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Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update
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In 1992, Judaica Librarianship featured an article by Zachary Baker, entitled “What We Owe the Genealogists: Genealogy and the Judaica Reference Librarian.” He followed it up in 2003 with an article in Slavic & East European Information Resources entitled “Resources on the Genealogy of Eastern European Jews.” The present article provides an update on the resources available to Jewish genealogists today, with particular emphasis on print and online resources that are recommended for the smaller Judaica library. It lists some of the sources in Baker’s article that have been updated and some that have gone online. It describes JewishGen, Routes to Roots, the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute, the Family History Library, the International Tracing Service, and PERSI, the comprehensive index to genealogical serials. It emphasizes the importance of local genealogi- cal societies and their newsletters.
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This article updates resources for Jewish genealogy in smaller Judaica libraries, emphasizing Avotaynu print tools and major online portals such as JewishGen, Routes to Roots, and the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute. It argues librarians should bookmark key sites, leverage local genealogical societies, and collect local newsletters to serve genealogists.
Key findings
- Avotaynu is the central print publisher; its quarterly *Avotaynu* (1985–present) had its first 24 volumes on CD-ROM (Windows only) with index for $99.95 as of September 2009, with an upgrade for $39.95, and *Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy* cost $11.
- JewishGen is described as the foremost website; its Family Finder contains 400,000 surnames and towns, ShtetLinks covers over 200 communities, and its Family Tree of the Jewish People contains data on nearly four million people.
- Other recommended resources include Routes to Roots, the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute, the Family History Library, the International Tracing Service, and PERSI; local genealogical societies and their newsletters are important for unindexed local records.
- JewishGen favors Ashkenazic researchers; there is no separate Mizrachi SIG, Mizrachi needs are addressed by the Sephardic SIG, and only one Sephardic genealogy book is noted—Jeffrey S. Malka’s *Sephardic Genealogy*, 2nd ed. 2009.
Methods
- This is a resource review/update article, not an empirical study; no formal sample, data collection, or analysis is described.
- It updates Zachary M. Baker’s 1992 *Judaica Librarianship* article and references Baker’s 2003 *Slavic & East European Information Resources* article, recommending print and online resources for smaller Judaica libraries.
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- No limitations section is stated in the paper.
- Evident from the text: prices and resource availability are given “as of September 2009,” and website access dates are 2009, so the update is time-bound.
- Evident from the text: coverage is selective and recommendation-oriented, not a systematic or exhaustive evaluation of all genealogy resources.
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“It is a comprehensive index to all genealogical serials, including Jewish ones.”
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“Critical information from both guides (recently updated), including descriptions of the archival histories of the countries, written by the archivists themselves, is online at the foundation website: http://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.html.”
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“The FHL holds microfilms of many of the records listed in the archives covered by the Routes to Roots material.”
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“In addition to Avotaynu and Toledot, the invaluable newsletters mentioned above are included.”
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“JewishGen links to Jewish records in the Family History Library catalog (FHL, the Latter Day Saints collection): http://www.familysearch.org/eng/ default.asp.”
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“Third is the Yizkor Book Project: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/.This database was discussed by Michlean J. Amir and Rosemary Horowitz in their comprehensive article on the subject of yizkor books (2008).”
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“Also available free in libraries (but not for private subscription) is heritagequest.com.”
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“As of September 2009, the first 24 volumes of this quarterly were available on a CD-ROM (Windows only), with index, for $99.95.(Owners of earlier versions could purchase the upgrade for $39.95.)”
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“The foundation's finances have not kept pace with search engine improvements, but one individual, Stephen Morse, has devised numerous search strategies that work specifically with the Ellis Island data.”
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“Outside of their localities, they are not collected much, except by libraries such as Allen County Public, which specialize in genealogy, so any Judaica library that collects them regionally will be adding content and value, as well as forging a rewarding local connection.”
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“The Allen County librarians have been zealous in searching out the many genealogical societies nationally and internationally, and just reading their titles is a delight, e.g., Mishpochology, Somos Primos, Taproot, Mass-pocha, Zichronnote, Scattered Seeds, Shem Tov.”
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“It is important for patrons to understand that the databases on this site are inventories of which archives are available, where they are, and how to access them.The actual contents of the archives are not digitized.”
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“These newsletters often contain the diligent work of local genealogists on material that is too specialized to make it into Avotaynu.”
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“Both ancestry.comand heritagequest are available to home users who have accounts with libraries that have paid for that privilege.”
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“JewishGen's Family Tree of the Jewish People contains data on nearly four million people.”
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“The books module has a small amount of Judaic material, but the serials module is the database of PERSI, the Periodical Source Index.”
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“Second is the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry: http:// www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/.This is an ongoing, all-volunteer project, and new cemeteries are being added all the time.”
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“JewishGen databases are currently hosted on the servers of ancestry.com,and are aggregated as Ancestry's Jewish Family History Collection.”
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“This site has genealogical records from Rangoon and Calcutta, and fabulous photos of gravestones from the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood Cemetery.”
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“This is the archival material that until recently has been so elusive for genealogists.Now that the Soviet era is over it is becoming more accessible, but it is still not digitized.”
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“Private membership is expensive, but use of the databases is free at libraries that subscribe.”
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“JewishGen allows free basic searches, but has begun to charge $100 annually for the privilege of advanced searches in some databases-quite a bargain compared to ancestry.com.”
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“The Museum's FAQ page (http:// www.ushmm.org/remembrance/registry/faq/) walks users through most of the resources mentioned in this article.”
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“In several cases, local record indexes are online as a result of heroic effort on the part of volunteers, most of whom start their projects with no formal training.”
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“JewishGen does not have a separate SIG for Mizrachi Jews.Their genealogical needs are addressed by the Sephardic SIG.”
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“The ShtetlSeeker, an online gazetteer on JewishGen, allows searching by the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system.”
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“Legally, an institution can no longer release them casually.”
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“Malka is almost solely responsible for the Sephardic SIG: http://www.jewishgen.org/Sephardic/.”
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“The JewishGen Family Finder was cited as a quarterly periodical in Baker's article.It is now entirely on the JewishGen site, searchable by Soundex, with data showing what other researchers are interested in the same name as the patron, and how to make contact.”
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“Ancestry holds the electronic rights to numerous valuable genealogical databases, especially those of American interest, and provides a gateway to many that offer free access.”
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“Synagogue and federation records are erratic, unindexed, and private.”
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“Heritagequest, like ancestry.com,offers access to the U.S. census, but its other two modules are books and serials.”
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“JewishGen also serves as host to independent organizations such as Jewish Records Indexing-Poland.”
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“Immigration records were indexed some time ago, with mixed success, mostly due to the vast size of the database and again, the problems with name spellings and changes.”
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“They have perfected the technique of allowing a free search, but then requiring a membership to view the resulting document.”
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“The websites of these groups are an excellent source of information about access to local records.”
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“Both books have been updated-Rottenberg's in 1998 and Kurzweil's in 2004-and both are still available.”
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“Less scholarly in style than Avotaynu, more timely and local in their coverage, they represent genealogy in the trenches.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > THE LIBRARIAN'S ROLE
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“Outside of their localities, they are not collected much, except by libraries such as Allen County Public, which specialize in genealogy, so any Judaica library that collects them regionally will be adding content and value, as well as forging a rewarding local connection.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > THE LIBRARIAN'S ROLE
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“According to the site: These Jewish Family History Collections will remain free as long as they exist on ancestry.com.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > THE LIBRARIAN'S ROLE
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“JewishGen links to almost every relevant site on the Internet.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
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“Avotaynu has produced a very basic guide, Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy, by Gary Mokotoff and Warren Blatt (1999).”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
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“It is thus relatively easy for a Jewish library to begin or update a collection of print materials in genealogy.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > CONCLUSION
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“Avotaynu (http://www.avotaynu.com)-which is responsible for the one and only international journal in the field, the eponymous Avotaynu (1985-present).”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
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“This database is maintained by the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > THE LIBRARIAN'S ROLE
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In the paper
“the Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, edited by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack (2003).This overview of the field includes articles about individual countries by experts in the field.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
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“There are many books about Sephardic history, but only one deals specifically with genealogy-Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World, by Jeffrey S. Malka (2002).”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
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“The second edition of this work was published by Avotaynu in 2009.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
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“The Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex improves on the standard one because it is specifically designed for Jewish names.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
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“Avotaynu offers two different guides to Jewish cemeteries.Again, one is more practical and focused: A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery, by Rabbi Joshua Segal (2005).(Avotaynu distributes but does not publish this book.)A Practical Guide to Jewish Cemeteries, by Nolan Menachemson (2006), is more in-depth.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
What the sources say
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“Where Once We Walked, by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack (originally published in 1991)-was revised in 2002 and has become the de facto print gazetteer of the shtetlekh of the Pale of Settlement.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
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In the paper
“Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors, by Barbara Krasner-Khait was published in 2001 and is now out of print.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
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In the paper
“Finding Our Fathers, by Dan Rottenberg (1977), and From Generation to Generation, by Arthur Kurzweil (1980), are the two books that began the Jewish genealogy revolution, and both were cited in Baker's article.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
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- Not matchedcites [9]
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- Not matchedcites Baker
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In the paper
“This is where the local Jewish genealogical society comes in.”
- Also stated in: § THE LIBRARIAN'S ROLE · plain
“The societies' members are the best guides to finding unindexed local records, if any exist.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > THE LIBRARIAN'S ROLE
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In the paper
“In addition, the museum now has a relationship with the International Tracing Service (ITS: http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/ homepage/index.html),the International Red Cross archive in Bad Arolsen, Germany, that has digitized records on millions of victims.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
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- Not matchedcites http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/ homepage/index.html
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“The foremost website for Jewish genealogy is JewishGen (http:// www.jew-ishgen.org),a tax-exempt, non-profit affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in New York City.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
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- Not matchedcites http:// www.jew-ishgen.org
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In the paper
“To a great extent, it has taken over for libraries in serving the needs of genealogists.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
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In the paper
“The CJH is the umbrella organization for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Yeshiva University Museum.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
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- Not matchedcites http://www.cjh.org
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In the paper
“It covers every facet of Jewish genealogy.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
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In the paper
“The Routes to Roots Foundation, directed by Miriam Weiner, published two archival guides that are in many libraries.Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (1997) and Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (1998) are now out of print.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
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- Not matchedcites [22]
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- Not matchedcites [23]
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In the paper
“There is no question that JewishGen favors Ashkenazic researchers, with its ShtetlLinks, translations of Hebrew and Yiddish yizkor books, and focus on the Holocaust.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
boosteddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“More importantly for genealogists, the CJH partner organizations established the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute in 2000.”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > ONLINE RESOURCES
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites http://www.cjh.org
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The paper relies on this without support.
The first roadblock for many Jewish genealogists is identifying their ancestral shtetl.
“The first roadblock for many Jewish genealogists is identifying their ancestral shtetl, so this work is critical to have.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The biggest problem people have with tombstones is deciphering the dates.
“The biggest problem people have with tombstones is deciphering the dates.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Another obstacle for genealogists is the language barrier, especially when dealing with tombstones.
“Another obstacle for genealogists is the language barrier, especially when dealing with tombstones.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Synagogue and federation records are erratic, unindexed, and private.
“Synagogue and federation records are erratic, unindexed, and private.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Legally, an institution can no longer release synagogue and federation records casually.
“Legally, an institution can no longer release them casually.”
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
“A Practical Guide to Jewish Cemeteries, by Nolan Menachemson (2006)”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > References
“14. Menachemson, Nolan (2007). A Practical Guide to Jewish Cemeteries. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, 2007.”
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > Abstract
“Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (1998)”
§ Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update > References
“23. Weiner, Miriam (1999). Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories.”
Citations
Cites
Finding Our Fathers A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy
Rottenberg, D. (1977) · Cited by 23
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chryssides, G. D., Fiskvik, A. M., & Givens, T. L. (2019) · Encyclopedia of the Bible Online · doi:10.1515/ebr.churchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints · Cited by 12
A dictionary of Jewish surnames from the Russian empire
(1994) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.31-2401 · Cited by 12
A dictionary of Jewish surnames from the Kingdom of Poland
(1996) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.34-1888 · Cited by 7
Yizkor Books in the Twenty-First Century: A History and Guide to the Genre
Amir, M., & Horowitz, R. (2008) · Judaica Librarianship · doi:10.14263/2330-2976.1073 · Cited by 5
A dictionary of Jewish surnames from the Russian Empire
Beider, A. (1993) · Cited by 5
Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World
Malka, J. S. (2002) · Cited by 4
A dictionary of Jewish surnames from Galicia
Beider, A. (2004) · Cited by 4
A dictionary of Ashkenazic given names their origins, structure, pronunciation, and migrations
Beider, A. (2001) · Cited by 3
Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories
Weiner, M. (1997) · Cited by 2
Research works printed but not linked: 3
- Kurzweil, Arthur (1994). From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History. Revised edition. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
- Kurzweil, Arthur (2004). From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History. Updated edition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint, 2004.
- Mokotoff, Gary; Sack, Sallyann Amdur; Sharon, Alexander (2002). Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust. Revised edition.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dwoskin, B.
- Corresponding author
- Dwoskin, Beth
- Venue
- Judaica Librarianship
- Publisher
- Association of Jewish Libraries
- Published
- 2014-04-15
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 13-24
- ISSN
- 0739-5086 (ISSN-L)
- 2330-2976
- OpenAlex
- W1990894574
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Judaica librarianship (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Conservation › Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Administration
- Keywords
- Jewish genealogy, genealogical resources, Eastern European Jews, International Tracing Service, Persis
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