JewishGen Leadership

This document lists JewishGen's leadership: staff and volunteers. 

Staff:

• Warren Blatt, Managing Director.   (Simi Valley, CA, USA)
• Avraham Groll, Director.   (New York, NY, USA)
• Michael Tobias, Vice President of Programming.   (Glasgow, Scotland)

Vice Presidents:

• Nolan Altman, VP, Data Acquisition.   (Oceanside, NY, USA)
• Phyllis Kramer, VP, Education.   (New York, NY, USA)
• Vivian Kahn, VP, SIG Affairs.   (Oakland, CA, USA)
• Susana Leistner Bloch, VP, KehilaLinks.   (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)

SIG Leadership:

This table contains the JewishGen Special Interest Group (SIG) leadership: SIG leaders, Mailing List Moderators, and Webmasters.

SIG	SIG Leader	Mailing List Moderator	Webmaster
Austria-Czech	Randy Schoenberg	Randy Schoenberg	Randy Schoenberg
Belarus	Dave Feldman	Stephen Jones, Hilary Henkin	Alan Raskin
Bessarabia	Yefim Kogan, Inna Vayner	Alan Levitt	Matthew Danish
BialyGen	Mark Halpern	Judy Baston, (Mark Halpern)	Mark Halpern
B D S & V	Alex Sharon	Carole Feinberg	Valerie Schatzker
Courland	vacant	Abraham Lenhoff	Abraham Lenhoff
Danzig	Logan J. Kleinwaks	Dick Plotz	Logan J. Kleinwaks
DNA	Elise Friedman	Dick Plotz	Elise Friedman
Early American	Marvin Weinberg	John Paul Lowens	Joshua Levy
French	Rosanne Leeson, Pierre Hahn	Rosanne Leeson, Pierre Hahn	Carol Levy Monahan
Gesher Galicia *	-	Renee Stern Steinig	(not hosted)
German	Alex Calzareth, John Paul Lowens, Roger Lustig, Jeanette Rosenberg	John Paul Lowens, (Margaret Power)	Alex Calzareth
Hungary	Vivian Kahn	Vivian Kahn, (Tom Venetianer)	Benjamin Schoenbrun
JCR-UK	Mark Nicholls	Richard Jaeger, (Louise Messik)	David Shulman
JRI-Poland *	Stanley Diamond	Judy Baston, (Hadassah Lipsius)	JRI-Poland Webmaster
Latin America	vacant	Robert Weisskirch	-
Latvia	Paul Cheifitz	Dick Plotz	Bruce Dumes
LitvakSIG *	-	Judy Baston	(not hosted)
Łódź	Roni Liebowitz, Debra Kay-Blatt	Judy Baston	Roni Liebowitz
Rabbinic	Shirley Rotbein Flaum	Dick Plotz	vacant
Romania	Rosanne Leeson	Rosanne Leeson, Mark Vigder	Danny Lesser
Scandinavia	Elsebeth Paikin	Dick Plotz	Elsebeth Paikin
Sephardic	Jeff Malka	Dick Plotz	Jeff Malka
South Africa	Saul Issroff, Roy Ogus	Abraham Lenhoff	Roger Harris
Sub-Carpathia	Lara Diamond	Lara Diamond, Dick Plotz	-
Ukraine	Janette Silverman	Linda Cantor, Freya Maslov, Chuck Weinstein	Ariel Parkansky
Warszawa	Hadassah Lipsius, Nicole Berline	Hadassah Lipsius, Nicole Berline	-
Yiddish Theatre	Jonina Duker	David Harris	-
Yizkor	Lance Ackerfeld	Dick Plotz	Lance Ackerfeld

* Hosted Organization.  The databases, websites and/or discussion groups of these organizations are hosted by JewishGen, although each is independent, with its own separate administrative and financial structure.

• Mailing List Moderators:
  The names of "backup moderators" are in parentheses in the above table.
  The moderators of the JewishGen Discussion Group mailing list are: Dick Plotz (Rhode Island, USA), Robert Fraser (Australia), Emily Garber (Arizona, USA), and Janette Silverman (Utah, USA).  Former moderators, who are still semi-active, include: Dorothy Leivers (Kent, England), and Rony Golan (Israel).

Technical and Support Volunteers:

• Dick Plotz – Manager: Mailing Lists.   (Rhode Island, USA)
• Lance Ackerfeld – Manager: Yizkor Book Project.   (Israel)
• Sandra Aaronson – Support Desk.   (Texas, USA)
• Iris Folkson – Tech: Lyris, IMail, FTJP, Passwords.   (New York, USA)
• Gary Sandler – Tech: Systems.   (California, USA)
• Alex Sharon – JGFF Editor.   (Alberta, Canada)
• Max Heffler – JOWBR HTML, Yizkor Book Necrology DB.   (Texas, USA)
• Marian Price – LostNFound.   (New York, USA)
• Sam Eneman – ViewMate Admin, Wall of Honor.   (North Carolina, USA)
• Barbara Ellman – KehilaLinks Technical Coordinator.   (New Jersey, USA)

Operations Committee:

The JewishGen Operations Committee (“OpCom”) is composed of the staff, vice-presidents, and selected key volunteers.  The OpCom’s nine current members are: Warren Blatt, Avraham Groll, Michael Tobias, Phyllis Kramer, Vivian Kahn, Susana Leistner Bloch, Dick Plotz, Nolan Altman, and Janette Silverman.

JewishGen Office:

Address:	JewishGen, Inc., Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280 USA
Phone:	(646) 437-4326
Fax:	(646) 365-4368