JewishGen Leadership

This document lists JewishGen's leadership: staff and volunteers. 

Staff:

• Warren Blatt, Managing Director.   (Simi Valley, CA, USA)
• Michael Tobias, Vice President of Programming.   (Glasgow, Scotland)
• Avraham Groll, Director of Business Operations.   (New York, NY, USA)

Vice Presidents:

• Nolan Altman, VP, Data Acquisition.   (Oceanside, NY, USA)
• Phyllis Kramer, VP, Education.   (New York, NY, USA)
• Vivian Kahn, VP, SIG Affairs.   (Oakland, CA, USA)
• Susana Leistner Bloch, VP, KehilaLinks.   (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)

SIG Leadership:

This table contains the JewishGen Special Interest Group (SIG) leadership: SIG leaders, Mailing List Moderators, and Webmasters.

SIG	SIG Leader	Mailing List Moderator	Webmaster
Austria-Czech	Randy Schoenberg	Randy Schoenberg	Randy Schoenberg
Belarus	Dave Feldman, Sharon Fingold	Stephen Jones, Hilary Henkin	Kevin Hanit
Bessarabia	Yefim Kogan	Alan Levitt	Joel Waters, Yefim Kogan
BialyGen	Mark Halpern	Judy Baston, (Mark Halpern)	Mark Halpern
B D S & V	Alex Sharon	Carole Feinberg	Valerie Schatzker
Courland	Martha Lev-Zion	Abraham Lenhoff	Abraham Lenhoff
Danzig	Logan J. Kleinwaks	Elsebeth Paikin, (Dick Plotz)	Logan J. Kleinwaks
DNA	Elise Friedman	Dick Plotz	Elise Friedman
Early American	Marvin Weinberg	John Paul Lowens	Joshua Levy
French	Rosanne Leeson, Pierre Hahn	Rosanne Leeson, Pierre Hahn	Carol Levy Monahan
Gesher Galicia *	Pamela Weisberger	Renee Stern Steinig	Max Heffler
GerSIG	Nancy Adelson, John Paul Lowens, Roger Lustig, Arthur Obermayer, Jeanette Rosenberg	John Paul Lowens, (Margaret Power)	Arthur Obermayer
Hungary	Vivian Kahn	Vivian Kahn, (Tom Venetianer)	Benjamin Schoenbrun
JCR-UK	Mark Nicholls	Richard Jaeger, (Louise Messik)	David Shulman
JRI-Poland *	Stanley Diamond	Judy Baston, (Hadassah Lipsius)	Earl Wertheimer
Latin America	vacant	Robert Weisskirch	-
Latvia	Michael Eliastam	Debra L. MacLaughlan-Dumes	Bruce Dumes
LitvakSIG *	Eden Joachim	Judy Baston	(not hosted)
Lodz	Roni Leibowitz	Judy Baston	Roni Leibowitz
Rabbinic	Shirley Rotbein Flaum	Dick Plotz	vacant
Romania	Rosanne Leeson, Jeni Armandez	Rosanne Leeson, Mark Vigder	Danny Lesser
Scandinavia	Elsebeth Paikin	Elsebeth Paikin, (Dick Plotz)	Elsebeth Paikin
Sephardic	Jeff Malka	Dick Plotz	Jeff Malka
South Africa	Saul Issroff	Abraham Lenhoff	Roger Harris
Sub-Carpathia	Marshall Katz, Amos Israel Zezmer	Marshall Katz	Marshall Katz
Ukraine	Ronald Doctor	Linda Cantor, Freya Maslov, Chuck Weinstein	Ariel Parkansky
Warszawa	Hadassah Lipsius, Nicole Berline	Hadassah Lipsius, Nicole Berline	-
Yiddish Theatre	Jonina Duker	David Harris	-
Yizkor	Lance Ackerfeld	Dick Plotz	Lance Ackerfeld

* Hosted Organization.  The databases, websites and/or discussion groups of these organizations are hosted by JewishGen, although each is independent, with its own separate administrative and financial structure.

• Mailing List Moderators:
  The names of "backup moderators" are in parentheses in the above table.
  The moderators of the JewishGen Discussion Group mailing list are: Dick Plotz (Rhode Island, USA), Robert Fraser (Australia), Emily Garber (Arizona, USA), Dorothy Leivers (Kent, England), and Janette Silverman (Arizona, USA).  Former moderators, who are still semi-active, include: Rony Golan (Israel).

Technical and Support Volunteers:

• Dick Plotz – Manager: Mailing Lists.   (Rhode Island, USA)
• Lance Ackerfeld – Manager: Yizkor Book Project.   (Israel)
• Iris Folkson – Tech: Lyris, IMail, FTJP, Password.   (New York, USA)
• Gary Sandler – Tech: Systems.   (California, USA)
• Sandra Aaronson – Support Desk.   (Texas, USA)
• Annette Stolberg – Support Desk.   (New York, USA)
• Alex Sharon – JGFF Editor.   (Alberta, Canada)
• Mike Kalt – Holocaust Database HTML.   (North Carolina, USA)
• Max Heffler – JOWBR HTML, Yizkor Book Necrology DB.   (Texas, USA)
• Marian Price – LostNFound.   (New York, USA)
• Sam Eneman – ViewMate Admin, Wall of Honor.   (North Carolina, USA)
• Barbara Ellman – KehilaLinks Technical Coordinator.   (New Jersey, USA)

Operations Committee:

The JewishGen Operations Committee ("OpCom") is composed of the staff, vice-presidents, and selected key volunteers.  Current members are: Warren Blatt, Avraham Groll, Michael Tobias, Phyllis Kramer, Vivian Kahn, Susana Leistner Bloch, Dick Plotz, Nolan Altman, and Karen Franklin.

JewishGen Office:

Address:	JewishGen, Inc., Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280 USA
Phone:	(646) 437-4326
Fax:	(646) 437-4328