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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This virtual event is reserved for members of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Toronto.  Members should sign in and go to the Members Area to register.  Click "forgot password" if you have difficulty with your login. Details to this event are found here  

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

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 […]

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 […]