B&F: Jewish Genealogy and More

I have a new experimental site up, which allows one to access over 50 years of US Consul dispatches and other documents from their Jerusalem office, over the years 1856 (when the consular office opened) until 1906.

This site’s web server has long needed an upgrade, and I’ve finally moved everything to a new server.

Those who have followed this blog over the last 14 years, or even those more recent to it, may have wondered why I haven’t been updating it of late.

I recently found a dataset at the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics that shows the number of people born each year with each given name, from 1948 to 2021.

Over the past few years I’ve collected many lists of Jewish given names.

I’ve collected many lists of Jewish names over the years, which you can see on my Names page, but my latest find is a bit different from the books of names from which I’ve published lists.

The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics released the baby name data for 2020 last month.

The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics released the baby name data for 2020 last month.

This is the story of seven women, all relatives of mine, who survived the German invasion of Belgium together through a crazy trip starting in Antwerp, passing through France, Morocco, Portugal, and ending in New York.

When I was younger, I remember hearing the phrase ‘Poland is one big Jewish cemetery’.