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Previous IAJGS Conferences
- 26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy — New York City, 2006
- 27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy — Salt Lake City, 2007
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Conference Program News for a New Year!
With 2009 behind us, 2010 holds a whole world of new possibilities for genealogists. Conference program planning is now in full swing, with less than ten days left to submit your abstract or presentation proposal. The due date is January 15th so fine-tune your ideas and get ready to submit before the deadline. Just click the “Call for Papers” tab on this website to be connected to the abstract submission module.
Direct from Warsaw
We’re planning to have many programs of interest to Polish researchers at the conference, and we’re pleased to announce that sociologist Agnieszka Chraboloska, program director of the non-profit Polish group The Forum for Dialogue Among Nations , will be making her first appearance at an IAJGS conference. This non-profit organization was founded by Andrzej Folwarczny, who is also its president. Andrzej is an ex-member of the Polish Parliament (the Sejm), from the Freedom Union (Unia Wolności) and the chairman of the Polish-Israeli Parliamentary Group.
The mission of The Forum is to foster Polish-Jewish dialogue, eradicate anti-Semitism and teach tolerance through education.
Chraboloska studied at Georgetown University (Washington, DC) and at the University of Warsaw, where she earned an MA. Her thesis was “The Complex Identity of Poles with Jewish Origins.”
The Forum also sponsors twice-yearly Polish tours for US Jewish leaders to meet with local Polish communities, and brings Polish students to the US.
School of Dialogue
Of interest to historians and genealogists is the Forum’s new program – School of Dialogue – which brings trained teachers into public schools in towns – where pre-Holocaust Jewish communities existed – to educate the communities about their vanished Jewish heritage.
Some 20 communities are currently in the School of Dialogue’s pilot program.
As Chraboloska speaks on the program’s structure and goals, it is hoped that conference attendees interested in memorializing their ancestral communities may wish to sponsor their towns, if those communities are not already in the pilot program.