Jewish genealogy events for December
This month's events include a wide range of topics presented by Israeli and international speakers in the Negev, Tel Aviv, Ra'anana, Herzliya, Rehovot, Petah Tikva, Netanya, Jerusalem
Wednesday, 30 November, 8 p.m.
JFRA Israel – Tel Aviv - Bet Hatefutsoth/Museum of the Diaspora (English)
Visiting Speaker: Karen Spiegel Franklin (New York). Director, Family Research department, Leo Baeck Institute (NY) and Judaica Museum of the Hebrew Home for the Aged (Riverdale, NY). JewishGen Board of Governors co-chair.
“Solving the Mystery of the Cane Handle: Utilizing the Collection of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives for Family History Research.”
Franklin utilized archive documents and other resources to reconstruct the Brylawski family history and trace the meaning of a cane handle she purchased at auction for William Wolf (Washington, DC). The handle was given in honor of Wolf's ancestor, Julius A. Brylawski, in 1886 for service to his synagogue, Anshe Emeth of Philadelphia (congregation dissolved in 1893).
Also featured are documents found in connection with the research, including correspondence with Senator Barry Goldwater describing gambling debts from their 19th century mutual ancestors.
Bet Hatefutsoth/Museum of the Diaspora, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv; Klausner Gate.
JFRA paid members, no charge; others: NIS 20.
Info: Ingrid Rockberger, ingrid@genealogy.org.il
Thursday, 1 December, 7.30 p.m.
IGS Negev (English)
Karen Franklin will repeat her November 30 Tel Aviv program.
Kehilat Magen Avraham, Rehov Ad-Ad 11, Omer
Info: Martha Lev Zion, IGS Negev, www.isragen.org/NROS/INFO
Thursday, 1 December, 8 p.m.
JFRA Israel – Petah Tikva (English)
Michael Toben
“Immigration to the UK, Part II”
Private home, reservations essential
Info: Gilda, gilda@genealogy.org.il
Sunday, 5 December, 7.30 p.m.
Galilee Genealogy Society (Hebrew)
Speaker: Ambassador Neville Lamdan
"Research in the National Archives in Minsk"
Amb. Lamdan most recently served as Israeli Ambassador to the Vatican, and has also served as ambassador to various UN agencies and international organizations. He is director of the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy, Jerusalem.
He has contributed articles to Avotaynu: The International Journal of Jewish Genealogy, covering various aspects of his research, and articles to Belarus SIG on JewishGen including a "Guide to Research in the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk."
Yad Lebanim Library, Tivon
Sunday, 11 December, 7.30 p.m.
JFRA Israel – Herzliya (English)
Visiting Speaker: Dr. Daniel Laby (genealogist, pediatric ophthalmologist, Harvard Medical School)
“The Laby de Cavelleria family of Spain”
The program (with computer-based elements) will combine his family’s story with the various ways information has been accumulated. His ancestors are related to many significant events in world/Jewish history: Involvement in the wedding of Ferdinand and Isabella, trying to reverse the 1492 Expulsion, financing Columbus’s first voyage. They include conversos who traveled with Cortez and other New World explorers, others who settled in Hebron, and his direct family who went to America prior to the city’s 1929 riots.
He recently discovered the earliest known family document, dated 1204, in the Lerida (Spain) Archives, and recently traveled with his family to Spain to visit their roots.
Bet Protea, Asher Barash St., Herzliya.
Reservations recommended.
Bet Protea residents/JFRA paid members: no charge; Others: NIS 20.
Info/directions: Channi, channi@genealogy.org.il; Bet Protea, 09-959-5222.
Monday, 12 December, 7 p.m.
IGS Tel Aviv (Hebrew)
Speaker: Israel Pickholtz
“The Pickholtz Families of East Galicia: A single surname project.”
Beit Hatanakh, 16 Rothschild Blvd., Tel Aviv
Info: Rose Feldman, IGS Tel Aviv, www.isragen.org/NROS/INFO
Tuesday, 13 December, 7.30 p.m.
JFRA Tel Aviv (English/Hebrew)
For beginners.
Internet Room: Linking to Culture
Looking at genealogical sources on the internet with branch chair Hinda Solomon.
Limited seating.
Beit Shalom, 2 Shir St., Tel Aviv
Residents/JFRA paid members, no charge; others, NIS 15.
Wednesday, 14 December, 7.30 p.m.
JFRA Israel – Ra’anana (English)
Speaker: Louis Zetler (Galil Genealogical Society, Tivon)
“Creating a Jewish database for city, state or country”
Bet Fisher, 5 Klausner St., Ra’anana
Info: Ingrid Rockberger, ingrid@genealogy.org.il
Sunday, 18 December, 8 p.m.
JFRA Israel – Rehovot (English)
Speaker: Noted author/genealogist Chaim Freedman
“18th Century Bridging Records”
Learn how new record groups can help researchers go back in time.
Private home, reservations essential.
Address/info: Linda Geffon, linda@genealogy.org.il
Monday, 19 December, 8 p.m.
IGS Netanya (English)
Speaker: Michael Goldstein (member, Association of Professional Genealogists)
“Accessing Records from Abroad.”
Goldstein’s broad knowledge and hands-on experience in government, public and municipal archives in Canada, Israel, the US and the UK has contributed to his success in carrying out international genealogy assignments.
AACI: 28 Shmuel Hanatziv.
Info: Joe Isaacs, IGS Netanya, www.isragen.org/NROS/INFO
Wednesday, 21 December, 7.30 p.m.
IGS Jerusalem (Hebrew)
Jerusalem Branch General Assembly
Speaker: Prof. Dov Levin
“Estonia as an example of the intensive life of a small European Jewish community”
Former head of the Oral Documentation department of Hebrew University’s Jewish Contemporary History Institute, Levin has authored 15 books and more than 500 articles in various languages, generally focusing on Eastern European Jewry.
Beit Frankfurter, 80 Derekh Beit Lehem, Bakaa.
Info: Mathilde Tagger, IGS Jerusalem, www.isragen.org/NROS/INFO
Wednesday, 21 December, 8 p.m.
JFRA Israel - Petah Tikva
Visiting Speaker: Dr. Stephen Kaplan (Providence, Rhode Island).
Dr. Kaplan, a retired physician with a passionate interest in American Jewish history, is also a docent at the famed Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island.
Private home, reservations essential.
Address/info: Gilda, gilda@genealogy.org.il
Thursday, 22 December, 7.15 p.m.
IGS Haifa (Hebrew)
Speaker: Dr. Eliezer Domke
"The Warburg Family of Hamburg and the Hamburg Jewish Community”
The family settled in Warburg (Westphalia) in the 17th century, adopting the name. In the 18th century, a branch moved to Altona, near Hamburg, where the Warburg Bank was later founded. The program will focus on banker Moritz Warburg's most active sons - each an outstanding personality in his own field - Avi, Max, Paul and Felix. Other prominent members were Otto Warburg, (World Zionist Agency president 1911-1920) and Otto Heinreich Warburg (1931 Nobel Prize for Physiology).
Born in Haifa, Dr. Domke earned a Ph.D. in history from Hebrew University. His dissertation was on the Jewish community of Hamburg from the quiet decline of the Weimar Republic to the first year of the Nazi ascension. He taught in high schools and at Haifa University.
Beit Horim Pisgat Achuza, 6 Sinai Blvd. Haifa.
Residents/IGS paid members, no charge; others: NIS 20.
Info/directions: Gadi Nauman, 04-838-2941.
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