The sweep of family history across the generations
Dan supplemented his attendance at a Warsaw genealogy conference with a tour of family locations. Read his blog postings and view the post-trip video coverage.
Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end
Ed was the rector at Saint Martin's By the Lake in Minnetonka Beach, Minn. The family was raised in towns around the lake region west of Minneapolis, including in the church rectory
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? He may have gotten the idea during intermission at a Bronx nickelodeon
Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.
The Ruby family comes of age in a bedroom suburb west of Chicago
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Today it is Rezekne in Latvia. In the 19th century, it was the village in Vitebsk Province where our Tulbowitz clan lived in the old Yiddish way
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.
Our best documented family line is Feige Kaufler's ancestry among the Jewish families of Krakow.
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans
Before moving his family to Berlin in 1912, Isaak Wohlgemuth prospered as a mover in Danzig. His family roots were in nearby West Prussia.
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.
Outlooks of a pre-millennial
In a dramatic moment while crossing the Mississippi River, he broke with his parents' austere Lutheranism for a more ecumenical approach