From 2008-2011, the Nevzlin Center organized a comprehensive, international research project devoted to the history and culture of Jews in Galicia and Bukovina. The shifting of national boundaries during the 19^th and 20^th centuries meant that this research was conducted in today's Ukraine, Poland and Romania. With the generous support of a private donor, and led  by Dr. Semion Goldin and Dr. Vladimir Levin, the  Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina project was designed to preserve the history of the once-thriving Jewish world in Galicia and Bukovina.

The project conducted three summer expeditions (led by Dr. Boris Khaimovich) to sites of former Jewish life in Galicia and Bukovina. The Nevzlin Center organized the first expedition (together with local partners in Russia and Ukraine) in the summer of 2009. This inaugural mission documented the Jewish cemetery in Solotvin, situated in the Ivano-Frankovsk district of Ukraine. Two subsequent summer expeditions to the region in 2010 and 2011 collected substantial  new material.

The main product of the expeditions and other research efforts to date has been the creation of an Internet-based database, featured on the website http://jgaliciabukovina.net/. The database includes the scholarly reconstruction of Jewish cemeteries, historic archival documents from state authorities and the local communities.

Beginning in mid-2011, the project has been administered by an independent non-profit association, “Jewish Galicia and Bukovina”, dedicated to the documentation, preservation and educational dissemination of the history and rich cultural heritage of the Jewish communities of this region.