Phil Goldfarb: Traveling to America in Steerage and Whether to Admit or Deport our Ancestors
December 17 @ 7:30 pm
Tuesday, December 17th, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. ET
Traveling to America in Steerage and Whether to Admit or Deport our Ancestors
Presented by:
Phil Goldfarb
This presentation discusses the history of ship travel to the United States from the 1830s to the 1920s. What it was like for our ancestors to travel on these ships, especially in steerage, what they did, how they felt, and how they prepared to enter the US. We will also discuss in detail the processing of immigrants into the United States with an emphasis on Ellis Island.
The program is informational, educational, contains some great Jewish trivia, and is also very entertaining!
Phil Goldfarb is a 4th generation pharmacist by profession and a retired officer in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps. He worked in the health care and medical communications industry for 40 years, helping to grow and take a company public while retiring as Divisional Vice President of Operations for a Fortune 20 Company. Phil is the founding President of the JGS of Tulsa and has been doing genealogy for over 40 years. A genealogy contributor for websites, he has lectured extensively having given over 2,000 presentations, published articles in genealogy journals, written two books on passports and passport applications, and authors a monthly column in the Tulsa Jewish Review. He is the editor of The Weekly News Nosh…News about Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History and Jewish Culture which is published in Tracing The Tribe and The Jewish Genealogy Portal on Facebook each Sunday as well as on the L’Dor V’Dor Foundation website for those who do not use Facebook at www.ldvdf.org/newsnosh.
Phil co-produced a 2020 Emmy Award-winning Historical Documentary titled: L’Dor V’Dor: Generation to Generation…the History of Tulsa’s Jewish Community, was Chairman of 2020 IAJGS Awards Committee, Member of the 2024 IAJGS Nominating Committee and assisted with the development and implementation of the LDVDF Worldwide Jewish Event Calendar which can be utilized 24/7/365 at www.ldvdf.org/Jdays.
Please confirm attendance RSVP
jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com and jgsgm.president@gmail.com.
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The link to the current News Noshes and past ones since July is: www.ldvdf.org/newsnosh