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The Malcolm Stern Grant |
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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
2009
Supporting the Malcolm
Stern Grant |
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Malcolm Stern Grant Recipients
| 2008 |
The Italian Genealogical
Group (IGG - www.Italiangen.org). The grant will make
it possible for the IGG to create and computerize a Brooklyn
Brides Index for 1910-1930 from original records on 268 rolls
of film from the Family History Library. There is currently
no such index available for this period – a period of massive
Jewish immigration. The Jewish genealogy community has greatly
benefited from the 12,000,000 records computerized by earlier
IGG projects, and it is most appropriate to support the 1910-1930
Brooklyn Brides project, one that will surely allow many researchers
to identify the descendants of female relatives who have to
date been untraceable. - $2,500 |
| 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
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| 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
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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
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be sent to the committee chair. |
Chair: SallyAnn
Sack – Bethesda, MD
Members:
* Saul Isroff – London, UK
* Rochelle Kaplan – Salt Lake City, UT
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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.
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