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I just received this brochure in the mail:
 
AVOTAYNU Inc.
P.O. Box 1134
Teaneck, NJ  07666
 
Order: 800-866-1525
 
Where we once walked: a guide to Jewish communities destroyed in
the Holocaust (1991) by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack.
 
"Outstanding Reference Book of the Year"  1991, Association of
Jewish Librarians.
 
Excellent gazetteer which includes 21,000 towns in E. and C.
Europe. Includes long. and lat., distance/direction to nearest
major city, Jewish pop., cross references in different languages,
544 pages.
 
A dictionary of Jewish surnames from the Russian Empire by
Alexander Beider.
752 pages, over 50,000 names.
 
A biographical dictionary of Canadian Jewry 1909-1914 from the
Canadian Jewish Times by Lawrence F. Tapper.
 
Jewish Personal Names:  Their origin, derivation, and diminutive
forms, by Rabbi Shmuel Gorr.
 
Avotaynu:  The International Review of Jewish Genealogy.
 
In Microfiche:
 
Jewish Genealogical People Finder.
 
Gazetteer of Central and Eastern Europe.
 
Index to Russian Consular Records.
 
Publications of the Jewish Genealogical Consolidated Surname Index
 
Index to Department of State Records found in U.S. National
Archives.
 
Galician Towns and Administrative Districts.
 
Black book of localities whose Jewish population was exterminated
by the Nazis.
Name changes in the Palestine Gazette
 
Index to Memorial to the Jews deported from France.
 
Index to burials in two Jewish cemeteries in Washington D.C.
 
Michael Gold
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