assimilation

Stories about family members who de-emphasized their Jewishness to fit more easily in the prevailing culture.

Dan supplemented his attendance at a Warsaw genealogy conference with a tour of family locations. Read his blog postings and view the post-trip…

Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end

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

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 and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans