The sweep of family history across the generations
Two of the Ruby offspring went back to Israel for significant periods.
Dan supplemented his attendance at a Warsaw genealogy conference with a tour of family locations. Read his blog postings and view the post-trip video coverage.
Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end
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
Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985
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
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.
Two young Berliners make a modern marriage—with lasting consequences
The Ruby family comes of age in a bedroom suburb west of Chicago
Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.
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
Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans
Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection
Before moving his family to Berlin in 1912, Isaak Wohlgemuth prospered as a mover in Danzig. His family roots were in nearby West Prussia.
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.
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.