IAJGS2016Discussion Mailing List: Gesher Galicia Activities at Seattle2016

[Shelley Pollero (rkpollero]

GALICIA ACTIVITIES AT THE SEATTLE 2016 CONFERENCE

SUNDAY, AUGUST 7

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Gesher Galicia Table at the Conference Share Fair.


MONDAY, AUGUST 8

Monday will be a day devoted to Galician programming, which will continue 
throughout the week, so if you can only spare a day, this is the day to attend 
for Galitzianers.

7:30 AM - 8:45 AM - LIVE! “Jewish Galicia (1772-1918): Lives at the 
Crossroads”. Speaker: Andrew Zalewski

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM - Gesher Galicia Special Interest Group Meeting

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM - Gesher Galicia Luncheon. “Galician Jewish Families: 
Histories and Legends”.f Speaker: Dr Sergey Kravtsov

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM- LIVE! “Researching Your Galitzianer Family: Working with 
Vital Records”.  Speaker: Mark Halpern

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM. - JGSLA Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture: “History and 
Catastrophe: The Secret Warsaw Ghetto Archive of Emanuel Ringelblum”. Speaker: 
Dr Samuel Kassow

 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 9

7:30 AM - 8:45 AM – “Records on Migration in the Archives of Galicia”. Speaker: 
Tomasz Jankowski

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM - Computer Lab: “Mapping Your Shtetl. Practical course in 
Galician Cadaster”.  Pre-registration Fee. Speaker: Tomasz Jankowski

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM – “Synagogues of Galicia as Cultural Heritage”. Speaker: Dr 
Sergey Kravtsov

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM.  – “Family Kinship and Marriage Strategies: The Case of 
Jewish Oil Elites in Galicia”. Speaker: Vladyslava Moskalets

 
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM  Suchostaw Region Research Group meeting

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM  Kolbuszowa Region Research Group meeting

 
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11

7:30 AM - 8:45 AM – “Using the Gesher Galicia Website and All Galicia Database 
to Research Towns and Families”. Speaker: Brooke Schreier Ganz

For more information about Gesher Galicia, email <info [at] geshergalicia.org>

Shelley K. Pollero and Renee Stern Steinig
Gesher Galicia Conference Coordinators
geshergalicia [at] comcast.net
http://www.geshergalicia.org