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Russia |
Genealogy
| Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
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| Еврейские корни (Jewish Roots) |
Web Site, Facebook | ||
| JewishGen InfoFile | Directory of the 25 Russian Pale gubernii (provinces) For when you heard your family was ‘from Russia’ and you really think that’s true. |
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| Russian Jewish Genealogy |
History
| Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Euro-Asian Jewish Congress | History of the Russian Jewish community | ||
| Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) | Russia | ||
| Еврейский музей и центр толерантности (Jewish Musuem and Tolerance Center) |
Web Site | ||
| The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe | Russian Empire (1772-1917) | ||
| The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe | Russian Federation (Post-USSR) | ||
| The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe | Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic |
Diaspora
| Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Russian Jews in Israel |
Cemeteries
| Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Иудаизм и евреи (Toldot.ru) |
Кладбища Cemetery database with over 100,000 gravestones from over 40 cemeteries in Russia and Ukraine. |
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| The Jewish Cemetery (Gravecare maintenance in St. Petersburg) |
Web Site | ||
| Toldot Yeshurun (Cemetery search with over 100,000 graves in Russia and Ukraine.) |
Cemetery Search |
Holocaust
| Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| EHRI Portal | Russia | ||
| Rostov-on-Don Digital Archives | Web Site | ||
| Wikipedia | The Holocaust in Russia |
Newspapers
| Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
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| Historical Jewish Press | Der fraynd First Yiddish daily paper in Czarist Russia, published in St. Petersburg, and later in Warsaw |
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| Historical Jewish Press | Ha-Me'assef The first Hebrew journal, initially published in what is now Kaliningrad, Russia |
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| Historical Jewish Press | Ha-Melitz Second Hebrew paper published in Czarist Russia, supported by the Haskalah movement |
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| Historical Jewish Press | Ha-Yom (St. Petersburg) First Hebrew daily paper, published in St. Petersburg |
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| Historical Jewish Press | Ha-Zman Hebrew bi-weekly |
Contemporary
| Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Euro-Asian Jewish Congress | General information on Russian Jewish community organizations |
Books
| Cover | Title | Language | Comments |
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A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire | ||
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Russian-Jewish Given Names: Their Origins and Variants |
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I’d like to suggest 2 resources I used a lot. Both of them are in Russian.
1. Jewish cemetaries in Russia with names, photos, etc. : http://toldot.ru/urava/cemetery/
2. Digitized Jewish archives from Rostov-on-Don: http://holocaust.su/search_people/
Thank you. Can you share some information on the scope of each of these resources, and for those who don’t read Russian, some instructions on how to use the sites?
This site too is good. They provide services for caring for gravesites, but have catalogued many and taken photos too. I believe they are adding more cemeteries as time goes on: https://mitzvatemet.com/en/index.php?route=burials/search