32^nd IAJGS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JEWISH GENEALOGY

JULY 15 - 18, 2012
Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center
17 boulevard Saint-Jacques - PARIS 14ème (France)

A fully bilingual Conference

hosted by the Cercle de Généalogie Juive (45 rue La Bruyère F-75009 Paris)

in partnership with the Jewish Genealogical Societies of Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg

Register now for the Conference

Provisional Program of the Conference

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The Exhibitions of the Conference:

in addition to the exhibition of family trees (between 12 and 2 pm, with the presence of their authors),
"From a Jewish World to another, the Yiddishland to Maghreb and from Shtettel to Mellah, through the postcards (late 19th - early 20th centuries)",
"The Jewish quarter of Pernes-les-Fontaine" and "From past to present: sefardic weddings in Izmir".

You can already pre-order, at reduced price, the audio files of the Conference which will be recorded by Conference Resource. You'll save 15 $ (12 €) !

Genealogical travels: analyzing your interests, Joubert and ourselves have decided to keep 4 travels : Belarus, Poland, Ukraine and Normandy; register online or contact Laura at +33 1 48 74 30 12

You can now register for the Workshops (click on "Registration", then "Workshop") at €15 each, among which Family Tree Maker (Ancestry), JewishGen,
My Heritage, Familysearch.org...

You can now register for the guided visit Holocaust Memorial, its unique databases and archives. Friday morning, 20 July, at only €5.00 / click on "Regitration", then "Guided tours".

Father DESBOIS (Yahad-in Unum " Holocaust by bullet ") will be the guest of the Gala, on Tuesday night, July 17: register now!

Exciting film program is online!

Rendez-vous on Facebook: " 32e CONGRES DE GENEALOGIE JUIVE "

Travels - programs are online!

Discover the genealogical travels proposed by Joubert Voyages (Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, but also Normandy).

Joubert Voyages will also be able to organize flight and hotel reservations for people who want to travel by themself to all these countries and help Conference attendees to obtain special rates on French railways (SNCF) and on Air France flights or by phone 33 1 42 81 32 00

If you are interested by an "after conference" in London visit www.jgsgb.org.uk/iajgs-conference-paris-2012

You can also book a transfer airport / hotel / airport by sending your flight numbers and the dates and times of arrival and departure or by phone: +33 1 48 74 30 12. It will cost 20 euros each for a collective transfer, 125 euros for a private transfer.

Questions about the Conference?

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Guided tours in Paris

You can now sign for one of the exciting tours our guides have planned for you (be careful: limited numbers of places): click on "registration".

SIGs, BOFs and Research Groups

We can already announce the presence of the following SIGs and BOFs: South Africa (Saül Issroff), SIG AustriaCzech (Randy Schoenberg, with the participation of Georg Gaugush), Belarus (Ruth Silver), Bessarabia (Yefin Kogan), Bukovina (Merle Kastner), Canada (Merle Kastner), FrenchSig (Rosanne Leeson), Gersig (German Jewish Sig, Jeannette Rosenberg and Roger Lustig, with the participation of Ms Bozena Kubit), Gesher Galicia (Pamela Weisberger, with the participation of Agnieszka Holland), H-Sig (Robert Friedman and Robert Neu), Iberian ashkenaze DNA project BOF (Bill Yoffee), JRI Poland, (Stanley Diamond), Kremenets District Research Group (Sheree Roth or Ron Doctor), Latvia SIG (Michaël Eliastam, with the participation of Henry Blumberg), Litvak Sig (Eden Joachim), Novogrod-Volhynsky, Volhynnia Gubernia, Ukraine (Zvhil) BOF (Marvin Turkanis), Rohatyn BOF (Marla Raucher-Osborn), RomSig (Rosanne Leeson), Sephardic SIG (Jeff Malka, Mathilde Tagger), Sub-Carpathia SIG (Marshal Katz), Svencionys District Research Group (Rhoda Miller), Yizkhor book project (Jan Meisels Allen), Lodz Area Research Group, UK-SIG (Mark Nicholls), Tunisia SIG (Thierrey Samama), Ukraine (Ron Doctor)

Experts from Eastern Europe coming to Paris 2012

Zsuzsanna Toronyi, Chef-archivist in Hungarian Jewish Archives; Pr Boris Morozov, Professor of Russian State Humanities University; Albert Stankowski responsible for the project "virtual shtetl", Museum of the History of Polish Jews ; Alexandrs Feigmanis historian, expert in genealogy and history of the Jews in Latvia ; Yale Reisner from Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw ; Denis Vasilevich Lisejchikov, head of department of scientific use of documents and the information of National Historical Archive of Belarus ; Grzegorz Zamoyski, Head of the Research Center on the Jewish History at the Polish State Archive in Rzeszów, etc. have accepted our invitation.

50^th anniversary of the coming to France of Jews from Algeria

This theme has been enriched with the participations of Geneviève Dermenjian, researcher in CNRS, Norbert Bel-Ange, historian, Jacob Oliel, independant scholar, Linda Levi (Executive Vice President & Director-Archives,The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc), Evyatar Chelouche...

The Roundtable “The share of genetics versus cultural” will be moderated by Marc Fellous, professor in genetics, Paris 7 University, with Henri Atlan – professor emeritus of biophysics and director of the Center for Research in Human Biology from Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, director of studies at EHESS and former member of National Consultative Ethics Committee, Joshua Feingold, Director of Research Emeritus at INSERM, Joel Zlotogora, Department of Community Genetics, Israeli Ministry of Health, Jewish
disease Specialist, Pr Doron Behar, Senior Physician at the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the Rambam Medical Center, Haifa.

Genealogy and Holocaust

Among others, Patrice Bensimon, will speak of the archives of Yahad-In Unum association (Père Desbois), Philippe Landau, responsible for Consistorial Archives, will speak about the Jewish genealogies prescribed by Vichy government, Nathalie Zajde, Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Paris VIII St Denis will speak of “Transgenerational transmission of the Holocaust trauma”, Jean Laloum (CNRS)...