Renowned genealogist Emily Garber guided a discussion and explored aspects of immigration, from ports of embarkation to ocean voyages and arrival in a new land.
Parsing the Ocean Voyage: Tracking Emigrants From Europe to the United States
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Phoenix Jewish Genealogy Group Mentoring Meeting
The Phoenix Jewish Genealogy Group Mentoring Meeting, hosted by expert genealogist Emily H. Garber, had an interactive session where participants’ research questions took center stage.
How Did They Get There From Here?
How did your European ancestors get from their homes to ports of embarkation? This presentation will feature resources to help us understand transmigration (European migrants’ overland routes) between about 1880 and 1914.
The Golden Age of Shtetl
The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.
In Ishmael’s House
In this absorbing and eloquent book Martin Gilbert challenges the standard media portrayal and presents a fascinating account of hope, opportunity, fear, and terror that have characterized these two peoples through the 1,400 years of their intertwined history.
The Violet Protest
Arizona-based artist, educator, social practitioner – and orchestrator of this project, Ann Morton, offers a comprehensive visual review of The Violet Protest.
I Always Knew Those 3 Guys Would Be There to Make Me Laugh
He’s done it all — and keeps doing it. Pat McMahon’s career in local Arizona radio and television dates back to 1960.
A Studio Visit with Arizona Artist, Robert Sutz
Sutz, whose father’s Polish family perished in Nazi concentration camps, first began producing Holocaust-related art during the 1990’s, after he served as an interviewer for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah project.