Thanks to the newspapers that have taken an interest in the project:
- Rauh researchers reveal forgotten Jewish stories from WWI (The Jewish Chronicle, 11/16/2017)
- Research on Jews in Homestead brings World War I stories out of the shadows (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/11/2017)
- Performing a Good Deed (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6/5/2017)
About our first cemetery clean-up day! - Former New York tech executive finds passion in uncovering Homestead’s Jewish history (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/24/2015)
This article was picked up by numerous newspapers nationwide like Houston Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Washington Times, as well as Jewish newspapers like Vos Is Neias and HaModia - Finding a Jewish family’s roots in Homestead (Post-Gazette.com Videos, 5/24/2015)
- Archivists giving priority to reviving small-town histories (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/24/2015)
- One woman’s obsession is Jewish Homestead’s enormous gain (The Jewish Chronicle, 10/14/2014)
And to the following institutions that gave me an opportunity to present my research publicly:
- Annual Herscher Dialogue
Skirball Cultural Center (December 2, 2015; Los Angeles, CA) - Reconstructing Small-Town Jewish Communities in America: A Case Study (Watch now!)
International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (July 7, 2015; Jerusalem, Israel) - In Search of a Usable Past: Reconstructing the Jewish History of Homestead, Pennsylvania (Watch now!)
The Library of Congress (May 18, 2015; Washington, DC) - First Jewish Families of Homestead
Carnegie Library of Homestead (May 14, 2015; Homestead, PA) - “There’s No One Left to Talk To”: Using the Rauh Jewish Archives to Tell the Stories of the First Jewish Families of Homestead, Pennsylvania
Heinz History Center (March 22, 2015; Pittsburgh, PA)
Personal essays
- Overlooked Women at the Homestead Hebrew Congregation (Lilith Magazine, Winter 2016-2017)
- Chanting My Way Up the Family Tree (Tablet Magazine, 10/19/2016)