Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish GenealogyGenealogical Publishing Com, 1986 - 401 עמודים In this work Dan Rottenberg shows how to successfully trace your Jewish family back for generations by probing the memories of living relatives; by examining marriage licenses, gravestones, ship passenger lists, naturalization records, birth and death certificates, and other public documents; and by looking for clues in family traditions and customs. |
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Our Links with the Past | 3 |
Starting Out | 15 |
Public Records in the United States | 26 |
A Quick Course in Judaica | 40 |
Tradition History and the Bible | 54 |
Jewish Sources in America | 66 |
Back across the Ocean | 86 |
back to Israel | 127 |
Introduction | 141 |
Abbreviations | 147 |
Alphabetical List of Family Names | 149 |
Bibliography | 376 |
GENEALOGY AND GENERAL REFERENCE | 390 |
JEWISH REFERENCE BOOKS Encyclopedias | 392 |
INTERNATIONAL JUDAICA | 394 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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עמוד vii - ... not going to compare it with yours. One day it may become great; it will perhaps be chosen for great things. But all I know is that up to the present it is small races that have been chosen for great things. And there we were, confronted with your people in every country of the world, very powerful. You may say you have been oppressed and persecuted — that has been your power! You have been hammered into very fine steel, and that is why you can never be broken. Hammered for centuries into the...
עמוד ix - The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence and example that roll away from him and go beyond his ken.
עמוד vii - We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor. We are of the party of war and of the peace party alternately ; to both very sincerely. Only we always may be said to be heartily only on the side of truth.