Jews in the Maghreb - Their Surnames and their Roots - Alexander Beider

Jews in the Maghreb - Their Surnames and their Roots - Alexander Beider

Jews in North Africa – the Maghreb - have multiple origins including Berber, Musta’arabi, and Iberian. It is often difficult to identify which family fits in where. Alexander Beider will discuss how he has approached the challenge. He will share case studies, including examples of names derived from Arab and Berber tribes, and Jews of the Sahara. He will also discuss Sephardi migrations to North Africa

Alexander Beider holds PhDs from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Sorbonne in Paris. He has established himself as the world expert on Jewish surnames, their origins and geographic distribution. He is also the co-author with Stephen P. Morse of the Beider–Morse Phonetic Name Matching Algorithm. His dictionaries of Jewish surnames, published by Avotaynu, have become standard reference works for Jewish genealogists.

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