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BY: Benjamin Weinthal - June 21, 2021
Jacob Rosen, Israel’s former ambassador to Jordan, has published the most exhaustive English-language list of lost Jewish surnames from Alexandria, Egypt.
“Alexandria is quite well documented” because of sourcing developed by former members of the community, as well as documentary records, he said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post about his new study.
Rosen first published the list of surnames on the website Avotaynu Online, which conducts “research into the origins and migrations of the Jewish people.”
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