The Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection

It might be of value to also first read the following related sections:

• Jewish Names and genealogies  by Jeffrey S. Malka
  
• The Origins and Meanings of some Sephardic names   by Jeffrey S. Malka
  
• Sepharades et Barbaresques   by Lionel Levi

Four volumes of carefully documented Jewish family trees from Portugal and Gibralter.

Extensive work on the family names of Sephardic Jews of Morocco. Careful study of names, their origins, their variants, etc. Lists occurances of the names with summary of data and documented sources making it an indispensible source for Sephardic research even if not from Morocco.

Abensur in Paris has indexed these names and had them at the ETSI website. However that website no longer exists.

Jewish names mentioned in the text:

In addition, Appendix I contains a full listing of all Jewish marriages in the Sudan. Here is a listing of the family names in those marriages:

This is the family tree of the ARIE Sephardic family from Samakov, Bulgaria.
Gabriel Arie (1863-1939), author of the pamphlet, was a well known teacher and director of Alliance Israelite Universelle schools in various countries.

The information was extracted by Dov Cohen in Israel from the limited print pamphlet (title listed above) and Dov very kindly supplied me with the Gedcom file he created, (which can be downloaded by clicking here), from which I extracted the surnames listed below.

Family surnames included:

ABDALA ACHER ADROXI AGUILAR AHARON ALCALAY ALMALECH AMADA ARAV ARDITTI ARIE ASLAN ASSA BARUCH BARUH BASSAN BEHAR BEHMOARAS BENAROYA BENYAECH BERAHA CALDERON CALEF CAMHI CANETTI CARASSO CARIO COHEN COHEN-HEMSI CONFORTE CONORTE CRESPIN DECARO DONNA ELIAS ELIEZER FARAGGI FARHI FORTUNEE GERSON GUERON HAIM HANANEL HENRI HOUYOMDJI JACOB JACOBSON JOSEPH KAPLAN KOFFLER KOKACHOELI KOUYUMDJULU LEVY MAGGAR MANOACH MAZALTOV MELAMED MEVORAH MITRANI MOLHO MOSCONA MOSHE NINIO PANIGEL PAPO POLICAR PRESENTE RACHEL RAHAMIM RAPHAEL RIVCA RUDIAC SCHNUR SEMACH SHABETAY SIDI SOREF TAGGER UZIEL VARSANO VENEZIA WEILL WEINSTEIN ZONANA

Leon Tello, Pilar: "Judios de Toledo". Institut Arias Montano, Madrid

The list of names appearing in this book been prepared by Ben Nahman and can be seen at

Ben Nahman's site by clicking here.

Elnecave, Nissim: "Los Hijos de Ibero-Franconia". Ediciones La Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1981

The list of names appearing in this book has been prepared by Ben Nahman and can be seen at

Ben Nahman's site by clicking here.

Contents of 1031 Kettubot from the Sephardic Portuguese community (Grana or Leghorn Jews) of Tunis.

In his words "in general the families are from Rhodes, Cos and the Turkish mainland near Izmir (Bodrum & Aydin appear now and then). Some spouses were obtained from Istanbul. The migrations varies. Many went to Seattle, WA & Los Angeles, CA. Some went to the Belgium Congo. Some went to South America".

Victor Alkana can be reached at valkana@ix.netcom.com

Abolofia, Abrevaya, Absaradel, Abulafia, Acher, Alalouf, Alazraki, Alcana, Alderoqui, Alfici, Algazi, Alhadeff, Alkana, Alvo, Amato, Amedio/Amodeo, Angel, Anreader, Ardity, Arkless, Arnow, Arougheti, Avdalovo, Avzaradel, Azvaradel, Babani, Baigun, Balbach, Barbaimon, Bardavid, Barki, Barokas, Baron, Behar, Bejar, Benatar, Bendjuya, Benezra, Benhabib, Benoun, Benveniste, Benyacar, Berro, Bienn, Binoun, Biton/Beton, Buchuk, Cadranel, Cadrone, Calderon, Calvo, Camhi, Capelluto, Capeloto, Capelouto, Capeluto, Capilouto, Capuano, Caston, Cazes, Chalme, Chara, Chertkow, Codron, Coen, Cohen, Cordoba/Cordova, Crain, Curiel, Danon, Elias, Elkana, Eryol, Eskenazi, Esperanza, Fainstein, Farji, Fils, Franco, Galamidi, Galante/Galanti, Gateno, Genni, Girard, Glazer, Gluckman, Goldberg, Goldstein, Greenspan, Grife, Gross, Grossman, Guini, Habib, Hahn, Haki/Haky, Halfon, Hanan, Hart, Hasson, Hazan, Huerin, Huniu/Hunio, Israel, Jason, Jassen, Kaplan, Katz, Lanchano, Levi, Levin, Levy, Louza, Mainardis, Mandel, Marincik, Matorin, Maya, Mayesh, Meir, Menache, Mezistrano, Michaud, Mintzer, Miron, Mizrahi, Mosafir, Moscatel, Moscona, Munter, Musafir, Nahmias, Negrin, Nof, Notrica, Palombo, Peha, Piha, Pizante, Policar, Posner, Rackner, Ramsey, Rava, Russo, Salfati, Salmoni, Saul, Scapa, Shapiro, Shemaria, Solam, Soriano, Sourmany, Stern, Surmani, Tarica, Tastassa, Varon, Ventura, Yaffe, Yaras, Yohai, Zlotorynski and many not common names.

Victor Alkana can be reached at valkana@ix.netcom.com

Abishous, Abouaf, Alalouf, Alcana, Algranti, Alhadeff, Alhana, Almeleh, Amado, Amato, Amiel, Angel, Arditi, Aron, Arughetti, Ascer, Ashabett, Avzaradel, Azar, Azicri, Baruch, Begas, Begaz, Behor, Benatar, Benonsisso, Benosiglio, Benun, Benveniste, Bero, Berro, Beru, Bilis, Biton, Bitton, Buenavida, Busetto, Cadranel, Camhi, Capelluto, Capuia, Chami, Ciggian, Codron, Coen, Cohen, Cone, Cordoval, Cori, Cugno, Da Fano, Danon, Dente, Denti, Ergas, Eschenazi, Fahn, Ferrera, Fintz, Fis, Foh, Franco, Frangi, Fresco, Gabay, Gabriel, Galante, Ganon, Gaon, Gattegno, Gomel, Habib, Haim, Halfon, Hanan, Hassan, Hasson, Hazan, Hugnu, Hulli, Hunio, Israel, Jerusalmi, Leon, Levi, Levy, Lewi, Luzzatto, Magnel, Maio, Mallel, Maon, Marcos, Masliah, Matatia, Menasce, Merdjan, Misrachi, Modiano, Moshopola, Mussafir, Nahmias, Navarro, Nehama, Notrica, Palombo, Perez, Piha, Pilas, Pilosoff, Pisante, Pisanti, Poldelmengo, Rafael, Rahamin, Ravah, Roditi, Romano, Rosio, Rozanes, Rozio, Russo, Sabetai, Sadis, Salmona, Saltiel, Samuel, Samuelides, Saul, Scapa, Scemaria, Scialom, Sciami, Sciarcon, Shalom, Sharhon, Sidis, Sigura, Simsolo, Slam, Sona, Sonne, Sonsino, Sonsol, Soriano, Spitzer, Sulam, Surmani, Suzeman, Tagliacuzzo, Tarica, Trevez, Turiel, Varon, Ventura, Vidal, Yaffe, Yerusalmi, Yeshurun

(1) From the civil records of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(2) From the records of Bevis Marks, The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London.
(3) From the burial register of Bethahaim Velho Cemetery. Published by the Jewish Historical Society of England.
(4) From the book History of the Jews in Venice by Cecil Roth
(5) From the book Finding Our Fathers by Rottenberg
(6) The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World by Seymour B. Liebman
(7) From the book A History of the Morranos by Cecil Roth
(8) From the book Jews in Colonial Brazil by Arnold Wiznitzer