Homestead Hebrews: Recent Episodes
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How often do we fail to find our ancestors in the census because they simply are not there?
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How one man's illegal scheme led to an awful enumeration of one Homestead neighborhood.
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Hidden in miles of Homestead newspaper microfilm is the forgotten story of why many of us cannot find our families in the 1900 census.
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The Chinese residents of Homestead were never permitted to form a community in the way other immigrants took for granted. Here's what their lives were like.
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The story of a memorial poem for a Jewish soldier that was forgotten for a century.
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One kid who grew up in Homestead's Jewish community became a major Hollywood star. You knew I would have to write about him eventually!
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Introducing Homestead Hebrew Data, where you can share in all the wonderful discoveries I've made about your families.
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An envelope addressed to M. M. Friedlander and postmarked 1901 found its way to Greece -- and that is the least exciting leg of its journey.
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Some thoughts on Gettysburg vs. Homestead, written on the anniversary of both.
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A hundred years ago Homesteaders rallied around the country's entry into a war going worse than they knew.
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To kick off the commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the Homestead strike, I examined the lessons of the decades-long interdependence of the town’s merchants and millworkers.
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A hundred years ago Homesteaders began the month with news of a shocking GERMAN PLOT and ended on the verge of war.
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Reconstructing Homestead's early years of integration through the words of the local newspaper and the first Jewish residents creates a narrative with unexpected resonance for this post-election climate.
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