My great-grandfather Moshe Zilberkasten grew up in Warsaw and was a promising theater actor in Poland. Then he disappeared and became a family myth: the rumor was that he left for the USA, but nobody knew for sure. This lecture described 30 years of dedicated research to find out about his extraordinary fate. As he described, he acted in life much as he did on stage.
Daniel Wagner is a Professor of Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He is also the current Chair of IIJG, the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy and Paul Jacobi Center.
Wagner has researched his Polish roots since 1995 and was a Co-Chairman of the 2004 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy held in Jerusalem. Wagner co-chaired (with the late Dr Neville Lamdan) the Genealogy and the Sciences international conference (2018) held at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is the author of 35 papers and 3 books about genealogy, and the editor of a multi-author booklet about scientific tools in genealogy. He is the Guest Editor of a Special Issue of the Genealogy journal, entitled “Current trends and topics in Jewish genealogy” which includes articles all written by IIJG members (see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy).
Wagner is the Zdunska Wola JRI Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator and Town Leader and a past Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Zdunska Wola. In 2006 he was elected Honorable Citizen of Zdunska Wola. Further details, see: https://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/Wagner/beyond-science/genealogy.
Daniel Wagner is a Professor of Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. He is also the current Chair of IIJG, the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy and Paul Jacobi Center.
Wagner has researched his Polish roots since 1995 and was a Co-Chairman of the 2004 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy held in Jerusalem. Wagner co-chaired (with the late Dr Neville Lamdan) the Genealogy and the Sciences international conference (2018) held at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is the author of 35 papers and 3 books about genealogy, and the editor of a multi-author booklet about scientific tools in genealogy. He is the Guest Editor of a Special Issue of the Genealogy journal, entitled “Current trends and topics in Jewish genealogy” which includes articles all written by IIJG members (see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy).
Wagner is the Zdunska Wola JRI Shtetl CO-OP Coordinator and Town Leader and a past Chairman of the Organization of Former Residents of Zdunska Wola. In 2006 he was elected Honorable Citizen of Zdunska Wola. Further details, see: https://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/Wagner/beyond-science/genealogy.
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