IAJGS - Stern Award

The Malcolm Stern Grant

The Malcolm Stern Grant honors Malcolm H. Stern, widely considered to be the dean of American Jewish genealogy, and his efforts to increase the availability of resources for Jewish genealogical research. The Stern Grant provides funding to encourage institutions to pursue projects, activities and acquisitions that provide new or enhanced resources to benefit Jewish genealogists.

Annual Call for Nominations 2008

Supporting the Malcolm Stern Grant

Malcolm Stern Grant Recipients

2007	US Holocaust Memorial Museum for its upcoming project to index materials it receives from the International Tracing Service (ITS). - $2000
2006	Toledot-Jewish Family History Centre in Prague for its project to Digitize Jewish Familiant Registers from Bohemia (1760-1849) - $2000
2005	Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal for their project to digitize and index Canadian naturalization records 1932-1951 covering approximately 400,000. The data will be posted to the Internet. - $2000
2004	No award given
2003	University of Denver Ira M. Beck Memorial Special Collection Archives to support the JCRS project indexing about 25,000 tuberculosis patient files from 1904-1920 - $2000
2002	The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH - $2000 to expand its archives
2001	Genealogy Institute of the Center for Jewish History, New York City - $1000 Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem - $1000 The Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, Philadelphia, PA. - $1000 Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, Riga - $1000 JewishGen, Houston, TX - $1000
2000	No award given
1999	The International Survey of Jewish Monuments, Syracuse, NY - $2000 The US Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC - $2000 to computerize Russian lists of Holocaust victims
1998	Jewish Agency Search Bureau, Jerusalem Jerusalem - $1,250 Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland - $1,250
1997	No award given
1996	Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland - $1,250 The US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, Washington, DC - $500
1995	Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland - $1000 The Federation of Genealogical Societies' Stern-NARA Gift Fund for US National Archives microfilming - $1000
1994	Yad Vashem, Jerusalem - $3000 to purchase computers to speed process of computerizing Pages of Testimony
1993	Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem - Funding for adding much needed office space
1992	No award given
1991	Jewish Agency Search Bureau, Jerusalem - $3000

IAJGS Malcolm Stern Grant Support

Jewish Genealogical Societies, their members, and all others who wish to advance the work of Jewish genealogy are invited to send a donation to the Malcolm Stern Grant Fund. The IAJGS accounts funds donated for the Stern Grant as designated funds, and they are not used for any other purpose. Donations should be sent to:

    Michael Posnick, IAJGS Treasurer
    2601 Princeton Ave. South
    Minneapolis, MN 55416

Call for Nominations

The Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Grant Committee is established each year to consider nominations from the IAJGS member societies, to be presented to the IAJGS Board for their consideration. Nominations from all member societies are encouraged. We also encourage you to send a donation to the Malcolm Stern Grant Fund in addition to nominating an organization to receive the Grant.

Deadline: April 1st Annually

   Nominations
   must be sent to
   the Stern Grant
   committee chair.

The Stern Grant committee for 2008 has been appointed:
   Chair:           Eileen Polakoff (New York) eileenpolakoff@att.net
   Members:    Hadassah Lipsius, (New York)
                           and Alan Greenberg (Montreal)

Please include the following information in the nomination:

• The full name and address of the institution nominated.
• Indication that the institution is a non-profit organization.
• The main purpose the Grant funds will be used for, as well as other issues or criteria such as importance of the project, scope, overhead, money needed, other sponsors, and whether the institution has previously been a Stern Grant recipient.

All evaluations by the committee will be in-camera. The committee will make a recommendation to the IAJGS board, for their consideration and approval, which is then presented to the membership for a vote at the annual meeting.

Grant Criteria: The Malcolm Stern Grant honors Rabbi Malcolm Stern and his efforts to increase the availability of resources for Jewish genealogical research. The intention of the Stern Grant is to encourage institutions to pursue projects, activities and acquisitions that provide new or enhanced resources to benefit Jewish genealogists. The Grant is to be given to institutions rather than individuals.