HISTORIC BROADCASTS FROM THE BBC

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Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (UK) BBC Genome and Radio Times

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) placed the Radio Times from the 1940s online. Additionally, the BBC Genome website had added listening to or watching historic broadcasts from 1923-2009  see: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/. Here you can search for BBC programs, people, dates and Radio Times editions.  There are more than 5 million program listings in Genome, remembering it reflects the attitudes and standards of when the program was first aired which may be different than those of today.  There is an ongoing project to link the program listings to the relevant recording thus far only 18,000 programs have been linked. To read more about this see: https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-46465871

The BBC Archive includes a lot of World War ll materials. One is from Witnessing the Holocaust, personal accounts of persecution and genocide by the Nazis. From April 1, 1945 a reporter provides a firsthand account Buchenwald Concentration Camp To hear the interview you need to run the adobe flash that they provide. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5107.shtml

There are more broadcasts from the Holocaust with links on the right side of the above archival recording.

Thank you to Peter Calver, LostCousins Newsletter for informing us of this new feature of the BBC.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

RootsTech 2019 Free Live Stream Schedule

Unable to attend RootsTech 2019 in Salt Lake City this year? Don’t worry! Many of the sights and learnings from the conference will be streamed live on our home page! Join us starting Wednesday, February 27, at 9:30 a.m. MST to hear from popular speakers such as Diahan Southard, Kenyatta Berry, Crista Cowan, and Blaine Bettinger. General sessions featuring keynote speakers will also be streamed. Join the conversation happening on social media using #NotAtRootsTech. 

You can view the schedule and this announcement at https://www.rootstech.org/salt-lake/live-stream-schedule

WIKIPEDIA PAGE - ALEX KRAKOVSKY

I am a subscriber to Lara Diamond's blog - Lara's Jewnealogy - .https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/
In her Sunday, November 25 post she made reference to the Wikipedia page of Alex Krakovsky -
WIKIPEDIA ALEX KRAKOVSKY. The site is in the Russian language but can be translated using GoogleTranslate.
Included on this site are links to Ukraine revision lists, metric books, revision lists and census lists of Jews living in various areas of 18th, 19th and 20th century Ukraine.
This site is a treasure for Jewish genealogists researching family in Ukraine.
Most of the archives are in Russian Cyrillic. 
I've included images of the cover and a few pages from the List of voters of Jews in Ekaterinoslav and Ekaterinoslav district in the 4th State Duma 1912//DADPO as examples.

Documentary About the History of Russian Jews online at YouTube

Israel Genealogy Research Association

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New Documentary About History of Russian Jews Online at YouTube
A new documentary series called Russian Jews, chronicling the history of Russian Jewish life, is now available on YouTube. It is in three segments each 1½–2 hours in length. The three segments are:
• Before the Revolution. https://tinyurl.com/RussianJewishHistoryVideo1
• 1918–1948. https://tinyurl.com/RussianJewishHistoryVideo2
• After 1948. https://tinyurl.com/RussianJewishHistoryVideo3

Genesis Philanthropy Group

Published on Apr 23, 2018

Genesis Philanthropy Group and Studio Namedni present a documentary trilogy about the phenomenon of Russian Jews – in Russia and beyond. Author and narrator: Leonid Parfenov. Director: Sergey Nurmamed. The first film of the trilogy by famous Russian journalist and TV host Leonid Parfenov tells the story of the Jewish people across Russian empire, their traditional way of life in Russia and their entering into the society at large, about famous bankers, scientists and artists reshaping their attitude to the rites of their ancestry. It is the story about the Russian word “pogrom” entering foreign dictionaries, about the Beylis Case and about the first wave of Jewish emigration. It is about the revolutionaries who shattered the Tsarist regime and changed the fate of the country in October 1917. The next two films of the trilogy will cover the more recent pages of the Russian Jews’ story and their self-identification. Film 2 with English subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2dgW... Film 3 with English subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyQj... Full trilogy, original version, in Russian: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Full trilogy with Hebrew subs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Genesis Philanthropy Group - http://www.gpg.org/

MyHeritage Norway Conference

You can view videos from the MyHeritage Norway Conference for free at the following link:

https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/11/myheritage-live-2018-lectures-now-online

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:48:35 -0800
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] Updates on Nazi Stolen Artwork

Recently Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, posted several stories about Nazi stolen artwork.

Haaretz is a subscription newspaper to read the article one must be registered. Registration is free.

Forty-two Dutch Museums contain stolen art from Jews from World War ll according to a report by the Dutch Museums Association.  The stolen art comprise 83 paintings, 26 illustrations, and 13 Judaica objects taken between 1933 and 1945.

The Dutch royal family returned a painting to the original owners in 2-015, that had been purchased by former Queen Juliana. The painting was purchased without knowing the source.

The museums involved include the Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. The Rijksmuseum has 25 works on the Dutch Museums Association List , and research continues on other works of art at the museum.

See:

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/at-least-42-dutch-museums-contain-art-stolen-from-jews-during-wwii-report-finds-1.6551014

The Museale Verwervingen project,  (https://www.musealeverwervingen.nl/en/10/home/ ) which began in The Netherlands in 2009 with a call to the 163 members of the national Museums Association to research their collections’ provenance, has turned up more than 170 Nazi-looted works at 42 institutions thus far.

According to the website those who think they may be legal heirs to one of the identified works can file a claim established to examine the matter. Since 2002, 460 works in Holland have been returned to their Jewish owners from museums, private collections and public institutions. The project involved 163 museums, 42 of which included works that found their way to the list.

To view the art pieces see: https://www.musealeverwervingen.nl/en/10/home/

The restitution committee and how to file a request are available at:

https://www.restitutiecommissie.nl/en

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 09:07:54 -0800
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (UK) YIVO Opens Branch in the United Kingdom

YIVO  has over 40 linear feet of material on English Jewry accumulated in the 1920s and 1930s, including documents, photographs, and posters. While the headquarters for YIVO is in New York City, YIVO has now established an office in London to "spread the word about its unique resources", while also encouraging British Jews to learn about the historic communities that  many British originally came from.

The address was not included in the article.

To read the article, see: https://tinyurl.com/y7qsaxpr

Original url:

https://www.thejc.com/news/news-features/yivo-the-american-based-european-jewish-history-institute-has-opened-a-branch-in-the-uk-1.473011

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

From: "hal.bookbinder@ucla.edu" <hbookbinder@roadrunner.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:00:22 +0000
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] December Practicing Safe Computing article - "Practicing Safe ‘Tzedakah’ (Charity)"
IAJGS Leaders,

This month’s Practicing Safe Computing article is "Practicing Safe ‘Tzedakah’ (Charity)". It has been published in the December issue of "Venturing into Our Past", the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). Current and prior newsletters are freely available at the Society's website, http://www.jgscv.org.

As the year comes to a close, charities increase their solicitations, on-line, by mail and in the media. Some phony "charities" have names that sound similar to legitimate ones. Some that are legitimate spend an inordinate amount on overhead with little going to the supposed cause. The commercials and other advertising may not help clarify what the charity does with your donation. This article discusses the steps you can take to best assure that your Tsedakah goes to your intended recipients, sharing on-line resources that you can readily access.

All articles published to date are available in a single PDF which includes an index. This resource is freely accessible using the following link:
http://tinyurl.com/ComputingArticles

We will continue to update this resource with monthly articles. Consider placing a link to it on your society's web site or otherwise sharing it with your members as an ongoing free resource, reminding them when new articles are available.

If you have any questions or suggestions for future articles, please contact me.

Shalom, Hal

Hal Bookbinder
hal.bookbinder@ucla.edu
Los Angeles, CA

I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND A BOOK I'VE BEEN READING.  It is available at Amazon or you can borrow it from me as soon as I finish reading it.

EVERYDAY JEWISH LIFE IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA

Select Documents, 1772–1914

ChaeRan Y. Freeze, ed.; Jay M. Harris, ed.

An astounding compilation of primary source documents dealing with all aspects of Jewish daily life in the Russian empire

This book makes accessible—for the first time in English—declassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, as well as previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotiation among neighbors, society, and the Russian state, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to World War I. Focusing on religion, family, health, sexuality, work, and politics, these documents provide an intimate portrait of the rich diversity of Jewish life. By personalizing collective experience through individual life stories—reflecting not only the typical but also the extraordinary—these sources reveal the tensions and ruptures in a vanished society. An introductory survey of Russian Jewish history from the Polish partitions (1772–1795) to World War I, along with prefatory remarks, textual annotations, and a bibliography of suggested readings, combine to provide a new perspective on the history of the Jews of Russia.

“This collection is an indispensable resource for scholars and university students of all levels in modern Jewish history and Russian history. The editors bring every facet of Jewish daily life in Imperial Russia alive through the sources, concise editorial notes, and insightful introductions. Women appear just as prominently as do men, and no gender issue is left untouched in this superb revelation of a society becoming modern.” —Christine D. Worobec, Northern Illinois University
“Framed by a lucid and learned historical introduction, this collection of sources brings ordinary Jewish experience in Imperial Russia to life, in high-definition and fine-grained detail. A lasting contribution to the field.” —Naomi Seidman, The Graduate Theological Union

CHAERAN Y. FREEZE is associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. She is the author of Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia.

JAY M. HARRIS is Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies and dean of undergraduate education at Harvard University.

This book can be purchased directly through the University Press of New England.  I

USCIS Releases a New Documentary Video USCIS and Legacy of Ellis Island

The United states Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a  documentary video  USCIS and the Legacy of Ellis Island.  It may be accessed on YouTube  at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ssthg0Wv5s

Ellis Island was open from 1892 to 1954, and over 12 million immigrants were processed  by the federal immigration service through the Ellis Island Immigration in New York. While at one time more immigrants entered through Ellis Island, eventually it was one of 200 immigrant stations nationwide.

To read the  press release see:

https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-premieres-video-highlighting-its-historic-connections-ellis-island

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Yiddish Fest March 2018