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Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the History and Culture of German-Speaking Jewry

 

Stammbaum is the only English language publication of German Jewish genealogy. Published since 1992, it has attracted an international readership of professional and amateur genealogists, and facilitates the exchange of helpful and sound information, techniques, sources, and archival material. It includes human interest and anecdotal material, which add verisimilitude to genealogical data. While Stammbaum focuses on Germany, its scope also includes Austria, Switzerland, Alsace, Bohemia, and other areas with linguistic and historic relevance.

   
 

ISSUE 1, WINTER 1992-1993 [Originally published as Vol. 1, No. 1]

The Berthold Rosenthal Archives

Gesamtarchiv der Deutschen Juden

The 1938 German Census

A Valuable Research Aid for Westfalen

Given Names Adopted by the Jews of Memmelsdorf

 

ISSUE 2, SPRING 1993 [Originally published as Vol. 1, No. 2]

German-Language Newspaper Collections at the New York Public Library

Aufbau Obituary Indexing Project

1991 Leo Baeck Yearbook: Interesting Books for the German-Jewish Genealogist

Jewish Genealogical Resources for Hamburg: A Preliminary Review

A Bibliography of German-Jewish Towns and Cities, Part I

 

ISSUE 3, SUMMER 1993 [Originally published as Vol. 1, No. 3]

A History of the Jewish Community of Altenmuhr

Jewish Soldiers in the Prussian Liberation Wars, 1813-1815

Name Adoptions in the Principality of Aschaffenburg

A Bibliography of German-Jewish Towns and Cities, Part II

 

ISSUE 4, FALL 1993 [Originally published as Vol. 1, No. 4]

Genealogical Research on Jews of Southern Germany

Holdings of the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz

Using Public Sources for Jewish Genealogical Research in Bavaria

The Jewish Community in Sugenheim

The Jews of Anhalt

 

Synagogues, Schools, and Cemeteries in the North Pfalz

The Rudolf Simonis Archives at the Leo Baeck Institute

Berlin Jewish Records

The Jews from Goslar

Reconstructing the Jewish Community of Gera, Thuringia

The Jewish Community of Burghaslach

 

A Report on Alsace: Cemeteries, Name Changes, Census

Death Books from Auschwitz

GEOServ, Internet Access, Electronic References and Web Pages

Familiennamen der Juden in Deutschland (Family Names of Jews in Germany)

 

Pioneers and Important Names in German-Jewish Genealogy

The Education of Jewish Children in Bavaria

Survey of the Former East Germany

Archivists Connected with Jewish Collections in Europe

More on Jewish Cemeteries in Present-Day Germany, Austria and Switzerland

German-Jewish Research: An Introduction

The Einstein Family from Buchau

Sixty Years Ago: Jüdische Familien-Forschung/An Interview with Albert Phiebig

 

Schmieheim Memorbuch: Status for the Future

The Frankel/Fraenkel Families of Berlin: Stiftung Neue Synagoge

Where Do You Look for "Lost" Germans/Austrians? Shanghai, Of Course

Oppenheimers and Other Families from Frankfurt: Our Ancestors

A Genealogical Sketch of Descendents of Jechiel Oppenheim

"Aus der Geschichte der Familie Dinkelspiel in Mannheim": German-Jewish Soldiers in World War I

Jewish Records in German Universities

 

Jente Hameln and Her Distinguished Descendents

The "Yekke" Museum in Tefen

Derivation of Some Family Names

Volks-Kalendar as a Source

Thuringia Data

Oppenheimer Descendents, Part II

Jewish Members of the German Airforce in World War I

German Documents in Poland

 

Hohenems: Rise and Fall

From Treves to Sichel

Research in Trebus and Gross Gerau

Franconian Genealogy

Vital Civil Records for Berlin Jews in the Potsdam Archives

 

ISSUE 13, MAY 1998

The German Government's Gedenkbuch

Memorial Books for Specific States and Localities

Austrian Victims: The Mystery Remains

Concentration Camps, Killing Centers, Ghettoes

German Jews in Sutthof and Other Camps

Survivors of the Holocaust

 

Genealogical Research in Germany

Family History Centers Revisited

Travels, Archives and Discoveries

Jewish Cemeteries in Baden and Wuerttemberg

World War I Cemeteries in France

 

"Lost at Sea" or How to Find a Post-1906 Immigrant Ancestor Who Does Not Appear in the New York City Soundex List of Ship Passengers

Westphalian Jews in the Holocaust

 

The Languages of the Jews of Hohenems

Databases of German/Austrian Holocaust Victims Currently Available on the Web

Contacts and Resources, Mostly European

Family Names of Jews: Focus on 19th Century Baden by Erwin Emmanuel Dreyfuss [1927]

 

Auctions and Jewish Genealogy

Dinkelspiel in America

Jews of Breisgau in 1754

Genes and Genealogy

The Reichenberger Correspondence

In Search of Elusive German Books and Magazines

Alsace Revisited

 

Early History of the Rabbinical Weil Family

A Slice of Nineteenth-century Life in the Hunsrueck

Berlin's "Invisible Holocaust Victims"

Adoption of Family Names, Posen

 

Evidence: The Fate of the Last Jews of Schneidemuhl

The Development of Jewish First Names in the Austrian Empire

German-Jewish Family Names Connected with Place Names

Jewish Soldiers in the Austrian Armed Forces

 

Shangai Exile: 1940-1947

Viennese Heir Lists as Genealogical Resources

Nineteenth-Century Hamburg

Jewish Residence Registration

Juedische Familienforschung Membership Lists

 

German-Jewish Genealogical Research: New Sources and Old Questions

Shanghai HIAS Lists

German Reparations and the Jewish World

 

The Dachau Database

The Gross Breesen Jewish Emigrants

Training Farm

Who Was Levi Strauss?

 

Henry Mack: An Important Figure in Nineteenth-Century American Jewish History

A List of Posen Province Archival Holdings at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

Who Was Carl Laeemle?

A Short History of Stammbaum

 

The Archives of the Jewish Community of Vienna

Articles of Value for Jewish Research in the Altpreussiche Geschlechterkunde, with Emphasis on Names

Rheinland-Pfalz Sources of Information

A List of Posen Province and Bromberg Jewish Community Archival Holdings at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

 

The Racist Obsession of the National Socialists and its Impact on German-Jewish Genealogical Research

Schrimm: Memories from our Youth

Swiss Jewish Genealogy

Jewish Vienna: A Short History and Guide to Genealogical Research

Using the Uncatalogued Collection in the Library of Congress' Hebraic Section to Find an Ancestor in Subscriber Lists

 

Issue 26, Winter 2005

Institutionalizing Nazi genealogical research in support of a racist program: The Reichssippenamt

Impact of the Reichssippenamt’s operation on present German-Jewish genealogical research (Ernest Kallmann)

The Wimpfheimer family from Ichenhausen, Bavaria (Adam Yamey)

The history of LOEBTREE.COM (Daniel E. Loeb)

The 300th anniversary of the death of Samuel Oppenheimer (Peter Stein)

Making connections: A German-Jewish village in America (Emily C. Rose)

Reconnecting Jewish roots: The search for my German-Jewish Helft family (Rebecca Rector)

Articles of value for Jewish genealogical research in the Altpreußische Geschlechterkunde (Edward R. Brandt)

 

Issue 27, Summer 2005

Genealogical research for German Landjuden in Nassau, part I  (Gerhard Buck)

Dorothy Becker and the Selfhelp home of Chicago (Lisa Thaler)

Alemannia Judaica (George Arnstein)

Websites supporting German-Jewish genealogical research (Werner L. Frank)

An internet based archive of German Jewish periodicals (Irene Newhouse)

The Wallach family (Elizabeth Levy)

My memories of Kristallnacht (Senta Wallach Seligmann)

Looking for the missing link (Eli Samson)

A visit into the past (Charles H. Marks)

 

Issue 28, Winter 2006

Genealogical research for German Landjuden in Nassau, part II  (Gerhard Buck)

The migration of German Jews to South Africa (Adam Yamey)

The memorial collection database at the Jewish museum of Frankfurt (Gabriela Schlick)

Interview with Marianne Salinger (Ari Naamani-Goldman)

How to read a family register (George Arnstein)

The education of Nathan Ginsburg (Adam Yamey)

Gad 41 (Thekla Nordwind)

 

Issue 29, Summer 2006

Digging for the Cooper-Guggenheim’s origin (Werner L. Frank and Peter Stein)

The Mohel book of Hueben / Krumbach 1800-1837 (Ralph Bloch)

The Zivis of Muellheim (Justin J. Mueller)

A Franco-Prussian affair (Adam Yamey)

Family history and its meaning today: The case of the Lehman family (Roland Flade)

The search for the Jewish roots of a catholic orphan (Henry Straus)

The Leo Baeck Institute family research department

 

Issue 30, Winter 2006

Ancestry of the Klein family of Jöhlingen, Baden (Ralph Baer)

One genealogist’s approach to Austrian research (Janet Isenberg)

Jewish families in Buchau (Friedrich R. Wollmershäuser)

Dating the oldest list of Jewish inhabitants in Altona and Hamburg (Jona Schellekens)

A letter from the Cape (Adam Yamey)

Officers and military legacies (George Arnstein)

The German-Jewish community in Argentina (Jorge Ruschin)

Family history research in Boemia and Moravia (Julius Müller)

Ohav Sholaum: Prayerbooks returned (Karen Franklin)

The new German Gedenkbuch (Joachim Mugdan)

 

Issue 31, Summer 2007

Making sense of the Prussian name adoption list of 1812 (Claus  W. Hirsch)

A search around the globe leads us back home (Freddy Sapir)

German-Jewish refugees in the American Armed Forces during the Second World War (Joshua Franklin)

Roads back (Alfred Moritz)

Men of Gold: The Goldmanns of Burghersdorp, South Africa (Adam Yamey)

Jewish life in the community of Oberwinter in the Rhine Valley (Ute Metternich)