Jeffrey S. Malka

Dr. Jeffrey S. Malka is an internationally recognized expert in Sephardic Genealogy. In 2012, at the Paris conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies, Malka was awarded the Societies' prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering work on Sephardic genealogy.

Dr, Malka is also the author of the book "Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering your Sephardic Ancestors and their World". The first edition was awarded the 2002 "Reference Book of the Year" Award by the Association of Jewish Libraries. It remains the essential book on the subject.

Malka has lectured at the Library of Congress, International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies annual conferences, Washington Jewish Historical Society, Association of Jewish Libraries conference and numerous Jewish Genealogy Societies in the U.S., Canada, Israel, Turkey, and Spain. He is the creator of the well-known and large SephardicGen website and is the primary contributor of JewishGen's Sephardic databases.

Prior to retiring in 2000, Dr. Malka was an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Georgetown University and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital, a tertiary care teaching hospital in Northern Virginia.