We are delighted to announce that more burial records for 1788, 1789, 1791 and 1792 have been added to SynagogueScribes.com. This is an interim upload whilst we prepare for a much larger addition of data. We hope this helps to…
South East England records added to Synagogue Scribes!
Visitors to the SynagogueScribes website (www.SynagogueScribes.com) will be aware that the bulk of our records relate to the Jewish Communities of London, so we are especially pleased to announce the inclusion of some new material for the Jewish communities of…
Ketuba mystery – solved!
When it comes to requests for help with family trees, we at www.SynagogeSribes.com are a pretty hard-hearted bunch. We have to be: if we weren’t, we’d finish up spending all our time on other people’s genealogies, leaving none for our…
Finding photos – can you help?
As our readers know CemeteryScribes is all about saving headstones and inscriptions by recording them, and in this way our site is in memory to those who have gone before us. It came as no suprise when I was asked…
Names: Places of origin or occupations or ?
Among the difficulties we encounter when transcribing old community records written in cursive Hebrew, is the appearance of words that have no apparent English equivalent and which usually, but not exclusively, relate to places of origin or occupations. The script…
Fez (Fes), Morocco Aben (or Ibn) Danan Synagogue
Built in the 17th century the Synagogue which is in the heart of the Jewish Quarter, has recently undergone restoration, a project which took over a year. The entrance is through a simple doorway which leads to a flight of…