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The English meaning of Mizrahi is Levantine, Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean.
The name Mizrahi is of Hebrew origin.
The surname Mizrahi is aPersonal Characteristic name, which means that it is derived from a man's given name, usually a father , paternal ancestor or patron.
There are many indicators that the name Mizrahi may be of Jewish origin, emanating from the Jewish communities of Spain and Portugal.
When the Romans conquered the Jewish nation in 70 CE, much of the Jewish population was sent into exile throughout the Roman Empire. Many were sent to the Iberian Peninsula. The approximately 750,000 Jews living in Spain in the year 1492 were banished from the country by royal decree of Ferdinand and Isabella. The Jews of Portugal, were banished several years later. Reprieve from the banishment decrees was promised to those Jews who converted to Catholicism. Though some converted by choice, most of these New-Christian converts were called CONVERSOS or MARRANOS (a derogatory term for converts meaning pigs in Spanish), ANUSIM (meaning "coerced ones" in Hebrew) and CRYPTO-JEWS, as they secretly continued to practice the tenets of the Jewish faith.
Our research has found that the family name Mizrahi is cited with respect to Jews & Crypto-Jews in at least 69 bibliographical, documentary, or electronic references:
From the civil records of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Amsterdam Municipal Archives possess a complete set of registers of intended marriages from 1578 to 1811, the year when the present Civil Registry was started. Between 1598 and 1811, 15238 Jewish couples were entered in these books. Both the number of records and the volume of data that may be extracted from them are unprecedented.
From the records of Bevis Marks, The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London
Bevis Marks is the Sephardic synagogue in London. It is over 300 years old and is the oldest still in use in Britain.The Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation of London has published several volumes of its records: they can be found in libraries such as the Cambridge University Library or the London Metropolitan Archive
List of (mostly) Sephardic brides from the publication, "List of 7300 Names of Jewish Brides and Grooms who married in Izmir Between the Years 1883-1901 & 1918-1933". By Dov Cohen.
Dov Cohen has created an index of brides and grooms based on the organization of Ketubot (Jewish wedding contracts) from marriages within the Turkish community of Izmir. From this material we can identify the Jewish families who lived in Turkey since the Spanish expulsion in 1492 in two periods: the end of the Ottoman Empire and the beginning of the secular government of Turkish Republic. Events of these periods forced this community to emigrate to America.
List of (mostly) Sephardic grooms from the publication, "List of 7300 Names of Jewish Brides and Grooms who married in Izmir Between the Years 1883-1901 & 1918-1933". By Dov Cohen.
Dov Cohen has created an index of brides and grooms based on the organization of Ketubot (Jewish wedding contracts) from marriages within the Turkish community of Izmir. From this material we can identify the Jewish families who lived in Turkey since the Spanish expulsion in 1492 in two periods: the end of the Ottoman Empire and the beginning of the secular government of Turkish Republic. Events of these periods forced this community to emigrate to America.
Sephardic names from the magazine "ETSI". Most of the names are from (but not limited to) France and North Africa. Published by Laurence Abensur-Hazan and Philip Abensur.
ETSI (a Paris-based, bilingual French-English periodical) is devoted exclusively to Sephardic genealogy and is published by the Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Society (SGHS). It was founded by Dr. Philip Abensur, and his professional genealogist wife, Laurence Abensur-Hazan. ETSI's worldwide base of authors publish articles identifying a broad spectrum of archival material of importance to the Sephardic genealogist. A useful feature of ETSI is the listing, on the back cover, of all Sephardic family names, and places of origin, cited in the articles contained in each issue
From the civil records of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Amsterdam Municipal Archives possess a complete set of registers of intended marriages from 1578 to 1811, the year when the present Civil Registry was started. Between 1598 and 1811, 15238 Jewish couples were entered in these books. Both the number of records and the volume of data that may be extracted from them are unprecedented.
History of the Jews in Venice, by Cecil Roth
In this work, Cecil Roth covers the long course of Italian-Jewish history extending from pre-Christian times, comprising in a degree every facet of the evolution of Jewish life in Europe. Contains a huge store of facts tracing regional variations over a period of 2000 years.
From the burial register of Bethahaim Velho Cemetery, Published by the Jewish Historical Society of England and transcribed by R. D. Barnett.
The register gives us dates for the burials in the "Bethahaim Velho" or Old Cemetery. The dates are listed as per the Jewish calendar.
From the publication, "Los Sefardíes" (The Sephardim),by Jose M. Estrugo. Published by Editorial Lex La Habana, 1958.(Surnames common among the Sephardim)
When the Romans conquered the Jewish nation in 70 CE, much of the Jewish population was sent into exile throughout the Roman Empire. Many were sent to the Iberian peninsula. The area became known by the Hebrew word "Sepharad". The JEWS in SPAIN and PORTUGAL became known as "Sephardim" or and those things associated with the SEPHARDIM including names, customs, genealogy and religious rituals, became known as SEPHARDIC.
The Jews of the Balkans, The Judeo-Spanish Community , 15th to 20th Centuries, by Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue
This volume is a history of the Sephardi diaspora in the Balkans. The two principal axes of the study are the formation and features of the Judeo-Spanish culture area in South-Eastern Europe and around the Aegean littoral, and the disintegration of this community in the modern period. The great majority of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 eventually went to the Ottoman Empire. With their command of Western trades and skills, they represented a new economic force in the Levant. In the Ottoman Balkans, the Jews came to reconstitute the bases of their existence in the semi-autonomous spheres allowed to them by their new rulers. This segment of the Jewish diaspora came to form a certain unity, based on a commonality of the Judeo-Spanish language, culture and communal life. The changing geopolitics of the Balkans and the growth of European influence in the 19th century inaugurated a period of westernization. European influence manifested itself in the realm of education, especially in the French education, dispensed in the schools of the Alliance Israelite Universelle with its headquarters in Paris. Other European cultures and languages came to the scene through similar means. Cultural movements such as the Jewish Enlightenment (haskalah) also came to exert a distinct influence, hence building bridges between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi worlds
Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy, by Dan Rottenberg
In this work Dan Rottenberg shows how to do a successful search for probing the memories of living relatives, by examining marriage licenses, gravestones, ship passenger lists, naturalization records, birth and death certificates, and other public documents, and by looking for clues in family traditions and customs. Supplementing the "how to" instructions is a guide to some 8,000 Jewish family names, giving the origins of the names, sources of information about each family, and the names of related families whose histories have been recorded. Other features included a country-by-country guide to tracing Jewish ancestors abroad, a list of Jewish family history books, and a guide to researching genealogy.
Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation, by Miriam Bodian
This work explores why the Portuguese Jews of northern Europe never established a solid sense of belonging to the wider Sephardi diaspora. It explores how, historically, the Conversos lost the consciousness of being “Sephardi” in the generations after the expulsion from Spain and the mass baptism of Portugal’s Jews in 1497. To be sure, once the Portuguese ex-Conversos organized in Jewish communities, their leaders made efforts to reconnect with the wider Sephardi world, and these efforts had serious symbolic and strategic value. But the Portuguese Jews’ rootedness in the Converso experience meant that their core sense of collective self remained distinct. Contributing factors to their enduring sense of distinctness were these aspects of Converso experience: the absorption of Catholic notions of piety; the “de-rabbinization” of crypto-Jewish belief; and the difficulty for many Conversos of maintaining any stable set of traditional beliefs. The outward image their leaders sought to cultivate may have been one of Sephardi traditionalism, but, at an emotional level, members of these communities continued to regard themselves as members of the “nação”—a term that evoked the Converso past.
Studies on Turkish-Jewish History: Political and Social Relations, Literature and Linguistics, by David Altabe, Erhan Atay and Israel J. KatzSepher Hermon Press, Brooklyn,New York, 1996
In the decade following the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, and during the generation following the forced baptism of the Jews in Portugal in 1498 (many of them Spanish refugees), Sephardim migrated eastward to the Ottoman Empire and were encouraged to settle in those areas devoid of Jews. A vibrant renaissance of Jewish creativity was intimately linked with the fate and fortune of the Ottoman realm that welcomed them.
Abraham Levy Benshimol, "Matrimonios en la Asociacion Israelita de Venezuela, 1953-1998" (Marriages in the Jewish Association of Venezuela), in Maguen No 117, Caracas, oct/nov 2000
Research conducted on the Marriage Records of the Jewish Association of Venezuela, which was founded by Moroccan Jews. 949 weddings are mentioned, and these are displayed in several statistical tables. An interesting fact is the frequent appearance of surnames of the intended spouses. The four most common surnames, both for men and for women, are the same: Cohen, Chocron, Levy and Benzaquen.
Bernard Allali. La saga des noms des familles juives tunisiennes(The saga of the names of Tunisian Jewish families) en "Le Voyage Loisirs", France, 1977
The story of Jewish surnames in Tunisia.
David F. Altabe. The Portuguese Jews of Salonica, in "Studies on the History of Portuguese Jews", New York, pp. 119-124, 2000.
This article lists the Portuguese synagogue members in Thessaloniki. The work is based on an article published in the Haggadah of Baruch Schiby in 1970 and was compiled from the four Portuguese synagogues.
Anne-Marie Faraggi-Rychner. "The Jewish cemetery of La Tour-de-Peilz Switzerland", published in ETSI No. 4, vol.2, Paris, 1999
An article authored by Anne-Marie Faraggi Rychner and published in the Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Society and Review Issue 4, Vol. 2, Spring 1999 issue - is a survey of the cemetery that was established in 1908 near Lausanne. The inscriptions of eighty tombstones (out of 400) with Sephardi surnames are listed. From the beginning of the seventeenth century until 1862, Jews could not be buried on Swiss soil, instead they were interred on a small island in the Rhine known as the Judeninsel. Only in 1750 were Jews permitted to acquire another cemetery, between the two villages of Edingen and Lengnau.
George Anticoni. List of members of the Sephardic Synagogue in London.
The author is Chairman of The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain has a searchable database of more than 20,000 Jews who were living in Great Britain in 1851. The database covers mainly England, Wales and Scotland with a few additions from Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It is estimated that more than half the Jewish population at that time is represented.
Robert Attal and Joseph Avivi. "Registres Matrimoniaux de la Comminaute Juive Portugaise de Tunis. XVIII-XIX Siecles" (Matrimonial records of the Tunisian Portuguese Jewsih Community 18th-19th Centuries), Oriens Judaicus, Ben Zvi Institute, Israel 1989
Listing of marriages that occurred in the Portuguese Jewish Community of Tunis which kept itself separate from the local Tunisian Jews and kept careful records. French and Hebrew editions are available.
Marcelo Benveniste. "Origen: La Isla de Rodas" (Origin: The Island of Rhodes), in Boletin No.3, Sociedad Argentina de Genealogia Judia, Buenos Aires, apr 1997.
Marcelo Benveniste, List of Holocaust Victims (online)
List of names based on the book "The Jewish Martyrs of Rhodes and Cos" by Hizkia Franco (Rhodes, 1947) and in "History of the Jews of Rhodes, Chios and Cos" (Istanbul, 1948) by Abraham Galante. Revised and corrected by David Galante and Rita Eskenazi de Levitus.
Matilde Gini de Barnatan. Picciotto, originals, Sao Paulo, 1996.
Genealogy of the descendants of Daniel Pichoto (b.1605), a family originating from Livorno and based in Alepo. It is a branch that became a consular dynasty, representing European powers in the East.
Synagogue Beth Yaacov Sao Paulo, list of members, Sao Paulo, 1996.
There are about 96,500 Jews in Brazil today. The current Jewish community is mostly composed of Ashkenazi Jews of Polish and German descent and also Sephardic Jews of Spanish, Portuguese, and North African descent. Brazilian Jews play an active role in politics, sports, academia, trade and industry, and are overall well integrated in all spheres of Brazilian life. The majority of Brazilian Jews live in the State of São Paulo although there are sizeable communities elsewhere. Jews lead an open religious life in Brazil and there are schools, associations and synagogues where Brazilian Jews can practice and pass on Jewish culture and traditions. The Beit Yaakov synagogue, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is an imposing temple, built in the 90s, a gift of the brothers Joseph and Moise Safra to the Jewish community of Sao Paulo. Also known as the Safra Synagogue, it is the largest synagogue in the city of São Paulo.
Fernando Klein Caballero. "Comunidad Israelita Sefaradí del Uruguay. Desarrollo Orgánico e Institucional" (The Sephardic Community in Uruguay: Organizational and Institutional Development), in Toldot No. 13, Buenos Aires, nov 2000.
Uruguay has a long and established Jewish community, and its development parallels the development of the country. Uruguay did not have a significant Inquisition and there are some traces of Conversos who lived in the 16th century. Few documents relating to Jewish history during the Colonial period are available. In 1726, the governor of Montevideo called upon the first settlers to be "persons of worth, of good habits, repute and family, so that they be not inferior nor of Moorish or Jewish race." The first record of Jewish settlement is in the 1770s. With the end of the Inquisition in 1813, the political and social system of Uruguay evolved to a greater level of openness and tolerance. This openness provided the basis for continued Jewish residence.
Morrie Camhi. Faces and Facets. The Jews of Greece, New York, 1995.
The late Morrie Camhi, a distinguished Californian photographer and descendant of Greek Sephardic Jews, visited Greece and produced portraits of some of the members of that community. His subjects are depicted in the context of their daily lives. As such, the images constitute exquisite historical documents.
Paul Armony. "Apellidos sefardies mas frecuentes obtenidos de los cementerios Avellaneda - Lomas de Zamora - Ciudadela (Acis y Asia) - Tablada Sefaradi y Bancalari" (Common sephardic names as taken from the Avellaneda Cemetery). SEFARAires Nº9 / 2003 página 7.
Paul Armony, President of the Jewish Genealogy Association in Argentina, collected and organized 19,060 records from six Jewish Sephardic cemeteries in Argentina. Of the 3682 surnames of deceased found there, 58% were found to have the same 334 surnames.
Rabbi ltzjak Chehebar: Un visionario. Vida y Obra,(Rabbi Yitzhak Chehebar : Life and Work of a Visionary), Buenos Aires, 1995.
In Argentina there is a sizeable community of Syrian Jews. The most influential rabbinic authority for this community was Rabbi Isaac Chehebar from the "Yessod Hadat" congregation on Lavalle street (Buenos Aires); he was consulted from all across the globe, and had an influential role in the recovery of parts of the Aleppo Codex (a medieval bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible).
Rio de Janeiro's Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Society) lists, Rio de Janeiro, august 1998.
Sao Paulo Chevra Kadisha, List of people buried, Sao Paulo 1997.
The Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Society) of Sao Paulo is a Society founded in February 25, 1923, to care for the burial of the Jews of Sao Paulo (city and state). The Society currently runs 4 Jewish cemeteries in Sao Paulo. The research was conducted in three ways: reading the tombstones, a consulting the list of deaths until 24 September 1997, and from the society's records and books. The list of deaths, organized by Prof. Solomon, has the name of the deceased, the grave location and the date of his burial. The books are more detailed, with biographical data, which includes the city of origin, thus enabling it to be confirmed as Sephardic. This is a formal record of one of the most important Jewish communities in Latin America, showing how the country was very attractive for Jews from different and distant locations.
Claude Missistrano. "Une source genealogique pour Salonique: le journal La Epoca" (A source for genealogical Thessaloniki: the newspaper La Epoca), in Etsi No. 2, Paris, 1998.
Dov Cohen. "Fuentes para la Genealogia de los Judios de Izmir (Esmirna)(Sources for the Genealogy of the Jews of Izmir (Smyrna)" Boletin n° 2 p. 18-9 Sociedad Argentina de Genealogia Judaica, Buenos Aires, dec 1996.
List of Chiefs-Rabbis-head of the Ottoman Empire of Turkey, 2001.
Michel Hanono. List of Members from the Sepharadic Community of Panama, Panama, 1998.
A list organized by Mr. Hanono with the members of the local Sepharadic Community. Most of the families were from Aleppo (Syria).
Dodi Harari Sasson (Traductor), Caderno de Brith Milah de Alepo entre 1861 e 1940, (Notebook of "Brith Milah" of the Mohel Isaac Dayan from Aleppo).
The principal identification of the Jewish male is the Brith Milah(circumcision). The "Mohelim" (circumsizers) usually keep a record with a list of the circumcised boys. This serves as a guide for him and also for the Rabbis. These private documents were manuscripted and there are many notebooks like this in existence throughout the world. The Dayan Family was a dynasty of mohelim in Aleppo, between 1871 and 1941.This particular record belongs to Mr. Isaac Dayan (Sao Paulo), who received it from his father, the Mohel Selim Dayan. There are 56 pages written in Hebrew-Rashi, with dates in Arabic. The notes include the identity of the child (first name, patronymic and surname) and date of circumcision according to the Jewish calendar.The translation was done by Mr. Harari Dodi, originally from Halab,(Daud Farag Sasson, Sao Paulo), who knew both Arabic and Hebrew and also knew the historical peculiarities of the Jewish community. Surnames are of varied origins, because the city was a gateway for caravans and commerce and include surnames from Arabic, Turkish, Italian and Iberian origins. Several of them are not used anymore because of their derogatory meaning. Jews no longer live in Aleppo. Initially they immigrated to Cairo, Alexandria and Beirut. Subsequently, from the Middle East, they immigrated to Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Mexico and USA, where they have attained substantial economic and social influence.
List of the eminent associates of the Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, Seattle, 2000.
Congregation Ezra Bessaroth is a Sephardic Congregation founded by immigrants from the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes in Seattle, Washington (USA). The Synagogue, which was founded about a hundred years ago, holds fast to the traditions of their home island, fastidiously maintaining the liturgy and customs of the Rhodes tradition.
Nissim Elnecave. Los Hijos de Ibero-Franconia. Breviario del Mundo Sefaradí desde los Orígenes hasta nuestros días(The Children of Iberia-Spain: World Sephardic Breviary from the beginning to today), Editorial "La Luz", Buenos Aires, 1981.
In this work on Sephardic history, the author argues his main thesis: Sephardic is a cultural concept, and therefore should not be restricted to descendants of Portuguese and Spanish Jews, but should also extend to France, Italy and the Arab world.
Esther Fintz Menasce. Gli Ebrei a Rodi (The Jews in Rhodes), Edizioni. Angelo Guerini e Associati, Milano, 1992.
This book is more than a history of what was the Jewish community of Rhodes - it is a vibrant chronicle of how the Jews have survived and how they have been perceived by travelers from other lands, and recounts their intimate relationships, their language, their folklore and their religious festivities. The text is enriched with 254 pages of documents in several languages dealing with governmental, communal, commercial and personal communications, photographs, maps (some dating back to the 15th century),musical notations, newspaper excerpts and much more. All this research is presented in a style that charms the reader.
Claudio Missistrano. El Tiempo, 1890-1891 et 1894-1897 published in ETSI n. 14, Paris, 2001.
Announcements of invitations for weddings and engagements published in the newspaper "El Tiempo" in 1890-1891 and 1894-1897.
Liliana Picciotto Fargion.Il Libro Della Memoria, Gli ebrei deportati dall'Italia 1943-1945 (The Book of Memory:Jews Deported from Italy 1943-1945), Mursia, 1991.
This meticulously and painstakingly researched work reconstructs the deportation of Italian Jewry to the German death camps. Out of a Jewish population that by 1943 had been reduced by emigration to slightly over 40,000 (of whom 6,500 were foreigners), 6,746 were deported from Italy proper, and another 1,820 from the Dodecanese, Italian possessions in the Aegean. An additional 303 Jews were killed on Italian soil. Identities of at least 900-1,100 other victims have not been established. This work lists in precise demographic detail the names of the known deceased together with the date and place of each arrest, initial place of incarceration, date of departure for Auschwitz, convoy number (forty-four trains set out from Italy), date of debarkation at the camp (the journey took about five days), and date of execution. For most, this was the same day as arrival. The cover photo of this book shows two-year-old Fiorella Anticoli, seized with her entire family in the infamous roundup of almost 1,300 Roman Jews on 16 October 1943. The arrests were carried out by units of the S.S. specially trained for such "actions" and sent to the Italian capital for the purpose. Working under the very walls of the Vatican, the operation had to be carried out as efficiently and with as little tumult and commotion as possible.
Boris Fausto. Negocios e Ocios. Historias da Imigração,(Business and Idleness : History of Immigration), Sao Paulo, 1997.
The historian and political scientist Boris Fausto recreates the story of his own family of Jewish extraction, who, like many others, arrived in the Americas during the early decades of the last century in search of better living conditions.
M. Franco. Essai Sur L 'Histoire des Israelitas de L'Empire Ottoman (Essay on the Jews of the Ottoman Empire: From the beginning until today),Durlacher, Paris,1897.
This is a classic work about the Jews of Turkey. Many Jewish names are mentioned.
La Designation d' un Grand Rabbin de Tunisie en 1928 (The appointment of a Chief Rabbi of Tunisia in 1928), in Revue des Etudes Juives, CLI, Paris, jan/jun 1992.
From literary and archaeological sources, evidence has been gathered of a rich Jewish communal life in Tunisia going back some 2300 years. This article discusses the changes that came about with the introduction of the French protectorate in 1881. The French intervened in all areas of Jewish communal life, so far as to decide on the appointment of the chief rabbi of all Tunisia, which was to be a French Jew. This decision aroused a revolt in the community, who strongly opposed it, demanding the appointment of a Chief Rabbi of Tunisian origin. The Conservative Party took the lead in drafting a petition calling on the entire Jewish population of the Regency to support this view and won: Rabbi Youssef Guez, a Tunisian Jewish native, was elected in 1928 to the post of Chief Rabbi of Tunisia, and remained so until his death in 1934.
Nachman Falbel. Catalogo dos Dossies de Imigrantes (Catalog of the Dossiers of Immigrants) United Hias Service (AHJB), Sao Paulo, 1999
The HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) Latin America office is the preeminent expert among Jewish organizations on immigration and resettlement issues throughout the continent.
Jacques Carasso (editor). List of Greek Jews Killed in Auschwitz, La Lettre Sepharade, Gordes, France.
As soon as the Germans entered Greek mainland, they implemented anti-Jewish policies. In 1943 deportations began. In total, over 54000 greek Jews were sent to Auschwitz. Only a handful survived.
Joseph Toledano. Une Histoire de familles. Les Noms de Famille Juifs d'Afrique du Nord (A family story. The Family names of Jews from North Africa). Jerusalem, 1998
The author is descended from one of the important Jewish families of North Africa, that settled in Morocco in 1492 after fleeing the Inquisition. The book which has 870 pages and is arranged like an encyclopedia with onomastics entries, brings valuable information on 1250 family groups from North Africa, their family names, and location in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Directory of Jews from Egypt, 1942
Only 2 yearbooks of Egyptian Jewry were published: the first in 1942 and the last one in 1943. At the end of the 2 yearbooks, there was a list of prominent Jews of the time.
Ketuboth van de Portugees-Israelietische Gemeente te Amsterdam van 1650-1911 (Index of Ketuboth of the Portuguese Jewish Congregation in Amsterdam from 1650 and 1911). D. Verdooner and H.J.W.Snel.
The Portuguese Jewish Community in Amsterdam was formed by Marranos who returned to Judaism after they had been converted to Catholicism in 1492 (Spain) and 1497 (Portugal). Families who lived in Toledo before 1492 reappear in Amsterdam in the 17th century, showing that for five generations (120 years) they succeeded in maintaining some form of Judaism behind the Catholic image. In the Amsterdam Municipality between 1598 and 1811 about 15,000 marriage certificates of Jews were registered. This Index mainly pertains to the richer and influential Sephardic community of Amsterdam. The great merchants, ship owners, rabbis and philosophers (Spinoza, Menasse ben Israel, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca) all appear on it. There are also families from other Sephardic communities from Livorno and Tunis. Many times weddings represented the creation and maintenance of commercial alliances.
Plaque honoring the victims of the Holocaust who belong to the Synagogue "Kahal Shalom", Rhodes
In July 1944 the Nazis rounded up the more than 1600 Jews of Rhodes and sent them off to Auschwitz. Only 120 men and 30 women survived the ordeal.
Abraham Isaac Laredo. Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc,(Names of the Moroccan Jews), 1978.
Among scholars, this is considered one of the leading works on Judeo-Moroccan onomastics.Contain names,origins and variants.
Eli S. Malka. Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi: Jews of Sudan, Syracuse, 1997.
The author was born in the Sudan in 1910; his father was that nation's chief rabbi from 1906 to 1949. Malka chronicles the Sephardic Jewish community's history from its beginning in 1885 (when there were only eight families) to the late 1960s, when the Jews left the Sudan for more hospitable countries. Malka writes about his father's prominent role in the community and in the building of Khartoum's lavish synagogue and the community's growth, which peaked in the 1930s and 1940s. The book's final chapters are autobiographical as Malka focuses first on his childhood, then on his travels, career, marriage, and family, offering descriptions of Sephardic life and culture. The book offers plenty of charming stories centering around the hospitality of the Malka household, where Jews from the world over were welcomed and a variety of languages, including Arabic and French, were spoken.
Diva Masur. Jewish Cemetery of Recife, Recife, Portugal.
The first Jewish cemetery in Recife, "Cemiterio Israelita do Barro", was inaugurated in June 1926. Prior to that, the Jews of Recife were buried in a non-Jewish cemetery. Their remains were later transferred to the Jewish cemetery.
Abraham Monk and Jose Isaacson (editors). Jewish Communities of Latin America, Buenos Aires, 1968.
Rachel Mizrahi. Os Judeus orientais da Mooca (The Eastern Jews of Bristol), in Boletim Informativo do AHJB, Sao Paulo, jun/jul 1998.
The author researched the arrival of the first Jewish immigrants from the Middle East who settled in Mooca(Bristol) at the beginning of the last century and to which her own family belonged.
Gary Mokotoff. Avotaynu.
Gary Mokotoff is a noted author, lecturer and leader of Jewish genealogy. He has been recognized by three major genealogical groups for his achievements. Avotaynu, The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, was founded in 1985 as a 20-page semiannual; it has grown to 68-page quarterly that is one of the most respected magazines in genealogy. The Avotaynu Consolidated Jewish Surname Index (CJSI) enables search by surname on 42 different databases.
Asher Moises. Les Noms des Juifs de Grece, France (The names of the Jews of Greece), 1990.
The subject of Jewish surnames in the Balkan region has received more recent attention in the research and compilation of Jewish names by Mathilde Tagger.
Projeto Memoria (CD), Congregacao Monte Sinai, Sao Paulo, 1996.
Ordem Circular n° 2217, 11-02-1949, concedendo nacionalidade espanhola a judeus da Grecia e do Egito(Circular Order No.2217,dated 11.2.1949, granting Spanish nationality to Jews of Greece and Egypt), Madrid
In 1949, Franco issued a decree granting Spanish citizenship to the descendants of those Jews expelled in 1492 and who appeared in Spain's population census or consular or diplomatic records, who were living in Greece and Egypt. This decree benefited only a few hundred Jews.
Emilio Picciotto. Genealogia della Famiglia Picciotto (dalla fine del 17° secolo), Milan, 1985.
Genealogical research on the Picciotto Family of Italy from the late 17th Century.
Max Polonovski. Les Juifs Proteges de la France dans les echelles du Levant et de Barbaria. (XVIIIe et XIX siecles),(Jews under French protectorate in Levant and Barbaria in 18th-19th centuries), in Revue du Cercle de Genealogie Juive No 53, tome 14, Paris, 1998.
Jacob Rubel et. al. (Editorial coordinator), "Sephardic Presence in Argentina" , published by the Sephardic Educational Center , Buenos Aires, 1992.
Book published by the Sephardic Educational Center on the occasion of 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of America.
Yves Fedida & Avraham Malthete, "Montefiore Census: Jews in Alexandria", 1840
This census taken in 1840 amongst Jews in Alexandria Egypt can be viewed online with data including family names, first names, age, economic wealth,occupation, marital status, and offfspring. In the 19th and 20th community the Jewish community in Egypt was vibrant and growing, to which existing documents and records can testify. The Jewish population grew to over 90,000 poeple in the first half of the 20th century but virtually all the Jews fled the country in 1948. Today only a handful remain.
Samuel Schaerf. I Cognomi Degli Ebrei d'Italia, (The Surnames of the Jews of Italy), Casa Editrice Israel, Firenze, 1925.
Lists about 1650 Jewish surnames corresponding to about ten thousand families extracted from the archives of Keren Hajesod of Italy in the 1920's. This book traces etymologies of some surnames and has a list of Jewish families who became aristocratic.
Egon and Frieda Wolff. Sepulturas de israelitas (Israeli Graves), S. Francisco Xavier (RJ), Rio de Janeiro, 1976.
The Iconography of Tombstones represent a recently recognized yet still largely neglected source for unraveling the historical past. Cemetery and gravestone study is increasingly multi-disciplinary, involving the arts, humanities, and social sciences, and while studies date back more than 100 years, it is still an emerging field.The investigation of Jewish sepulchres also commenced in the second half of the nineteenth century.The destruction of Jewish cemeteries through the ages, which has obliterated many ancestral records and monuments has also contributed to this scholarly neglect.
Mathilde Tagger. Juifs natifs de Turquie parmi les deportes de France (Turkish Jews among the French native deportees), in Revue du CGJ No 53, Paris, 1998.
Sephardic genealogist and award-winning author Dr. Jeffrey Malka has a wonderful Sephardic resources website: www.sephardicgen.com Mathilde Tagger of Jerusalem - award-winning co-author of "Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel" - has placed the many databases she has created on Dr. Malka's website.
Leon Taranto. Izmir and Rhodes: Taranto family origins, archives and links to other Sephardim, in Etsi No 15, Paris, dec 2002.
ETSI (a Paris-based, bilingual French-English periodical) is devoted exclusively to Sephardic genealogy and is published by the Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Society (SGHS). It was founded by Dr. Philip Abensur, and his professional genealogist wife, Laurence Abensur-Hazan. ETSI's worldwide base of authors publish articles identifying a broad spectrum of archival material of importance to the Sephardic genealogist. A useful feature of ETSI is the listing, on the back cover, of all Sephardic family names, and places of origin, cited in the articles contained in each issue
Gyorgy Ujlaki. Most Common Names from the Sophia (Bulgaria) Jewish Cemetery, compiled in Budapest August 30, 1997
Raphael Frezis. "The History of the Jewish Community of Volos Greece", 2002
A list of names extracted (translated and prepared by Nathan Aaron Kabeli and Moshe Elie Faraggi from this work in Greek) contains first name, surname and some biographical information.
List of Students of the Yeshivah College Machane Israel, Class of 1992, Petropolis, Brazil
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The author of this book has written a detailed study which traces the history of his Sephardic ancestors dating back to medieval Spain, through post-expulsion migration to Thessaloniki, Aram Sobah, the cities of Safed and Jerusalem in Israel, the New World countries and back again to The Promised Land. The book provides genealogical tables of the various branches of this family. The author has also included an updated summary of the Jewish Community of Paraguay, its people, their lives and institutions, from the early twentieth century until the present, along with a record of the leading Jewish families and individuals who immigrated to this country in the first half of the 20th century.
Distinguished Jewish bearers of the Mizrahi name and its variants include : Isaac Mizrahi Smeke, Mexican former coach (Cruz Azul). Isaac Mizrahi, American TV presenter, fashion designer. Prof. Dr. Chaim Israel Meir Mizrachi (Jerusalem 1800-Urmia 1879)- physician, surgeon, pharmacist, chemist, botanist, philosopher, Kabbalist Eli Mizrahi (1497-1526), Chief Rabbi in Ottoman Empire Rahamim Mizrahi (d.1905), Moroccan Rabbi & Kabbalist
Around the 12th century, surnames started to become common in Iberia. In Spain, where Arab-Jewish influence was significant, these new names retained their old original structure, so that many of the Jewish surnames were of Hebrew derivation. Others were directly related to geographical locations and were acquired due to the forced wanderings caused by exile and persecution. Other family names were a result of conversion, when the family accepted the name of their Christian sponsor. In many cases, the Portuguese Jews bear surnames of pure Iberian/Christian origin. Many names have been changed in the course of migration from country to country. In yet other cases "aliases", or totally new names, were adopted due to fear of persecution by the Inquisition.
Here are some locations where registries of Sephardic or Christianized Jewish families with this surname have been traced: Abissinia, Ethiopia,Aleppo, Syria,Alexandria, Egypt,Algiers, Algeria,Amsterdam, Netherlands,Bagdad, Iraq,Beirut, Lebanon,Buenos Aires, Argentina,Cairo, Egypt,Caracas, Venezuela,Casablanca, Morocco,Damascus, Syria,Djerba, Tunisia,Galata, Turkey,Istanbul, Turkey,Jerusalem, Israel,London, England,Marrakech, Morocco,Mexico City, Mexico,Montevideo, Uruguay,Petropolis, Brasil,Port Said, Egypt,Rabat, Morocco,Recife, Brasil,Rhodes, Greece,Rio de Janeiro, Brasil,Safed, Israel,Saloniki, Greece,Sao Paulo, Brasil,Seattle,WA, USA,Smyrna, Netherlands,Sofia, Bulgary,Torino, Italy,Tours, France,Urmia, Iran,Vevey-Montreux, France,Volos, Greece,
Some common variations of Mizrahi are Mizrachi, Mizrahy, Mizraki, Mizraji, Mezrahi, Misrahi, Misrachi, Misrahis,
