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📢 JewishGen Symposium: Researching Your Roots in Bessarabia - History, Genealogy and Culture. #JewishGenUpdates #bessarabia #romania

Avraham Groll
 

The entire community is invited to join us for our virtual Bessarabia Winter Symposium, hosted by the JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Research Division.
 

Topics: History, Genealogy and Culture

Dates: December 13 – 15, 2022.

Times: Starting at 10am Eastern Time each day. Click here for the full schedule or see below.

Registration: Free with a suggested donation. Please click here to register now!

Please contact Yefim Kogam, Director of the Bessarabia SIG Research Division at: ykogan@....

Symposium Schedule:

December 13

 

1

12/13/2022

10am-10.45am

Opening of JewishGen Bessarabia Symposium.

Yefim Kogan, USA

2

11am-11.45am

Research in Moldavian Archives: Step by Step

Anna Royzner, Ukraine

3

12noon-12.45pm

Bessarabia SIG website and its different features

Ariel Parkansky, France

4

1pm - 1.45pm

Translating records from Russian

Alan Levine, USA

5

2pm-2.45pm

Barely Enough Bread: The Klezmer Connection Between Jewish and Gypsy Musicians

Yale Strom, USA


December 14

6

12/14/2022

10am-10.45am

Finding Your Family in Bessarabian Business Directories

Jeff Wexler, USA

7

11am-11.45am

Borderlands: Traces of Jewish Life in Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova

Christian Herrman, Germany

8

12noon-12.45pm

How to teach family history to children and grandchildren

Galina Dobrynina-Kogan, USA
Yefim Kogan, USA

9

1pm-1.45pm

Panel: Where Can I Find Information About My Bessarabian Roots?

Ala Gamulka, Canada
Yefim Kogan, USA
Alan Levine, USA

10

2pm-2.45pm

Even a single old photograph can be useful in telling a story

Alan Levitt, USA
Cassio Tolpolar, Brasil

11

3pm-3.45pm

Laws for Jews in Russian Empire

Yefim Kogan, USA

December 15

2

12/15/2022

10am-10.45am

Teaching Holocaust in Moldova

Sergei Daniliuk, Moldova

13

11am-11.45am

From klezmer to maestro: Jewish musicians in the cultural
life of Bessarabia and Moldova

Yuriy Daylis, USA

14

12noon-12.45pm

Rediscovered Rashkov: 300 years of Jewish History

Natalia Alhazov, Moldova
Michael Finckel, Moldova

15

1pm-1.45pm

War In Ukraine

Alex Dunai, Ukraine,
Natalie Dunai, Ukraine

16

2pm-2.45pm

Closing of the Symposium. What is next for Bessarabia region.

Yefim Kogan, USA

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