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March 22, 2019
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research hosts 40-50 public programs each year many of which are recorded and they have placed on their YouTube Channel. The recordings vary from music, Yiddish stage, history, lecture series, folklore, European Jewish experience and more. See: https://www.youtube.com/user/yivoinstitute for a list of all the videos. They are […]
January 24, 2019
he Museum of Jewish Heritage, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, which JewishGen is an affiliate, is bringing in a new exhibit this Spring, on Auschwitz, “Auschwitz. “Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.”. There will be 700 artifacts in the exhibit which requires the Museum to remove its permanent collection […]
January 24, 2019
This is an interesting blog hosted by someone who was born in Chicago but decided to returned to her ancestral homeland in Lviv Ukraine. Main categories: – Physical traces of the past found in the urban landscape, architecture, infrastructure – Intangible traces of the past found in the cultural realm–language, […]
January 24, 2019
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives has is an excellent repository of information on Jewish refugees who fled to different parts of Latin America: Dominican Republic, Cuba, Bolivia, Perun Ecuador and Uruguay, and more in more recent times. To access their photo gallery on Latin America go to: […]
January 8, 2019
The International Tracing Service (ITS) uncovered a card index of photographs of survivors from the former Dachau concentration camp of about 2,000 photographs dating from the first year following the war. The card file had gone unnoticed for decades. It was created for those Nazi victims who needed certificates of […]
December 11, 2018
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto partners with The Song Shul for Family History Shabbat on Saturday, February 16th, 2019. Come and experience the link between music and genealogy. Musically inspirational Shabbat service, featuring Cantor Simon Spiro and the Toronto Festival Singers. At Bialik Hebrew Day School, 2760 Bathurst Street, […]
December 9, 2018
The new home for the Detroit Jewish News Digital Archive is the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library. This is a free searchable database containing over 100 years of digital copies of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Detroit Jewish News. The Detroit Jewish News covers 1942 to the […]
November 8, 2018
Calico Life Sciences, is a research and development company whose mission is to understand the biology of aging. They are part of Alphabet Inc. family of companies and the parent of Google. Calico teamed up with scientists from Ancestry and used publicly available pedigree data from Ancestry to estimate the […]
October 28, 2018
Lara Diamond is a highly respected researcher who has contributed a great deal to Jewish genealogy. Her blog contribution re her family’s connection to Pittsburgh is well worth a read. It gives insight into the importance of HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) that the white supremacist attacker was so obsessed […]
October 22, 2018
In 2012, Jan Meisels Allen of the Ventura Conjego Valley JGS had the opportunity to meet the then director of the Kazerne Dossin Memorial Museum and Documentation Centre on the Holocaust and Human Rights, Mechlen, Belgium, when I stopped in unexpectedly on a trip to Belgium. The then director, Ward […]