Administration Team

Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D., KIPAH Director
Paul Finkelman, Ph.D., KI Historian & Archivist
Jack Myers, Archivist and Genealogy Specialist
Amy S. Erickson, Associate Archivist
Ellen Tilman, KI Librarian

Research Staff & Volunteers

Major Craig Anforth, (US Army, Ret.) Research Assistant – Military
Sondra Cohen, Development
Marcy Klugman, Research Assistant – Rabbi J. Krauskopf Papers
Janet Luterman, Research Assistant
Jack Myers, KI Genealogy
Sheryl Potashnik, Ph.D., Inventory
Kathy Schlessinger, Research Assistant – Bibliography
Joan Myerson Shrager, Digital Art Technology and Philadelphia Jewish History
Ellen Sklaroff, Research Assistant – Rabbi William H. Fineshriber Papers

Advisory Council Members

Frederic Blum, President, Philadelphia Jewish Genealogical Society
Harry D. Boonin, Historian
Karen S. Franklin, Leo Baeck Institute & JewishGen
Samuel Gruber, Ph.D., Director, International Survey of Jewish Monuments
Morton Langsfeld III, DDS, President, Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center
Kevin Proffitt,  Senior Archivist, American Jewish Archives
Nan Beth Wallace,  Former Executive Director, Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center

Archives Committees Members

Ethel Gershman, Co-Chair
Jack Myers, Co-Chair
Hon. Joseph Davidson, Research Archivist, WW 1 Veterans
Isaac Kruger, KI President Veachy Bloom
Judy Greenberg
Joan Gross
Jean Korn, z”l
Claire Schweriner
Phyllis Sichel, z”l

Judah A. Sussman, Research Assistant – Joseph Krauskopf, Meir Lasky, Temple Judea

Ex Officio Committee Members

Brian Rissinger, Executive Director,  KI
Evonne Jonas Kruger, President,  KI