The sweep of family history across the generations
It was a signature moment of the turbulent 1960s. Walter, 18, and Dan, 15, were there in Chicago, working as messengers for the Eugene McCarthy campaign.
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? He may have gotten the idea during intermission at a Bronx nickelodeon
From civil rights to war resistance to arms control, Ruby family members embraced liberal social causes
Abe Blokh became Abe Ratner to avoid conscription and get out of Russia. With his young wife and her mother, they voyaged from Bremen to Leeds to New York
In 1907, Moritz Feidt built a department store in Berlin Stieglitz. It still stands today
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.