If you are researching the towns and villages of the Lublin-Zamość Area, you are cordially invited to attend a 90-minute Town Hall style meeting on Sunday, February 8, 2026 beginning at 1 pm Eastern. You must have a JRI-Poland NextGen account to attend, but for this particular session, you do not need to be a JRI-Poland annual member.
The Lublin-Zamość area was the most densely, Jewishly populated area in Poland and comprised some of the oldest Jewish communities there. The JRI-Poland database includes data from more than 100 towns and villages where Jews lived. The descendents of the Jews of this area include family traditions of descending from both Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish families, including Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition to Italy, and then were invited in to the area by Count Jan Zamoyski around 1535.
This session will be led by Robinn Magid, Lublin Area Coordinator, and Shelley Pollero, Zamość Area Coordinator. Robinn and Shelley have led joint Lublin-Zamość area meetings at more than 20 of the annual IAJGS conferences. Together they bring decades of experience with the Jewish records of the local towns and they have each visited many of them in person.
The session will include a presentation about the region and the research opportunities in the Lublin-Zamość area. We will include a breakout session into smaller groups by towns of interest, and then will regroup for a Q&A session to develop an understand of what your priorities seem to be as we plan for the next projects that JRI-Poland will address in this document-rich area.
Join us!
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