No 55 - Autumn 1998

SUMMARY #55

 

DOCUMENTS

The Jews in the Haut-Mundat (Alsace) in the XVIIth century.

Denis Ingold

An exhaustive relation of the composition of the families in the different villages of this part of Alsace, a property at that time of the Bishop of Strasbourg.

 

FAMILIES

An essay on the origin of the Metz branches of the Emmerich and Gompertz families

Pascal Faustini

A study from the Memorbücher of Cleves, Emmerich and other cities

 

The Brisac family in Lunéville (Lorraine) in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries/ ancestors and progeny

Françoise Job

A study of this famous family to which the grand children of the author belong



MISCELLANEOUS

 

Hebrew paleography :a decorated signature in the Bible of Cervera by Joseph Sarfati, le Français

Eliane Roos Schuhl

 

About cemeteries in France

Jean-Pierre Bernard

 

A genealogical trip to Malta

Georges Jessula

 

About the mohelbuch of Rabbi Moyses Schuhl

Eliane Roos Schuhl





NEWS

A first attempt to help reading Mémoire Juive in Alsace by A.A. Fraenckel ; the opening of the Bouxwiller Museum  in Alsace ; conditions for genealogical research in Germany. Very soon a book on the Jewish community of Sarrelouis.



BOOK REVIEW

The Jewish Cemetery of Endingen-Lengnau  ; Library resources for German Jewish Genealogy 




PRESS REVIEW



READ FOR YOU

Le cimetière israélite d’Endingen-Lengnau  ; Les bibliothèques et la recherche en généalogie juive allemande. 

FROM OUR MAILBOX

Answers to enigmas  published in n° 54 ; about the Hermann family from Brumath in the United States. Ruth Dreifuss, member of the government of Switzerland, likes genealogy. About the Cahiers Sefardis

And also Queries and Answers, Ascendancy list