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Names in Books (Summary Page)

These pages list books of genealogical relevance which have been indexed  by name.  In most cases, the names are people's last names or place names.

Do you have a book at home which merits this type of indexing? Or have you borrowed a suitable book from a library? Please help the Society with this unique information source. Just type up your contribution using a word processing package.  For further details on becoming a contributor, please send an email to enquiries@jgsgb.org.uk

If you want to buy any of these books, you may prefer to begin your search with a professional bookshop.  In the case of modern books, you can try internet based booksellers, including www.amazon.co.uk and www.amazon.com


To view the names index for a book, click on the book's title below.

Title Genesis - A Latvian Childhood
Author Chaim Bermant in 1998
Publisher Robson Books, London 
Price 16.95 pounds
Comments Memoir recalling childhood spent in the Latvian shtetl of Barovke in 1932-1938.  The author was born in Breslev, but moved to Barovke at a young age.
Title Records of the Western Synagogue 1761- 1932
Author Cecil Roth in 1932 
Comments This book contains a section by Matthias Levy which contains a large number of names.  It is this section which has been indexed.
Title The Kalish Book
Editor I. M. Lask
The Societies of Former Residents of Kalish and the Vicinity in Israel and the USA.  Published in Tel Aviv in 1968.
Translation 
Information		 The Kalish Book is an English language version of Sefer Kalish, 
which was published in Tel Aviv in two volumes 1964 & 1968.
About the 
Book		 The Kalish Book relates to Kalisz in Poland located at 51°45' N, 18°5' E.
The index contains the names (in alphabetical sequence) of 1,075 Jewish people mentioned in The Kalish Book, together with the names of six non-Jews who, at great danger to themselves, helped Jews to escape from the Germans during the Holocaust.
Comments For information on finding a library which has a copy of The Kalish Book, refer to 
The Jewishgen Yizkor Book Database  ( do a search for Kalish "town -exact spelling" )
Title CHASING SHADOWS - Memories of a Vanished World
Author Rabbi Hugo Gryn with Naomi Gryn
Publisher and ISBN Viking Press (Penguin Books) in 2000 (ISBN 0-670-88793-5)
Price £ 16.99
Comments Rabbi Hugo Gryn (25th June 1930 to 18th August 1996) was born in the Carpathian town of Berehovo which was in Czechoslovakia. 



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