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Malka, Jeffrey S.
Sephardic Genealogy:
Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World.
Avotaynu, 2002.
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Indispensible. The ONLY comprehensive book for Sephardic Genealogy. --
History, research methods, archives, surnames, maps, bibliography, and more.
Abecassis, Jose Maria
Genealogia Hebraica. Portugal e Gibraltar.
Lisboa 1990 (in portuguese).
5 volumes of documented family trees (XVII to XX centuries)
Tavares, Maria José Pimenta Ferro
Los judeus em Portugal.
Madrid: Editorial MAPFRE, 1992.
Studies including name and place index.
Tavares, Maria José Pimenta Ferro
Os judeus em Portugal no século XIV.
Lisboa: Guimarães, 1979.
Some biographic data, maps, bibliography, name index.
Tavares, Maria José Pimenta Ferro
Os judeus em Portugal no século XV.
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 1982-(1984).
Subtitled as "vol. 1" but I've found no other vol. Maps, bibliography, no index.
Malka, Edmond S.
Fieis Portugueses: Judeus na peninsula iberica
Portugal: Edições Acrópole, 1977.
Based on doctoral thesis at Universidade de Granada, Spain.
Ashton, Eliyahu
The Jews of Muslim Spain.
Jewish Publications Society, 1993
A "classic".
Baer, Yitzhak
History of the Jews in Christian Spain.
Jewish Publications Society, 1993.
A "classic".
Gerber, Jane
The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience.
The Free Press, MacMillan, New York, 1992.
A must read.
(And a good friend of my dad's> )
Sachar, H. M.
Farewell Espana. The world of the Sephardim remembered.
Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1974-1985.
Great book by a master.
Paris, Erna
The End of Days.
Promethius books, Amherst, NY 1995.
Very readable, perceptive and informative. Highly recommended.
Netanyahu, B.
The Origins of the Inquisition in XIV century Spain.
Random House, 1995.
A "classic" with a different point of view.
Singerman, Robert
The Jews in Spain and Portugal.
Garland Publishing, New York, 1975.
History.
Liebman, Seymour B.
The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World.
University of Miami Press
Except for a brief introduction, the entire book is a listing of Inquisition Records in the
New World. Good source for converso names in the New World.
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