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Sephardic Genealogy, North Africa, Jewish Genealogy

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Sephardic Genealogy, North Africa, Jewish Genealogy

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This webpage serves as a comprehensive genealogical resource hub specifically focused on North African Sephardic Jewish communities, maintained as part of Jeff Malka's SephardicGen website. The primary purpose is to provide researchers, genealogists, and descendants with access to specialized databases, historical records, and research tools for tracing Sephardic Jewish ancestry across North Africa, including Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and other regional communities. The site represents one of the most extensive online collections of North African Jewish genealogical resources available to researchers worldwide. The page's centerpiece is a database containing over 12,000 Jewish surnames from North Africa, compiled from the onomastic studies of renowned scholars including Maurice Eisenbeth, Abraham Laredo, Paul Sebag, Jacques Taieb, and Joseph Toledano. Key resources include detailed cemetery records with searchable databases and photographs from locations like Essaouira-Mogador, Agadir, and various Algerian Jewish cemeteries, as well as French naturalization records for Algerian and Tunisian Jews from 1830-1920. The site also features Mathilde Tagger's comprehensive index of voter lists from Constantine, Algeria (1880) and her catalog of 2,882 Sephardic rabbis, scholars, and notables spanning Spain, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, and North Africa. Historically, this resource addresses the often-overlooked narrative of Sephardic Jews who settled in North Africa following the 1492 Spanish expulsion, as well as indigenous Jewish communities that existed in the region for centuries. The target audience includes professional genealogists, academic researchers, and individuals seeking to trace their North African Jewish heritage. The site acknowledges the complex history of Jewish displacement from Arab lands, referencing resources about "forgotten Jewish refugees from North Africa" and providing links to organizations like JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa). Notable elements include the site's integration with major archives such as the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at Hebrew University, which houses documents from major Moroccan Jewish communities dating from 1710-1963. The page also features an extensive bibliography section highlighting essential works like Jeffrey Malka's "Sephardic Genealogy" and Abraham Laredo's "Les Noms des Juifs du Maroc," along with specialized marriage registers from the Portuguese Jewish Community of Tunis. The resource uniquely covers lesser-known communities such as the Jews of Sudan and the Sephardic Jews of the Congo, making it an invaluable tool for comprehensive North African Jewish genealogical research.

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Sephardic Genealogy, North Africa, Jewish Genealogy. (2025, 11 22). www.sephardicgen.com. https://www.sephardicgen.com/nafrica_sites.htm

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Archived 2025-11-22T00:21:29.645793
Document ID #20
Languages 5 available