Gesher Galicia Advisors and Associates

ARCHIVAL ADVISORS

Agnieszka Franczyk-Cegła, Ossolineum, Wrocław
Ewa Grin-Piszczek, State Archive in Przemyśl
Magdalena Marosz, National Archives in Kraków
Kateryna Mytsan, State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (DAIFO), Ivano-Frankivsk
Fedir Polianskyi, State Archive of Ternopil Oblast (DATO), Ternopil
Sławomir Postek, Central Archives of Historical Records (AGAD), Warsaw
Olesia Stefanyk, Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL), Lviv

ACADEMIC ADVISORS

Michał Galas, Department of Jewish Studies, Jagellonian University, Kraków
Sergey Kravtsov, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
David Rechter, University of Oxford
Dariusz Stola, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Wacław Wierzbieniec, Department of History and Jewish Culture, Rzeszów University
Yaron Wolfsthal, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

GALICIA PARTNER ASSOCIATES

Sofia Dyak, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv
Avraham Groll, JewishGen
Mark Halpern, JRI-Poland
Joanna Król-Komła, POLIN Museum, Warsaw
Jakub Nowakowski, Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków
Anna Przybyszewska-Drozd, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

KEY ASSOCIATES

Research Advisor
Tony Kahane, London

Gesher Galicia Secretariat in Warsaw, warsaw.secretariat@geshergalicia.org
Piotr Gumola, Gesher Galicia Representative in Poland

Gesher Galicia Representative in Ukraine
Mykhailo Zubar, Kiev

Editor, The Galitzianer
Jodi Benjamin, Pennsylvania

IT Manager
Paweł Malinowski, Warsaw

Digital Maps Manager
Jay Osborn, Lviv

Jewish Galician Heritage
Marla Osborn, Lviv

Chair, Pamela Weisberger Memorial Fund Committee
Michael Kaufman

Upcoming Programs

Sunday, May 21st, 2023 (10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. ET). Gesher Galicia is proud to partner with the Museum and JewishGen in this fantastic event. Gesher Galicia President, Dr. Steven Turner will be a presenter. Please plan to attend if you are in the area and drop by our table and pay us a visit. You need to register by clicking the link below.

Announcement by the Museum of Jewish Heritage and JewishGen

We’re excited to announce that JewishGen and the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, are cohosting the first ever Mishpachah Festival on Sunday, May 21st, 2023, from 10am-5pm. Join us as we celebrate Genealogy, Heritage, & Immigration, and enjoy a wide range of activities and events for the entire family.

Notably for our community, a number of JewishGen Research and Project Directors will be staffing a JewishGen table in the resource room, and will be giving short “JewishGen Talks” on their respective geographical/topical areas throughout the day (for details, scroll down to the bottom of the web site). There will also be plenty of opportunities to connect with other members of the JewishGen community.

If you are in the area, I hope you will be part of this exciting event. To register and learn more, please visit the Mishpachah Festival’s website at https://mjhnyc.org/mishpachah-festival/.

Recent Programs

Sunday, November 6th, 2022 (12:00-1:00 p.m. ET). Gesher Galicia Zoom Membership Meeting. The link to the Zoom meeting will be provided to members by email.

GESHER GALICIA AT THE IAJGS 2022 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Monday, August 22, 2022 (11:15-12:15 p.m. ET). Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting. This is a live meeting. Conference Registration required.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022 (4:00-5:00 p.m. ET). Galicia Basics: What Every Galitzianer Needs to Know. Speakers: Shelley K. Pollero, Renée Stern Steinig. This is a live presentation. Conference Registration is required. Details at www.iajgs2022.org.

July 5, 7, 12, and 14, 2022. A four-part online course through the Gesher Galicia-Gratz College partnership: “THE PATH TO MODERNITY: The Jews of Galicia.” To pre-register, please contact Lori Cohen (lcohen@gratz.edu). For the beginners and seasoned genealogists from around the world, the course explores the social and cultural transformation of Galician Jewry drawing on unique material. To find more about the topics please click here.

Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization carrying out Jewish genealogical and historical research on Galicia, formerly a province of Austria-Hungary and today divided between southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. The research work includes the indexing of archival vital records and census books, Holocaust-period records, Josephine and Franciscan cadastral surveys, lists of Jewish taxpayers, and records of Galician medical students and doctors - all added to our searchable online database. In addition, we reproduce regional and cadastral maps for our online Map Room. We conduct educational research and publish a quarterly research journal, the Galitzianer. Gesher Galicia is also organized for the purpose of maintaining networking and online discussion groups and to promote and support Jewish heritage preservation work in the areas of the former Galicia.

You can search our free All Galicia Database, Map Room, and archival inventories, and read about member benefits starting at $50 per year. You can also join online.

Our general contact address: info@geshergalicia.org