Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG) – presented on opening of the Institute

Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG)

Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG)

1. Dr. Neville Lamdan (Director, IIJG) addressed the theoretical question “Jewish Genealogy – A legitimate field for academic research?”;
2. Prof. Aaron Demsky (Professor Emeritus, Bar Ilan University) delivered a paper on “Abbaye’s Family Origins - A Study in Rabbinic-Talmudic Genealogy”;
3. Prof. Ruth Kark (Hebrew University) and Dr. Joseph Glass (Toronto) reported on their interdisciplinary research into “Sephardi Entrepreneurial Elites in late 19th and early 20th century Palestine”;
4. Prof. Daniel Wagner (Weizmann Institute) made a presentation on his ground-breaking system of “Genealogical Database Merging”.

1. Valts Apinis, U. of Riga:
   “Jews in Latvia in 1918-1940: a genealogical perspective”;
2. Federica Francesconi, U. of Bologna and UCLA:
   “An Alternative Path toward Emancipation: Jewish; Merchants and their Cross-Cultural Networks in 18th Century Italian Ghettos”;
3. Neville Lamdan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem:
   “Village Jews in the 19th Century Minsk Gubernya through a genealogical lens”.
4. Maria Jose Surribas-Camps, U. of Barcelona:
   “Connecting with the Lives and Lineages of Medieval Catalan Jews”.

Dr. Chanan Rapaport “From Yachne to Rivlin”

Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG)

Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG) – gave 5-Year Progress Report on the Institute and its activities

Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG) – presented on the Institute and its activities