On the subject of Jews not being white, there is an interesting book by Karen Brodkin from 2006 with the title: How Jews Became White Folks & What that Says about Race in America. Simah Kraus

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I would very much appreciate a translation of the attached death certificate 441 of my great grandmother Johanna Hirsch (geb. Junkermann) I am particularly interested in the circumstances of death or

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This is a bit of a long shot, but here goes... A few years ago, I engaged a Slovakian genealogist, Peter Nagy (rndrnagy@...), to help me locate some Farkas graves in Nitra cemetery. He happened to

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Does anyone have experience with a reliable guide in the Transcarpathian region of Romania? Our son and a friend are interested in visiting Borgo Prund, or Prundu Bârgăului in Romania. They would