The sweep of family history across the generations
Historical blogging makes strange bedfellows. A French jewelry critic and I were both interested in the history of the Clerc jewelry business during the Nazi era
Abe Blokh became Abe Ratner to avoid conscription and get out of Russia. With his young wife and her mother, they voyaged from Bremen to Leeds to New York
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.