JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Sun Feb 9: Migration of Jews from Lithuania at Temple Emanuel - enter at Reisman Hall

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Funeral on Sunday at Temple Emanuel.  

Enter through the Reisman Hall door -

the door on the far right from the the front of the building.

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New Lives in a New Land:

Migration of Jews from Lithuania
to Boston & South Africa

Jessica Antoline

Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 1:30 pm

Temple Emanuel, Newton

Jessica Antoline will briefly recount the story of the migration of Lithuanian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries and review the circumstances that prompted them to leave the land where they had lived for so many years and travel thousands of miles to new lands. Why did so many settle in Boston and its surrounding communities? What were their motivations, their hopes, and their struggles in di goldene medine as they tried to find affordable neighborhoods in which to live, communities of Jews to settle amongst, and employment?

Jessica Antoline is Program Manager for the historic Vilna Shul, now Boston’s Center for Jewish Culture. She holds degrees in History and Museum Education from Tufts, Religion and Historical Archaeology from BU, and studied eastern European and Jewish history at Univerzita Karlova in Prague. Her career has taken her around the world to research how museums and historic sites facilitate intercultural dialogue and help repair communities after conflict.

Spotlight Talk: Dr. Arthur Rabson will give a supplementary talk on Jewish Migration from Lithuania to South Africa. Dr. Rabson is a member of the Pathology Department at Tufts Medical Center. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of 2nd generation immigrants from the Vilna area of what is now Lithuania.

Temple Emanuel

385 Ward Street

Newton Centre, MA

Admission is free for members, $5 for guests.

Before the Main Program at 12:30 pm

Ask the Experts - JGSGB members: Bring your questions about U.S. research and resources and get hints from experienced researchers.

Poland Special Interest Group 

Upcoming Programs

Mar 30   Bennett Greenspan, DNA and Jewish Genealogy

11:00 am     Understanding, Interpretation & Use of DNA Results

12:30  pm    Optional catered lunch, reservations required

  1:30  pm    Haplogroups—What they Are and What They Mean for Jews

Apr 20  1:30 pm    ChaeRan Freeze, Jews & Working Conditions in Tsarist Russia

SPOTLIGHT TALK: Phyllis & Hersch Clopper, Our Recent ShtetlSeeker Tour to Lithuania.

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston is dedicated to helping people discover and research their Jewish family history.  We offer monthly programs, maintain an extensive collection of research materials, publish an award-winning journal Mass-Pocha, and hosted the 2013 IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.

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