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Sephardic Resources: What’s New for 2021
Books & DNA 2021
Schelly Talalay Dardashti tracingthetribe@gmail.com
Tracing the Tribe – Jewish Genealogy on Facebook
Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World Jeffrey Malka
(Avotaynu, 2nd edition)
History of the Jews of Italy Cecil Roth (JPS, Philadelphia, 1946)History of the Jews of Venice Cecil Roth (JPS, Philadelphia, 1930)
The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas Mordechai Arbell (Gefen)
Sangre Judia (vols. 1 and 2) Pere Bonnin (Flor del Viento) (Spanish)
The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience Jane S. Gerber (Free Press, 1994) Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews David M. Gitlitz (UNM Press, 2002) A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain’s Secret Jews David M. Gitlitz (St. Martin’s Press,1999) Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico David M. Gitlitz (UNM Press, 2019) To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico Stanley Hordes (Columbia U Press, 2008) Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History Aviva Ben-Ur (NYU Press, 2012) Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950 (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) Julia Philips Cohen, Sarah Abrevaya Stein Last Century of a Sephardic Community: The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943 Mark Cohen New Mexico’s Crypto-Jews: Image and Memory Cary Herz Dicionario Sefaradi de Sobrenomes [Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames] Guilherme Faiguenboim, Paulo Valadares and Anna Rosa Campagnan (Fraiha) (English/Portuguese) Sephardic Atlantic: Colonial Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives Sina Rauschenbach and Jonathan Schorsch Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period Francesca Trivellato Guidebook for Sephardic and Mizrahi Genealogical Resources in Israel Mathilde Tagger/Yitzchak Kerem (Avotaynu) History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles. Isaac Samuel Emmanuel (American Jewish Archives, 1970) Les Juifs d’Afrique du Nord: Démographie et onomastique, [The Jews of North Africa: Demography and Onomastics] Maurice Eisenbeth (1936) Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc: Essai d’onomastique Judéo-marocaine [The Surnames of Moroccan Jews: Essay on Judeo-Moroccan Onomastics] Abraham Laredo (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Montano, 1978) Les Noms des Juifs de Grèce [Names of the Jews of Greece] Jean and Elie Carasso (éds.) (Gordes, 1990) Les Juifs de Salonique 1492-1943 [The Jews of Thessaloniki] Elie Carosso (ed.) (Tarascon, 2000) The Jews of the Kingdom of Valencia: From Prosecution to Expulsion, 1391-1492 Jose Hinojosa Montalvo (Magnes Press, 1993) L’Histoire des Israélites de Salonique, [The History of the Jews of Thessaloniki] Thessaloniki: 1935- 1978. Joseph Nehama ((7 vols) The Sephardic Onomasticon Baruh Pinto (Gözlem, 2004) Juifs du Maghreb: Noms de famille et société [Jews of the Maghreb; Surnames and Society] Jacques Taieb (Cercle de Généalogie Juive, 2004) Histoire de familles; Les noms de famille juifs d’Afrique du Nord [History of Families: Jewish Surnames of North Africa], Joseph Toledano (1998) Portraits Etched in Stone: Early Jewish Settlers 1682-1841. David De Sola Pool (Columbia University Press, New York, 1953). Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries Aron Rodrigue/Esther Benbassa (University of California Press, 2000). Amsterdam’s Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century Yda Schreuder Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century Sara Abrevaya Stein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)
Exploring Sephardic Customs and Traditions Marc Angel (Ktav, 2000)
Treasury of Sephardic Laws and Customs Herbert C. Dobrinsky (Ktav ,1986)
The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite Stephen Birmingham
My 15 Grandmothers Genie Milgrom (both English and Spanish)
How I Found My 15 Grandmothers Genie Milgrom (English and Spanish)
Recipes of My 15 Grandmothers Genie Milgrom (English and Spanish)
The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition Doreen Carvajal
Fiction
By Light of Hidden Candles - Daniella Levy
Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish
Gateway to the Moon - Mary Morris
Converso - Mario X. Martinez
Last Kabbalist of Lisbon - Richard Zimler
Pyre to Fire – Genie Milgrom
Hidden Star – Corinne Joy Brown
And a large number of Sephardic cookbooks, demonstrating the lives, traditions,
and celebrations of Sephardim communities worldwide
There are so many more.
Search internet for
“books Sephardic, Sephardi, Sephardim, Sefardic, Sefardi, Sefardim”
and add “fiction” or “non-fiction” or “history.”
Check each book’s bibliography for even more resources.
Set Google Alerts for new books on these topics.
There are so many more.
Search internet for
“books Sephardic, Sephardi, Sephardim, Sefardic, Sefardi, Sefardim”
and add “fiction” or “non-fiction” or “history” or “Jews.”
Check each book’s bibliography for even more resources.
Set Google Alerts for new books on these topics.
DNA
There are four major DNA companies, plus GEDmatch. They are Ancestry, 23&Me, FamilyTree DNA,
and MyHeritage. While all are good at Ashkenazi, only FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage recognize non-
Ashkenazi (Sephardic, Mizrahi, etc.). The others classify all Jews as European Jews whether they come
from Iberia or Siberia, which is unhelpful for genealogists. GEDmatch is a clearing house for uploadedDNA results with numerous tools, some paid. There are other smaller companies that may not be as
useful as the Big 4.
Only MyHeritage offers five Jewish DNA groups: Ashkenazi, Sephardic North Agrica, Mizrahi Iran/Iraq,
Yemenite, and Ethiopian. With the recent addition of Genetic Groups, there are now 55 subgroups
among the Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi groups.
An expected MyHeritage update in ethnicity may occur before RootsTech 2021. If so, this presentation
will reflect that update as well. The MyHeritage Blog features an extensive article on Genetic Groups
and will also publish an extensive post on the ethnicity update when it happens;
(myheritage.blog.com). Another excellent DNA blog is Roberta Estes’ DNA-explained.com
Regardless of where you test, upload your results to both MyHeritage and FTDNA. Neither Ancestry
nor 23 accept uploads/transfers of results, but the others do. Ideally, you want to be in ALL the major
databases because you do not know where unknown relatives may have tested or transferred to. If you
limit yourself to one database, you may be missing fascinating contacts.
Both MyHeritage and FTDNA charge a nominal fee to unlock advanced tools. Uploading your results to
MyHeritage will allow you to see your DNA matches without having a private family site.
All companies offer the autosomal test, which brings results from all your family lines, depending on
how you personally inherited this. FTDNA also offers the YDna (direct paternal line), mtDNA (direct
maternal line), as well as advanced testing.
For additional information on DNA, most companies have a learning center with much material. For
additional information, visit (on FB), ISOGG (International Society of Genetic Genealogy), Jewish DNA,
and Tracing the Tribe – Jewish Genealogy on Facebook.
If you suspect you have Sephardic or Mizrahi ancestry, please consider the Avotaynu Jewish Heritage
DNA Project, managed by Adam Brown, in conjunction with the Technion in Israel and Avotaynu. It is a
fascinating project that has provided major information in many areas. Contact Adam to see if your
family is already in the project or may be a new one.
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