Hebrew names and meanings
Two extremely useful pages on Hebrew names and their meanings can be found on Chabad.org For boys names see here For girls names here
Names and how they have changed
Two extremely useful pages on Hebrew names and their meanings can be found on Chabad.org For boys names see here For girls names here
The Prayer book belonging to Mrs Estella Meldola is currently being sold on an auction site, see here. With the kind permission of the seller we are adding photos here showing the signature and...
Some months ago we received some information regarding the family of Abraham Jacob Jonas. We checked the data and found it sound, with one exception. Our correspondent suggested that Benjamin JACOB JONAS had married...
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...
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...
This is the first in a short series we hope to be able to provide on names, family names and how they have changed over the years. Most Jews arriving in the UK following...