Touro Synagogue Foundation has announced the first event of its 2025 Judah Touro Program Series, to be presented via Zoom on Thursday, February 27, at 6:30 p.m.
Guest speaker Amy Wachs will present a talk titled “Our Eastern European Roots: We Are What our Ancestors Ate.”
Family recipes can reveal much about our Eastern European ancestors’ place of origin and life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe. The foods our ancestors ate, as preserved in family recipes, are invaluable clues to learning more about family history. Based on her personal experiences there, Amy’s presentation will focus on the Russian Pale and Galicia. Her talk will include examples from Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, and Moldova.
A past president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland, Amy Wachs is a retired attorney and university instructor. She taught law in Latvia as a Fulbright Scholar and in Moldova as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Amy taught courses on Eastern Europe at a public research university and a genealogical research institute.
There is no fee to participate, but reservations are required to receive the Zoom login information. For the link to reserve, plus recordings of past programs, visit the “Programs & Events” page at tourosynagogue.org, where you can also enjoy recordings of past programs.