Arthur Kurzweil grew up hearing his father's tales of Dobromyl, the small town-a shtetl - in what is now Ukraine, which his father had left behind as a child when his family emigrated to New York in the 1920s. As a young man in the 1970s, Arthur obsessively sought to rediscover this lost world, researching in the New York Public Library and tracking down the shtetl's surviving emigrants. This research led him write his best-selling book, From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History, but his obsession with Dobromyl didn't abate. Arthur will bring us along on his quest to find his father's ancestral home in Dobromyl - a quest that covers physical and spiritual ground. Join him on a frustrating trip to Soviet-held Ukraine in the 1970s to multiple return trips to a free Ukraine in the 21st century, in a quest that brings him to the height of elation and to the depths of despair. His search for his father's roots leads him down paths that are wondrous, heartwarming, and heartbreaking.

A groundbreaker in the field of Jewish genealogy, Arthur Kurzweil is the author of From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History. He is also the author of two books in the well-know "For Dummies" series, Kabbalah for Dummies and The Torah From Dummies. A disciple of the late Talmudic scholar, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, Arthur wrote a memoir about his relationship with Rabbi Steinsaltz titled On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz. His most recent book is The Persistence of Memory: My Father's Ukrainian Shtetl. (Ben Yehuda Press).