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This is the title of our society's magazine, which is Dutch-Yiddish for Mishpacha. It is published (in Dutch with an English language summary) on a quarterly basis. The complete index of articles and reviews published in Misjpoge 1988-2003 The third issue of Misjpoge 2006 begins with the continuation of
the study
Misjpoge 17- 4 (October 2004) Misjpoge 17.4 (2004) opens with a contribution by R.G.
Fuks-Mansfeld about the varied source material for Jewish genealogy and family
history that is to be found in the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana at the Amsterdam
University Library. In his series on Jewish schools and their pupils in
Amsterdam, Harmen Snel presents an article about the school of Rachel Vaz Dias.
I.C. van Creveld concludes his story of the Jewish orphanage in The Hague during
WWII on the basis of documents recently returned from Russia. Jits van Straten’s
Besnijdenissen en geboorten in Amsterdam, 1697-1811 (Circumcisions and births in
Amsterdam) is the subject of a detailed review by Chaim Caran. Misjpoge 17- 3 (July 2004) Number 3 of Misjpoge 2004 opens with the second instalment
of Harmen Snel’s series about Jewish schools in Amsterdam. I. B. Van Creveld
complements the story of the Jewish orphanage in The Hague during WW II on the
basis of new documents, recently returned from Russia. R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld
reports on manuscripts in the collection held by the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana,
Amsterdam University Library, that are of special interest for Dutch-Jewish
genealogy.
Misjpoge 17- 2 (April 2004) In number two of Misjpoge 17, four members of our society
present the results of their researches. Sal van Son has discovered some
interesting facts about Isaac Joseph Levi and his sons, who lived in
18th-century Leeuwarden and occupied themselves, among other things, with the
production of brandy. H. Lusse reports on three non-related Jewish families in
Amsterdam, all bearing the name Van West. Harmen Snel publishes the first of a
series of listings of Jewish names derived from a document containing the names
of teachers and students at private elementary schools in Amsterdam in 1823.
Last but not least, Nechamah Mayer-Hirsch reports on discoveries made in the
course of her ongoing research concerning the Jews of Amersfoort: about a new
synagogue inaugurated in 1867 and about the will of the grandmother of this
synagogue’s founder. Misjpoge 17-1 (January 2004) The Society’s executive committee proposes some alterations to the statutes, which are published in this issue as well as a list of foreign genealogical publications received in exchange for Misjpoge. I.B. van Creveld reviews Wally Lang’s Slotaccoord der kinderjaren, Herinneringen aan het Joods Lyceum Fisherstraat Den Haag 1941-1943 (Den Haag 2003). MISJPOGE 16- (October 2003)
In this last issue of Misjpoge's 16th volume, R.G. Fuks mansfield deals with the
differences between Jewish and Dutch family law. MISJPOGE 16-3 (July 2003) Misjpoge’s third issue
for 2003 prints the concluding instalment of Ko Sturkop’s story about Nathan
Judels and his theatrical family. The Sephardic Blanes family of Amsterdam,
introduced to us by Ze’ev Bar, was similarly active in the theatrical world, and
also produced a wellknown graphic artist. Nechamah Mayer contributes a list of
the Jewish conscripts who were called up in 1813 for the National Militia in
Amersfoort. MISJPOGE 16- 2 (April 2003) Misjpoge 16, 2 opens with part 2 of Ko Sturkop’s article about
Nathan Judels (1815-1903), the Amsterdam comedian, musician, and entrepreneur in
the entertainment world. Ze’ev Bar discusses ten bookplates belonging to
wellknown 20th-century Dutch Jews. MISJPOGE 16 - 1 (January 2003) The
first issue of Misjpoge 2002 opens with part 1 of “Nathan Judels 1815-1903”,
by Ko Sturkop. Nathan Judels was a
wellknown figure in the Amsterdam entertainment world.
As a comedian and musician he played a central role in the Salon des Variétés
in the Amstelstraat from 1844 to 1879.
MISJPOGE 15- 4 (October 2002) On the occasion of
the 15th anniversary of our society, Misjpoge looks back on its own 15-year
history. Ies van Creveld, a long-time member of the editorial committee, tells
us how all those volumes of Misjpoge came into being. Marja van de Vathorst
provides a systematically ordered list of all
articles and reviews that have appeared up to and including the present edition.
MISJPOGE 15-3 (July 2002) Misjpoge 15, 3 (2002) opens with the
fourth, and last, instalment of F. de Beer's collection of data on the Jewish
community of Leiden.
MISJPOGE 15-2 (April 2002) Misjpoge 15,2 (2002) opens with an article about Salomon (Sallie) Boom (1837-1911), teacher of religion, printer and active socialist in Amsterdam. He was the author of a pamphlet criticising Dutch Jewish life. He also briefly published a Jewish weekly entitled "het Vrije Woord" (The Free Word), in witch he similarly expounded his views. Apart from biographical information the present article also presents genealogical data about the Boom family. The second part of I.B. van Creveld's piece about the Jewish orphanage in The Hague narrates the history of that institution until 1943 when it was closed down by the German occupational forces, never to be re-opened. Appended is a list of orphans and orphanage employees who died in the Holocaust. Ze'ev Bar tells us about the circumcision registers of Amersfoort as published in 1992 (prematurely announced in the summary of Misjpoge 15,1). Among those who carried out these circumcisions are Joseph Salomon and Baruch Nihom. In another contribution the same author discusses Jewish women's names derived from flowers. Karin Hofmeester
discusses Absent. Herinneringen aan het Joods lyceum Amsterdam, 1941-1943.
(Absent. Remembering the Jewish Lyceum [secondary school] in Amsterdam,
1941-1943) by Dienke Hondius.
The first issue of Misjpoge 15 (2002) opens with a list, introduced by R.H.C. van Maanen, of Jewish tradespeople in Tielerwaard, a region in the province of Gelderland. The list, which covers the years 1806 to 1809, shows that, as might be expected, many Jews were either itinerant salesmen or occupied in the cattle and meat trade. I.B. van Creveld contributes an article about the orphans who lived from 1850 onwards in the newly founded Jewish orphanage in The Hague. De Mossels uit Mokum, 350 years of history of the Mossel family of Amsterdam by Esther D. Reiss-Mossel et al. (Jerusalem 2001, is reviewed by I.B. van Creveld. An English translation of this book is in preparation. R.G.Fuks-Mansfeld reports on Het oude volk by Hans Kooger (Doetinchem 2001), about the Jews of eastern Gelderland and neighbouring German communities.
MISJPOGE 14- 4 (1 October 2001) The last issue of Misjpoge begins with data on the history of the Jewish community in Leiden between 1762 and 1806, collected by F. de Beer. Next comes the second part of the history of the Jews in the Alblasserwaard up till 1940, by H.W.G. van Blokland-Visser. Ze'ev Bar draws attention to the existence of embroidery samplers made by Dutch-Jewish girls in the early 19th century. Ze'ev Bar and Sal van Son discuss two categories of Jewish names: names connected with the Jewish calendar and those connected with trades and crafts. Francisca de Haan reviews a history of the Jews of Maassluis by L.M. van der Hoeven and E.M.Bánki. A new guide for the research of the history of the Jews in the Netherlands edited by J.Bethlehem a.o. is reviewed by Sal van Son.
MISJPOGE 14-3 (1 July 2001) The third issue of Misjpoge 2001 opens with a study on the Jews of Alblasserwaard, a region in the Dutch province of Zuid-Holland, by genealogist H.W.G. van Blokland-Visser. The majority of these Jews lived in the villages of Alblasserwaard and earned their living as cattle dealers and butchers, or as travelling pedlars. The Jews of Alblasserwaard initially held their services in private homes, but a few small synagogues were established in the course of the 19th century. The author pays particular attention to the development of the Jewish families. Karin Hofmeester recounts the life of Raphael Marcus Beuth (1812-1894). Beuth was born in Emden but came to live in Leiden as a young man with his Dutch wife, Gouda Philips Kalf. Besides being a businessman, he served the congregation as cantor from 1834 until shortly before his death. In the latter capacity he was famed for his voice as well as for his excellent delivery. There are three book reviews. Ze'ev Bar reports on Margaret Alice van Nierop's history of her family, which produced a series of wellknown Dutch lawyers in the 19th and 20th centuries. A book about professional photographers in the province of Groningen between 1842 and 1940 by Henk Wierts receives praise from I.B. van Creveld. Among these photographers were a striking number of Jews. One who earned particular fame for his artistic pictures was Abraham Salomon Weinberger. R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld discusses a biographical list of Dutch-Jewish physicians and surgeons who perished during World War II. This list, originally compiled by J.H.Coppenhagen, was completed by M.J. van Lieburg.
MISJPOGE 14-2 (1 April 2001) This second issue of Misjpoge 2001 opens with another instalment of F. de Beer's collection of data on the early history of the Jews in Leiden. Lydia Hagoort contributes a second article concerning the problems of intermarriage between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews in 18th and 19th century Amsterdam. A pair of silver rimonim (Torah finials) prompted Ies van Creveld to research the identity of Jacob Gedalia Pos, who played an important role in the Ashkenazi community of the Hague during the early years of the 19th century. Ze'ev Bar reports on information about Dutch Jews, to be found in East-Frisian archives. In the section devoted to reviews, Stefan Pinkus and three other members of our society examine a number of genealogy programmes for the computer. Karin Hofmeester reports on a genealogical work about the Boekman family of Amsterdam, and Riet de Leeuw van Weenen-van der Hoek reviews Jits van Straten's edition of the 1669-1811 burial books of Amsterdam's Ashkenazi cemetery at Muiderberg. Finally Birgitta van Bitterswijk reviews I.B. van Creveld 's book on the presence of Jewish artists in the Hague during the past three centuries.
MISJPOGE 14-1 (1 January 2001) The first issue of 2001 starts with the first instalment of a series of data on the history of the Jewish community in Leiden by F. de Beer, covering the years 1700 to 1722. Bart Wallet has collected data on two small Jewish communities in the rural area around Rotterdam, Giessen-Nieuwkerk and Giessenburg, in the 19th century. The Jews there were mostly butchers and pedlars. Their sons and grandsons moved to Rotterdam in the beginning of the 20th century, lured away by better economic opportunities. In the wake of the two memorial exhibitions of the Dutch-Jewish painter Jozef Israels in Amsterdam and Groningen held during the past year, several articles on life, work, and family history of the artist have appeared in Misjpoge. In the present issue, Lies Asten-Boiten adds her publication of two inventories of goods in the possession of one of the artist's forebears, Israel Abraham Lazarus (1709-1800) in Groningen. Lydia Hagoort elucidates the problems around "mixed" marriages between Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, problems which did not end with the emancipation of Dutch Jewry in 1796. Two inventories of the Jewish cemeteries in Kleve and Uedem by Dieter Peters are reviewed by R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld. Ze'ev Bar reports on a history of the Kamerling family of Groningen by Bart and Herma Hunnings, as well as on a history of the Jews of Wildervank and Veendam by G. Koeman-Poel. A.H. Gomes de Mesquita's book on the Jewish cemetery of Eindhoven is reviewed by I.S. van Creveld.
MISJPOGE 13-4 (1 October 2000) In the last issue of Misjpoge 2000, Elchanan Tal introduces the Yiddish travelogue of his forebear Abraham Levie. Between 1719 and 1723, as a young man, Abraham Levie travelled through Germany, Bohemia, Austria, and Italy. He subsequently wrote a report on this "Grand Tour", a handsome clean copy of which was made by a professional copyist in 1764. The manuscript remained in the possession of the family until 1880, when it was given to the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam. Ko Sturkop presents new data on Dutch-Jewish immigrants in London in the second half of the 19th century. Ze'ev Bar describes the origins and later uses of the biblical name of Ephraim. The section reserved for brief reports on members' own research has received a new title: "Uit de oude doos", literally "From the old box". Jaap Hagedoorn reviews the new guide for genealogical research in Overijssel and Flevoland by Jan ten Hove. I.B. van Creveld introduces a book by Harry de Beus on 350 years of the Ephraim family, while Ze'ev Bar reports on W.H. Strous' history of the Jews of Rhenen (1634-1919). Finally R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld reviews J.D.Kila's history of the Jews of Den Helder and J.Bader's book on the history of the Jews of Nijmegen.
MISJPOGE 13-3 (1 July 2000) In this third issue of volume 13, Mieke van Zeeben and Henk Langenberg relate the complicated story of the founding of the Jewish Orphanage in Utrecht, which was officially opened in 1871. The lengthy debates between the founders, and the difficulties experienced in acquiring funds, give an insight into the social and economic situation of Dutch Jewry during this period of their history. Peter Manasse contributes an epilogue to his article on the last years of the Ashkenazi Boys' Orphanage in Amsterdam, published in the previous issue, in the form of a report on the situation of Jewish orphans in the Netherlands after the Holocaust. Stefan Pinkus reviews several genealogical programmes for the computer, and Rogier Foyer reviews Koos Boers' guide for genealogical research on the Internet.
MISJPOGE 13-2 (1 April 2000) In this second issue of volume 13, J. Vaz Dias describes the origin and history of the name Vaz Dias in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Netherlands. M. Paskamp van Santen tells the story of David Mozes Lindeman and his family, the only Jews living in 19th century Tubbergen. Salomon van Son's Vrijheid en verdraagzaamheid? Joden in de Nederlanden en Brandenburg ("Freedom and Toleration. Jews in the Netherlands and Brandenburg", Amsterdam 1999), a comparative study of the legal status of Jews in the Dutch Republic and in the Electorate of Brandenburg in the 17th century, is reviewed by Lodewijk Blok.
MISJPOGE 13-1 (1 January 2000) The first issue of volume 13 opens with a farewell to Lo van Leeuwen, secretary to Misjpoge's editorial board since the founding of the Netherlands Society for Jewish Genealogy in 1987. Historian Peter Manasse chanced upon 8 issues dating from 1941 of Hineni, the house magazine of the Amsterdam Ashkenazi boys' orphanage Megadlé Jethonim. The find moved him to write an article about the history of that institution until the day,10 February 1943, when its residents were carried off by the Nazis to perish in the death camps in Poland. An appendix lists the names of boys and staff. Our Israeli member Chaim Caran contributes a family tree of Joseph Israels, compiled on the basis of previously published data, with interesting additions. Two paintings by Joseph Israels, both thought to portray Eleazar Herschel, are discussed by Ze'ev Bar.
MISJPOGE 12-4 (1 October 1999) The present issue, the fourth and last of Volume Twelve, opens with an article by J.W. van Koten on the origin and development of population registration in the Netherlands from the viewpoint of genealogical research. The system which consists of birth, marriage, and death registers was introduced in 1811 during the French occupation. A set of laws concerned with birth, marriage, and death formed part of the Code Napoleon, the French legal code, which was imposed at the same time and remained in force long after the establishment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1813. Under the heading Mengelwerk (Miscellany), Marja van de Vathorst-Smit reports on her researches into family history. Various documents related to the estate of Moses Broekhuijsen, who died in Sneek (province of Friesland) in 1819 leaving behind ten young children, present an interesting picture of the life of a well-to-do Jewish family in a small provincial town during the first half of the nineteenth century. Two book reviews are included this time. I.B. van Creveld has read Vluchtelingenkamp Westerbork, ed. Dirk Mulder and Ben Prinsen. Camp Westerbork, built in 1934 by the Dutch government to accommodate Jewish refugees from Germany, was used by the Germans during their occupaton of the Netherlands from 1940 to 1945 as a transit camp for Jews on the way to the death camps. Ben jij ook een Levie? Twee eeuwen familie Levie van 1775 tot 1999 (Are you a Levie, too? Two centuries of Levie family from from 1775 to 1999), by Willem Prins, Riet de Leeuw van Weenen, and Leo Levie, is reviewed by Ab Caransa.
MISJPOGE 12-3 (1 July 1999) This third issue of Volume Twelve features an inventory of literature and sources concerning the history of Jews in the province of Noord-Brabant, submitted by the National Archives in Noord-Brabant, with supplementary notes by J.Bader. Ze'ev Bar discusses Jewish asylum-seekers of the 17th and 18th centuries in five Dutch towns, Culemborg, Vianen, Buren, Leerdam, and IJsselstein, which were officially recognized places of refuge. The same author contributes a brief note on the origin of the family names Dreyfus and Koord. Recent studies on migration in the Netherlands from the 16th to the 19th century prompted R.G.Fuks-Mansfeld to present a resumé of published data concerning the migratory movements of Dutch Jews. The author calls on the members of our Society to record any instances found in the course of their own research and thus to contribute to a more complete picture of such movements. I.B. van Creveld reviews De geschiedenis van de joden in Haaksbergen (The history of the Jews of Haaksbergen) by R.Gerrits-Koster and L. Karsseboom. 'Lieve Kinderen', the Dutch translation of a collection of letters written by a German-Jewish couple in Amsterdam to their children in Chili, edited by I.Wojak and L.Hepner, and earlier published in German as 'Geliebte Kinder ...': Briefe aus dem Amsterdamer Exil in die Neue Welt 1939-1943, is reviewed by R.G.Fuks-Mansfeld, who also reports on Vele woningen, maar nergens een thuis. Barend Luteraan 1878-1970 , by D.Bos.
MISJPOGE 12-2 (1 April 1999) The second issue of Misjpoge 1999 presents an article bij Aubrey Jacobuson Dutch Jews in London's East End during the reign of Queen Victoria. Atthat time there was a considerable concentration ot Dutch Jews in Spitalfields. They not only kept together as a group but managed to keep their Dutch-Jewishcustoms alive into the twentieth century. Ze'ev Bar draws a picture of Nachman Nathan Senior Coronel, a Dutch Sephardi who Ieft the Netherlands for Palestine as a twenty-year old 1830. He was drawn to the Holy Land by religious and messianic fervour and played an important role in Jerusalem. He founded a family and his descendants, now bearing the name of Koren, still live in Israel. In our new section "Miscellanea" Esther David-Souget describes the life of Marcus Heiman Souget, her adventurous forebear. I.B. van Creveld reviews two books, Joep Wijnberg-Stroz and Marianka van Lunteren-Spanjaard, Blijvers en Voorbijgangers. Joden in Delft 1850-1960 and Riet de Leeuw van Weenen-van der Hoek a.o., Matsewa. Joodse begraafplaatsen op Voorne-Putten, Geervliet en Zuidland.
MISJPOGE 12-1 (1 January 1999) In the opening article of this first issue of Volume Twelve, H.J.Huyser reports on the work of the Lezikaron foundation, which aims to preserve Jewish monuments in the province of Utrecht. One of their objects is the registration and photographic recording of all tombstones in the various Jewish cemeteries, as well as the translation of the texts from the Hebrew. Present efforts concentrate on the almost 800 stones at the Utrecht cemetery, including that of rabbi Mosheh Monasch (1852-1915), the full text of which is given in translation. I.B. van Creveld has written a sequel to his history of the mohelim of The Hague, of whom he now presents a complete list. New in this issue is a section entitled "Mengelwerk" (Miscellanea) which will be devoted to tidbits of information from the research of our members. L.H.Cohen discusses a new computer programme for Jewish genealogy, Ilanot. The section "Gesignaleerd" (Notices) draws attention to a large number of articles that have appeared in mostly foreign publications.
MISJPOGE 11-4 (1 October 1998) The present issue devotes a considerable amount of space to sources of genealogical information. From the Algemeen Rijksarchief(ARA) in The Hague we have articles about Jewish refugees in the Netherlands and the persecution of Jews in Germany between 1933 and 1945, and about a new publication called POP(Persons On Paper) Gids. The Dutch Games of Chance Museum in The Hague proposes its records as a new source for Jewish genealogy. Those of us who have lottery-sellers among their forebears are urged to contact the Museum. The importance of recording local history was at issue in a bitter controversy that arose a decade ago between Jaap Meijer and the then State Archivist at Groningen, H. de Vey Mestdagh, concerning the history of the Jews in Groningen province. G.J.van Klinken tells the story and presents the different points of view which remain as relevant today as they were at the time. The book reviews section contains a brief notice of two publications by the Westerbork Centre dealing with the experiences of Jews in hiding during World War II. In addition, a sequel to J. Bader's chronicle of the Jews of Noord-Brabant is discussed, as well as a collection, in Dutch translation, of letters from Karl Marx and his family to their Jewish relatives in Zaltbommel.
MISJPOGE 11-3 (1 July 1998) Hartog de Hartog Lemon, an Amsterdam Ashkenazi who lived from 1755 to 1823, was a versatile figure. He studied medicine at the University of Leiden, graduated in 1778, and worked in the service of the Amsterdam Ashkenazi congregation as physician to the Jewish poor. As an adherent of the French Enlightenment he hailed the fall of he Dutch Republic and the House of Orange in 1795 and played an important role in the struggle for the emancipation of Dutch Jews. In 1797 he became the first Jewish member of the Dutch National Assembly. Though his active political life was a short one, he remained an important figure in the Jewish community of Amsterdam until the return to power of the House of Orange in 1813. Dr. Lemon's personal life is not as well-documented as his public one. The author, S. Bloemgarten, lists several inconsistencies and doubtful interpretations in his research into the family history of the Lemons. The Dutch-Jewish weekly newspapers which started to appear in 1849 contain many interesting data for genealogists. Announcements of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as advertisements, can be a mine of information. Because of the extreme poverty of the greater part of Dutch Jewry in the nineteenth century, these weeklies often published appeals for help on behalf of widows, orphans, and families stricken by illness. The names of the members of the committees who published these appeals may also provide data for genealogical research. I.B. van Creveld's study on three centuries of Jewish welfare institutions in the Hague is reviewed in this issue by W. Meijering. R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld reviews two further contributions by J. Bader in his series of historiographic studies on Jewish life in Noord-Brabant province. The society's website has proved a success. Webmaster Menno Nijkerk, whose tasks, incidentally, have now been taken over by Stefan Pinkus, informs us that since its inception in September 1997 the site has been visited by more than 12500 persons. |
