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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Estonian Jewish genealogy, family history, Jewish history, Estonia

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

I am from Bountiful, Utah. I am majoring in Family History-Genealogy. During the 2011 Spring Term, I worked at the Estonian Historical Archives in Tartu, Estonia, and the Estonian Jewish Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. At the Archives, my major responsibility was to translate Hebrew documents into Estonian. I also transliterated Yiddish documents. At the Museum, I gave tours to visitors (mostly Jewish tourists from the U.S. and Israel), teaching them about the history and culture of Estonia’s Jews. At both the Archives and Museum, I composed a Guide to Estonian Jewish Genealogical Research, which is available at the Museum’s website, http://www.eja.pri.ee. I focused on researching the Blumberg family, a Jewish family from Estonia, to learn how to research Estonian Jews. I will continue to work on the guide for the coming weeks and months as I finish my Bachelor’s degree. I am excited that Avotaynu, a Jewish genealogical publishing company, suggested the possibility of publishing the guide.

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