The Lurie Legacy

The Lurie Legacy
Author: Neil Rosenstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 9781886223172

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

Where Once We Walked
Author: Gary Mokotoff
Publisher: Bergenfield, NJ : Avotaynu
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

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

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

A Translation Guide to 19th-century Polish-language Civil-registration Documents
Author: Judith R. Frazin
Publisher: JGSI: "The Guide"
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2009
Genre: English language
ISBN: 0961351225

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.

A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames

A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames
Author: Lars Menk
Publisher: Bergenfield, NJ : Avotaynu
Total Pages: 832
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

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

Galicia
Author: Paul R. Magocsi
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802024824

This is the first comprehensive bibliographic guide to Galicia history.