the same person after divorcing or being widowed.

For those who need to view the originals, the records from which the data was extracted are at the Central Archives of the History of the Jewish People under TR/Izmir 257, 672-683.

The Database

The database presented here is an enlarged version containing 11,280 names.

Fields Recorded
Surname (and their alternatives)
Given Names and Aliases
Year of the marriage
Sex of the individual
Sample Images
Page from an Izmir community marriage notebook written in Sephardic solitreo script Second page from an Izmir community marriage notebook written in Sephardic solitreo script
Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the tremendous contributions and lifelong dedication of Mathilde Tagger, z”l who made this index available. For many years, and right until her untimely death, Mathilde Tagger was a very close friend and collaborator with Jeff Malka. Together they worked to promote Sephardic genealogy research and educate the public about its enormous potential.

In addition, we express our grateful appreciation to Dr. Jeff Malka for his monumental ongoing effort to collect and make accessible Sephardic genealogical information, and for his generosity in contributing his extraordinarily valuable collection to JewishGen.

Searching This Database

This collection can be searched via the JewishGen Turkey Database, the JewishGen Jeff Malka Collection or the JewishGen Sephardic Collection.

Databases like this one are made possible entirely through volunteer effort and generous donors. Your contribution helps fund transcription, research, and preservation of Sephardic Jewish records.

Support the Sephardic Research Division