by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 8, 2018 | Family History Center
The family story told in Bertha Paull Friedman’s memoir provided intriguing clues regarding how we in the Polonsky family are descended from two very important Chassidic rabbis.70 Further, it tells us that both of these rabbis were disciples of the Baal Shem Tov, one...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 7, 2018 | Family History Center
In Great Britain, ancient genealogies are most often available to royal families. For the Jewish people, “…our royal families have been those of the illustrious rabbis.” There is much truth to this statement, and although the Polonsky surname is only two...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 6, 2018 | Family History Center
Our Polonsky surname dates back many generations, and we can be proud to be the descendants of such an illustrious lineage of distinguished rabbis. But how did these rabbis come to be known by the Polonsky surname, and who was the first rabbi in the lineage to bear...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 5, 2018 | Family History Center
Undoubtedly the terrible persecution, repression, and economic deprivation that our ancestors confronted in Czarist Russia led them, along with millions of other Russian Jews, to immigrate to the United States. America was a land of freedom and opportunity, but still,...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 4, 2018 | Family History Center
Amidst the poverty and the persecution that defined Jewish life in the Russian Pale of Settlement, there was one potential way out of the misery – immigration to America, di goldeneh medina, the Golden Land. Between 1881 and 1920, approximately three million Ashkenazi...
by Jeffrey Mark Paull | Oct 3, 2018 | Family History Center
Unbeknownst to Nathan Polonsky and his family when they arrived in Brooklyn in 1914, they were on the cusp of one of the most epic periods of history that America, and arguably the world, has ever known. Over the next three decades, the country would experience two...
