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Databases
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Jews from Turkey Deported from France in WWII
Chief Rabbis of Turkey: 1454-2007
Rabbis buried in Izmir 5300 - 5620 (1540 - 1860 C.E.)
Galante, A. [History of the Jews of Turkey]. Istanbul, 1941. 9v.    Annotated index of the first four volumes
Civil Records of the Jews of Tire, Turkey   (Archived, Link off-site)
7,200 individual records from 1800s to 1960s plus images, etc.
The website is now off the air but the data is available in the bilingual book The Jews of Tire, Official Marital Records, Records of Religious Marriages, Funeral Records, School Records.Publisher: Tire Belediyesi Kültür Yayinlari - 2015.
Nehama J. Histoire des Israelites de Salonique. Thessaloniki: 1936-1978. 7 vols.   Annotated Index. Compiled by Mathilde Tagger
Jews from Greece Deported from France in WWII
Rabbis buried in Saloniki 5281 - 5460 (1521 - 1800 C.E.)
Recanati, Aure. The Jewish Community of Salonika, 1943
16th Century Saloniki Synagogues and their memberships
Rhodes Jewish Cemetery - Names   (Link off-site)
Janina Holocaust Victims   (archived website)
E.L.I.A. Greek archives (many Jews in their database)

Files on JewishGen

Infofile about Sephardic genealogy in Izmir (Smyrna)   (Archived, Link off-site)   by Laurence Abensur
A genealogist's research trip to Istanbul   (Archived, Link off-site)   by Barbara Algaze
List of names from Anri Niyego's book The Untold Story of a Jewish Community in Istanbul: Our Last Hundred Years in Haydarpasa   (Archived, Link off-site)   by Daniel Kazez
Translation of List of Jews deported from Monastir in 1943   Moises Hasson
Translation of List of Jews deported from Florina (Greece) by the Nazis   (Archived, Link off-site)   Moisis Hasson
Sepharadic (Salonican) Brotherhood of America - members list   (Archived, Link off-site)   by Pitchon and Kouchel
Jewish History of Florina   (Archived, Link off-site)   Mishel Sarfatis, Moises Hasson
Translation of: Zikron Salonike;gedulata ve-hurbana shel Yerushalim de-Balkan; grandeza i destruyicion de Yerushalim del Balken   David A. Recanati, Lynn Gazis-Sax, J.F. Montel
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Genealogy oriented links

The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)
Hebrew University Campus, Sprinzak Bldg, Givat Ram. P.O.Box 1149, Jerusalem 91010, Israel. Tel./Fax: (972)-2-5635716
Thessaloniki - Community archives (1913-1946)
Istanbul - 'Pinkassim' of the rabbinical court (1839-1841)
Izmir - Community archives (1760-1970)
Jewish Museum of Istanbul   (archived)
Ottoman Sephardic Genealogy: An Introduction
How the the Turkish Archives are organized   (Archived, Link off-site)   In English
The Rhodes Jewish Museum   Superb site
Head Stones   Alphabetical listings and photos of 800 tombstones from Rhodes Jewish Museum
La Pagina Rodas   (Archived, Link off-site)   Turkey, Greece, Spain.
List of names, Salonika Jewish Community, 1943   (Archived, Link off-site)   from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum microfilms (1997-A0220)
Moshe David Gaon: Oriental Jews in Erets Yisrael
Mathilde Tagger's Index of 2,882 Sephardic Rabbis, Scholars and Notables.
In Spain, Provence, Italy, Ottoman Empire, incl. Balkans, Middle East and North Africa.
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General Sites

Turkish Jewish community
Turkish alphabet   (Archived, Link off-site)
History of Turkish Jews   (Archived, Link off-site)
Jewish Community of Salonika   (Archived, Link off-site)
History of the Jews of Crete
Balkan Sephardim and the Holocaust   (Archived, Link off-site) Rodrigue, Aron
Sefaradi of Monastir (Bitola)   (Archived, Link off-site)
Rhodes Jewish Museum Photos, etc.
Name Index to Rhodes Jewish Museum   (Archived, Link off-site)
Jewish history of Yugoslavia   (Archived, Link off-site)
Jewish history of Macedonia   (Archived, Link off-site)
Salom (Sephardic paper in Turkish)
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Bibliography

For a more extensive bibliography go to books.

Malka, Jeffrey S.

Sephardic Genealogy:
Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World.

Avotaynu, 2002. Click here for Table of Contents and to order.
Indispensible. The ONLY comprehensive book for Sephardic Genealogy. -- History, research methods, archives, surnames, maps, bibliography, and more.

Galante, Avram

Histoire des Juifs de Turquie.
Editions ISIS, 1985. Isis Yayimcilik, Kuymcu Irfan Sok, 22/2 Nisantasi, Istambul, Turkey.
Tells the story of the Jews of Turkey.

Franco, Moise

Essai sur l'histoire des Israelites de l'Empire Ottoman depuis les origines jusqu'a nos jours.
Paris, Dularcher, 1897. (in French)
This work is a real masterpiece on the subject. The 1897 edition has no index, but many names are mentionned.

Shaw, Stanford J.

Jews of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic.
Institute of Turkish Studies, 1994.
Very good.

Levy, Avigdor

Jews of the Ottoman Empire.
Darwin Press, 1994.
Very good.

Attal, Robert

Les Juifs de Grece de l'expulsion d'Espagne a nos jours; bibliographie.
Jerusalem, Institut Ben Zvi & l'Universite Hebraique de Jerusalem, 1984.
Includes 2297 references in Greek, Hebrew, Ladino, French, English. Index: subjects, authors and places.

Attal, Robert

Les Juifs de Grece de l'expulsion d'Espagne a nos jours; bibliographie. Additifs a la premiere edition.
Jerusalem, Institut Ben Zvi & l'Universite Hebraique de Jerusalem, 1984.
Includes 940 references in Greek, Hebrew, Ladino, French, English. Index: subjects, authors and places.

Rivlin, Bracha, ed.

Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities from their foundation till after the Holocaust - Greece.
Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 1998.
Includes a very large and useful bibliography and a detailed index.

Angel, Marc D.

The Jews of Rhodes: The History of a Sephardic Community.
Sepher-Hermon Press, Inc., New York, 1978.
Very good.

Nahoum, Henri

Les Juifs de Smyrne - 19ieme et 20ieme siecle.
Editions Aubier - Histoires, Paris 1997.
Detailed description of life in Smyrna's Sephardi Jewish community with family names.

Molho, Michael and Mevorah, Avram

History of the Jews of Kastoria.
Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, NY. (expanded reprint of 1938 volume).
History on the Sephardic Jews of Monastir during the past century.

Cohen, Mark

Last Century of a Sephardic Communit. The Jews of Monastir, 1839-1943.
Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, NY. 2003.
History on the Sephardic Jews of Monastir during the past century.

Sciaky, Leon

Farewell to Salonica: City at the Crossroads.
Paul Dry Books, 2003. Reprint of 1946 original edition.
About growing up at the turn of the twentieth century in Salonica.

Carasso, Elie (editor)

Les Juifs de Salonique, 1492-1943.
Cousins de Salonique, 4 Rue Clerc de Molieres, 13150 Tarascon, France. 1993.
Synagogues, Name lists, Carasso family, Michel Molho, AIU schools, etc.

Carasso, Elie

L'Echelle de Jacob: une famille Sefarade de Salonique.
Cousins de Salonique, 4 Rue Clerc de Molieres, 13150 Tarascon, France. 1993.
Nahmias of Salonica Family history.

Tamir, Vicky

Bulgaria and her Jews: the history of a dubious symbiosis.
New York, Sepher-Hermon Press for Yeshiva University Press, 1979.
The most comprehensive study (in English) on this Diaspora. Contains a large bibliography and a detailed index with a lot a names.

Chary, Frederick B.

The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution 1940-1944.
Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
A well-documented study about that miracle that occured in Bulgaria: its Jews, in the heart of Europe were not deported during WW2. The book has a detailed index and a "bibliographical essay". Many footnotes enlarging the subject.

Arditti, Benjamin

Yehudei Bulgaria bishnot hamishtar hanatsi, 1940-1944.
(Jews of Bulgaria during the years of the Nazi regime, 1940-1944).

Tel Aviv, 1962. 436p. (in Hebrew).
This book is the first one on this subject. When immigrating to Israel in 1949, Arditti brought with him a rich documentation which allowed him to analyze the subject. Includes a documents list, a wide bibliography and an index. This is a masterpiece on the matter. It unfortunately only exists in Hebrew.

Benbassa, Esther; Rodriguez, Aron

A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe - The Autobiography and Journal of Gabriel Arie, 1863-1939.
Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle, 1998.
For a listing of names in this family tree click here.
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