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• Why did our Jewish Ancestors Leave a Great Place Like the Pale? with Hal Bookbinder

  • When
    10/04/2023
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Why Did Our Jewish Ancestors Leave a Great Place Like the Pale?

  Date & Time:  Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 7:00 - 8:30 PM ET

  Location:  Zoom

  Register Now . . . registration ends at midnight ET on Tues, Oct 3rd (the night before event).
  

  Program:  Jews were welcomed into the Polish principalities in the 1200s, most notably, by the Duke of Greater Poland, Bolesław the Pious. Thousands fleeing persecution and expulsions across Western Europe came.  As Poland expanded to the east and south, Jews moved into Lithuanian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian lands.  By 1800 there were more than a million Jews in the Pale. By 1900, they would number nearly five million. Jews flourished in the Pale, creating diverse religious, cultural, educational, and charitable institutions. Then, between 1881 and 1914 over two million left all that they had known for the West.  This talk discusses how the Pale came to be, life in it and why this mass migration occurred. It breaks the 120-year history of the Pale into periods of creation, confinement, repression, enlightenment, pogroms, and chaos. There is much more to the story than the horrific pogroms at the turn of the 20th century.

  Speaker:   Hal Bookbinder is a retired information systems professional who continues to instruct at the university level. He has been actively researching his genealogy for more than three decades, identifying over 4,000 relatives and tracing two lines to the mid-1700s in modern Ukraine. He is a past president of the JGS of Los Angeles and of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. Hal publishes a series of monthly articles on safe computing which are freely available at http://www.tinyurl.com/SafeComputingArticles. He and his wife, Marci, were raised in the Catskills of New York State, in the famed “Borsht Belt”. After attending New York University and a four-year stint in the US Air Force, they have lived in the Los Angeles area. In 2018, he made a journey to Ukraine, visiting various areas of the former Volhynia and Podolia in which his family lived for hundreds of years.

  Registration:  Required and free.  A zoom link will be emailed to you the day before the program.  Registration ends at midnight ET on Tuesday, Oct 3rd (the night before event).

  A recording of this program will be available in the Member section of our website.  For information on membership, click HERE.

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• CWRU Siegal Lifelong Learning Program: Nuts & Bolts of Jewish Genealogy

  • Start
    10/11/2023
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    10:00 AM
  • End
    11/15/2023
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Landmark Centre Building, 25700 Science Park Dr, Ste 100, Beachwood, OH 44122

  Case Western Reserve University Siegal Lifelong Learning Program

  NUTS & BOLTS OF JEWISH GENEALOGY (IN-PERSON)

  
  

  Instructor:  Ken Bravo

  Location:  Landmark Centre Building, 25700 Science Park Dr, Ste 100,    Beachwood, OH 44122

  Date:  Wednesdays, October 11-November 15

  Time:  10 am - Noon ET

  Have you ever wanted to learn more about your family history, but not known how to start? This 6-week class will combine lectures and hands-on research in a broad range of resources and methodologies for researching Jewish genealogy. Participants must bring a laptop computer or tablet and know how to log onto the internet and download .jpg images. Attendees should have a current Cuyahoga County Library card and have the password to log into the library remotely using that account.

  Cost:  Non-Member $180

              Lifelong Learning Members receive 15% discount

  
  

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• From the Shtetl to Ellis Island: Discovering the Journey with Leah Kaplan

  • When
    11/14/2023
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  From the Shtetl to Ellis Island:  Discovering the Journey with Leah Kaplan

  In partnership with Case Western Reserve University Siegal Lifelong Learning

  
  

  Date & Time:  Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023 at 7:00 - 8:30 PM ET

  Location:  Zoom

  Program:  Many American Jews have ancestors who left their towns and villages throughout Europe to come to America around the turn of the 20th century. They were fleeing poverty, famine, religious persecution, bleak futures without education, pogroms, and more. We know they sailed from various ports along the Atlantic, most likely in steerage class. Thousands landed at Ellis Island. But how did they travel hundreds of miles over land to get from their towns to port cities like Antwerp, or Rotterdam, and what was sailing in steerage really like? In this lecture, we will learn about their arduous journey, including details about why citizens of various countries decided to leave, the strict examination process in Antwerp and lesser-known facts about conditions at Ellis Island, circa 1900.

  Speaker:  Leah Kaplan

  Registration:  Required through CWRU Siegal Lifelong Learning.  Use this link.  Free and open to the community. 
  

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• Annual Meeting and What I did with My DNA Results: Cliff Notes for the Emerging Genealogist with Robin Selinger, PhD

  • When
    12/06/2023
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Annual Meeting and What I did with My DNA Results: Cliff Notes for the Emerging Genealogist with Robin Selinger, PhD

  Date & Time:  Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 7:00 - 8:30 PM ET

  Location:  Zoom

  Register Now . . . registration ends at midnight on Tuesday, Dec 5th (the night before event).
  

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  Speaker:   Robin Selinger, PhD

  Registration:  Required and free.  A zoom link will be emailed to you the day before the program.
  

  Register Now . . . registration ends at midnight on Tuesday, Dec 5th (the night before event).

  
  

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