Premiering in Israel Sunday in Tel Aviv, Matthew Mishory's documentary follows descendants of Arnold Schoenberg as they uncover their long-buried roots in Vienna, Prague and Venice
World's largest genealogy company gives tests to the newly launched DNA Reunion Project, a Center for Jewish History initiative seeking to unite families shattered by the genocide
Certificate of Sephardic Ancestry validates identity, while an online ancestral database of 45,000 Sephardic family names makes searching for roots easier
Jewish genealogist duo solves 80-year mystery, builds a family tree and locates living relatives after reading a ToI article about octogenarian Jackie Young's search for his roots
Russian-Israeli billionaire's naturalization has become symbol for suspected abuse of Portuguese law; surfaced documents include testimonies from rabbis, copy of Israeli passport
In 'The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters,' Julie Klam travels the globe to separate the truth from the lore about her grandmother's 4 philanthropic chain-smoking millionaire cousins
After decades of silence about eastern European Jewish community documents 'abandoned' during World War II, the issue has started to ruffle feathers, from Brooklyn to Budapest
Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch unveils a painstaking compilation of late 19th-century men who managed to evade Ottoman conscription, among the few available records of bygone communities
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