Jewish marriages in Amsterdam 1598-1811
Jewish Marriage in Amsterdam / Trouwen in Mokum 1598-1811 is the single, monumental genealogical sourcebook for Jews, both Sephardic and Ashkenazi and living in all parts of the world, in search of their ancestors having their roots in Amsterdam. Amsterdam was one of the main centers both of the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewry in the […]
Jewish first names in Amsterdam 1669-1850
In performing genealogical research of one’s Jewish ancestors one often comes across the difficulty that first names used in a Dutch deed (e.g. publication of the banns) do not correspond to the first names in the matching “Hebrew” deed. This observation led to the following questions: is this an incidental or a general phenomenon and […]