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Past Programs

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 SFBAJGS Presentation ZOOM Free and everyone interested is welcome. co-sponsored with Jewish Community Library Time and Place: 7:00 pm until ? pm, Pacific Time At Your Home Topic: Pathways to Preserving Family Histories Speaker: Basya Petnick This workshop will provide guidance for collecting, organizing, and preserving your own family history. What photos and documents exist? Who is available to be interviewed? Basya Petnick will stimulate thinking about the stories behind the births, marriages, deaths, and migrations in your family, as well as the presentation forms that might work best—such as oral history, legacy letter, or ethical will—to help you move forward in creating a beautiful gift from the past to future generations. Basya Petnick has been practicing oral history for 35 years. She served as the co-director of the Legacy Oral History Program at the Museum of Performance + Design, and as director of the Alumni Memory Project of San Francisco Ballet. Working in partnership with the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, she was invited to add several of her oral histories to their Bancroft Library Special Collections, including Gratefully Yours, an oral history of Rabbi Stephen Pearce, and Song and Spirit: A Cantor’s Life, an oral history of Roslyn Junever Barak. Her work has been honored by several major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the founder and principal of Books & Lives, a creator and publisher of oral histories and life stories. Program made possible, in part, by Judy Baston. Register for this FREE meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. You do not have to have a Zoom account to attend a Zoom meeting. You will be prompted to download the software, once you have clicked on the link that you have been provided. You may also wish to create an account, but that is not required to participate in a Zoom meeting.

Monday, May 6, 2024 SFBAJGS Presentation ZOOM Free and everyone interested is welcome. Time and Place: 4:00 pm until 5:30 pm, Pacific Time At Your Home Topic: Family Declassified Speaker: Katherine Fennelly Katherine Fennelly’s academic specializations are in demography, public health, and immigration policy. After learning of her Jewish heritage as an adult she began a very different kind of research—a study of the life of her maternal grandfather, Ferenc (Francis) Kalnay, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who arrived in the United States 100 years ago. The result is Family Declassified, a book in which she describes how Kalnay became the head of an elite espionage unit for the Allied Forces and an award-winning children’s book author. Fennelly will discuss her motives, sources, and methods, including six years reviewing previously unexamined government records and conducting personal interviews and genealogical searches, to piece together the life of a man who hid his Jewish identity, the nature of his work as a spy, and the murder of his sister and nephew by Hungarian Nazis. Katherine Fennelly is an emeritus professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. She has an M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her site is https://www.katherinefennelly.com/. Register for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. You do not have to have a Zoom account to attend a Zoom meeting. You will be prompted to download the software, once you have clicked on the link that you have been provided. You may also wish to create an account, but that is not required to participate in a Zoom meeting.

Monday, June 2, 2024 SFBAJGS Presentation ZOOM Free and everyone interested is welcome. Time and Place: 1:00 pm until 2:30 pm, Pacific Time At Your Home Topic: How I Found My Jewish American Family Speaker: Daniel Horowitz Family history research is a journey through time and sometimes through space, too! Join Daniel Horowitz on a tour of the main repositories and techniques used to discover his Jewish American family, and learn how you can also discover new information about your family tree. Dedicated to genealogy since 1986, Daniel was the teacher and the study guide editor of the family history project "Searching for My Roots" in Venezuela for 15 years. He is a past board member of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, is involved in several crowdsourced digitization and transcription projects, and holds a board-level position at the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA). Since 2006 Daniel has been working at MyHeritage liaising with genealogy societies, bloggers, and media, as well as lecturing and attending conferences around the world. We are pleased to welcome Daniel, but it should be noted that SFBAJGS is not endorsing MyHeritage over any other product or service. Register for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. You do not have to have a Zoom account to attend a Zoom meeting. You will be prompted to download the software, once you have clicked on the link that you have been provided. You may also wish to create an account, but that is not required to participate in a Zoom meeting.

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