by Randy Schoenberg JewishGen Director of Austria-Czech Research Note: This article first appeared online at The Jewish Journal, and is reprinted here with permission of the author and publisher. I had a crazy idea this past summer for a new presentation at the next Jewish genealogy conference scheduled for August 2020 in San Diego. What […]
A number of major censuses were conducted by the Kingdom of Hungary and the Austrian Empire, including the Vagyonösszeirás – 1828 (1828 Landowner census), the “Conscriptio Judaerum 1848” (1848 Census of the Jews), and the 1869 Hungarian census, which was a total population census, not just a landowner census. These census records have been included in the JewishGen Hungary […]
by Joel Davidi Weisberger In the above image, Rabbi Akiva Eiger (center) is flanked by Rabbi Yaakov Kalvari (a member of his Rabbinic court) on his left. Kalvari (originally Calahora) was the scion of a Sephardic family that became prominent in Poland in the century after the Jews were expelled from Spain. The image is […]
We are pleased to announce a new addition to the JewishGen Hungarian Collection: Proof of Citizenship Records Košice County, 1924-1928. This set of data contains 1,741 Jewish names, taken from 3 volumes of archival documents ÒEvidencia vydaných osvedčen’ o št‡tnom občianstveÓ (Evidence of Issued Proofs of Citizenship). In total, there are now more nearly 1.3 […]
We are pleased to announce a major update to the Christine Usdin Collection, with the addition of 11,021 new records. In total the JewishGen Latvia Collection now includes more than 200,000 records. Of significance is that the Christine Usdin Collection includes direct links to original images at the Latvian State Historical Archives. This database is […]
In 2013, we posted to our Success! Stories webpage Rachel Lev-Leshem’s story, My Great-Grandparents’ Mezuzah, about her visit to her ancestral town of Érmihályfalva, a little border-town in northern Romania, Transylvania, a few miles from the Hungarian border. “…While standing next to the old Érmihályfalva synagogue, a man on his bicycle approached us and asked […]
I happened to see a photograph of individuals who were members of the American Medical Association of Vienna, 1929, which included doctors from all over the world. In their number, I saw Dr. Myer Fisher of Cheetham, Manchester, England. I did not remember him amongst the doctors I was familiar with who were located in […]
JewishGen is pleased to report that 25,021 new records from our colleagues and partners at LitvakSIG are now searchable via the JewishGen Lithuania Collection. The new records include: 1942 census of ghettos in Golshany, Krevo, Oshmiany, Smorgon, Soly and Zhuprany, all in the Oshmiany district but including some individuals originating elsewhere (5,145 records). City of […]
Note: We are pleased to introduce a new column, Focus on Sephardim & Ashkenazim by Joel Davidi Weisberger, which will be devoted to exploring the encounter between Sephard & Ashkenaz in Southeastern Europe, particularly Transylvania. Joel Davidi Weisberger is a historian specializing in the history of worldwide Medieval Jewry as well as the Jews of Europe […]
Gesher Galicia and JewishGen are separate organizations, in a strategic partnership to achieve shared goals. We are pleased to include their announcements in our Discussion Groups and Weekly Updates. Gesher Galicia is launching an extensive long-term project to identify 573 Jewish record books of unknown origin housed in the Przemysl State Archive in Poland. Involved […]
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