Mathilde Tagger, award winning co-author of the book "Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel" and recipient of this year's IAJGS's Lifetime Achievement Award, has kindly decided to place all the many Sephardic databases she has created over the years on the SephardicGen Resources website (http://www.SephardicGen.com) the comprehensive website for Sephardic genealogy.  

To facilitate access to the information in Mathilde Tagger's work, Jeff Malka, the webmaster for SephardicGen created special search engines that help locate names of people and places in the many databases. The list of new databases (plus links to other databases of Sephardic Genealogy interest on the web) can be found at www.SephardicGen.com/databases/databases.html.

The SephardicGen Resources website, which was first created in mid 90's, can be found at http://www.SephardicGen.com and is designed to provide not only extensive help for both the new and experienced Sephardic genealogist but also provides links to all the other main Sephardic genealogy resources available on the web. From its main page, one can access the several sections of this extensive website which is devoted entirely to Sephardic genealogy:

We are pleased to announce the publication of a book written by a member of Les Fleurs de Orient. Nancy Khedouri published a book about The Jewish Community of Bahrain . On June 5th, 2007, Nancy had the honour of meeting HRM THE KING to present a copy of her book entitled "FROM OUR BEGINNING TO PRESENT DAY..." which is about the history of the Jewish Community of Bahrain. The book will be launched soon at the Jashanmals Bookstore in Bahrain. Foreign distributors for the book are to be announced. The arabic title of the photo can be transalated as "Receiving a book about the history of the Jewish Community of Bahrain - who they were and who remain to present day..." . For a larger photo of that event, click on its thumbnail.

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Sephardic Heritage DNA Study

The first results of the Sephardic Heritage study have been published on the FamilyTreeDNA website. The aim was to find 1) the possible existence of a common ancestor for people having the same surname and 2) the geographic origins of that ancestor. For more details on the results, click on Sephardic Heritage DNA Study .

The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy and Paul Jacobi Center opened on 26th January, 2006 in the Jewish National and University Library at Givat Ram, Jerusalem.

After riveting the attentions of thousands of Jews throughout the world over the past two decades, Jewish genealogy and family history has reached a level of maturity that makes it ripe to take its place in the academic world. To that end, the new Institute has two main aims - to engage in Jewish genealogical research and teaching at the university level and to make Jewish Genealogy a recognized academic discipline within the realm of Jewish Studies.

The Institute is the only one of its kind in the Jewish world. It plans to operate on an interdisciplinary basis and also in a collaborative way with organizations engaged in aspects of Jewish genealogy. It will put a premium on innovative programmes and projects of practical benefit to individual family historians.

Its establishment is the result of efforts over the last two years of an international Founding Committee, headed by Dr. Sallyann Sack, Ph.D., of Washington, DC. Dr. Yosef Lamdan, D.Phil., has been appointed as Director of the Institute.

The Institute is funding a Sephardic DNA study involving several families from the Fleurs de L'Orient. One of the objectives of that study is to analyse the migration of the Sepahrdic families from the Iberian Peninsula to today.

We are pleased to announce the publication of a book ( 384 pages) written by Lydia Collins in collaboration with Morris Bierbrier about the genealogy of the Sephardim families (over 100) of Manchester (UK) from the mid 19th century onward. The 10,000 names, 250 illustrations which is the culmination of over 15 years of research is the most complete documentation about these Families. It can only be purchased for £20 from Shaare Hayim. The Sephardi Congregation of South Manchester, 8 Queenston Road, West Didsbury, Manchester, M20 2WZ, UK.

les Fleurs de l'Orient would like to thank Lydia and Morris for the honour and privilege to have shared some of their data over the last 11 years.

We are pleased to announce the publication of two books written by members of Les Fleurs de Orient.

Fortunée Dwek published a book about her father, "Nonno, un Juif d'Egypte. Click on front cover to view it. For more information, view the announcement at Nonno Announcement.

Michel Barda has published a book named Apres Soi on how to prepare his own death. For more information, visit the publisher's web site or download a copy of the front cover & back cover.

Dr. Hilel Farhi's Daily, Shabbat and Festival Prayers book has been reprinted and is available in many countries. The Siddur Farhi which was first published in 1914, offers an Arabic translation of the daily prayers according to Sephardic rites. It is a complete Siddur to be used all year or as collector's book.

About 500 copies have being printed. The Siddur has a beige laminated cover with the Farhi crest. An additional special edition, limited to fifty copies, has a gold embossed brown leather cover and gold edging. An electronic version on CD ROMs, is available.

For a preview, click on Siddur preview