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Summary
This is a guide to library materials and websites focusing on Jewish heritage and genealogy.
Books
Genealogy
  • Americans of Jewish descent
  • Finding our fathers : a guidebook to Jewish genealogy
  • First American Jewish families : 600 genealogies, 1654-1988
  • From generation to generation : how to trace your Jewish genealogy and family history
  • Genealogical resources in the New York metropolitan area
  • Getting started in Jewish genealogy
  • A guide to Jewish genealogical research in Israel
  • Jewish genealogy : a sourcebook of family histories and genealogies
  • Jewish marriage notices from the newspaper press of Charleston, S.C. (1775-1906)
  • The Jewish presence in early British records, 1650-1850
  • My Jewish roots : a practical guide to tracing and recording your genealogy and family history
  • National index of parish registers
  • Tracing your Jewish roots
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  • 1844-1944, Congregation Shaarai Shomayim, Mobile, Alabama
  • Birmingham's rabbi : Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940
  • A century of Jewish life in Dixie: the Birmingham experience
  • Early Jewish families and Temple Emanu-El, Jasper, Alabama, 5683-1922
  • The gates of heaven : Congregation Sha'arai Shomayim, the first 150 years, Mobile, Alabama, 1844-1994
  • Hallowed ground : a history of the Knesseth Israel/Beth-El Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama
  • The hand of Esau : Montgomery's Jewish community and the 1955-56 bus boycott
  • History of the Jews of Birmingham
  • In the shadow of Hitler : Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the holocaust
  • The Jewish older population of Birmingham : A survey of their needs
  • The Jews of Mobile, Alabama, 1763-1841
  • Kahl Montgomery diamond jubilee, 1852-1927 : Montgomery, Alabama, April 8-9-10-11, 1927
  • Knesseth-Israel-Bethel-El Cemetery, 320 11th Court North, Birmingham, Alabama and Bethel-El Cemetery, Bessemer, Alabama
  • Paying "civic rent" : the Jews of Emanu-El and the Birmingham community
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Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Julie Keefer - Live on May 3, 2018, Susan Warsinger - Live on May 9, 2018, Albert Garih - Live on May 10, 2018
The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics
"Eddie Cantor (1892–1964) was one of the most important entertainers of the 20th century, starring in theater, film, radio, and television. His immense popularity, his pride in his Jewish heritage, and his engagement with political issues distinguished him from other headliners of his era. Historian David Weinstein documents his significance as a performer, philanthropist, and activist."
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