The Professor Yitzhak Halbrecht Family Tree
Competition for Bar/Bat Mitzvah Students was
established to help students aged 11-14 research
their family’s roots in depth and enable them to
add their family to the database at the Jewish
Genealogy Center. The competition is open to
Jewish schools worldwide and is held annually by
the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center of
Beth Hatefusoth (Museum of the Jewish
Diaspora).
Students are required to include information
detailing:
* Family members’ names, birth
dates, places of birth, marriage and death.
*
Interviews with family members.
* Countries of
origin and country specific history
*
Photographs, migration maps and other
documents
* Information about family
experiences, traditions,
holidays, and
recipes
According to Martha Mazo, Project Coordinator,
works are judged based on: Originality and
esthetic presentation, the time and effort spent
on researching the project and how the history of
the Jewish people is reflected in the individual
family’s story. Mazo also noted that realizing the
importance of some documents, submission of copies
is allowed.
Each of the submitted works should clearly
feature (at the beginning): the student‘s full
name, class, name and address of the school
(including country), email address of the school
and/or telephone and fax number.
Teachers are asked to submit the three or four
best works, in their class with a $30
non-refundable registration-fee (per school) and a
registration form to (see link below):
Family Tree Competition/Genealogy
Center
Beth Hatefusoth
P.O. Box 39359
Tel
Aviv 61392
ISRAEL
The fee includes one copy of the Ilanot
Genealogy software and online support.
Entrees
should be mailed via diplomatic mail, registered
airmail or delivered by hand to Beth Hatefutsoth.
Mazo says the deadline for this year’s competition
is April 30, 2000.
Each year three prizes each are awarded to the
best works from Israel and from abroad. The panel
of judges includes people from the Israeli
Ministry of Education and Beth Hatefusoth.
For more information:
email* mailto:bhgnlgy@post.tau.ac.il
03/646-2062 TEL
03/646-2134 FAX
*Note – send to email address listed above and
not to the Yahoo address listed on the
site.
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