The Fruit of Her Hands – The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz

My mother always told me I our family could trace our family tree back to the 1200s. When begining research for a second novel, I discovered that this was, in fact, true.

It was when I began to learn more about Meir of Rothenberg's dramatic and profound life that I decided to write about him and his family -- which is the story, of course, of my own family.

ROTHENBURG, Meir ben Baruch Rabbi ( b. Worms,1215 d. 1293)

ROTHENBERG, Suesskind ben Meir

ROTHENBERG, Getschlik ben Suesskind

ROTHENBERG, Meir ben Getschlik

ROTHENBERG, Mordechai ben Meir

ROTHENBERG, Abraham ben Mordechai

ROTHENBERG, Ejakim ben Abraham Chief Rabbi ( d. 1570 )

ROTTENBERG, Mordechai Zyskind Rabbi ( b. ABT 1630 d. AFT 1714)

ROTTENBERG, Shlomo

ROTTENBERG, Mordechai ( b. ABT 1700 ) + LEVY, Hanne

ROTTENBERG, Yisrael Rabbi ( b. 1765 d. 1827)

ROTTENBERG, Ya'akov Yossef Rabbi ( d. 7 AUG 1851 )

ROTTENBERG, Mordechai Kalman { b. 1795 d. 1870) + RAPPOPORT, Ita Reizel ( b. 1802 d. 1885 )

ROTENBERG, Shmuel Tzvi Rabbi ( b. 1850 d. 1915) + KOREL, Rivka

ROTENBERG, Feigue + SHIDLOVSKY, Menashe

SHIDLOVSKY, Chana ( b. 1889 Skryhiczyn d. 1970 Israel) + KASKIN, Luis (d. 1973 Elmer, NJ)

KASKIN, Sara (b. 1924 Philadelphia, NJ d. 1995 Migdal Haemek Israel) + KREPS, Saul (b. 1917 New York, NY d. 1991 Migdal Haemek Israel)

KREPS, Michelle (b. 1958 Glen Ridge, NJ) + CAMERON, Steven Glenn (b. 1951, New York, NY)

Geoffrey Samuel (b. 1988, Boston, MA) - Alexander Henry (b. 1990, Boston, MA)