History of the Jews in Aragon: 1213-1327
1,071 RecordsName List · Aragon, Spain · Sephardic · Jeff Malka Collection
Background
Jean Régné (1883-1954) was an archivist and paleographer who published several historical works but his book on the Jews of Aragon based on the registers and documents found in the Crown of Aragon Archives is certainly the most important. It was posthumously edited and annotated by Prof. Yom Tov Assis and published by the Magnes Press, the Hebrew University press.
As its title states, the roughly 3800 documents included in the book cover the period from 1213 to 1327.
The Database
The aim of the present index was to compile all the different surnames (sometimes the same names with different spellings or preceded by various prefixes) used by Jews in pre-expulsion Spain during 1213-1327. 1,070 surnames from 3,800 documents are included.
Fields Recorded
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the tremendous contributions and lifelong dedication of Mathilde Tagger, z”l who made this index available. For many years, and right until her untimely death, Mathilde Tagger was a very close friend and collaborator with Jeff Malka. Together they worked to promote Sephardic genealogy research and educate the public about its enormous potential.
In addition, we express our grateful appreciation to Dr. Jeff Malka for his monumental ongoing effort to collect and make accessible Sephardic genealogical information, and for his generosity in contributing his extraordinarily valuable collection to JewishGen.
Searching This Database
This collection can be searched via the JewishGen Spain Database, the JewishGen Jeff Malka Collection or the JewishGen Sephardic Collection.
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