ttO „Alvc Clues To Sephardic Genealogy tr. and the waters subsided. And the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. NOAH: Open the window. Good. Now gimmee the bird. No, not the ostrich. The raven. Okay, little birdy. Go see if there's dry land out there. RAVEN: Great. I can hardly wait to get out of here. Wow! Water, water, everywhere, but I'm not going back to that ark. NARRATOR: Then Noah sent the dove. But the dove returned. He waited another seven days and sent the dove forth again. DOVE: What a bully. The elephants weren't doing anything. Does he send them? No. But me he sends twice. Hey, what have we here? A branch. Boy, will Noah be surprised. NARRATOR: And the dove returned with an olive branch. Noah waited seven more days and sent the dove forth again. DOVE: This is ridiculous. Three times. I'm not coming back. I'm heading for Palm Springs. So long, fellas. NARRATOR: And the dove returned no more and Noah removed the covering of the ark and he saw that the ground was drying. - GOD: Come out, Noah. The weather is beautiful. NOAH: It's over. GOD: That's right. But I hate to see this month's water bill. NOAH: I've been thinking. Here I am — little ole Noah — starting the whole world over again. Suppose we get off track in the future — are you going to zap us again? GOD: No, I promise not to flood the entire earth again. I'll create a covenant between you and Me. This shall be a sign of our agreement forever. NOAH: A second moon? How nice. GOD: Dull. It needs some color. Let's try a rainbow. There. One rainbow. It's beautiful. Sometimes I amaze even Myself. As the Spanish government plans its commemoration events for 1992 marking the anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America and the expulsion of the Jews, there is revitalized interest in family history dating back to Spain. The search is not limited to the Sephardic community since many Ashkenazi Jews have heard family stories about an ancestor who lived in Spain before the Inquisition. Sephardic genealogy can be done in two phases. The first step is finding links from the present and tracing back as many generations as possible, through documentation from available records. The second phase is more difficult as it involves tracing links to families who lived in Spain or Portugal before the expulsion. If the search leads to a Marrano family, the problem is to find the assumed name of the crypto-Jews and the Jewish family name before conversion. The place to start is with A Reprinted with permission from Sedra Scenes by J. Beirer, Alternatives in Religious Education. Hispania Judaica series beginning with Vol. I: History of the Jews in Aragon: Regesta and Documents (1213-1327) by Jean Regne. As an example of how valuable these translated documents are to the family historian, one can turn to the family of Dr. Daniel J. Elazar, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and a prolific author on Sephardic subjects in his own right whose family dates back to 1906 in Saragossa, Spain. According to Mr. Beinart, extensive reference material on Spanish Jewry can be found in the following repositories: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Arias Montano Institute, Madrid; Archivo General de Simancas, Simancas; Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana at University of Amsterdam and the Municipal Archives, Amsterdam. Miriam Weiner specializes in Jewish genealogy and Holocaust research. Puzzle Answers GDO D o 1 2 2 25 G- 18 5 _8_ F 88 15 58 73 90 27 r KNUKSSKUNK 45 59 86 10 mo s PP o P o -r PPPTASUMHOIO 54 87 118 40 114 100 IN/ E. 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A _a_ K 76 21 97 56 ID 8 ANIrnA L S r IA_ E T N.4 o 46 47 83 68 A 7 F7 LoAT1N C7 17 26 27 28 MKEOYN M 0 N/ 39 11 29 6 5 4 13 14 15 16 53 31 AEEHLNPT 3 Bult-0A 77 49 K A L ORD S H E 2 R YTRUKE T U 9 108 67 KAY NARRATOR: And the rainbow became an everlasting covenant between people and God. And Noah's sons spread throughout the world and seventy nations grew out of them. And everyone started begetting everyone. And everyone spoke the same language. History of the Jews in Christian Spain (2 vols.) by Prof. Yitzhak Baer, who is considered a pioneer in this field based upon his research in the archives of Spain in Barcelona, Seville and Toledo. Mr. Baer's star pupil and successor to take up his work is Prof. Haim Beinart. Mr. Beinart, whose roots are in Pskov, Russia where he was born in 1917, is the third generation of historians, following in the footsteps of Mr. Baer, his teacher and mentor. In 1963, Mr. Beinart spent a sabbatical year in Spain working in the archives of Simancas, near Valadolid. The archives are housed in a castle containing 46 million documents including records of the Habsburg family from the 15th century through the end of their dynasty in 1709. Mr. Beinart collected materials of the inquisition period including documents which contained many genealogies dating back at least three generations including aunts, uncles and cousins. To date, Mr. Beinart has written and/or edited a multi-volume By MIRIAM WEINER A jEl L o D 0 w IN( 90 89 1 _ALT 106 101 102 103 104 105 N fr 107 _f3 o ■.) N _D__ 122 118 119 120 121 K E 1\) 115 57 80 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS L-7