The sweep of family history across the generations
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
Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end
Farmers and seafarers from the south Norway coast
Two young Berliners make a modern marriage—with lasting consequences
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin
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.
Family stories may be sweeping or specific. They capture some essential aspect of the family's generational journey.