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
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
Insider dealings in the French jewelry trade. Swank cocktail parties for the Nazi elite. A rough-cut Jewish jeweler and his ebullient new wife. Where Henry Kissinger met Le Duc Tho.
Remembering our Ringel and Wohlgemuth/Paechter family members who perished in the Shoah.
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Ze’evs progency: a new generation of vibrant, contemporary Israelis.
Herman Ringel and Walter Ruby wore opposing uniforms in the Great War
The Ringel sisters, Betty Twiasschor and Rosa Schattner, lived with their children in adjacent apartments on Lothringerstraße.
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.