B&F: Jewish Genealogy and More

Genealogy

Source	Resource	Language	Comments
Avotaynu Online	Index of Jewish Surnames Found in 20th Century Cairo	English	0
Avotaynu Online	The Jews of Modern Egypt and Their Records	English	0
Beit Hatfutsot	Family Names of the Jews of Egypt	English	0
JewishGen	Egypt Database	English	0
SephardicGen	Egypt	English	0

History

Source	Resource	Language	Comments
AncientSudan.org	Investigating the Origin of the Ancient Jewish Community at Elephantine: A Review	English	0
Beit Hatfutsot	The Jewish Community of Cairo	English	0
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)	Egypt Summary of archival holdings	English	0
Guernica	The Last Jews of Cairo	English	0
Haruth	Jews of Egypt	English	0
Historical Society of Jews from Egypt	Web Site	English	0
Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)	Egypt	English	0
Tablet	Out of Egypt	English	0
Wikipedia	History of the Jews in Egypt	English	0
Yeshiva University Libraries	Records of the Jewish Community of Cairo, 1886-1961	French, Hebrew, Arabic	0

Diaspora

Source	Resource	Language	Comments
יציאת מצרים ובחזרה	Facebook	Hebrew	0
Association des Juifs Originaires d'Egypte	Web Site	French	0
Association Internationale Nebi Daniel	Web Site, Facebook	English	0
Association pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Culturel des Juifs d'Egypte	Web Site	French	0
International Association of Jews from Egypt (Israel)	Web Site	Hebrew, English	0
International Association of Jews from Egypt (US)	Web Site (Archive)	English	0
juif d'egypte	Facebook	Portuguese	0
The Heritage of Jews in Egypt	Facebook	English	0

Cemeteries

Source	Resource	Language	Comments
American Research Center in Egypt	Reviving the Historic Jewish Cemetery of Basatin	English	0
IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project	Egypt	English	0

Holocaust

Source	Resource	Language	Comments
EHRI Portal	Egypt	English	0

Newspapers

Source	Resource	Language	Comments
Historical Jewish Press	Israël French weekly published in Cairo	French	0
Historical Jewish Press	L'Aurore French weekly published starting in 1924 in Cairo	French	0

Contemporary

Source	Resource	Language	Comments
Bassatine News (Jewish Community Council of Cairo newsletters 1995-2014)	Web Site	English	0
Cairo Jewish Drop of Milk Project	Facebook	English, French	0

Books

Cover	Title	Language	Comments
	Out of Egypt: A Memoir	English	0
	The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora	English	0
	The Jews of Egypt: From Ramses II to Emperor Hadrian	English	0
	The Lost World of the Egyptian Jews: First-person Accounts from Egypt's Jewish Community In the Twentieth Century	English	0

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