Jewish Genealogical Society New York Meeting April 22

[Harriet R Mayer harriet_mayer@yahoo.com]

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Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting Sunday April 22 at 2 PM
at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St. New York

Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Shandler
Program: "USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive: An Archive in
Contexts"

Jeffrey Shandler, Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University, will
examine the Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive as a major project
of public memory. He will situate the Archive, the largest online
collection of videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors, in a series
of contexts: Jewish ethnographies, public memory projects at the turn of
the millennium, and the different media used to document the Holocaust.

Professor Shandler, a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research,
is the author and editor of numerous publications. His most recent books
include "Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History" (Rutgers University
Press, 2014) and "Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors' Stories
and New Media Practices" (Stanford University Press, 2017). He has curated
exhibitions for the Jewish Museum in New York, the National Museum of
American Jewish History in Philadelphia, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research in New York. He has served as president of the Association for
Jewish Studies.

Free for JGS members; guests welcome, $5 at the door.

The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute will be open from 11 AM to 4 PM.

More information available at our website: jgsny.org and on our Facebook page.

Submitted by
Harriet Mayer
JGS NY VP Communications,
New York NY
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Don't miss the first IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
to be held in Eastern Europe and our 38th overall! The Warsaw, Poland
Hilton Hotel & Conference Center will be the base for lectures, panels,
networking, and historic excursions and a unique Resource Village!

Mark your calendar for 5-10 August 2018 and visit iajgs2018.org for details.
Early registration is now open through 28 April 2018.
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