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Talk #1: Restitution and Remembrance: Finding a Thousand Heirs
🗓 When: Wed, November 20th, 2024
🕒 Time: 2:00 PM ET
🔊 Speaker: Karen S. Franklin
📝 About the Talk: About twenty years ago, over 9,000 books looted by the infamous Nazi officer Julius Streicher were handed over to the Jewish community in Nuremberg and are now held in the City’s Library. The owners of more than 2,000 of them could be identified. A research project led by Leibl Rosenberg in Nuremberg to identify descendants has resulted in the return of over 1,000 books. Hundreds more await return.
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Talk #2: Introduction to U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Records
🗓 When: Wed, November 27th, 2024
🕒 Time: 2:00 PM ET
🔊 Speaker: Chaya Sara Hermann
📝 About the Talk:
This webinar will focus on the unique documents, processes, and historical contexts related to Jewish immigration and naturalization. It will cover key records, such as passenger lists and naturalization files. Participants will gain insights into how these records can be used to trace their family history.
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Talk #3: Challenges of DNA for Jews: Overcoming Endogamy
🗓 When: Wed, December 4th, 2024
🕒 Time: 2:00 PM ET
🔊 Speaker: Jarrett Ross
📝 About the Talk:
Genetic genealogy has become a major component of genealogical research, confirming hundreds of years of documentation and breaking down brick walls. Yet, confirming new family and expanding one’s tree using Jewish Genetic Genealogy is a difficult task filled with many pitfalls. Many aren’t even sure where to begin when they first look at their DNA matches but success is still possible. This presentation will explore multiple case studies by Jarrett Ross in researching his own family history using genetic genealogy. Using different types of DNA tests and multiple techniques to identify significant DNA matches Jarrett was able to expand multiple branches of his tree and find lost cousins, for both his Ashkenazi and Sephardi ancestry. Come learn all the techniques used as Jarrett breaks down the process of each case study and what methods found success in his research.
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Talk #4: Witness to History: From Vienna to Shanghai
🗓 When: Wed, December 11th, 2024
🕒 Time: 2:00 PM ET
🔊 Speaker: Jean Hoffman Lewanda
📝 About the Talk:
A memoir about an 18-year-old Austrian Jew who escaped to Shanghai, China by himself in 1938, Paul Hoffmann relates how he helped his family leave Europe and survive WWII in Shanghai. He describes how the Sephardic Jewish community came to the aid of the Jews fleeing Central Europe, the two years that he and his family were confined to the Hongkew Ghetto, and the decision to stay in China after the Communist takeover that led to a sequence of events that rivaled the perils of the war years.
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Talk #5: Post 1492 Sephardic Dispersion and A Guide to Sephardic Genealogy
🗓 When: Wed, December 18th, 2024
🕒 Time: 2:00 PM ET
🔊 Speaker: Sarina Roffé
📝 About the Talk:
What happened in Spain? Why were the Jews expelled in 1492? How were they treated in the century before the expulsion? Where did they go? Sarina Roffé provides an overview of how Sephardic Jews dispersed around the globe after 1492 and discusses Sephardic resources for genealogy.
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