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
Farmers and seafarers from the south Norway coast
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
An innovator in modern dance and choreography since breaking in with the Murray Lewis Dance Company in the 1980s. The Ratners moved geographically. Janis moves artistically.
Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.
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.
In 1812 in Preußisch Stargardt, an elderly Jew Moses and his sons Salomon and Herz took the surname Wohlgemuth in exchange for Prussian citizenship rights. Our family, descended from Herz Wohlgemuth, stayed in Stargardt for the next three generations
A surprising artifact discovered after a parent's death leads to a series of discoveries and a new pastime in genealogy
Our best documented family line is Feige Kaufler's ancestry among the Jewish families of Krakow.
Leon Klein continued to work for American Spirits as its upstate New York sales representative
Moses Ringel and Rose Lea Reichman raised a large family in Rzeszów in the Galizianer tradition
From 1880s to the 1930s, the Ringel family prospered in the garment trade in the German capital. Herman made men's outerwear.
Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection
Joseph Rabinowitz’s mother was Bertha Yesersky. Was she related to Sora Yesersky, the wife of Rabbi Elchanon Spektor?
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.