JGSGB-Notices Mailing List: Program Sun Oct 16, 2011: Vienna's Jewish Community

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This is the notice of our next program. For more details, visit our website at www.jgsgb.org.

Vienna’s Jewish Community:
History, Destruction, & Genealogical Reconstruction

Thomas Fischer Weiss

Sunday, October 16, 2011
1:30 PM
Adelson Community Hall
Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA

Professor Weiss will briefly describe the turbulent history of the Jews of Vienna from their first appearance in the tenth century through the twentieth century and then focus on how to reconstruct Viennese families using the extensive genealogical records that are available in Vienna. He will cover vital, residence, cemetery, Holocaust, and military records; also city directories, newspapers, and obituaries; and describe how to access these resources.

Tom Weiss is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He has visited the homelands of his ancestors in Bohemia, Vienna, and Galicia and is compiling a detailed family history. An early version of his family history has been donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Upcoming Programs

    Sunday, November 13, (Temple Emanuel)
        11:30 AM: Gesher Galicia meeting followed by lunch
          2:00 PM: Pamela Weisberger, "Chutes & Ladders: Innovative Approaches to Genealogy"

    Sunday, December 11, 3:30 PM (Temple Emanuel)
        Yochanan Petrovsky-Shtern, "Drafted Into the Czar's Army: Russian Expectations, Jewish Experiences"

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