Yefim KOGAN
Yefim Kogan was born in Kishinev, Moldova, USSR. He received Master of Science in Mathematics from Moscow Pedagogical University. He and his family emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1989. During last 20 years he did extensive genealogical and historical research and now he is a graduate student (class of 2012) at Hebrew College, Boston with the focus in Jewish Cultural History in Eastern Europe. He is active in Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston. Yefim conducted a serious session on Jewish Genealogy for the local Jewish community of Brookline and in Russian community of Boston. He developed a website for the JewishGen KehilaLinks town of Kaushany, Moldova, and is a coordinator and translator for Bessarabia Revision List project at JewishGen. In 2011, Yefim organized Bessarabia Special Interest Group, developed its website, and worked on multiple projects and as a SIG coordinator.
Recent genealogical lectures and seminars:
1) Reconnecting Lost Families. Finding Relatives from the Former Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. At the Panel of JGSGB, December 12, 2010
2) Kaushany, a shteitl in Bendery uezd, Bessarabia. Jewish history and genealogy in 18-20 centuries. At 30th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. Los Angeles, 11- 16 July 2010
3) Bessarabia: Revision Lists (Revizskie Skazki) of 19 century. New records for towns, townlets (shtetlech) and agricultural colonies. At 30th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. Los Angeles, 11- 16 July 2010
4) Jewish Genealogy seminars. How to build your Family Tree. Series of four seminars, Synagogue Temple Emeth, Brookline, April, November, December, 2010
5) History of Jews in Bessarabia (Moldova) in the 15th to 19th Centuries. Geography, History, Social Status. At 29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. Philadelphia 2-7 August 2009
HIS / HER CONFERENCES
17/07/2012 - Estate and other categories of Jews in Bessarabia, Russia in 19th century - Russia , Moldova , Ukraine , Bessarabia
16/07/2012 - Bessarabia SIG - Moldova , Romania , Bessarabia