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| Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 08:19:35 -0800 (PST) | |
7th Annual Lecture on Jewish Genealogy
sponsored by JGSGB & Hebrew College
Sunday, January 5, 2014 2:00 pm
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Wandering
Jews:
Peddlers and the Discovery of New Worlds
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Professor Hasia Diner
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Lecture will take place at
Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA
Free and open to the public. Space is
limited. Reservations required.
Reserve your place here
How did peddling, an utterly prosaic and familiar occupation of Jews in the Old World, become an engine of opportunity for Jewish resettlement around the world? What was the role of peddlers in Jewish migration and integration in nearly every place in the New World including the United States, the British Isles, North, South and Central America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand?
Professor Hasia Diner is a renown authority on American Jewish history and U.S. immigration history. She is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, with a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, where she also directs the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. She is the author of many books and articles, and has received numerous fellowships and honors, including elected membership to the American Academy of Jewish Research and to the Society of American Historians. Her most recent book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, won the National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies. She is currently completing a book on global Jewish migrations and the history of Jewish peddling.
Would you like to learn how to research your family history?
Our award-winning course, Foundations of Jewish Genealogical Research, will be held Mondays, starting at 7 pm, from Feb 3 to Mar 31, 2014, at Hebrew College. For more info and to enroll, go to: www.hebrewcollege.edu/events or contact course [at] jgsgb.org
Jan 19 1:30 pm, Annual Help Day: Research & Translation Assistance
Our translators and experienced researchers will be available to assist you. Bring your documents and questions.
Feb 9 1:30 pm, Jessica Antoline, Immigration from Lithuania
Followed by: Dr. Arthur Rabson, Jewish Migration from Lithuania to South Africa
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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