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Bessarabia Winter Symposium, Virtual, 13 - 15 December, 2022

Related to: General Bessarabia


Researching Jewish Roots in Bessarabia
History, Genealogy, Culture

Welcome to the Bessarabia Winter Symposium!

Please see below a list of 17 sessions with abstracts, short bios of presenters and presentation recordings and slides.

# Date Time EST Session name Speaker
1 12/13/2022 10am-10.45am Opening of JewishGen Bessarabia Symposium. Slides. Recording. Yefim Kogan, USA
2 11am-11.45am Research in Moldavian Archives: Step by Step. Recording.
List of ZAGS in Moldova.
Anna Royzner, Ukraine
3 12noon-12.45pm Bessarabia SIG website and its different features. Recording. Ariel Parkansky, France
4 1pm - 1.45pm Translating records from Russian. Slides. Recording. Alan Levine, USA
5 2pm-2.45pm Barely Enough Bread: The Klezmer Connection Between Jewish and Gypsy Musicians. Recording. Links from Yale Strom. Yale Strom, USA
6 12/14/2022 10am-10.45am Finding Your Family in Bessarabian Business Directories Slides. Recording. Jeff Wexler, USA
7 11am-11.45am Borderlands: Traces of Jewish Life in Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova Recording. Christian Herrman, Germany
8 12noon-12.45pm How to teach family history to children and grandchildren Slides. Recording. Galina Dobrynina-Kogan, USA
Yefim Kogan, USA
9 1pm-1.45pm Panel: Where Can I Find Information About My Bessarabian Roots? Recording.    About Rail Roads in Moldova.

Ala Gamulka, Canada
Yefim Kogan, USA
Alan Levine, USA

10 2pm-2.45pm Even a single old photograph can be useful in telling a story Slides. Recording. Alan Levitt, USA
Cassio Tolpolar, Brasil
11 3pm-3.45pm Laws for Jews in Russian Empire Slides. Recording. Book Of Laws for Jews (Russian). Yefim Kogan, USA
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12/15/2022 10am-10.45am Teaching Holocaust in Moldova Slides. Text.
Estate and other categories of Jews in Bessarabia, Russian in the 19th century. Slides. Recording.
Sergei Daniliuk, Moldova
Yefim Kogan, USA
14 11am-11.45am From klezmer to maestro: Jewish musicians in the cultural
life of Bessarabia and Moldova
Slides. Recording.
Yuriy Daylis, USA
15 12noon-12.45pm Rediscovered Rashkov: 300 years of Jewish History Slides. Recording. Natalia Alhazov, Moldova
Michael Finckel, Moldova
16 1pm-1.45pm War In Ukraine Recording.

Alex Dunai, Ukraine,
Natalie Dunai, Ukraine

17 2pm-2.45pm Closing of the Symposium. What is next for Bessarabia region. Slides. Recording. Yefim Kogan, USA

(*) Links to pdf files with session description and bio of the presenter