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American Jewess Project - Jewish Women's Archive

The American Jewess (1895-1899) described itself as "the only magazine in the world devoted to the interests of Jewish women." It was the first English-language periodical targeted to American Jewish women, covering an evocative range of topics that ranged from women's place in the synagogue to whether women should ride bicycles.

Displaced Persons (DP) Camp

Personal histories, addresses, photos, e-mail inquiries and links. Nondenominational, all nationalities.

Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel

David Tidhar's 19-volume Hebrew-language encyclopedia is a 'Who's Who' of the Jewish community of the Land of Israel (Erets-Yisrael in Hebrew), and is the only biographical source for many of the approximately 6,000 people included.

First American Jewish Families

Online searchable database of 600 genealogies from 1654 to 1988.

It's all relative: One family

The story of one family's branches reconnected after more than a century proves that technological advances have made the world a much smaller place.

Jasienica Patronymic Records

From Jewish Records Indexing - Poland.

Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-1854

An index to Prof. Genrich Markovich Deych's extremely useful book, Sinagogi, Molitvenne Doma i Sostoyashchie pri nikh Dolzhnostne Litsa v Cherte Evreiskoi Osedlosti i Guberniyakh Kurlyandskoi i Liflyandskoi Rossiiskoi Imperii 1853-1854.

LOEB Family Tree

Noble Families of Jewish Ancestry

A comprehensive survey of those families of Jewish ancestry who were members of the titled European nobility.

Noda B'Yehuda - The Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel (Ezekiel) LANDAU (1713-1793) Chief Rabbi of Prague

Jewish website dedicated to the Noda Beyehuda. Includes the genealogy and historical accounts regarding Rabbi Yechezkel Landau and Prague, 200th Yarzeit gathering.

The Jewish Women's Archive

The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich history of American Jewish women. Includes a Virtual Archive - a searchable database on more than 1,600 Jewish women whose materials are held by repositories throughout the U.S.

The Knowles Collection

The Knowles Collection is group of records on the FamilySearch Community Trees Website. This database originally contained the records of a small section of the Jewish people of the British Isles. That set included less than 10,000 people. What was once a single database, has now grown to be six individual databases that now contain the genealogical records of almost 1.2 million Jewish people: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific. Read more about the collection here: FamilySearch Blog - Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries

Unpacking on the Prairie: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest

Documents the lives of immigrant and pioneer women of Jewish descent in the upper Midwest.