Tag: Genealogy

Polish Catholic priest Leszek Szkudlarek delves into the forgotten Jewish history of Chocz, a town in central Poland, after discovering school yearbook photos that included Jewish students.
Musician Alanis Morissette discovers her family's Jewish history on the PBS series Finding Your Roots.
The author shares personal experiences and reflections on the relationship between Polish and Jewish identity.
This article discusses Fady Joudah's poem and its exploration of the violence and erasure embedded in language and colonialism.
The article provides a list of 18 ideas for how to handle retirement without driving.
In this personal essay, the author recounts their journey to buy a headstone for a Holocaust survivor named Josef Hamerman.
Gary Perlman, a retired software developer leading the Jewish Genealogical Society's cemetery project in Montreal, is preserving the history of nearly 80,000 Jews buried in Quebec.
Adam McKinney, the incoming artistic director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, has used dance as a way to explore his own Black, Jewish, and Native American heritage.
Dylan Cease, the Chicago White Sox pitcher, gained attention from Jewish baseball fans due to his appearance on Team Israel's early roster for the World Baseball Classic, sparking curiosity about his Jewish heritage.
76-year-old Annie Gottlieb and her 98-year-old mother, Jean, collaborated for five years to publish a family memoir titled "Braided Generations: The Living, the Lost, and the Power of Belonging."
The author shares her journey to Ukraine to connect with her Jewish Ukrainian roots.
In their book Reading Ruth: Birth, Redemption, and the Way of Israel, Leon Kass and Hannah Mandelbaum provide a commentary on the biblical book of Ruth.
The article tells the love story of Harry Korniarski and Ester Gelman Leichner, whose meeting in New Orleans was facilitated by The Forward, a Yiddish newspaper.
The author reflects on their upcoming Thanksgiving celebration, which will be different as they recently discovered their descent from Mayflower passengers and Native Americans.
In episode 109 of "Relatively Speaking," live from JCC Manhattan, writer A.J. Jacobs discusses his latest book on genealogy, sharing stories of discovering famous and infamous relatives and revealing surprising connections to the hosts.