In the spring of 2008, when I began assembling a basic family tree in preparation for my son Joshua’s Bar Mitzvah, I did not know any of my cousins outside of my own (Paull) branch of the Polonsky family. Never before had I met any member of the Adler, Chaber, Erskine, Gordon, Paulen, Polonsky, or Robbins branches of the family, and I was completely unaware of their existence. Read More…