Avraham Sfadia is Retired Colonel in the Israel Air-Force. He has been a genealogist since 1978.

Sfadia has served as an instructor for Dale Carnegie courses. And he has been an Israel Genealogical Society member since 1992.

He researches the following families: Sfadia, Bahuabe, Menged and Dayan (Daye) from Alepo-Syria; and Goldflam and Drenger from Belgium and Poland.

Sfadia has published a book : Tree’s Branches between Aram-Zova and Safed.

“Migration from Alepo between 19 – 20 century: Background, Reasons and Destinations” (Mon-112), 1:30-2:45 P.M.

Alepo is one of the most ancient cities in the Middle-East, since 3rd Millenium BCE. Jews settled there since the Babylonian diaspora – day of “Return to Zion” on the 5th century BCE. Thy continued to settle there through the Declaration the state of Israel in November1947.

The Jewish community was built and developed over more than 2000 years and served Jewish tradition over that same interval. The Alepo Jewish community became a magnet for migration for Jews from Spain, Central-Europe and the Middle-east.

Sfadia will describe the reasons that Jewish people left Alepo during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries and migrated to many countries in the world to build new homes in new places.

Topic: Immigration and migration over the ages, Sephardic research