“Finding Our Fathers (and Mothers, too): The Joys and Pitfalls of Tracing Jewish Ancestors” with Daniel Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg, father of today’s Jewish Genealogy Movement, will be speaking on his book, “Finding Our Fathers,” the first English-language guidebook to trace Jewish ancestors. It subsequently launched a global movement that today embraces dozens of organizations, research publications and computer databases…all dedicated to connecting Jews with their long-lost ancestors and relatives.

Journalist Dan Rottenberg has been the chief editor of seven publications, most recently Broad Street Review, an independent cultural arts website that he launched in December 2005 and edited until January 2014. (He stepped down as chairman in 2019.) He is also the author of 13 books, most recently The Price We Paid: An Oral History of Penn’s Struggle to Join the Ivy League, 1950-55, published in 2024 by Shorehouse Books. 

His weekly column, “Contrarian’s Notebook,” has been published on Substack since February 2023. For a free subscription, click here.  This program will be recorded and made available…