Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Blog

From Ton Tielen and David Mendoza: "My Heart is in the East..." Financial support for Eretz Israel from the farthest West Support for the Jewish community in Terra Santa was one of the earliest obligations the Amsterdam and London Jewish communities took upon themselves. Over the course of centuries, they placed great value in fulfilling this charitable obligation. The money ensured that a large number of Jews and Jewish institutions could survive in Ottoman Palestine. Ton Tielen shares his research in the Amsterdam and London Sephardic archives. He will show how there were closer ties between eastern and western Sephardic communities than is generally known. Time: Sunday Dec 6, 2020. 2pm NYC, 7pm London, 8pm Amsterdam/Paris, 9pm Jerusalem. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83684272950 A small monthly donation on Patreon helps us a lot. Many thanks to everyone who already supports our work. https://www.patreon.com/sephardi If you can't get into the Zo...

From Hazel Atlass: Chilterns Regional Group Meeting Tuesday 19th May 2020   The latest meeting of the Chilterns Group took place on Tuesday 19 th May via Zoom. We had 32 members sign in, not only from the Chilterns Group but from further afield in the UK.   Our speaker was JGSGB’s former Vice-Chair, Dr. Joel Levy, who gave a very interesting and in-depth talk about his current researches. In fact the talk was most up to date as he was finalising the talk on the previous Sunday evening as he had just received more information.   Joel’s talk was titled “Coming full circle: using Israeli sources”. Joel has been working on his Gavenda/Gavendo/Gawenda/ Gawendo family for many years, tracing them from Poland to the USA and to Israel. The first part of his talk concentrated on the roots of the family in Poland and how they then went to South Africa and the United States.   One example of the research is Joel then found a relative that had emigrated to ...