The sweep of family history across the generations
Joe Liebman’s son made his own name in the Parisian jewelry trade—and carried on the Rue de Saussaye tradition
Most of what we discovered about Rabbi Spektor's genealogy was entirely true. All but the myth of our family's connection to it
In 1907, Moritz Feidt built a department store in Berlin Stieglitz. It still stands today
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.