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It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our JGS founding member, immediate Past President, and dear friend,
STEVEN W. SIEGEL z”l,
who died early Saturday morning, January 21, 2012.
Contributions to Cornell University Hillel, Box 223623, Pittsburgh, PA 15251-2623
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The Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (JGS) was founded in New York in 1977, becoming the first of what are now over 80 such societies worldwide. In the years since its founding, the JGS membership has grown to more than 1,000, with members from both the New York metropolitan area as well as elsewhere in the U.S. and abroad. The JGS presents innovative programming and seminars over the years, including monthly meetings with guest lecturers from a variety of disciplines; field trips to cemeteries, libraries and archives and workshops.
JGS provides access to exclusive databases found no where else on the web. In addition, members receive special access to databases at Jewishdata.org, podcasts of previous lectures, and discounts at "Friends of Jewish Genealogical Society." |
Check out our upcoming events!
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Next Meeting: February 19, 2012 at 2 PM
What They Saved--Pieces of a Jewish Past
Speaker: Nancy K. Miller
Searching for roots as a middle-aged orphan and an assimilated Jewish New Yorker, Miller finds herself asking unexpected questions: Why do I know so little about my family? How can I understand myself when I don’t know my past? The answers lead her to a carpenter in the Ukraine, a stationery peddler on the Lower East Side, and a gangster hanger-on in the Bronx. As a third-generation descendant of Eastern European Jews, Miller learns that the hidden lives of her ancestors reveal as much about the present as they do about the past. As she slowly pieced together her family portrait and assembled a genealogical tree, she felt connected in unexpected ways to an immigrant narrative that began in Eastern Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, when her ancestors headed for the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In the end, an odyssey to uncover the origins of her lost family becomes a memoir of renewal.
Currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, Miller is the author of several books on feminist criticism, women’s writing, and most recently, family memoir, biography, and trauma.
A book-signing will follow the presentation.
Admission: JGS members are free, guests $5 at the door
Location: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan.
The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at CJH will be open before the meeting at 11:00 a.m. for networking with other researchers and access to research materials and computers.
See the Event Calendar for information on all past and future events. |
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