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From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <>
Subject: PERSIA: 1871 & 1872 Persian Famine Donation Lists (Jewish)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:03:48 -0700

"The Persian Famine donation lists, which
were printed in the Hebrew newspaper HaMagid
in 1871 and 1872, provide a resource of names
of over 40,000 Jews from the Pale of Settlement,
including over 5,000 Lithuanian Jewish heads
of families."

HaMagid Persian Famine Donation Lists
www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania/Magid72.htm

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