JewishGen Education has updated its classes and its formats 2020 We are delighted to offer a new range of courses in 2020. 1. 3 week Mentored Classes with personal instruction based on helping a stude

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Jan Meisels Allen gave an important, concise and all in all correct description of Swedish Jewish history. However, it contains one controversial piece of information, to use an understatement. The se

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Starting today through Sunday, November 10 ArkivDigital is offering free access. You can browse for free more than 85 million photographed color images of their collections which include religious rec

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Starting today through Sunday, November 10 ArkivDigital is offering free access. You can browse for free more than 85 million photographed color images of their collections which include religious rec

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I am searching for a woman named Tosca Krakowski, that shows up in the following testimonial page in Yad Vashem. The source states Tosca is a daughter of Rafael Szczuciner z'l who perished in the Holo

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The IAJGS 2020 San Diego Conference is delighted to announce that the Call for Proposals is now open! Deadline will be Wednesday, November 27, 2019! If you wish to be considered as a speaker for this

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We are pleased to welcome the following webpages to JewishGen KehilaLinks We thank the owners and webmasters of these webpages for creating fitting memorials to these Kehilot (Jewish Communities) and

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Dear JewishGen Community, We apologize for any confusion regarding our recent efforts to encourage users to update their JewishGen registrations. Please disregard the previous email. All you need to d

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What do old Jewish New Year's postcards >from Pinsk, school records a Philadelphia dock in 1904 have in common? They are the inspirations for three moving success stories recently published to our web

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Dear JewishGen Community, With tremendous pain and sadness, I regret to inform you that Phyllis Kramer, our beloved Director of Education, has passed away. Not many were aware of this, but Phyllis was

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To all JewishGeners It is with deep grief that I have to tell you that Phyllis Kramer just passed away. She has been a loyal and deeply loving friend to JewishGen, to JewishGen education and to those

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I have the results of a massive translation project some members may be interested to learn about. We have translated Hugo Valentin's Swedish-language "History of the Jews of Sweden" and Aron Isak's "

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JewishGen will offer a three week course Research in Belarus September 6 - September 27. It covers the modern boundaries of Belarus and includes parts of the former Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. This

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JewishGen is pleased to announce our newly designed website at www.JewishGen.org. We commissioned the creation of a new landing page to serve as a launching point for the main components of the websit

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Please join us in congratulating Chuck Weinstein, who was honored as our 2019/5779 Susan E. King Volunteer of the Year during the recent JewishGen Annual Meeting in Cleveland. This is a small token of

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The book 'Pa vag till Israel' was written by my uncle Emil Glu(e)ck who was the prime mover of the Hachshara in Sweden, and documentedtheassisted migration of Jewish youth >from Nazi Germany, the plan

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The 39th IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy starts in just two weeks! We want to alert everyone to the fact that the online registration system will close down automatically at the end of the day on

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After a hiatus of several days due to technical problems, JewishGen mailing lists are once again receiving mail >from outside. If you submitted a message for posting in the last week and don't see it

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Exploring the JewishGen Website July 8 - July 21 Want to learn to navigate your way through the maze of Jewish data collections? JewishGen offers Basic 1: Exploring the JewishGen website. This is a se

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Dear JewishGen Community, I'm pleased to announce another staffing shift as we continue to develop JewishGen's internal structure to make the best use of our resources. As of last week, Warren Blatt h

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