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Love in a Cup
Nothing says love in a cup to me like matzo ball soup, my ultimate comfort food. Let others extoll the childhood virtues of coming in from a cold day of snow play to warm up with tomato soup and grilled … Continue reading
The Memory of Loss
My urge to pursue a career in medicine comes from my maternal grandfather, a family doctor. My specific interest in neurological diseases could also be considered hereditary. Over the years, I watched how cancer and neurological diseases—namely Parkinson’s Disease and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's, bavaria germany, breast cancer, family history, Germany, neurological diseases, typhoid fever, World War I, WWI
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Do You Know Where You Are Going?
New York City, 1946. A family gathers at the Castleholm Restaurant, one of the top restaurants of its day, to celebrate a patriarch’s 70th birthday. They are all in attendance, every one of the living relatives who had immigrated from … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry, biography, family, geneology, german immigrants, Germany, history, memoir, new york city, old new york
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