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"Roots at the Front":

First World War resources for family history

The conference will be held on Wednesday, November 12, 2014, in the Berman and Music halls, at the National Library.
For more information: 074-733-6400, [email protected]

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Arrival and registration

1st session (parallel to Hebrew) War at home and in the front Chair: Dr. Neville Lamdan, International Institute for Jewish Genealogy and Paul Jacobi Center
13:30	Daniel Lipson, librarian at the National Library of Israel Jews in the trenches: a review of sources in the National Library regarding Jewish soldiers in WWI
14:15	Yitzchak Kerem, Heritage House for the Sephardic and Eastern Jewish Communities, Jerusalem Migration of Jews from the Mediterranean Basin to the Americas and Beyond in WWI
15:00	Rose Feldman, Database coordinator, Israel Genealogy Research Association The Jews in Eretz Israel in WWI: On Both Sides and in the Middle
15:40	Coffee break

1st session (Hebrew only, parallel to English) War at home and at the front: the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe Chair: Ioram Melcer, editor at the National Library.
13:30	Denise Rein, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People "For the Kaiser": Jews in German forces.
14:15	Alex Waldman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev "In the eye of the Storm": WWI and the Jews of Eastern Europe in light of archival sources.
15:00	Dr. Eli Brauner, developer of genealogical research methods of Galician Jewry My grandfather, an Imperial soldier: milestones on the way to obtaining information about Austro-Hungarian soldiers.
15:40	Coffee break

2nd session (Hebrew only) Origin Databases from the Land of Israel in the 19thcentury. Chair: Dr. Yoel Finkelman, Curator of the Jewish collection, National Library of Israel.
16:00	Rabbi Yechiel Goldhaber, Central European Jewry researcher "And the land shook": exiling the Jews of the Holy Land
16:40	Noa Reichman, librarian at the National Library "I just wanted to say": Diaries and letters of the Jews of Palestine during the Great War
17:40	Guided tour of the exhibit of WWI items from the National Library and the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, by Daniel Lipson

Jews in the Trenches from national library of israel

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