Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy

כריכה קדמית
Genealogical 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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תוכן

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
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל

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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.

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