The main focus of this presentation will be on those parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with important Jewish populations. In the Austrian part were the provinces of Galicia, Bukovina, Bohemia, and Moravia; and in Austria itself, the city of Vienna. In the Hungarian section the areas of Slovakia,

This presentation will survey the main groups of archival sources in the Hungarian Jewish Archives that can help Jewish genealogical research in Hungary. The archival sources can be divided into three groups according to their origins: a) documents that were generated by the operation of Jewish o

Genealogy is a unique form of identity construction and historical awareness. Family novels or generation-novels can be seen as the literary counterparts of genealogical research. Both genealogy and the genre of the generation-novel saw a renaissance in Hungary from the 1970s, a phenomenon which bec