Try these links to learn more about Jewish family history:

• Research Help
• Local Boston Organizations
• Names
• Links
• Further Reading

Research Help

• Jewish Genealogical Society

Local Boston Organizations

• American Jewish Historical Society

• Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts, Inc.

Names

• Jewish Genealogical Society

Further Reading

• Beider, Alexander. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1996.
• Gorr, Shmuel. Jewish Personal Names: Their Origin, Derivation, and Diminutive Forms. Ed. Chaim Freedman, Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1992.
• Guggenheimer, Heinrich W. and Eva H., Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Pub House, 1992.
• Rottenberg, Dan. Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy. NY: Random House, 1977.
• Sarna, Jonathan D. and Smith, Ellen, editors. The Jews of Boston, Boston: The Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc., 1995.