Posts by Laura Arnold Leibman
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Those who speak/read Dutch may find this book interesting
For those who have Sephardic family members in early (or even later!) New York, I wanted to call attention to a newly enriched awesome online resource: the fully digitized New York, Probate Records, 1629-1971. In the past week, they just added 8,613,673 images added to this collection, increasing this collection’s images by 63 percent. They are organized by county, so if you are looking for NY ci...
For those who are still living in a post-Purim sugar after glow, I highly recommend Aviva Ben-Ur's fantastic article "Purim in the Public Eye: Leisure, Violence, and Cultural Convergence in the Dutch Atlantic" Free download!
Quick question: does anyone live near Muiderberg (Nederland) or close enough that they'd be willing to take some gravestone photos there for someone? I had a request for photos from someone in the U.S., but all my images of gravestones from that cemetery are from much earlier (and frankly a bit random as I was merely interested in iconography in the cemetery, not genealogy). The person making th...
In case anyone has work that is relevant that they'd like to submit...Tagger Prize Announcement: Genealogical Institute, Jerusalem - 2015by Ami ElyasafMATHILDE TAGGER PRIZE FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHThe International Institute for Jewish Genealogy is proud to announce a $5,000 Prize in the name of Mathilde Tagger Z"L for a major research study in the field of Jewish Genealogy that has been complete...
Purim sameach! Image of Sephardic Gravestone from Curaçao with scene from Megilla Esther. (Replica of Gravestone of Mordecai Hezekiah Namias de Crasto [1716] from Beit Haim Cemetery, Blenheim, Curaçao now at Mikvé Israel Synagogue Complex, Willemstad http://tinyurl.com/p4opuax ) Also in case people missed it, there is a lovely article on Sephardic Purim Customs from the Old World to the Pacific N...
Those who had relatives on the island of Barbados may be interested in my new article with Sam May on the emancipation debates in the Jewish community there in the early 19th century. If you have access to Project Muse you can check out the article with color images @ http://muse.jhu.edu/…/american_jewish…/v099/99.1.leibman.pdf or if not, read the page proofs (open access) at https://www.academia....
In honor of throw-back Thursday, a few photos from Jewish community in Suriname. At one point, Suriname had one of the largest and wealthiest Jewish communities in the Americas. It also had the only semi-autonomous Jewish town (Jodensavanne). The photos are from my 2008 trip to Suriname.
Someone was asking me about how to contact the literary estate of Isaac and Suzanne Emmanuel as they wanted to use material written by them. (Apparently AJA is not longer granting permissions.) Anyone have any ideas?
Just in case anyone else is obsessed with architecture (or has several million Euros lying around), I'd thought I'd share that Vechtoever, the country house on what was the estate Jacob Hezekiah Machado, head administrator of the Provinciale Utrechtsche Geoctroyeerde Compagnie, is for sale: http://www.buitenplaatsvechtoever.nl/index.html. The PUGC was a speculation company that held lotteries, op...
Hi all,For those of you who are doing genealogical work and haven't been following all of the various posts about Rene van Wijngaarden's fantastic ketubah, I wanted to share some general information about Western Sephardic ketubah registers. This is useful information even if you don't have any marriage contracts from your family, but wish you did, as it may help you locate some!Michael Waas noti...
In honor of "throw back Thursday," I thought I would share some photos from 2013 of Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel.
Those who live near Baltimore may want to go to the sessions on Western Sephardim at this year's AJS conference Dec. 14-16. You can search the schedule of talks for "Sephardic" to see what is happening that interests you: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ajs/ajs14/ You can also follow the conference on twitter via https://twitter.com/jewish_studies #AJS14
Sharing these photos from the Hamburg Cemetery at the recent Conference "Mapping Western Sephardic Diaspora in the Caribbean" in case they interest anyone. Would love to know if anyone has ever seen a miniature pyramid stone like the one in this album at any other Western Sephardic Cemetery.
This resource is in response to Joy Lumsden's post below, but I hope it will be useful to other people as well. For those who have family in the Caribbean and want to find out about their ancestors' everyday activities, check out "Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society." Countries represented include Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, ...