IIJG Participation in International Conferences
1. 26th Annual Conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (AIJGS) (New York, 13-18.8.2006)
Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG) – presented on opening of the Institute
2. Since 2007 IIJG has attended the annual Conferences of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (AIJGS) on a yearly basis and presented a report on its activities over the past year.
Many IIJG scholars and members have presented papers on their own research
3. Facing Tomorrow – The Israel Presidential Conference 2008 (Jerusalem, 13-15 May 2008)
Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG)
4. Facing Tomorrow – The Second Israel Presidential Conference 2009 (Jerusalem,
20-22 Oct. 2009)
Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG)
5. World Union of Jewish Studies [WUJS], (Jerusalem, August 2009)
i. Dr. Neville Lamdan (Director, IIJG) addressed the theoretical question “Jewish Genealogy – A legitimate field for academic research?”;
ii. Prof. Aaron Demsky (Professor Emeritus, Bar Ilan University) delivered a paper on “Abbaye’s Family Origins – A Study in Rabbinic-Talmudic Genealogy”;
iii. Prof. Ruth Kark (Hebrew University) and Dr. Joseph Glass (Toronto) reported on their interdisciplinary research into “Sephardi Entrepreneurial Elites in late 19th and early 20th century Palestine”;
iv. Prof. Daniel Wagner (Weizmann Institute) made a presentation on his ground-breaking system of “Genealogical Database Merging”.
6. European Union of Jewish Studies [EUJS], (Ravenna, July 2010)
i. Valts Apinis, U. of Riga:
“Jews in Latvia in 1918-1940: a genealogical perspective”;
ii. Federica Francesconi, U. of Bologna and UCLA:
“An Alternative Path toward Emancipation: Jewish; Merchants and their Cross-Cultural Networks in 18th Century Italian Ghettos”;
iii. Neville Lamdan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem:
“Village Jews in the 19th Century Minsk Gubernya through a genealogical lens”.
iv. Maria Jose Surribas-Camps, U. of Barcelona:
“Connecting with the Lives and Lineages of Medieval Catalan Jews”.
7. Tenth International Conference on Jewish Names, Bar Ilan University (22.3.2011)
Dr. Chanan Rapaport “From Yachne to Rivlin”
8. Facing Tomorrow – The Third Israel Presidential Conference 2009 (Jerusalem, 21-23 June 2011)
Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG)
9. 31st Annual Conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
(AIJGS) (Washington DC, 14– 19.8.2011)
Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG) – gave 5-Year Progress Report on the Institute and its activities
10. VIIth Colloquium of the International Academy of Genealogy (Bologna, 26-29. 9.2011)
Dr. Neville Lamdan (as Director, IIJG) – presented on the Institute and its activities
11. Sixteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, July 28 – August 1, 2013)
Institute sponsored a panel on Jewish Genealogy, at which IIJG scholars presented the results of their research
12. Thirty-Eighth Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Records Association (Perth Scotland, November 6, 2015)
Michael Tobias (Principal Researcher, “200 Years of Scottish Jewry” Project) presented a paper on “Jewish Immigration into, Settlement in, and Trans-Migration through Scotland”
13. British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) Conference (Edinburgh 10-12 July 2017)
Dr. Kenneth Collins, Harvey Kaplan and Michael Tobias (team members of the “200 Years of Scottish Jewry” Project) presented papers on aspects of the Project’s work
14. Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem, August 6-10, 2017)
Institute sponsored a panel on Jewish Genealogy, at which IIJG scholars presented the results of their research
15. International Conference on “Genealogy and the Sciences” (Weizmann Institute for Science, Israel,
December 17-18, 2018)
IIJG co-sponsored this Conference and several Institute scholars presented papers