Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. Annual JGS Membership Brunch Sunday, November 15, 2009 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a Living Memorial to the Holocaust 36 Battery Park Place, New York, NY 10280

 

Brunch at 11 AM.  Reservations required. Seating is limited.

Program at 12:30 PM, with tour of exhibit to follow,
is open to JGS members. 

• Get together with old and new friends
• Catered kosher dairy buffet
• Cost: $20 for members, $25 for non-members
• Register with form below

 

Guest speaker: Karen Franklin on Creating the Morgenthau Exhibition: a Family Historian confronts the Twentieth Century

Karen Franklin, will present the topic, coordinate and lead tours of the exhibition for our members after the presentation. She will describe how a simple genealogy request resulted in her participation in an exciting reinterpretation of the family's role in public service and service to the Jewish community. Karen uncovered fascinating personal stories and documents through two years of research in dozens of archives, libraries and private collections. These discoveries, many of which will not be found in the exhibit, will be described in this talk.

Karen Franklin, a JGS member, is currently a guest curator at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. A co-chair of the Board of Governors of JewishGen, she is a past president of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and a past chair of the Council of American Jewish Museums. Mrs. Franklin serves on the board of ICOM-US (International Council of Museums), and the International Committee of Memorial Museums of ICOM. She is also a juror for the Obermayer German Jewish History Award. Karen was the only director of a Jewish museum ever to be elected to the board of the American Association of Museums. A researcher on looted art, she has worked on cases for the Origins Unknown Agency in the Netherlands, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, and the U. S. Treasury Department. In June she spoke at the Holocaust Looted Assets Conference in Prague as a member of the Judaica and Jewish Cultural Property Working Committee.

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Please return this form, with a check payable to JGS, by November 6, 2009.

Mail to:  Brunch at JGS, c/o Avrum Geller, 2 Charlton St., Apt 5DE, New York NY 10014-4917

 

Questions?  E-mail AvrumG@gmail.com or phone 212-924-4148

 

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