Sleuthing in Yiddish: The Yiddish Forward as a Source for Family History Information

  Speaker: Samuel Norich  Co-sponsored by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research   In this presentation, Samuel Norich, president of the Forward Association, the not-for-profit publisher of the Forward and the Forverts, will provide an overview of the role the Yiddish Forward has played for American Jews for the past 120 years. He will examine the features and innovations that made it the most widely read Jewish publication in the world for the first six decades of the 20th century, and now make it a resource for historians and others delving into the Jewish communities of America and Europe of those times.     Samuel Norich has ...

By A Thread—a Daughter’s Search for her Mother’s Hidden Identity

Speaker: Marisa Fox New York journalist Marisa Fox knew her mother as Tamar Fromer Fox, a self-proclaimed freedom fighter and hero of the Israeli War of Independence. But Tamar’s Polish roots were more elusive. “I’m a Zionist and Israeli,” she would proudly say, avoiding any conversation of how she escaped the fate that claimed her own mother and large family who were murdered in Auschwitz. Then nearly 20 years after Tamar died, Marisa discovers her mother had a hidden identity and goes in search of it. Her quest takes her to her mother’s Polish hometown, where she finds vital records bearing ...

Reception In Honor of JGS's 40th Anniversary

 A complimentary reception in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. will follow in the Great Hall immediately after our December meeting. We encourage our members to come and mingle with each other.