MATHILDE TAGGER’S MANY PROJECTS

BOOKS1995 – Moyal Ludger” Oran-Auschwitz1997 – Printed books on Jewish cemeteries in

the Jewish National and University in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography

2005 – מפתחות לספר "מלכי רבנן" לר' יוסף בן נאיים2006 – Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental

Genealogy Sources in Israel co-author Yitzchak Kerem

2013 – עת לספר: זכרונות שנרשמו לקראת יום ההולדת2013 באוגוסט 31 שחל ב-80ה-

2014 – Dictionary of Bulgarian Jewish Surnames2015 – Dictionary of Sephardic Given Names

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING:

Avotaynu Revue du Cercle de Généalogie Juive (France) Israel Genealogy Research Association (electronic) Sharsheret HaDorot (Israel) Sephardic Horizons (electronic)

SEPHARDICGEN HTTP://WWW.SEPHARDICGEN.COM/

Unlike many genealogists Mathilde did not restrict herself to researching her own ancestral tree. Her databases were wide-ranging, extending from a unique gazetteer of localities with Jewish Communities in the Sephardic Diaspora to lists of Jews sent to Bergen Belsen. An index of both the birth and the marriage records of the Sephardic (Turkish) community of Vienna, Austria to the names of Oriental Jews who lived in pre-Israel Eretz Israel mentioned in Moshe Gaon's 1938 book. She prepared an extensively documented list of surnames from medieval Spain that still persist to the present day as well as databases from Algeria, Bulgaria and Egypt, to Turkey and (ex)Yugoslavia. She worked to the very end. Two weeks before her passing I notified her that the last two databases she had sent me (1,617 names from the Oran periodical La voix d’Israël (1914-1923) and her transcription of Bulgarian Memorial Plaques) had gone online on SephardicGen.Jeff Malka  http://genealogy.org.il/2015/01/26/mathilde-tagger-1933-2014-jeff-malka/

MONTEFIORE CENSUSES (5 CENSUSES IN ERETZ ISRAEL 1839-1875)

A five year project

SOME ADDITIONAL DATABASES MATHILDE BUILT ON ERETZ ISRAEL

2009 Helkat Mehokek - Index of 8,092 tombstone inscriptions found on Mount of Olives Cemetery in Jerusalem.

2007 British Protégés and Subjects – from the time Palestine was under Ottoman rule.

2007 Eretz Israel Refugees in Alexandria, Egypt – partial list of the Jews exiled by the Ottoman rulers in WWI.

2007 American Citizens in Eretz Israel in 1917 – in the Jewish community in Jerusalem

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES & SEMINARS

Year Event/Organization2014 IGRA Seminar in her honor "The Montefiore Census Project - from Computerization to Multi-

disciplinary Research". פרויקט מפקדי מונטיפיורי - ממיחשוב למחקר רב-תחומי

2013 National Library of Israel גנאלוגיה רבנית בצפון אפריקה

2013 MOSES MONTEFIORE: THE MAN BEHIND THE WINDMILL

Montefiore Censuses Project

2012 IAJGS Conference - Paris Virtual Reconstruction of a Destroyed Community during the Holocaust- The Sephardic Community of Vienna, Austria

2008 IGS Seminar Seminar on Sephardic Genealogy in Memory of Mrs. Mazal Linenberg-Navon a"h

2007 IGS Seminar The Wandering Jew: Jewish Migration Between The 18th to 20th Centuries – Organizing Committee

2006 IAJGS Conference - NY Eretz Israel, pre and post 1948 , Technology and Internet resources : Resources Documenting the Jewish Population in Eretz Israel, 1839-1929

2006 IAJGS Conference - NY Sephardic research : A Database of Sephardic and Oriental Female Given Names

2006 IGS Seminar Military Genealogy: Second Annual Seminar on Jewish Genealogy – Organizing Committee

2005 IGS Seminar Family Roots in the Land of Israel and in the World – Organizing Committee

2004 IAJGS Conference - Jerusalem Guide to Sephardic and Oriental: Genealogical Sources in IsraelYitzhak Kerem & Mathilde A. Tagger

2004 IAJGS Conference - Jerusalem Helkat Mehokek - A Database of 8,000 Tombstone Inscriptions from Mount of Olives Cemetery in Jerusalem

2004 IAJGS Conference - Jerusalem Organizing Committee

AWARDS 2007 – Lifetime Achievement Award of the

International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) for her continuous work on Sephardic research

2008 – IGS – We Salute 2014 – IAJGS Outstanding Program Award

for the Montefiore Censuses Computerization Project together with Rose Feldman & Billie Stein.

2012 – in honor of Mathilde Tagger – Mathilde Tagger Award of Recognition for Volunteering With IGRA Databases

AFFILIATED WITH Israel Genealogy Research Association International Institute for Jewish Genealogy

and Paul Jacobi Center, Hebrew University SephardicGen Cercle de Généalogie Juive

MAY HER MEMORY BE BLESSED

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