Births, bar mitzvahs, marriages and deaths, as well as information concerning communal and synagogue activities of Canadian Jewry. Taken from the pages of The Canadian Jewish Times.

A Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry 1909-1914: From the Canadian Jewish Times

Biographies & Memoirs

Reference & Collections

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The award-winning Where Once We Walked (WOWW) has been completely revised and updated to reflect the changes in the political geography of Central and Eastern Europe since WOWW was published in 1991. There are also a number of improvements to the original edition noted below. The new edition identifies more than 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust. Includes 17,500 alternate names. Gives latitude/longitude, Jewish population before the Holocaust and cites as many as 50 books that reference

Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust

History

Mokotoff, Gary

Sack, Sallyann Amdur

Europe

This book shows the roots of more than 1,200 Jewish personal names. It shows all Yiddish/Hebrew variants of a root name with English transliteration. Footnotes explain how these variants were derived. An index of all variants allows you to easily locate the name in the body of book. Also presented are family names originating from personal names.

Jewish Personal Names: Their Origin, Derivation and Diminutive Forms

Shmuel Gorr

Chaim Freedman

Reference

A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire

Beider, Alexander

Genealogy

A guide to translating vital statistic records in 13 languages: Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Each section shows the alphabet of the language, sample vital statistic records and their translation, and a list of words commonly encountered. An indispensable reference source for anyone whose research involves European languages.

Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide

Shea, Jonathan D.

Hoffman, William F.

Words, Language & Grammar

Jewish Surnames in Prague: (15Th-18th Centuries)

WOWW Companion : A Guide to the Communities Surrounding Central & Eastern European Towns (Avotaynu Monograph)

Travel

A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel

How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust: Documenting Victims, Locating Survivors (Avotaynu Monograph)

World

A compilation of more than 32,000 Jewish surnames with origins in that part of the Russian Empire known as the "Kingdom of Poland." The book provides information on (1) where within the Kingdom of Poland the name was prevalent at the turn of the 20th century, (2) all likely etymologies of the name, and (3) spelling variants and derivatives of the name. A soundex index makes it simpler to locate a given surname with its proper Polish spelling. The introductory portion of the book describes the origins and evolution of Polish-Jewish surnames.

A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland

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