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From: Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@att.net>
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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

From: Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@att.net>
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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

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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
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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.

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