JGSWS Library

JGSWS has a large collection of books and maps, which you can use at our monthly meetings or by appointment. Selected books are now available for members to borrow. Please see the library lending rules below.

LIST OF BOOKS (As of September 2016)

Library of Congress Number
Title
Author		 Publisher,
Copyright Date
Donated By
Books        
Not catalogued at LOC The 1846 Enumeration of the Jews of Fraustadt, Prussia Judith Allison Walters Judith Allison Waters, 1981 Judith Allison Waters
Not catalogued at LOC 25th IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy Edited by Hal Bookbinder Jewish Genealogy Society of South Nevada, 2005 Rabbi Doug Slotnick
F5.R62 Abandoned New England: Its Hidden Ruins and Where to Find Them William F. Robinson Little, Brown & Co., 1976  
47-030941 American Jews in World War II: The Story of 550,000 Fighters for Freedom (Volume Two) Compiled by Dr. Louis I. Dublin and Dr. Samuel C. Kohs The Dial Press, 1947  
CS47.N49 1998 American Naturalization Records 1790-1990: What They Are and How to Use Them John J. Newman Indiana Historical Society, 1985 Reissuing Publisher: Heritage Quest, 1998  
CS59.S75 1971 Americans of Jewish Descent: A Compendium of Genealogy NOTE: A listing of genealogies and family trees of early Americans written by the "Father of Jewish Genealogy" Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern KTAV, 1971/Am J Arch, 1960  
PC4813.7 .A75 2000 And the World Stood Silent: Sephardic Poetry of the Holocaust Isaac Jack Levy University of Illinois Press, 2000  
DS 135 L53.O83613 1995 Annihilation of Lithuania Jewry Rabbi Ephraim Oshry Translated by Y. Leiman from the Yiddish "Churbin Lita" Judaica Press, 1995 Myra Rothenburg
Not catalogued at LOC Archive in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ™sterreich under der Schweiz: Herausgegeben vom Verein deutscher Archivare 15th Edition
NOTE: Listing, in German, of the archives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland		 Edited by Hermann Rumsch”ttel Ardey-Verlag Mnster, 1995 Ernest and Doris Stiefel
Not catalogued at LOC Atlas of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - 1892 Reproductions (enlarged) of maps published by Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig and Vienna   Thomsen's Genealogical Center 1990  
Not catalogued at LOC Atlas of the German Empire 1892 extracted from th eoriginal map reproductions published by Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts   Thomsen's Genealogical Center 1989  
G1030.G45 1993 The Atlas of Jewish History Martin Gilbert William Morrow and Co., 1992  
CS21.G85 2003 Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy (3 copies) Edited by Sallyann Amdur Sack and Gary Mokotoff Avotaynu, 2003 Patricia Zulauf - 1 copy
Not catalogued in the LOC Beyond the Basics VIII: A Genealogical Seminar
Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Memorial Seminar		   Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc., Mar 2002  
1547-1462 Beginners and Intermediate Genealogical Workbook   The Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County, Inc., 2003  
Not Catalogued in the LOC Beginnings and Endings: Home of Peace Cemetery Inscriptions (Tacoma, WA) Compiled by Deborah K. Freedman Genfreed Press, 2000 Deb Freedman
DS135.U43 G6374 2014 Beyond Trochenbrod; the Betty Gold story Betty Gold with Mark Hodermarsky Kent State Universtiy Press, 2014  
  Black Jews in Africa and the Americas Tudor Parfitt Harvard University Press, 2013 Nancy Adelson
Not Catalogued in the LOC The Bones and the Book Jane Isenberg Oconee Spirit Press, 2012 Jane Isenberg
NB 1880.U38G63 2000 Carved Memories: Heritage in Stone from the Russian Jewish Pale Gershon Hundert and David Goberman Rizzoli International Publishing, 2000 Rabbi Doug Slotnick, Doris Minor, and the JGSWS Library Committee
PF3640 .B83 1906 Cassell's New German Dictionary: German-English and English-German Karl Breul Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1906  
CS15.5.W64 2002 Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Off-Line Genealogy for Kids Ira Wolfman Workman Publishing Co., 2002 Ira Wolfman
E184.E17B56 1981 Coming to America Shirley Blumenthal Delacorte Press, 1981 Rabbi Doug Slotnick and Doris Minor
Not catalogued at LOC Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary Solon Beinfeld and Harry Bochner Indiana University Press, 2013  
UB433 .C65 2003 The Congressional Medal of Honor: The Names, the Deeds (Complete Civil War Through Somalia) Harley Stuart Shane and Michael Stuart Shane Sharp & Dunnigan, 2003  
  Coronet (contains "Terror in Bucharest") David A. Smart Coronet, Inc. 1937  
Not catalogued in the LOC Deutsch-fremdsprachiges (fredmsprachig-deutsches) Ortsnamenverzeichnis: Im Auftrage de Brakischen Ubteilung der Deutschen Akademie in Munchen (German foreign language place names), Vol. 1 & 2 (2 copies of both volumes) Otto Kredel and Franz Thierfelder Avotaynu, 2005  
CS3010.F35 2003 Dicion rio Sefaradi de Sorbrenomes [Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames]/Inclusive Crist?os-novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos, Berberes e sua Hist¢ria na Espanha, Portugal e It lia [Including Christianized Jews, Conversos, Marranos, Italians, Berbers, and their History in Spain, Portugal and Italy], 2nd Edition Revised 2003
NOTE: A dictionary of 16,000 Sephardic surnames edited by Brazilian scholars, in Portuguese and English.		 Guilherme Faiguenboim, Paulo Valadares, and Anna Rosa Campagnano Fraiha, 2004 Nancy Adelson
CS3010.B18 2001 A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciation, and Migrations (2 copies) Alexander Beider Avotaynu, 2001 JGSWS, in honor of Cheryl Stern
CS3010.Z9G37 2005 A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames Lars Menk Avotaynu, 2005  
DS115.W49 1991 Dictionary of Jewish Biography (2 copies) Geoffrey Wigoder Simon & Schuster, 1991  
CS3010.Z9G353 2004 A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia Alexander Beider Avotaynu, 2005  
CS3010.B419 1996 A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland (2 Copies)
NOTE: Compilation of more than 32,000 Jewish surnames from the Kingdom of Poland. Included are the variations of the spelling of each name and descriptions of the respective origins.		 Alexander Beider Avotaynu, 1996  
CS3010.B43 1993 A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire
NOTE: Compilation of 50,000 Jewish surnames from the Russian Pale of Settlement (except the Kingdom of Poland). Included are the variations of the spelling of each name and descriptions of the respective origins.		 Alexander Beider Avotaynu, 1993  
CS3010.B43 2008 A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition (Vol. 2) Alexander Beider Avotaynu, 2008  
Not catalogued at LOC DNA and Genealogy Colleen Fitzpatrick and Andrew Yeiser Rice Book Press, 2005  
Not catalogued at LOC DNA and Tradition Yaakov Kleiman Devora Publishing, 2004  
Not catalogued in the LOC Documents and Charts Relating to Certain Jewish Families: In particular Grynszpan, Kmiotek, Melcer, Mycenmacher, Pyszna, Rozen, & Weyntrop in the Towns of Przasnysz & Ciechanow, Warsaw, Poland Judith Allison Walters Judith Allison Waters, 1978 Judith Allison Waters
CS24.M47 1996 Documents of Our Ancestors: A Selection of Reproducible Genealogy Forms and Tips for Using Them Michael J. Meshenberg Avotaynu, 1996  
  Drawing fire; investigating the accusations of apartheid in Israel Benjamin Pogrund Rowman and Littlefield, 2014  
ISBN 9627872059
Not catalogued in the LOC		 Emigranten Adressbuch Fuer Shanghai Mit Einem Anhang Branchen Register   New Star Co. of Shanghai, 1939
Reprint Publisher: Old China Hand Press, 1995		  
Not catalogued at LOC Encyclopedia of Camps and ghettos, 1933-1945: V1, parts A and B Early Camps, youth camps, and concentration Camps and subcamps? Geoffrey P. Megargee, editor Indiana University Press and the USHMM, 2009  
Not catalogued at LOC Encyclopedia of Camps and ghettos, 1933-1945: V2, parts A and B Ghettos in German-occupied eastern Europe Geoffrey P. Megargee, editor Indiana University Press and the USHMM, 2009  
Not catalogued at LOC Encyclopedia fo the Holocaust Dr. Robert Rozett and Dr. Shmuel Spector, editors Yad Vashem, 2009  
CS21.E53 1991 Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy Volume 1: Sources in the United States and Canada (3 copies) Edited by Arthur Kurzweil and Miriam Weiner Aronson, 1991/1996 Arlene Schuster, Jerry Becker, and Suzanne Weisfeld
DS135.E8E45 2001 The Encylopedia of Jewish life: Before and During the Holocaust
Vol. 1 (A - J), Vol. 2 (K - Sered), and
Vol. 3 (Seredina-Buda - Z)
(2 copies of entire set)		 Editor-in-Chief Shmuel Spector, Consulting Editor Geoffrey Wigoder Yad Vashem and New York University Press, 2001  
Not catalogued in the LOC English-Polish/Polish-English Dictionary J. Stanislawski David McKay Company, Inc.  
Not catalogued at LOC Expulsion and extermination; Holocaust Testimonials from Provincial Lithuania David Bankier Yad Vashem, 2011  
E184.J5F34 1997 Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America Richard Brilliant Jewish Museum, 1997  
DDS135.B383A155 The family; three journeys into the heart of the twentieth century David Laskin Viking, 2013  
CS16.S98 1998 Family History Made Easy Loretto Dennis Szucs Ancestry, 1998  
F900.J5C66 2003 Family of Strangers: Building a Jewish Community in Washington State Molly Cone, Howard Droker, and Jacqueline Williams University of Washington Press and Washington State Jewish Historical Society, 2003 Howard Droker
  The Family Tree historical maps book: Europe;a country-by-country atlas of European history, 1700s-1900s Allison Dolan and the editors of Family Tree Magazine Family Tree Books, 2015 Nancy Adelson
CS21.B53 1997 FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions About Jewish Genealogy Warren Blatt Avotaynu, 1996  
ISBN 0976405717 A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery: A Spiritual Journey to the Past, Present and Future (3 copies) Rabbi Joshua L. Segal Jewish Cemetery Publishing LLC, 2005 Nancy Adelson
CS878.G35W96 1998 Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia: A Resource Guide Suzanne F. Wynne Avotaynu, 1998  
CS14.S54 1994 Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide (2 copies) Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman Avotaynu, 1994  
2005902190 Forensic Genealogy Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD Rice Book Press, 2005 Colleen Fitzpatrick
DS135.F83K43313 1996 French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial Serge Klarsfeld New York University Press, 1996  
CS21.K87 1994 From Generation to Generation (Revised Edition) - (2 copies) Arthur Kurzweil Parker Collins Publishers, 1994 Arlyn Kerr
CS21.K87 2004 From Generation to Generation (Updated 2004 Edition) Arthur Kurzweil Jossey-Bass, 2004  
DS135.P6F77 1983 From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry Translated and Edited by Jack Kugelmass and Jonathan Boyarin
Index and Bibliography by Zachary M. Baker		 Schocken, 1983  
ISBN 9781587366096 The Galitzianers/The Jews of Galicia, 1772-1918 Suzan Wynne Suzan Wynne, 2006  
DB904.G387 2004 Genealogical Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Hungary Compiled by Jordan Auslander Avotaynu, 2005  
2003101418
ISBN 0-9621863-1-7		 Genealogical Resources in New York (3 copies) Revised and Edited by Estelle M. Guzik Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc., 2003  
CS14.C38 1998 A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors Sharon DeBartolo Carmack Betterway, 1998 Suzanne Weisfeld
  German-English Genealogical Dictionary Ernest Thode Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992  
Z7553.C3E34 1996 The German Minority Census of An Introduction and Register Compiled by Thomas Kent Edlund Avotaynu, 1996  
ISBN 0-9661713-7-3 Getting the Most Out of RootsMagic (out of date) Bruce Buzbee FormalSoft, Inc., 2000-2003  
CS21.M65 1999 Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy Gary Mokotoff and Warren Blatt Avotaynu, 2000  
Not catalogued in the LOC Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy: A Handbook for Beginners with Supplementary Information for Advanced Research Dr. Ron D. Doctor The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon, Nov 2002 JGS of Oregon
DS135.I85 V422613 1987 The Ghetto of Venice Riccardo Calimani Rusconi Libri, 1988  
F548.42 .G66 1979 The Great Chicago Fire: In Eyewitness Accounts and 70 Contemporary Photographs and Illustrations David Lowe Dover Publications, 1979  
E184.J5 K77 1986 Guess Who's Jewish in American History Bernard Postal and Lionel Koppman Shapolsky Publishers, 1988  
CS21.G85 2003 Guide to Jewish Genealogy (2 copies) Edited by Sallyann Amdur Sack and Gary Mokotoff Avotaynu, 2004  
Z6374.B5S23 1995 A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel (Revised Edition) Sallyann Amdur Sack and Israel Genealogical Society Avotaynu, 1995  
CS49.S28 1997 Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States Christina K. Schaefer Genealogical Publishing Co.  
CS21.T34 2005 Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel Mathilde A. Tagger and Yitzchak Kerem Avotaynu, 2006  
CS16.E85 1981 The Handy Book for Genealogists, 7th Edition Edited by George B. Everton, Sr. Everton, 1981  
E184.J5 K168 1985 Haven and Home: A History of the Jews in America Abraham J. Karp Schocken, 1985  
Not Catalogued in the LOC Hebrew-English Dictionary Efros, Kaufman, & Silk Dvir Publishing Co.  
D804.3 .R6625 1994 Hiding to Survive: Stories of Children Rescued from the Holocaust Maxine B. Rosenberg Clarion Books, 1994  
D811.5 .T427 1971 The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom World Wide Publications, 1971  
G1881.S1M32 2002 Historical Atlas of Central Europe, Vol. 1: Revised and Expanded Edition Paul Robert Magocsi University of Washington Press, 2002 Phyllis Grossman
G1797.21.E29H5 1995 Historical Atlas of the Holocaust US Holocaust Memorial Museum Macmillan Publishing USA, 1996  
DS135.R9D78 1975 History of the Jews in Russia and Poland: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Vol. 1: Beginning until Death of Alexander I (1825)
Vol. 2: From Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1815-1894)
Vol. 3: From the Earliest Times until the Present Day		 S. M. Dubnow
Translated from the Russian by I. Friedlaendar		 Jewish Publication Society, 1916
Reissuing Publisher: KTAV, 1975		 Vicki Katz
E184.J5 P38 History of the Jews in America Deborah Pessin Abelhard-Schuman, 1957 Rabbi Doug Slotnick
ISBN 9780785329633 The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Word and Pictures Louis Webber Legacy Publishing, 2007  
Not catalogued in the LOC The Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum (brochure) Holocaust Exhibitions Office Imperial War Museum, 2002  
N6537.C48A4 1993 Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light Judy Chicago Penguin Books, 1993  
Not cataloged in LOC How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers Lisa Louise Cooke Lisa Louise Cooke  
HV6762.U5G86 1989 How to Locate Anyone Anywhere Without Leaving Home Ted Gunderson    
CS21.D38 1999 How to Trace Your Jewish Roots Rabbi Jo David Citadel Press, 2000 Rabbi Doug Slotnick, Doris Minor, and the JGSWS Library Committee
F1289.J5H58 1979 How We Lived: A Documentary History of Immigrant Jews in America 1880-1930 Irving Howe and Kenneth Marek Richard Marek, 1979 Rabbi Doug Slotnick, Doris Minor, and the JGSWS Library Committee
Not catalogued at LOC The illustrated atlas of Jewish Civilization Josephine Bacon Quantum Books, 2004  
HQ796 .F7635 Immigrant Kids Russell Freedman Scholastic, 1992 Nancy Adelson
Not catalogued in the LOC Impact: a Hidden Child of the Holocaust Tells His Story Peter Metzelaar Alphagraphics, 208 Pete Metzelaar
CS641 .B39 2015 In search of your German roots; a complete guide to tracing your ancestors in the Germanic areas of Europe Angus Baxter Genealogical Publishing Co, 2015  
CS403.B39 1985a In Search of Your European Roots Angus Baxter Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985 Suzanne Weisfeld
ISBN 978-0-9631579-6-6 In Their Words: A Genealogist's Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents
Vol.1: Polish		 Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman Language & Lineage Press, 2007  
CS844.S49 2002 In Their Words: A Genealogist's Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents
Vol. 2: Russian		 Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman Language & Lineage Press, 2002 Nancy Adelson
DS118 .D54 1971 The Indestructible Jews Max I. Dimont Signet, 1971  
ISBN 9780140102442 Jerusalem, Jerusalem: A Memoir of War and Peace, Passion and Politics Lesley Hazleton Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986  
E184.J5H655 1995 The Jewish American Family Album Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler Oxford University Press, 1995  
ISBN 0-9537669-1-8 Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany and Austria Thea Skyte, Randol Schoenberg, and Rosemary Wenzerul The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Jan 2001  
ISBN 0-9537669-9-3 Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Latvia and Estonia Arlene Beare The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Jun 2006  
ISBN 97809551023-2-5 Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Lithuania, 2nd Ed. Sam Aaron The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Jul 2011  
ISBN 978-0-9551023-0-1 Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Poland Susan Fifer The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, May 2007  
ISBN 97809551023-1-8 Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom, 2nd Ed. Rosemary Wenzerul The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Jan 2011  
ISBN 0-9537669-4-2 Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Organizing Your Family History Records Rosemary Wenzerul The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Jan 2004  
ISBN 0-9537669-6-9 Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Reading Hebrew Inscriptions and Documents Rosemary Wenzerul The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, May 2005  
DS112.L76 2000 The Jewish Cultural Tapestry Steven M. Lowenstein Oxford University Press, 2000  
Not cataloged in LOC Jewish Day School Year Book, 2010   Jewish Day School, 2010 Nancy Adelson
Not catalogued in the LOC The Jewish Experience in Washington State: A Chronology, 1845-2005 Washington State Jewish Historical Society Alphagraphics, 2006  
CS3010.G67 1992 Jewish Personal Names: Their Origin, Derivation, and Diminutive Forms (2 copies) Rabbi Shmuel Gorr
Edited by Chaim Freedman		 Avotaynu, 1992  
DS 135.G7 L38 1989 Jewish Rhodes: A Lost Culture Isaac Jack Levy Judah L. Magnus Museum, 1989  
CS877.J4W45 1998 Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (2 copies) Miriam Weiner Miriam Weiner, Roots to Routes Foundation and YIVO, 1998 Suzanne Weisfeld (1 copy) and Lyn Blyden (1 copy)
DS135.U4W37 1999 Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova Miriam Weiner Miriam Weiner, Roots to Routes Foundation and YIVO, 1999 Suzanne Weisfeld
CS8796.R48 1996 Jewish Vital Records, Revision Lists, and Other Jewish Holdings in the Lithuanian Archives (2 copies) Compiled by Harold Rhode and Sallyann Amdur Sack Avotaynu, 1996 Jerry and Dorothy Becker (1 copy)
DS115.2 J49 1998 Jewish Women in America: An historical Encyclopedia Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore, Editors Routledge, 1998  
72-93070 Jews and Synagogues/The Jews in Italy: The vicissitudes, their rites, the synagogues, the ghettos Umberto Fortis Edizioni Storti Venezia, 1973  
E184.J5B73 1986 Jews in Amerca Today Lenni Brenner Lyle Stewart, Inc., 1986  
E184.J5L574 1969 Jews in American Life Tina Levitan Hebrew Publishing Co., 1969 Vicki Katz
DS135.L32L543 2001 Jews in Liepaja, Latvia: 1941-1945 / A Memorial Book (2 copies) Edward Anderson and Juris Dubrovskis Anders Press, 2001 Jerry and Dorothy Becker
DS135.E83 M4 The Jews in the Soviet Satellites Peter Meyer, Bernard D. Weinryb, Eugene Duschinsky, Nicolas Sylvain Syracuse University Press, 1953  
DS125.G54 2001 Jews in the Twentieth Century Martin Gilbert Schocken, 2001 Rabbi Doug Slotnick, Doris Minor, and the JGSWS Library Committee
DS135.L52K375 2006 Jews of Kopcheve, Lithuania Dorothy Leivers Avotaynu, 2006  
DS135.L5G73 1995 The Jews of Lithuania: A History of Remarkable Community, 1316-1945 Masha Greenbaum Gefen, 1995  
DS135. G72 R482 Jews of Rhodes: The History of a Sephardic Community Marc D. Angel Sepher-Hermon Press and The Union of Sephardic Congregations, 1978  
HV6194.J4 A76 2008 The Jews of Sing Sing: Gotham Gangsters and Gonuvim Ron Arons Barricade Books, 2008 Ron Arons
F596.3.J5 J45 1991 Jews of the American west Moses Rischin and John Livingston, Editors Wayne State Universtiy Press, 1991  
Not catalogued at LOC A Journey into Our Ancestry: Chronicles of the Hyman (Yuka) & Goldman (Goldenberger) Families, Vol. 2 Cissie Eppel Cissie Eppel Cissie Eppel
DS135.U42K3613 1998 Kaminits-Podolsk & Its Environs: A Memorial Book of the Jewish Communities in the Cities of Kaminits-Podolsk, Balin, Dunivits, Zamekhov, Zhvanets, Minkovitz, Smotrich, Frampol, Kupin, and Kitagorod Annihilated by the Nazis in 1941 (2 copies) Translated from the Hebrew by Bonnie Schooler Sohn Avotaynu, 1999  
CS21.R574 1997 Keeping Family Stories Alive Vera Rosenbluth Hartley and Marks, 1995 Rabbi Doug Slotnick, Doris Minor, and the JGSWS Library Committee
Not catalogued at LOC Krakow; a guide to Jewish genealogy Geoffrey M. Weisgard Geoffrey Weisgard and Gesher Galicia, inc, 2011  
PC4813.4K64 2000 Ladino-English/English-Ladino Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary (Judeo-Spanish) Dr. Eli Kohen and Dahlia Kohen-Gordon Hippocrene Books Inc., 2000 Nancy Adelson
E184.J5 F455 The Land That I Show You: Three Centuries of Jewish Life in America Stanley Feldstein Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978  
GT146 .L28 1976 The Last of Old Europe: A Grand Tour with AJP Taylor AJP Taylor Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1976  
ISBN 0-9610578-0-7 Latter-Day Leaders, Sages, and Scholars: Biographical Index, Volume 1 Compiled by Emanuel Rosenstein and Neil Rosenstein Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy, 1983  
  Legacy; a genetic history of the Jewish People Harry Ostrer Oxford University Press, 2012  
Z6373.G3E55 1998 Library Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy Angelika Ellmann-Krger with Edward David Luft Avotaynu, 1998  
DS112.Z37 1952 Life is With People: The Culture of the Shtetl Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog Schoicken, 1952 Myra Rothenburg
CS68.N42 1986 Locating Your Immigrant Ancestor James C. and Lila Lee Neagles Everton, 1986 Suzanne Weisfeld
CS16.C78 2000 Long-Distance Genealogy Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer Betterway, 2000  
  Looking back Dorothy Koert and Galen Biery Lyndon Tribune, 1982 Nancy Adelson
E159 .G72 Lost America: From the Mississippi to the Pacific Edited by Constance M. Greiff The Pyne Press, 1972  
CS409.L87 2004 The Lurie Legacy: The House of Davidic Royal Descent Dr. Neil Rosenstein Avotaynu, 2004  
88-80781 Managing a Genealogical Project William Dollarhide   Suzanne Weisfeld
R123.J47 2006 A Medical Miscellany for Genealogists Dr. Jeanette L. Jerger Heritage Books, 2006  
Not catalogued at LOC Memorial Volume of Steibtz-Swerznie and the Neighboring Villages: Rubeziewicz, Derewno, Nalybok Edited by Nahum Hinitz Irgun Yozei Steibtz Beisrael, 1964  
TR147 D37 2011 More Dating Old Photographs 1840-1929   Family Chronicle, 2011  
78-65163 Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals (2 copies) Morton Allan Genealogical Publishing Co., 1931
Reprinted 2001		  
F596.3.J5 Z997x 1980 Mountain West Pioneer Jewry: An Historical and Genealogical Source Book from Origins to 1885 Hynda L. Rudd Western American Studies Series, 1980  
ISBN 0-87441-383-4 My Generations: A Course in Jewish Family History Arthur Kurzweil Behrman House, 1983 Myra Rothenburg
ISBN 9780578039114 My Personal Brush with History Kurt Mayer Kurt Mayer Kurt Mayer
D804.3.F753 2006 Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945: The Years of Extermination Saul Friedlander HarperCollins, 2007  
Not catalogued at LOC A New York City Boy Myron Arthur Grayson and Nancy Jo Grayson Adelson Self-Published, 2002
Updated and Self-Republished, 2004		 Nancy Adelson
Not cataloged in LOC On Your Own: How to Design and Construct a Family History Book to Inform and Captivate Readers Elayne and Stephen Denker Elayne and Stephen Denker, 2013  
ISBN 9789085865292 One Foot in America: The Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star Line and Eugeen Van Mieghem (2 copies) Eugeen Van Mieghem Foundation BAI Publishers and the City of Antwerp, 2009 Nancy Adelson
DS135.S7 F47 1989 The other 1492; Jewish settlement in the new world Norman H. Finkelstein Beechtree Books,1989  
F875.B97 20001 Oregon burial site guide Compiled by Dean H. Byrd Binford and Mort Publishing, 2001 Genealogical Society of South Whidbey Island
F596.3J5R63 1983 Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West Harriet and Fred Rochlin Houghton Mifflin, 1984 Nancy Adelson
F1089.7.J4 L46 Pioneers, Pedlars and Prayer Shawls: The Jewish Communities in British Columbia and the Yukon Cyril Edel Leonoff Sono Nis Press, 1978 Rabbi Doug Slotnick
G1951.S1 P34 Poland: A Historical Atlas Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski Barnes & Noble, 1983 Rabbi Doug Slotnick
93-77159 Polish Roots Rosemary A. Chorzempa Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993 Suzanne Weisfeld
  Polk's Yakima city directory, 1973   R. L. Polk and Co,  
F289.9J5.S3 1967 Portal to America: The Lower East Side 1870-1925 (2 copies: one really damaged) Edited by Allon Schoener Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967  
DS135.G33R55 2001 Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside Emily C. Rose Jewish Publication Society, 2001 Ernest and Doris Stiefel
DS135.P6K323 1999 Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country Photographs by Alter Kacyzne
Edited by Marek Web		 YIVO & Metropolitan Books, 1999 Rabbi Doug Slotnick
BM712.M48 2006 A Practical Guide to Jewish Cemeteries Nolan Menachemson Avotaynu, 2007  
Not catalogued at LOC - ISBN 0-9764749-0-1 Preserving Our Litvak Heritage: A History of 31 Jewish Communities in Lithuania Josef Rosin
Edited by Joel Alpert		 JewishGen, Inc, 2005  
TR465 .T35 P74 2010 Preserving Your Family Photographs Maureen A. Taylor Picture Perfect Press, 2010  
DS146.G4 P75 2000 Probing the depths of German Antisemitism: German society and the persecustion of the Jews , 1933-1941 Edited by David Bankier Yad Vashem and the Leo Baeck Institute, 2000  
CS49 .R44 Red book: American State, County & Town Sources Edited by Alice Eichholz, PhD, CG Ancestry Press, 1989 Rabbi Doug Slotnick
CS47.G73 1990 The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy Val D. Greenwood Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990 Suzanne Weisfeld
Not catalogued at LOC - ISBN 0-9764749-0-1 The Researcher's Handbook (2 copies) Rose Lerer Cohen Rose Lerer Cohen, 1999  
CS3010.F45 1998 Russian-Jewish Given Names Boris Feldblyum Avotaynu, 1998  
F294.S2 L47 1983 Savannah's old Jewish community cemeteries B. H. Levy Mercer University Press, 1983  
PR9619.3.K46 S3 1982 Schindler's List Thomas Keneally Touchstone  
CS21.M35 2002 Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World Jeffrey S. Malka Avotaynu, 2002  
GN289.S94 2001 The Seven Daughters of Eve Bryan Sykes W. W. Norton & Co., 2001 Myra Rothenberg
DS135.P62B694 1997 Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews Eva Hoffman Houghton Mifflin, 1997 Rabbi Doug Slotnick
Doris Minor
PJ5191.E8S53 1989 The Shtetl: A Creative Anthology of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Joachim Neugroschel Overlook, 1989 Myra Rothenberg
Not Catalogued at the LOC - ISBN 1-55613-248-4 Shtetl Finder: Jewish Communities in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries in the Pale of Settlement of Russia and Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Galicia, and Bukovina with Names of Residents (2 copies) Chester G. Cohen Periday, 1986 (1 copy)
Heritage, 1989 (1 copy)		 Jerry and Dorothy Becker
DS135.G4H468 2005 Some Jewish Families of Hesse and Galicia (2nd Ed.) Nathan M. Reiss Self-Published, 2005  
84-70206 The Source: A Guide Book of American Genealogy Edited by Arlen Eakle and Johni Cerny Ancestry Publishing Co., 1984 Suzanne Weisfeld
Z6373.P7V65 2004 Sources on Polish Jewry at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
NOTE: Based on the 1988 edition edited by Adam Teller. Also, this volume references information from archives in Poland, France, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Copies of those archives are contained in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem.		 Compiled and Edited by Hanna Volovici, Witold Medykowski, Hadassah Assouline, Benyamin Lukin Avotaynu Foundation, 2004 Nancy Adelson
Z6374.B5Z83 1996 Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories David S. Zubatsky and Irwin M. Berent Avotaynu, 1996 Suzanne Weisfeld
92-72944 State Census Records Ann S. Lainhart Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992  
CS873.R67 1999 Stones of Remembrance (Avnei Zikaron) Neil Rosenstein and Dovberish Weber The Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy, 1999  
Not catalogued at LOC Stories to tell; an easy guide to self publishing family history books and memoirs Nancy Barnes storiestotellbooks.com, 2010  
PJ5113 .K37 2008 The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-mosh of Languages Saved the Jews Neal Karlen HarperCollins, 2008 (uncorrected proof copy) Rabbi Doug Slotnick
DS 135P6.S8 Studies on Polish Jewry 1919-1939: The Interplay of Social, Economic and Political Factors in the Struggle of a Minority for its Existence
NOTE: Papers about Inter-War Jewish Poland in both English and Yiddish.		 Edited by Joshua A. Fishman YIVO, 1974 Phyllis Grossman
84-161418 Sweet Bucovina Ion Miclea Editura Sport-Turism, 1977 Vicky Katz
Not Catalogued at LOC Survivors: Testimones of the Holocaust (Windows 95/98 Software) Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation  
Not Catalogued at LOC Syllabus of the 15th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Boston, Massachusetts   IAJGS, July 1996  
Not Catalogued at LOC Syllabus of the 19th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in New York, New York
NOTE: Be sure to check out Section BH in the Lecture Handouts for the listing of available lecture tapes.		   IAJGS, August 1999  
Not Catalogued at LOC Syllabus of the 20th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Salt Lake City, Utah (2 copies)   IAJGS, July 2000 Ernest and Doris Stiefel
Not Catalogued at LOC Syllabus of the 21st International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in London, England   IAJGS, July 2001 Ernest and Doris Stiefel
ISBN 9780984623419 Tacoma's Twenty-One Tales Every Student Should be able to Tell Deb Freedman and Tacoma Historical Society Tacoma Historical Society Press, 2010 Deb Freedman
E184.J5 M46 1976 Taking Root: Jewish Immigrants in America Milton Meltzer Dell Publishing, 1976 Nancy Adelson
DS135.L52E36 1998 There Once was a World: 900 Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok Yaffa Eliach Little, Brown & Co., 1998 Rabbi Doug Slotnick
CS47.S97 1997 They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins (2 copies)
NOTE: Information on how to discover your family and ancestors in naturalization records.		 Loretto Dennis Szucs Ancestry Publishing Co., 1998  
93-26835 They Came in Ships (2 copies) NOTE: Guide to finding your immigrant ancestor's arrival records - a "how and where to search" book. John P. Colletta Ancestry Publishing Co., 1993  
DS135.E5 W467 2014 Tracing your Jewish ancestors; a guide for family historians Rosemary Wenzerul Pen and Sword, 2014  
CS31 .R67 1990 The Unbroken Chain, Revised Edition: Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th-20th Century (Volumes 1 & 2) Neil Rosenstein CIS Publishers, 1990  
DS135.E8G78 1994 Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today Ruth Ellen Gruber John Wiley and Sons, 1994  
ISBN 0-8032-3012-5 We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust Ellen Cassedy University of Nebraska Press, 2012 Ellen Cassedy
ISBN 0-7884-1654-5 What Did They Mean By That? A Dictionary of Historical and Genealogical Terms Old and New Paul Drake, J.D. Heritage Books, 2000  
DS135.E83M65 1991 Where Once We Walked (aka WOWW)
NOTE: Great reference book that lists more than 21,000 towns in Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust. It gives exact location by latitude and longitude.		 Gary Mokotoff Avotaynu, 1991  
DS135.E83M65 2002 Where Once We Walked (Revised Edition) Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack with Alexander Sharon Avotaynu, 2002  
DJ.K6M65 1995 Where Once We Walked Companion: A Guide to the Communities Surrounding Central and Eastern European Towns
NOTE: Guide to locate towns near the same latitude and longitude listed in WOWW.		 Gary Mokotoff Avotaynu, 1995  
E159 .L33 2006 Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home - The American Home from 1775 to 1840 Jack Larkin Taunton Press, 2006  
E184.J5 W62 1938 Who's who in American Jewry; a biographical dictinary of living Jews of the United States and Canada, V.3 1938-1939 John Simons, Editor National News Association, 1938  
DS125.3.A2 W5 Who's who in World Jewry; a biographical dictionary of outstanding Jews 1955 Harry Schneiderman and Itzhak J. Carmin, Editors Who's Who in World Jewry, Inc, 1955  
DS135. E8 Y578 2008 The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe David Gershon Hundert, Editor Yale University Press, 2008  
Maps        
  The Austrian Empire, 1875 (plastic sleeve)      
  The Baltic States 1845 (plastic sleeve)      
  The Carpathians, Roumania and Par of the Balkans: 1916 (laminated)      
  The East Central Provinces: Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia 1844 (Plastic sleeve)      
  The German Empire 1875 - East Sheet - Prussia, Saxony, Mecklenburg... (plastic sleeve)      
  The German Empire 1875 - West sheet - Rhenish Prussia, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, Alsace-Lorraine, Beden-Wurtemburg, Bavaria, etc. (plastic sleeve)      
  Isle of Marmara 2006      
  Jewish Eastern Europe 1830-1914 (Mounted )      
  The Kingdom of Bohemia with the Dutchy of Silesia and the Marquisates of Moravia and Lusatia 1794 (Plastic Sleeve)      
  Mapa Galicyi (Mounted )      
  A new map of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1799 (Plastic sleeve)      
  Ostsee-Leander und Inneres Russland (mounted)      
  Pale of Settlement including the Kingdom of Poland (plastic sleeve)      
  Pale of Settlement including the Kingdom of Poland (laminated)      
  Rhodes / Rhodos      
  Russia in Europe (West Russia) 1835 (plastic sleeve)      
  Russia in Europe 1845 (Southern Sheet) (Plastic sleeve)      
  Russia in Europe 1845 (Northern Sheet) (Plastic sleeve)      
  South-West Russia 1860 (plastic sleeve)      
  Western Turkey      
DVDs        
  Budapest: an American quest Lynn Schneider Lynn Schneider, 2013  
  The Human family tree; tracing the human journey through time National Geographic National Geographic, 2009  
  National Days of Remembrance United States Holocaust Memorial Museum USHMM, n.d.  

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