My approach

Modelled after the well-known American firms which specialize in historical research, this service is nevertheless different to some extent in two aspects. 

Firstly, it is global in the meaning that it is not limited to one area but can usually handle requests for research  in various locations, be it Israel, Eastern and Central Europe, the US, and more. This approach seems to me to be of much importance because, possibly much more than any other historical research, Jewish historical research calls for a world-wide approach, which means retrieving and combining information from various sources kept in various locations. This is because so many Jewish people moved from one place to another throughout the last 150 years,  because borders changed so much during that period in Central and Eastern Europe, and because so much archival material was removed from its original locations  in the wake of the Holocaust. Consequently one finds many French Jewish records in Moscow and New York, important holdings pertaining to the Vienna Jewish community in Jerusalem  and much information on  Jewish communities of what is today Ukraine, in Warsaw.  In most cases it is only by combining resources from various locations that a full picture of the researched topic can be recovered. 

Secondly, it is comprehensive in the meaning that it offers under one roof  the entire spectrum of historical and genealogical research, starting with research for university faculty and ending with search for missing heirs.   

In order to implement these ideas,  there could be no better place of work than Jerusalem. Here I have at my disposal the vast collections and resources of Israeli archives and libraries and yet am only three to four hours of flight away from Eastern and Central Europe.  Because of the diversity of Israeli society it is almost always possible to find  assistants for odd assignments like deciphering old letters written in German in Hebrew characters, helping to understand the complexities of Jewish vital statistics from Galicia, and even researching Ottoman records written in Turkish in Arabic characters.