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ABOUT
THE PROGRAM
The program is comprised of plenary and parallel sessions,
consisting of lectures, computer workshops, discussion panels and Self-Running
(PowerPoint) presentations with about 150 lectures by leading Israeli
and international experts.
A wide range of Conference topics include Jewish communities from
around the world; Jewish onomastics; Solitreo and other archaic
scripts to help you unlock the secrets of original sources; demography;
historical forces and patterns of migration; aliyah to Israel;
genetics and genealogy; unusual sources for genealogy ranging from
Rabbinic writings to the internet, from Gubernskie Vedomosti to
the Russian Encyclopedia; special workshops extending from beginners
classes to how to publish your own family history.
Focused sessions will be dedicated to Holocaust research at Yad
Vashem.
Special sessions are planned in collaboration with scholars from
the Hebrew University.
A new feature at this conference - Self-Running
(PowerPoint) genealogical
presentations - will be screened continuously.
Documentaries of Jewish interest and with a genealogical
flavor will be shown in the Video Room.
Preliminary Program:
| Sunday, July 4, 2004 |
| 13:40 - 18:05 |
Parallel Sessions |
| 19:30 - 22:00 |
Get-Together Cocktail, Opening Ceremony and Keynote Address |
| Monday, July 5, 2004 |
| 08:00 - 12:25 |
Parallel Sessions |
| 12:25 - 13:40 |
Lunch Break and Transportation to Yad Vashem |
| 13:40 - 14:25 |
Plenary Session at Yad Vashem |
| 14:35 - 17:10 |
Parallel Sessions at Yad Vashem |
| 17:15 - 18:00 |
Preview Tour of Yad Vashem’s new Historical Museum
and Hall of Names |
| 18:00 - 22:00 |
Special evening to Celebrate Yad Vashem’s 50th Anniversary,
including light dairy meal (Optional)
Transportation back to the Hotel. |
| Tuesday, July 6, 2004 (17 Tamuz) |
| 08:00 - 12:25 |
Parallel Sessions |
| 12:25 - 13:40 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:40 - 18:05 |
Parallel Sessions |
| 20:30 |
Break-the-Fast light Supper (Optional) |
| 21:15 |
Evening Event |
| Wednesday, July 7, 2004 |
| 08:00 - 12:25 |
Parallel Sessions |
| 12:25 - 13:40 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:40 - 18:05 |
Parallel Sessions |
| 20:00 |
Evening Event |
| Thursday, July 8, 2004 |
| 08:00 - 12:25 |
Parallel Sessions |
| 12:25 - 13:40 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:40 - 18:05 |
Parallel Sessions |
| 20:30 |
Banquet, Closing Address, IAJGS Awards Ceremony (Optional) |
| Friday, July 9, 2004 |
| 08:00 - 13:05 |
Parallel sessions (1 in English, 2 in Hebrew) |
Partial List of Speakers:
| Dr. Alexander Beider |
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Author of the new Jewish Surnames in Galicia dictionary,
France |
| Stanley Diamond |
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Executive Director of Jewish Records Indexing –
Poland, Canada |
| Guilherme Faiguenboim |
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Co-author of the Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames,
Brazil |
| Professor Dov Levin |
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the Hebrew University, Israel |
| Dr. Stephen Morse |
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Creator of Genealogical Search Tools, U.S.A. |
| Yale Reisner |
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The Lauder Foundation, Poland |
| Jürgen Sielemann |
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Archivist of the Hamburg State Archives, Germany |
| Prof. Karl Skorecki |
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Geneticist, Technion and Rambam Medical Center in Haifa,
Israel |
| Rabbi Meir Wunder |
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Author of the Encyclopedia of Galician Sages, Israel
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Preliminary List of Sessions
The program will deal with number of thrilling subjects, as follows:
- Beginners' Workshops in English and in Hebrew
- Israel's Treasure Trove, with the Chief Archivists
of major repositories
- Children in the Holocaust
- Sephardim and Oriental Jews in the Mediterranean Basin
- Names, names and more names (innovations in Onomastics)
- Genetics - Cohen, Levi and Israel
- Tales, Myths and Family Lore
- Cyber-Gen
- Combing Rabbinic literature
- New Databases from Israel and abroad
- Off-the-beaten-track Roots
- Tools and Methods revisited
- Yad Vashem - Privileged insights
- Migrations - Jews on the move
- Biographies and Autobiographies (in cooperation with the Hebrew University)
And of course, many lectures on Roots and Research across the Jewish
Globe.
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