Sunday, October 18, 2026
1:00-6:00 pm
Emory University
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 1:00- 2:30 pm (includes box lunch) | Georgia Discoveries from the Shapell Roster of Jewish Service in the American Civil War | Adrienne DeArmas, Director, The Shapell Roster Alexandra Apito and Caitlin J. Winkler, Senior Researchers |
| 2:45-3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions Choose One | Southern Jewish Resources on JewishGen | Karen Franklin, Director of Outreach, JewishGen |
| Southern Jewish Historical Newspapers Online | Katalin Rac, Jewish Studies Librarian, Emory University | |
| 3:45-4:30 pm: Concurrent panels Choose One | Writing Your Own Family History | Jay Silverberg, Past President, Southern Jewish Historical Society |
| How to Launch a Local Jewish Archival Project | speakers TBA | |
| 4:45-6:00 pm | Sources for Southern Jewish Family History at Jewish Archives | Max Modiano Daniel, Jewish Heritage Collection Coordinator, College of Charleston Casey Fishman, Director, Cuba Archives, The Breman (Atlanta) Dana Herman, Director of Research and Collections, American Jewish Archives (Cincinnati) |
This Research Workshop is one piece of the four-day Southern Jewish Historical Society 50th Anniversary Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. More information about the entire conference is available here:
SJHS 2026 Conference Information
You can register for the entire conference on just the Research Workshop here:
Conference Registration
The fee for the Research Workshop only is $60.
Questions? Contact us at JewishGenealogy@JGSG.org
