{"id":568,"date":"2026-07-12T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/?page_id=568"},"modified":"2026-07-18T18:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:59:19","slug":"the-past-present-and-future-of-southern-jewish-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Workshop on Southern Jewish Family and Local History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunday, October 18, 2026
1:00-6:00 pm
Emory University<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Time<\/td>Topic<\/td>Speaker<\/td><\/tr>
1:00- 2:30 pm (includes box lunch)<\/td>Georgia Discoveries from the Shapell Roster of Jewish Service in the American Civil War  <\/td>Adrienne DeArmas, Director, The Shapell Roster Alexandra Apito and Caitlin J. Winkler, Senior Researchers  <\/td><\/tr>
2:45-3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions Choose One<\/td>Southern Jewish Resources on JewishGen<\/td>Karen Franklin, Director of Outreach, JewishGen  <\/td><\/tr>
Southern Jewish Historical Newspapers Online  <\/td>Katalin Rac, Jewish Studies Librarian, Emory University<\/td><\/tr>
3:45-4:30 pm: Concurrent panels Choose One<\/td>Writing Your Own Family History<\/td>Jay Silverberg, Past President, Southern Jewish Historical Society  <\/td><\/tr>
How to Launch a Local Jewish Archival Project  <\/td>speakers TBA<\/td><\/tr>
4:45-6:00 pm<\/td>Sources for Southern Jewish Family History at Jewish Archives  <\/td>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)    <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This Research Workshop is one piece of the four-day Southern Jewish Historical Society 50th<\/sup> Anniversary Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0 More information about the entire conference is available here:
SJHS 2026 Conference Information<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can register for the entire conference on just the Research Workshop here:
Conference Registration<\/a>
The fee for the Research Workshop only is $60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions? Contact us at JewishGenealogy@JGSG.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday, October 18, 20261:00-6:00 pmEmory 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 … Continue reading Research Workshop on Southern Jewish Family and Local History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/568\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/jgsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}