About Emily Ciner Rose  

Emily Ciner Rose is the author of Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside (Jewish Publication Society, 2001). A translation of her book was published in Germany as Als Moises Kaz seine Stadt vor Napoleon rettete–Meiner jüdischen Geschichte auf der Spur Moises Kaz Saved His Town from Napoleon: On the Trail of My Jewish History) (Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag, 1999). The Jewish Book Council chose Portraits of Our Past as a National Jewish Book Awards Finalist. She shares guidelines for researching your roots and history and genealogy videos on her website www.emrosebooks.com

Emily grew up in Scarsdale, NY and graduated from Wheaton College, Norton, MA cum laude with history honors. For three years she traveled and worked in Europe, Israel, Afghanistan, and India. She and her husband lived in and around Lima, Peru for almost a decade. She taught adult literacy and started a cottage weaving industry employing Andean Indians. She and her husband reside in Naples, FL.

During a visit in 1992 to the Poland, a few cursory inquiries into her ancestors’ lives led to a new and fascinating focus to her life.

Emily’s research into the story of her very successful maternal great grandfather Solomon Karpen started with her visit to his ancestral town in Prussia (now Poland). The story of his emigration in 1872 and the history of S. Karpen & Bros. may be found on her website www.skarpenfurniture.com

Emily traveled to Kraków or Cracow, Poland where her paternal Ciner great grandparents lived (then part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire) before they immigrated in 1865. She began collecting Ciner Jewelry in the 1990s and has been researching the Ciner Family and Ciner Manufacturing Company for decades.