• 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 […]

  • 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 […]