What’s New at Gesher Galicia? by Dr. Steven Turner - October 29, 2023

JGSLI board member Dr. Steven Turner was already curious about Galicia as a small boy, when he spent the holidays davening at a Galitzianer shul in Brooklyn with his grandparents. He is now president of Gesher Galicia, a 1,500+ member organization devoted to Jewish research in Galicia, a region that for about 150 years was a province of the former Austrian Empire. Steve described recent efforts to revamp the Gesher Galicia website and he highlighted for us its many valuable feature, including the All-Galicia Database, records, inventories, the Galicia Town Locator, an award-winning Map Room, and the Rabbi Kolesnik Collection. Member benefits include the Galitzianer, a quarterly journal, and access to the Gesher Galicia Family Finder, podcasts, and downloadable documents.

Genealogy Collections in the Center for Jewish History’s Archives by Moriah Amit, - November 8, 2023

Moriah Amit, Senior Genealogy Librarian at the Center for Jewish History (CJH) in Manhattan, joined us on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, to discuss CJH’s resources for Jewish genealogy. Among them are on-site and remote guidance, monthly genealogy programs, and a 10-week online course. “All in the Mishpocheh: Intro to Jewish Genealogy at the CJH.” Other sources and services available to Jewish genealogists at the CJH: genealogy guides and videos and the resources of the Center’s five partner organizations – the Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, and the Yeshiva University Museum. Moriah also described the New York Historical Synagogues Map (synagoguemap.cjh.org), a free online tool which she created and manages.

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