"*Dicionário Sefardi de Sobrenomes*" (*Dictionary of Sephardic surnames*) In English and Portuguese - authored by Guilherme Faiguenboim, Paulo Valadares and Anna Rosa Campagnano - published by Fraiha Publishing House, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 528 pp, about $47.
"This superb bilingual addition to the select library of essential books for Sephardic Genealogy has 528 pages divided into several sections. The first section, dealing with a brief Sephardic history and explanations of Sephardic onomastics is printed on 150 pages of glossy paper, beautifully illustrated and reminiscent of an "art book". The right hand page is in Portuguese and the left hand in English, which - though translated by someone for whom English is obviously not a first language - is quite enjoyable and informative. The remainder of the book, printed in non-glossy paper, consists of the dictionary of 17,000 Sephardic surnames. For this, the authors modeled themselves on Beider's Surnames of the Russian Empire, albeit with a few modifications necessitated by dealing with surnames written in a variety of alphabets and languages (*instead of just Cyrillic*), and covering a period of 6 centuries and 335 sources instead of the much narrower period and sources used by Beider. The dictionary section presents the surname, some spelling variants, geographical locations, type (patronymic, descriptive, etc.), meaning of, and sources where found. .... -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
