by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Aug 24, 2018 | Research Room
For a number of reasons, including high rates of intermarriage with other rabbinic families, adoption of fixed surnames well before governmental authorities required the majority of European Jewry to do so, and frequently welldocumented lineages, rabbinic lineages...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Jul 26, 2018 | Collaboration, DNA Studies, Europe - Eastern, Europe - Western, Rabbinic Genealogy, Research Room, Sefardim
Introduction According to Arthur Kurzweil: “For the Jewish people, our royal families have been those of the illustrious rabbis.” If that is true, then the Katzenellenbogen rabbinical lineage is foremost among these noble families. For centuries, Jewish men and women...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Jul 26, 2018 | DNA Studies, Rabbinic Genealogy, Research Room, UKRAINE
Yehuda Leib of Shpola (c.1725 – 1811) – better known as the Shpoler Zeide (Yiddish for “Grandfather of Shpola”) or Saba Kadisha (Hebrew for “Holy Grandfather’) – was a beloved Chassidic folk rebbe, great kabbalist, and a revered tzaddik (saintly or holy man) about...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Jul 26, 2018 | Research Room
Abstract Analysis of the formation of surnames by the Jewish population of the 19th century Russian Empire. Description of the cultural and legal context of Ashkenazi Jewish surnames in Russia with examples taken from census records. Provides insight to genealogists...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Jul 26, 2018 | DNA Studies, Europe - Eastern, Methods, Research Room, Surnames
Did you ever wonder why your autosomal DNA and Y-DNA genetic match lists contain so many unfamiliar surnames? Did you ever question where the myriad number of bewildering and unexpected surnames, even among your close genetic matches, comes from? If you are Jewish,...
