North American Jewish Community Books – Central America
El judío en Costa Rica – Jacobo Schifter Sikora, Lowell Gudmundson, Mario Solera Castro, San José, Costa Rica, Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, 1979
Jews in Latin America – Jacob Bellor, New York, J. David, 1969
Jews of the Latin American republics – by Judith Laikin Elkin, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1980
Kol Shearith Israel: cien años de vida judía en Panamá, 1876-1976 = Kol Shearith Israel: a hundred years of Jewish life in Panama – Panamá, Igmar, 1977
Notes and glimpses at Jewish community life in Central and South America – Maurice Joseph Shore, New York, 1944
Rites : a Guatemalan boyhood – Victor Perera ; with a new afterword by the author, San Francisco, CA, Mercury House, 1994
The Jewish experience in Latin America, selected studies from the publications of the American Jewish Historical Society – Edited with an introd. by Martin A. Cohen, Waltham, MA, American Jewish Historical Society, 1972
The Jews of Latin America – by Judith Laikin Elkin, New York, NY, Holmes & Meier, 1998
Growing up I had heard the story that my Zaidie lost brothers and sisters in the Holocaust with minimal detail. It was only many years later and long after both my Zaidie and Bubby had passed that my interest was sparked to find out what happened to that part of my family. Of course by …
The All Israel Database of the Israel Genealogy Research Association recently passed the 2.5 million record mark. The database includes not only records from Israel starting in the middle of the 19th century but also records from Jewish communities around the Mediterranean Basin and Middle East. See all the salutes here.
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for the 2023 IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy is now open! In 2023, the in-person conference will take place in London, England, from 30 July until 3 August 2023. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on 15 January 2023. To …