| MEETINGS AND LECTURES ACTIVITIES OF THE sECOND HALF OF 2008Monthly Lectures in ParisUnless otherwise notified, they take place monthly on the first monday at 6.30 p.m. in the lecture room of Alliance Israélite Universelle, 45, rue La Bruyère, Paris 9e. (Métro : St Georges, Trinité, Liège or Blanche. Bus : 74, 68 ou 81). Monday September 8, 2008 The first meeting of the Academic Year
As it is now usual, it will be devoted to free contributions by our members about their recent findings and about the difficulties they have met. Those wishing to participate should contact Bernard Lyon-Caen or our office. Sunday September 21, 2008 10 a.m. Lecture by Philippe DANAN The Jews of Algiers at the beginning of the French conquest, in 1830 Details, in French, here Monday Novembe3, 2008 Lecture by Hervé LE BRET The d'Eichtal family The d'Eichthal brothers, Gustave (1804-1886) and Adolphe (1805-1895), the first one a saint-simonian thinker, the other one a businessman, manager of the Pereire group, are not well known although they broke new roads to the French society of the 19th century. Grandsons of a German Court Jew and grand-nephews of Berr Isaac Berr, they convert to christianism in 1817, but are still faithful to their Jewish origins: Gustave claims them in his saint-simonian publications and Adolphe in his social networks. Hervé Le Bret, descendant of Gustave and Cécile Rodrigues-Henriquès, made use of unpublished family sources to write a Ph.D. dissertation he defended in december 2007 at Paris IV Sorbonne
You can order the sound cassettes or CD (in French) of the past lectures. Click on Cassettes to get the list of the available cassettes. Special interest groups These groups usually
meet at our premises 45 rue La Bruyère, 75009 Paris. Hebraic
Palaeography Workshop Genealogical
help at MAHJ Meetings outside of Paris Lorraine Branch : The meetings are supervised by Jacques BLOCH, from Metz and Pascal FAUSTINI. They prepared a study of the Jewish Community of Vantoux (57) which is now published (details here). Marseilles Branch : This very active branch is animated by Danièle FAREAU. A genealogical colloquium was organized on November 18 and 19, 2007at Marseilles. Next meeting: September 16, 2008 Details are given in French, click here. Alsace Branch: This branch is supervised by Martin WEIL, from Strasbourg. Working sessions are also taking place, supervised by Robert WOLFF on several Mondays. Rhône-Alpes Branch (around Lyons): This is a new branch supervised by Geneviève RYCZYWOL. The first meeting took place on July 2, 2007 and a lecture was given on October 25. Details are given in the French Part, under the heading Réunions. Why not open a branch in your region or your country ? Members of the CGJ are certainly living not far from your place. |