The sweep of family history across the generations
Stan's Mathematica notebooks document his later work and speculations
Betty Ringel's two daughters were able to leave Germany before 1938. They were in the twenties and they settled in London.
Amid the chaos of the Nazi period, the Zionist school in Charlottenburg taught skills and values that lasted a lifetime
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.
The Ringel family crossed from Lisbon on the SS Guine—but their entry to the U.S. was anything but routine
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.
In July 1940, consular officials from three nations conspired to open an escape route for Jews out of occupied France. Why did they do it?
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
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
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
Our best documented family line is Feige Kaufler's ancestry among the Jewish families of Krakow.
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
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