Presenter: Johannes Reiss; Traude Triebel
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Hebrew sources are omnipresent in genealogical research. How can they be handled without knowledge of Hebrew? With rudimentary knowledge and a few expedient tools ? and a change in one?s own thinking when writing register indexes ? it is possible to spot and grasp the most important biographical information in Hebrew sources. The lecture provides us with those essential tools: how and where in Hebrew epitaphs to locate the name of the deceased; how to pinpoint the often wisely encoded date of death and how to convert it; why honorary religious titles are relevant to genealogical work. The examples have been drawn primarily from Jewish cemeteries and archives in Eisenstadt or in the ?Seven Communities? of modern Burgenland, which the lecturer has researched for decades as part of his duties at the Austrian Jewish Museum.