JRI-Poland, also known as Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, is an online resource for Jewish genealogists searching for Jewish vital records for the current and former territories of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

History

JRI-Poland was founded in 1995 by genealogists Stanley M. Diamond, and Michael Tobias, and Steven Zedeck. Diamond was researching the Beta

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genetic trait, which he suspected was present in

Ashkenazi Jewish Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

families in his family tree. In February 2013, a historic agreement was negotiated between JRI-Poland and the Polish State Archives to make more records available in digitized form. In 2014, JRI-Poland was instrumental in the ''

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'' episode featuring the family history of Alan Dershowitz,

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, and Tony Kushner according to Josh Gleason, producer, who said that the program was able to provide information about the subject's 3rd and 4th ancestors that would otherwise have been unavailable except for the work of JRI-Poland. In 2016, records found in the JRI-Poland databases provided confirmation of Holocaust survivor

Yisrael Kristal Yisrael Kristal (or Israel Kristal; born Izrael Icek Kryształ; he, ישראל קרישטל; 15 September 1903 – 11 August 2017) was a Polish-Israeli supercentenarian recognized in 2014 as the oldest living Holocaust survivor. After the dea ...

being the oldest living man.

Awards

* 1999: IAJGS Award for Outstanding Contribution via the Internet Award * 2014: IAJGS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Genealogy via the Internet

References

External links

JRI-Poland
Jewish genealogy Genealogy databases Jewish organisations based in Poland Internet properties established in 1995 {{Nonprofit-org-stub