Vivian Kahn is director of JewishGen’s Hungarian Research Division and previously served as moderator of the Hungarian discussion list and as JewishGen’s Vice President of SIG Affairs. In 2019, she gave a talk at the IAJGS Conference on using Monumenta Hungariae, one of the sources the authors consulted, as a resource for Hungarian Jewish family research. She is a direct descendant of Lazarus Polatschick, who was identified as a visitor to the Leipzig Fair, and is a great-grandaughter of Ottilie Polacsek, who was born in Hunsdorff in 1844, who was his great-granddaughter. Kahn lives in Sonoma County, California.