Re: JewishGen Talks: Roots of Jews in North Africa-Names and History (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

You're going to take time off from work at 11am on Tuesday to attend this?

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:08:15 -0800 (PST)
 >
 >  > From: "JewishGen.org" <http://www.JewishGen.org/~webinars>
 >  > Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 17:59:59 +0000
 >  > 
 >  > We invite you to attend another free presentation in our series of JewishGen 
 >  > Talks webinars, with Dr. Alexandre Beider.
 >  > Roots of Jews in North Africa: Names and History.
 >  > Tuesday, February 2, 2021
 >  > 2:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)
 >  > 
 >  > Registration is free with a suggested donation.
 >  > Please click here to register now (http://bit.ly/JewishGenTalks-NorthAfrica) 
 >  > !
 >  > 
 >  > About the Talk
 >  > Today, the Jews whose ancestors lived before mid-20th century in the four 
 >  > countries of Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) represent the 
 >  > largest Jewish group after the Ashkenazim. Often, they are considered 
 >  > Sephardi. This consideration is partly supported by the historical sources 
 >  > and certain names used. One can distinguish at least three independent 
 >  > layers of Sephardi migrants that came to this area during various periods. 
 >  > Another popular theory considers these Jews to be descendants of Berbers (
 >  > whose tribes were present in North Africa before the Muslim conquest of 
 >  > these territories in the 7th-8th centuries) converted to Judaism. This 
 >  > theory will be critically addressed during the lecture, along with the roots 
 >  > of one of the most mysterious Jewish communities, that of Ghardaïa, deeply 
 >  > inside the Sahara desert.
 >  > 
 >  > About the Speaker
 >  > 
 >  > Alexander Beider was born in Moscow in 1963. He studied mathematics and 
 >  > theoretical physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, from 
 >  > which he received a PhD in applied mathematics (1989). Since 1990, he has 
 >  > lived with his family in Paris, France. In 2000, he received his second PhD, 
 >  > this time in the domain of Jewish Studies, from Sorbonne.
 >  > 
 >  > Dr. Beider uses onomastics and linguistics as tools to unravel the history 
 >  > of the Jewish people. He has written a series of reference books dealing 
 >  > with the etymology of Jewish surnames, all published by Avotaynu Inc. They 
 >  > include: A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire (1993, 2nd 
 >  > revised edition in 2008), Jewish Surnames in Prague (15th-18th centuries) (
 >  > 1994), A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland (1996), A 
 >  > Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia (2004), A Dictionary of Jewish 
 >  > Surnames from Maghreb, Gibraltar, and Malta (2017), and A Dictionary of 
 >  > Jewish Surnames from Italy, France and “Portuguese” Communities (2019). 
 >  > His Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names (2001) is the reference study in 
 >  > the domain of traditional Yiddish first names. Origins of Yiddish Dialects (
 >  > Oxford University Press, 2015) synthesizes scholarship on the subject for 
 >  > the half century since the publication of Max Weinreich's “History of the 
 >  > Yiddish Language” (1973) and, according
 >  > to certain critics, represents a comprehensive and convincing revision of 
 >  > its esteemed predecessor, no less than a new standard work in the domain. 
 >  > Dr. Beider is also the designer of the linguistic part of the Beider-Morse 
 >  > Phonetic Matching method of computer-based searches for equivalent surnames.
 >  > Registration is free with a suggested donation.
 >  > Please click here to register now (https://bit.ly/JGTalks-ASB2) !