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The Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant |
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The Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant honors Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern, widely considered to be the dean of American Jewish genealogy, and his efforts to increase the availability of resources for Jewish genealogical research.
Annual
Call for Nominations
Supporting the Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant |
Past Recipients
2012
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The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to continue the printing, digitizing and indexing of records in their archives, particularly those focusing on the overseas rescue, relief, and rehabilitation of Jews during the middle of the 20th century. They will then be made available on line world-wide. Over 300,000 digitized documents are already available here. -$1,500
The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA). The Grant is for the completion of a search engine able to handle both English and Hebrew searches, which will enable researchers not familiar with the other language to find the families they are searching. Such a search engine does not presently exist. Materials currently being scanned and indexed are records since the British Mandate period. The IGRA multi-lingual website has a world-wide audience. -$1,500 |
| 2011 |
Gesher Galicia was awarded a Stern Grant towards the continuing efforts to inventory, index and record acquisition for the Cadastral Map and Landowner Records Project. This project will benefit a wide range of
genealogists. -$2,000
The American Jewish Historical Society was awarded a Stern Grant towards the Archive's continuing efforts to microfilm the Records of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (Boston), 1870-1977. The
original files are in Boston and by microfilming them it would give greater access to these records both in their Boston and New York facilities. A partial finding aid is searchable on-line. This project is not only beneficial to genealogists but by providing funds to the AJHS we build better relationships between Archives and Genealogist. -$1,000 |
| 2010 |
The Israel Genealogical Society (IGS) for (1) transcribing and scanning records from the Ottoman Empire, recorded in Ottoman Arabic Osmanli script; (2) scanning pages from various libraries that show the Hebraizing of family names and building a database and (3) locate and scan books of residents and/or directories of citizens and make them available to all researchers. - $2,500. |
| 2009 |
"Shamir"
(www.shamir.lv) a non-profit organization based in Latvia
for "The Guide to Jewish Materials Stored in the Latvian
State Historical Archive". The grant will help in preparing
an overview of existing materials about the Latvian Jewish
Community that are in the Latvian State Archive and to create
a comprehensive guide which will benefit Jewish genealogists
researching their Latvian roots and other historians. The
Latvian State Archives has materials on Jewish history, culture
and genealogy dating back to the XVI century which have never
been catalogued nor a listing made available to the public.
- $2,500. |
| 2008 |
The Italian
Genealogical Group (IGG - www.Italiangen.org). The grant
will make it possible for the IGG to create and computerize
a Brooklyn Brides Index for 1910-1930 from original records
on 268 rolls of film from the Family History Library. There
is currently no such index available for this period – a period
of massive Jewish immigration. The Jewish genealogy community
has greatly benefited from the 12,000,000 records computerized
by earlier IGG projects, and it is most appropriate to support
the 1910-1930 Brooklyn Brides project, one that will surely
allow many researchers to identify the descendants of female
relatives who have to date been untraceable. - $2,500 |
| 2007 |
US
Holocaust Memorial Museum for its upcoming project to
index materials it receives from the International Tracing
Service (ITS). - $2000 |
| 2006 |
Toledot-Jewish
Family History Centre in Prague for its project to Digitize
Jewish Familiant Registers from Bohemia (1760-1849)
- $2000 |
| 2005 |
Jewish
Genealogical Society of Montreal for their project to digitize and
index Canadian naturalization records 1932-1951 covering
approximately 400,000. The data will be posted to the Internet.
- $2000 |
| 2004 |
No
award given |
| 2003 |
University
of Denver Ira M. Beck Memorial Special Collection Archives
to support the JCRS project indexing about 25,000 tuberculosis
patient files from 1904-1920 - $2000 |
| 2002 |
The
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives,
Cincinnati, OH - $2000 to expand its archives |
| 2001 |
Genealogy
Institute of the Center for Jewish History, New York
City - $1000
Central
Zionist Archives, Jerusalem - $1000
The
Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, Philadelphia, PA.
- $1000
Center
for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia, Riga
- $1000
JewishGen,
Houston, TX - $1000 |
| 2000 |
No
award given |
| 1999 |
The
International
Survey of Jewish Monuments, Syracuse, NY - $2000
The US Holocaust
Museum, Washington, DC - $2000 to computerize Russian
lists of Holocaust victims |
| 1998 |
Jewish
Agency Search Bureau, Jerusalem Jerusalem - $1,250
Jewish
Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland - $1,250 |
| 1997 |
No
award given |
| 1996 |
Jewish
Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland - $1,250
The US
Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad,
Washington, DC - $500 |
| 1995 |
Jewish
Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland - $1000
The Federation of Genealogical Societies' Stern-NARA
Gift Fund for US National Archives microfilming - $1000 |
| 1994 |
Yad
Vashem, Jerusalem - $3000 to purchase computers to speed
process of computerizing Pages of Testimony |
| 1993 |
Central
Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem
- Funding for adding much needed office space |
| 1992 |
No
award given |
| 1991 |
Jewish
Agency Search Bureau, Jerusalem - $3000 |
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Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant Support
Jewish
Genealogical Societies, their members, and all others who wish to
advance the work of Jewish genealogy are invited to send a donation
to the Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant Fund. The IAJGS
accounts funds donated for the Stern Grant as designated funds,
and they are not used for any other purpose. Donations should be
sent to:
IAJGS
Treasurer
PO Box 3624,
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034-0556
Call
for Nominations
The
Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Grant Committee is established each year
to consider nominations from the IAJGS member societies,
to be presented to the IAJGS Board for their consideration. Nominations
from all member societies are encouraged. We also encourage
you to send a donation to the Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant Fund in addition
to nominating an organization to receive the Grant.
Deadline:
April 17, Annually
Nominations
should be made using the one-step form at Steve Morse's website.
All
evaluations by the committee will be in-camera. The committee will
make a recommendation to the IAJGS board, for their consideration
and approval, which is then presented to the membership for a vote
at the annual meeting.
Grant
Criteria:
The intention of the Stern Grant is to encourage institutions or organizations, Jewish or not, to pursue projects, activities and acquisitions that provide new or enhanced resources to benefit Jewish genealogists. The Grant is to be given to institutions or organizations rather than individuals.
Factors to be considered in the evaluation of nominations include: (A) Will our grant tangibly increase the likelihood that the project will be accomplished? (B) Will the project results be made easily available to the overall community of Jewish genealogists and will it be offered without charge? (C) Is the time the project is expected to take reasonable (both in terms of doing an adequate job as well as for the availability of the results -- in general, 12-18 months is a reasonable timeframe)?
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