The sweep of family history across the generations
Just a bit about Twyla, Gene, Zach and Lani.
Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.
Most of what we discovered about Rabbi Spektor's genealogy was entirely true. All but the myth of our family's connection to it
Joseph Rabinowitz’s mother was Bertha Yesersky. Was she related to Sora Yesersky, the wife of Rabbi Elchanon Spektor?
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.
Walter thought he had proved the family legend of descent from the celebrated Kovno Rav, Rabbi Yitchak Elchanon Spektor. Later facts emerged that suggested a more tenuous connection.