The sweep of family history across the generations
Stan's Mathematica notebooks document his later work and speculations
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
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
Amid the chaos of the Nazi period, the Zionist school in Charlottenburg taught skills and values that lasted a lifetime
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? He may have gotten the idea during intermission at a Bronx nickelodeon
Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.
The Ruby family comes of age in a bedroom suburb west of Chicago
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
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.
The U.S. liquor industry took off after the repeal of Prohibition. Walter Ruby was the marketing manager for the American Spirits company