• Joint Presentation The Mystery of the Bodies in the Well

    Online , Canada

    JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO, Beth Tikvah Synagogue and Classi Lectures PRESENT The Mystery of the Bodies in the Well Featuring Dr. Selina Brace Tuesday, 24 Jan 2023, 12:30-1:45 p.m. EST VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Virtual doors open at 12:20 pm. EST. The Mystery of the Bodies in the Well In […]

  • LITHUANIAN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) with  Classi Lectures. (session 3)

    JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO and Classi Lectures PRESENT LITHUANIAN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) Featuring Trudy Gold Wednesday, 25 Jan 2023, 4-5 p.m. EST VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Virtual doors open at 3:50 pm. EST. The Jews of Lithuania Jews had lived in Lithuania since the 14th century. From the 17th […]

  • JGS Santa Cruz Virtual Event – Become an Expert

    This JGSS virtual event is free to JGS Toronto members.  To register you must must email Pam at [email protected] and state that you are a JGST member.  Click on this link to see the entire program description.  This event features professional genealogist, Emily Garber who will walk participants through the […]

  • JGS Virtual Event: Beyond These Walls

    Classi Lectures together with Beth Tikvah Synagogue and Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto present Janina Bauman, Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto – A Young Girl’s Story Lydia Bauman, remembering her mother, the writer Janina Bauman (nee Lewinson 1926-2009), considers the values, personality traits, and strategies which enabled her […]

  • JGS Toronto – Virtual Event: Central European SIG Meeting

    JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO and Classi Lectures PRESENT   CENTRAL EUROPEAN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) Speaker: Trudy Gold Wednesday, 8 Mar 2023, 4-5 p.m. EST Wednesday, 15 Mar 2023, 4-5 p.m. EST Wednesday, 22 Mar 2023, 4-5 p.m. EST VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Virtual doors open at 3:50 pm. EST. The Wandering […]

  • JGS Toronto Virtual Event: DNA SIG

    The complete outline for this Q & A with our DNA mavens, Gil Bardige and Arthur Sissman can be read by clicking on this link.

  • JGS Toronto Virtual Event – Central European SIG

    JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO and Classi Lectures PRESENT   CENTRAL EUROPEAN SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) Speaker: Trudy Gold Wednesday, 8 Mar 2023, 4-5 p.m. EST Wednesday, 15 Mar 2023, 4-5 p.m. EST Wednesday, 22 Mar 2023, 4-5 p.m. EST VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Virtual doors open at 3:50 pm. EST. The Wandering […]

  • The Shtetl: The Real, the fictitious, and the Nostalgic

    Online , Canada

    March 15, 2023.   Via Zoom Presented by:  Dr. Joseph Gilbert The word “shtetl” means several things, among them a small town in Eastern Europe populated mainly by Jews or metaphorically an old Yiddish way of life. In this talk we will explore how shtetls came about, what was “shtetl […]