The sweep of family history across the generations
Two of the Ruby offspring went back to Israel for significant periods.
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
Two young Berliners make a modern marriage—with lasting consequences
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
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.
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?
Moses Ringel and Rose Lea Reichman raised a large family in Rzeszów in the Galizianer tradition
Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection
The U.S. liquor industry took off after the repeal of Prohibition. Walter Ruby was the marketing manager for the American Spirits company
In a dramatic moment while crossing the Mississippi River, he broke with his parents' austere Lutheranism for a more ecumenical approach
A pioneer to Palestine in 1936, Ze’ev married Penina and they did their part to build the state of Israel as founders of Kibbutz Afek.