This month will feature a panel of 6-8 JGSGW members who attended the IAJGS Conference in Philadelphia August 18-22, 2024. The panel of members will share some session highlights or other events that were important for them. There will also be a report on news and announcements by IAJGS and JewishGen at the conference. Finally,  given time, we will open the floor to any of the other 47 JGSGW attendees who might like to share.

 

Speakers: A panel of JGSGW members who attended the 2024 IAJGS Conference in Philadelphia.

In February 2023 JGSGW embarked on an effort to explore creating a modernized website for our organization.  A working group was formed to explore options available for JGSGW, which included looking at all the websites for member associations of IAJGS and beyond. With Board approval, we hired a company to develop a new website using the WordPress technology.  Since January, we've engaged with this company to validate concepts, review content, approve wireframes and mockups, and design a new logo.
We hope to launch our new website before or shortly after this meeting. Come see a walk through of the website, which will make access to our products and tools easier and less time-consuming. We have rebuilt our website with YOU, our members, in mind.  We are proud of our efforts and hope you will be, too. 

 

This one-hour program, conducted over Zoom at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, is free for members. This is one of the many activities that is a benefit of JGSGW membership. Instructions for joining the online meeting will be placed under Meeting Info & Links in the Members Only Files. (These files become visible on this website after members sign in.) Nonmembers may register to attend for a fee of $5.  

 

Speakers: Harry Moatz, JGSGW President and  I.Michael Snyder, JGSGW Vice President, Programs.

This program discusses all aspects of life for the Jews in the Pale of Settlement starting with the history of the Pale, Czars (good and bad) of the Pale, requirement of a surname for Jews in the Pale, general life for the Jews in a typical shtetl, Jewish healthcare, Jews in the military and Jewish laws in the Pale. We also will go into the development of the Yeshiva System, the Mussar movement and Jewish schooling in the Pale. We will discuss the Russian revision lists and the 1897 All Russian census, May Laws of 1882, The Pale during WWI and finally the end of the Pale. The program will include interesting, thought-provoking and educational information. 

 

Speaker: Phil Goldfarb was born and raised in New Jersey and is a 4th generation pharmacist. After pharmacy school, he entered the Army Medical Service Corps where he served as administrative officer for the Brooke Army Medical Center, retiring as a Captain, USAR.

He was a District Manager for a pharmaceutical company with sales and marketing responsibilities over four States and in 1988 was recruited by a small medical communications company and helped them move from a $5 million company to a $250 million company nd assisted in taking the Company public. After four years as a public company, it was bought by Cardinal Health, where Phil became Divisional V.P. of Operations for five years until his retirement.

Researching genealogy for 35 years, Phil is the founding and current President of the JGS of Tulsa which he started in 2005. He has lectured extensively on various topics in genealogy, published articles in numerous periodicals, and authors a monthly column in the Tulsa Jewish Review. He has written two books titled "A Page of History: Passport Applications 1851-1914" and "A Page of History: Passport Applications Volume II 1915-1925."

Phil is a member of the Leadership Team for JewishGen as well as being the Lead Moderator for the JewishGen Discussion Group. He was the Chairman of the 2020 IAJGS Awards Committee and sits on the Board of Directors for several non-profit organizations. In July 2020 he won an Emmy Award as a Producer for the Tulsa Historical Society's documentary “L'dor V'dor Generation to Generation: A History of Tulsa's Jewish Community” which has been shown on PBS stations around the U.S.

In his career, he has given over 2,000 presentations, as well as teaching a course on presentation skills. He is also the editor of JewishGen's Weekly News Nosh.