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 Mnster, 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 |
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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-Krger 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 |
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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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