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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 |
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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 |
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Wikipedia | Russian Jews in Israel |
Cemeteries
Source | Resource | Language | Comments |
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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 |
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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 |
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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?