Ancient Texts; Genealogical Discovery

The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York is often off the radar screen for many genealogists but the library is home to almost half a million volumes including manuscripts, rare books and archives.  The archives are a treasure yet to be explored by so many of us and yet it is a rich repository of records of Jewish communities, institutions and prominent individuals in the US and Europe .  We will take a digital trip and explore some of the treasures that can be found at JTS.  Included in these archives are transcriptions of notes, memos and correspondence between the State Dept. and offices in Vienna, St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Bucharest that concern the legal position and persecution of Jews;