JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Sun Nov 17 - Laskin: From Genealogy to History: Exploring the Jewish 20th Century - Temple Emanuel

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Sunday, November 17, 2013     1:30 PM

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David Laskin

From Genealogy to History:
Exploring the Jewish 20th Century
through One Family’s Story

In his new book, The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the 20th Century, David Laskin tells the story of his mother’s family—eastern European Jews who split into three branches at the turn of the last century. Laskin will describe his genealogical research, which involved archives and resources on three continents—eastern Europe, the United States, and Israel—and how he used insights from family letters and memoirs and historical documents to enrich the family stories and understand the family history in the broader historical context of the Jewish 20th century.

Among other resources, he will discuss using archives in Israel; hiring researchers and guides in Belarus and Lithuania; using JewishGen, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services; and employing Facebook and Twitter to help find a “lost” branch of the family.

David Laskin is an award-winning author who writes about the intersection between ordinary people and the seismic upheavals of our time . He holds a degree in history and literature from Harvard and an MA in English from New College, Oxford. The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the 20th Century is a book that reads like a novel, but is a work of history with every detail grounded in fact.

“The Family is as rich and poignant as any novel, only all true and impeccably researched.”
—Erik Larson, New York Times Bestselling Author

www.davidlaskin.com for video and more info about The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the 20th Century

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NEW!!!      12:30–1:15 pm    Ask the Experts      NEW!!!

Members are encouraged to bring their questions about U.S. research to our panel of experts from 12:30 to 1:15 PM, preceding the regular program. This is an opportunity for beginners and more advanced researchers to break through their brick walls in doing U.S. research.  For help with foreign research or other subjects, members can sign up for 1-on-1 Help

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Temple Emanuel

385 Ward Street

Newton Centre, MA

.Admission is free for members, $5 for guests.

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Upcoming                More info

December 15, 2013          Rochelle Ruthchild:  Belarusian Encounters: Travel, Family Research and Connections

1:30 PM at Temple Emanuel, Newton Centre, MA

January 5, 2014               Annual Lecture at Hebrew College

Hasia Diner: Wandering Jews: Peddlers and the Discovery of New Worlds

2:00 PM at Berenson Hall, Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA

   

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It offers monthly programs, maintains an extensive collection of research materials and publishes an award-winning journal Mass-Pocha.

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