A Selected Bibliography for Jewish Research

Instructional Books and Guides to Sources

  • 1998 Cemetery Project [CS 434 A87 Comp. Disk]
  • Blatt, Warren FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about Jewish Genealogy [CS 21 B53]
  • Consolidated Jewish Surname Index [Fiche (Misc. – J)]
  • David, Jo How to Trace Your Jewish roots: Discovering Your Unique History [CS 21 J4 D28]
  • European Sources in New York: a Guide to the Hebrew Manuscript Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America [CS 44 E97]
  • Gorr, Shmeul Jewish Personal Names: Their Origin, Derivation and Diminutive Forms [CS 3010 G67]
  • Jewish Genealogy Yearbook [CS 2 J48 2000]
  • JewishGen Family Finder [Fiche (Misc. – J)]
  • Jewish Genealogical Family Finder [Fiche (Misc. - J)]
  • Karo, Inge (compiler) Jewish Genealogy Beginners Guide [CS 16 J48]
  • Kohn, Gary The Jewish Experience: A Guide to Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress [E 184 J5 K64]
  • Krasner-Khait, Barbara Discovering your Jewish Ancestors [CS 21 J4 K85]
  • Kurzweil, Arthur From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History [CS 21 K87 1994]
  • Malka, Jeffrey S. Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World [CS 21 J4 M35]
  • Marcus, Jacob Rader ed. The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography [E 184 J5 C653]
  • Mohrer, Fruma Guide to the YIVO Archives [N.Y. L M314.62 J13]
  • Mokotoff, Gary How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust [CS 21 M64]
  • Rottenberg, Dan Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy [CS 21 R58]
  • Weiner, Miriam Bridging the Generations : Exploring your Jewish Roots [CS 21 B77]
  • Weiner, Miriam Exploring your Sephardic Roots: A Resource Guide [E 184 J5 E9]
  • Weiner, Miriam Genealogy Research in Eastern Europe and Israel [Europe G 2.4]
  • Weiner, Miriam The Holocaust and Genealogy [CS 21 H64]
  • Weiner, Miriam Unusual Sources for Jewish Genealogists [CS 21 U58]
  • Zubatsky, David Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories [CS 31 B5 Z83]

In New York

  • Abelow, Samuel P. History of Brooklyn Jewry [N.Y. L B792.27]
  • Abromovitich, Ilana. et al. Jews of Brooklyn [N.Y. L B792.96 J49]
  • Bogen, Hyman The Luckiest Orphans: A History of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York [N.Y.C. G 128.15]
  • Diner, Hasia R. et al. Remembering the Lower East Side: American Jewish Reflections [N.Y. L M314.96 R36]
  • Dobbie, Joan Before us : Studies of Early Jewish Families in St. Lawrence County, 1855-1920 [N.Y. CO. SA24.12]
  • Engel , Herbert M. Shtetl in the Adirondacks: the Story of Gloversville and its Jews [N.Y. L G518.75]
  • Grinstein, Hyman Bogomolny The Rise of the Jewish Community of New York, 1654-1860 [N.Y.C. G 41.5]
  • Goldin, Eva Effron Acker The Jewish Community of Poughkeepsie, New York: An Anecdotal History [N.Y. L P861.2]
  • Guide to the Archives: 1994 New York: Central Synagogue [N.Y. L M314.62 J12]
  • Gurock, Jeffrey S. When Harlem was Jewish, 1870-1930 [N.Y. L M314.96 G87]
  • Hershkowitz, Leo Wills of Early New York Jews, 1704-1799 [N.Y.C. G 41.54]
  • Israelowitz, Oscar Synogogues of New York City: A Pictorial Survey in 123 Photographs [N.Y.C. G 41.58]
  • The Jewish Communal Register of New York City, 1917-1918 [N.Y.C. G 41.4]
  • Kessner, Thomas The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1880-1915 [N.Y.C. G 41.6]
  • Kohn, Solomon The Jewish Community of Utica, New York, 1847-1948 [N.Y. L UT3.6]
  • Kranzler, George C. Williamsburg, a Jewish Community in Transition: a Study of the Factors and Patterns of Change in the Organization and Structures of a Community in Transition [N.Y. L B792.96 K73]
  • Landesman, Alter F. Brownsville: the Birth, Development, and Passing of a Jewish Community in New York [N.Y. L B792.96 L36]
  • Lowenstein, Steven M. Frankfurt on the Hudson: The German-Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 1933-1983 [N.Y.C. G 41.532]
  • Markel, Howard Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants in New York City and the Epidemics of 1892 [N.Y L M314.96 M37]
  • Mitchell, William E. Mishpokhe: a Study of New York City Jewish Family Clubs [N.Y.C. G 41.553]
  • New York State. Archives and Records Administration. Jewish History Resources in New York State [N.Y. G 12.8072]
  • The Old East Side: an Anthology N.Y. L M314.96 O43
  • Pool, David de Sola An Old Faith in the New World; Portrait of Shearith Israel, 1654-1954 [N.Y.C. G 41.531]
  • Pool, David de Sola Portraits Etched in Stone: Early Jewish Settler, 1682-1831 [N.Y.C. G 41.51 ]
  • Portal to America: the Lower East Side, 1870-1925 [N.Y. L M314.96 S3]
  • Rischin, Moses The Promised City: New York's Jews, [1870-1914 N.Y. L M314.96 R57]
  • Rosenbaum, Edward L., compiler Jewish Cemeteries in the New York/Northern New Jersey Area [N.Y.C. G 34.591]
  • Roskolenko, Harry The Time That Was Then: the Lower East Side, 1900-1914 - an Intimate Chronicle [N.Y. L M314.96 R67]
  • Shargel, Baila The Jews of Westchester :A Social History [N.Y. CO. W522.17]
  • Siegel, Stephen Eleventh Summer Seminar on Jewish Genealogy: the New York Jewish Experience [CS 2 J48 E44 1992]
  • Soyer, Daniel Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 [N.Y.C. G 41.552]
  • Wenger, Beth S. New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise [N.Y.C. 5 41.552]

In North America

  • Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies 1998 Cemetery Project [CS 434 A87 Comp. Disk]
  • Blatt, Warren Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston Area [MASS. L B157.19 B43]
  • Brilliant, Richard Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America [E 184 J5 B7696]
  • Butwin, Frances The Jews in America [E 184 J5 B83]
  • Cohen, Naomi W. Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914 [E 184 J5 C618]
  • Elzas, Barnett A. Jewish Marriage Notices from the Newspaper Press of Charleston, S.C., 1775-1906 [S.CAR. G 8]
  • Ezekiel, Herbert T The History of the Jews of Richmond from 1769 to 1917 [Virginia L R415.7]
  • Fierman, Floyd S. Insights and Hindsights of Some El Paso Jewish Families [Texas L EL691]
  • Fischel, Jack and Sanford Pinsker, eds. Jewish-American History and Culture: an Encyclopedia [E 184 J5 J48]
  • Goldstein, Irene Saunders Entrepreneurial Spirit in America: Rudd, Kortz, Finkenstein, Levand [G R 8318]
  • Huhner, Leon Jews in America after the American Revolution [E 184 J5 H8]
  • Kaufman, Marian W. The Jewish Burials of Macon, Georgia, in These Rose Hill Cemeteries: The Hebrew Burial Ground, 1844; Congregational B'nai Israel, 1870; Beth Israel's William Wolff, 1879; The Hebrew Aid Society, 1898; Congregation Sherah Israel, 1923; The Workmans's Circle, 1930; and Other Macon cemeteries, 1844-1997, 5604-5757 [GEORGIA L M237.7]
  • Kaufman, Marian W. 1490 Listings of Marriages of Macon and Bibb County, Georgia, With One or Both Spouses of Jewish Birth, 1823-1998 [GEORGIA L M237.6]
  • Kurzweil, Arthur and Miriam Weiner Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy: Sources in the United States and Canada [CS 21 E53]
  • Libo, Kenneth We lived there too : in their own words and pictures - pioneer Jews and the western movement of America, 1630-1930 [E 184 J5 L52]
  • Perlman, Robert Bridging Three Worlds: Hungarian-Jewish Americans, 1848-1914 [E 184 J5 P47]
  • Preisler, Julian H. Jewish Genealogical Resources: Mid-Atlantic States [CS 14 P74]
  • Shinedling, Abraham I. West Virginia Jewry: Origins and History, 1850-1958 [WEST VA. G 8]
  • Weinberg, Sydney Stahl The World of Our Mothers: The Lives of Jewish Immigrant Women [E 184 J5 W43]

Around The World

  • Beare, Arlene A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Latvia and Estonia [LATVIA G 5]
  • Beider, Alexander A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciations, and Migrations [CS 3010 B18]
  • Beider, Alexander A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire [Russia G 3.1]
  • Cohen, Chester G. Shtetl Finder [Russia G 3]
  • Dobroszycki, Lucjan Image Before my Eyes: a Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864-1939 [Poland G 12.1]
  • Ellmann-Kruger, Angelika Library Resources for German Jewish Genealogy [CS 21 J4 E55]
  • European Sources in New York: a Guide to the Hebrew Manuscript Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America CS 44 E97
  • Feldblyum, Boris Russian-Jewish Given Names: Their Origins and Variants [CS 3010 F45]
  • Greenbaum, Masha The Jews of Lithuania: a History of a Remarkable Community, 1316-1945 [LITH. G 2.1]
  • Gruber, Ruth Ellen Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe Yesterday and Today [Europe G 2.2]
  • Kronik, Aleksander Some Archival Sources for Ukrainian-Jewish Genealogy [Ukr. G 1.3]
  • Kugelmass, Jack From a Ruined Garden: the Memorial Books of Polish Jewry [POLAND G 12.3]
  • Mokotoff, Gary Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust [Europe G 2]
  • Mokotoff, Gary WOWW Companion: A Guide to the Communities Surrounding Central and Eastern European Towns [E184 J5 L52]
  • Plaut, Gilles Recherches Cimetiere en Milieu Juif [France L P 218.5]
  • Rhode, Harold Jewish Vital Records, Revision Lists, and other Jewish Holdings in the Lithuanian Archives [LITH. G 2.2]
  • Sack, Sallyann Amdur A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel [ISRAEL G 5]
  • Schlafler, Sara Edell and Philip Bloom, eds. 1993 Guide to International Jewish Genealogical Research & Resources [CS 16 J47]
  • Shilstone, E.M. (transcriber) Monumental Inscriptions in the Burial Ground of the Jewish Synagogue at Bridgetown, Barbados [WEST INDIES L B232.6]
  • Skyte, Thea, et. al. Ed. A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany & Austria [GERMANY G 9]
  • Weiner, Miriam Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories [Poland G 1.82]
  • Weiner, Miriam Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories [Ukraine G 2]
  • Weiner, Miriam Researching your Russian Roots [RUSSIA G 1.1]
  • Wenzerul, Rosemary A Beginner's Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Great Britain [GREAT BRIT. G 14.7]
  • Wisniewski, Tomasz Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland a Guide for Yesterday and Today [POLAND L B470.5]
  • Wynne, Suzan F. Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia: A Resource Guide [Poland G 10.1]

Periodicals

  • American Jewish History [E 184 J A5]
  • Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy [CS 1 A96]
  • Chronicles [Penn. L P530.601]
  • Dorot: The Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society [N.Y.C. G 41.57]
  • JGSLI Lineage [L.I. G 1.2]
  • Tolodot: The Journal of Jewish Genealogy [CS 1 T64]

Genealogies/Biographies

  • Batkin, Stanley I. The Batkin Family Genealogy [G B 3205]
  • Bentwich, Norman De Mattos Solomon Schechter, a Biography [BM 90 J559 S3]
  • Costa, Isaac da Noble Families Among the Sephardic Jews [G C 170 (oversize)]
  • Fern, William H. Fern Family Genealogical Charts [File 1 (F3901)]
  • Fish, Sidney M. Aaron Levy, Founder of Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania [Penn. L AA75]
  • Frankel, Louis Genealogical Tables of Jewish Families, 14th-20th Centuries: Forgotten Fragments of the History of the Frænkel Family [G F 8518]
  • Franks, Abigail The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence: Letters of the Franks Family, 1733-1748 [G F 8555]
  • Friendly, Natalie Brooks The Friendly Family [G F 9156]
  • Freund, Lawrence S. Imagine My Joy: a Family History [G F 8963]
  • Gottheil, Richard James Horatio The Belmont-Belmonte Family: A Record of Four Hundred Years, Put Together from the Original Documents in the Archives and Libraries of Spain, Portugal, Holland, England and Germany, as Well as from Private Sources [G B 4177]
  • Hoenig, Leopold Ancestors and Descendants: The Descendants of Moises Anschel of Polch [G AN 81]
  • Hoenig, Leopold The Himmelstein Family: Descendants of Lipman Himmelstein from Germany: Halchen Himmelstein Culp from Oude Pekela, The Netherlands; Eliezar Litman Himmelstein from Berezdov, The Ukraine (formerly Poland); and Mordechai Yael Himmelstein from Minsk Province, White Russia [FAMILY SHELF 4 (H5775)]
  • Hoenig, Leopold The Honig / Hoenig family of Kirchenbirk, Falkenau, and Karlsbad, Bohemia: including the related families Adler (Falkenau), Heller (Mies), Blaustern (Tachau and Vienna) and Aschner (Vienna), Fischer (Alt-Rohlau/Karlsbad), Loewy (Budau near Saaz), Holzner (Theusing, Purles), and the other Jewish families in Falkenau [FAMILY SHELF 1 (H6717)]
  • Information on the Towns of Janova, Kedainiai, and Vilkija, Lithuania [Family Shelf 1 (J1804)]
  • Isenberg, Janet Bernd The Wolff Family of Muenstereifel [Family Shelf 1 (W8321) (manuscript)]
  • Libo, Kenneth The Seixas-Kurcheedts and the Rise of Early American Jewry [G SE 454]
  • Menton, Arthur F. The Book of Destiny: Toledot Charlap [G C 3793]
  • Menton, Arthur F. Ancilla to Toledot Charlap [G C 3793 SUPP.]
  • Reiss, Nathan Morris Some Jewish Families of Hesse and Galicia [Europe G 3.15]
  • Ronn, J. Michoel The Dworskys of Lazdei: The History of a Lithuanian Jewish Family from the Mid-1700's Until the Present [G D 9735]
  • Rosenstein, Neil The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and the Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th-20th Century [G K 1596]
  • Sanders, Jacquelyn Seevak The Seevak Family: a History, 1700-1998 [G SE 368]
  • Sanders, Jacquelyn The Zoken Family [G Z 7481]
  • Sapiro, Philip Karnovsky Family Trees [File 1 (K1478) ]
  • Stern, Malcolm H. First American Jewish Families: 600 Genealogies, 1654-1977 [CS 59 S76 (oversize)]

Compiled by Catherine M. Ellard, Assistant Librarian

Note. The references listed in the excellent bibliography above are no longer available at the NYG&B Library. They are, however, available at the New York Public Library where our collection is now housed.