The Lurie Legacy


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History of the Lurie family with ancestry traced to King David of Israel. The Lurie family is first found in Poland. Family members lived mainly in Poland, Germany, France, Russia, Lithuania, Austria, Israel and the United States.







Where Once We Walked


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Gazetteer providing information about more than 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust.




Sephardic Genealogy


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A Translation Guide to 19th-century Polish-language Civil-registration Documents


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This guide is designed for use with one those 19th-century Polish-language civil-registration documents that follow the Napoleonic format. The adoption of this uniform manner of document organization explains why the material in this guide is generally applicable to both Jewish and non-Jewish civil-registration documents.










Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors


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A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames


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This dictionary identifies more than 13,000 German-Jewish surnames from the area that was pre-World War I Germany. From Baden-Wuerttemburg in the south to Schleswig-Holstein in the north. From Westfalen in the west to East Prussia in the east. In addition to providing the etymology and variants of each name, it identifies where in the region the name appeared, identifying the town and time period. More than 300 sources were used to compile the book. A chapter provides the Jewish population in many towns in the 19th century.




Galicia


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This is the first comprehensive bibliographic guide to Galicia history.