My brother Marcus Stanley was an assistant professor of economics at Case Western. Then he became a staff economist for the Joint Economic Committee. Now he is working in the United States Senate.

My father, Manfred Stanley, was a professor in the Department of Sociology at Syracuse University. This is a very brief address I gave at Syracuse University's memorial service for him in December, 2004, about his work. Here are some pictures of him as a child in Berlin.

Here is the synagogue in Berlin where my great-grandfather, Magnus Davidsohn, was the chief Cantor for many years; Leo Baeck was the chief Rabbi. Here is a CD that contains some songs sung by him; the page also contains a brief clip of him singing the Psalm von Lewandowsky. There are a number of books that discuss him, some using the Christian name he used as an opera singer, Magnus Dawison (e.g. Chapter 6 of this volume of Henry-Louis De la Grange's biography of Gustav Mahler).

This is a very brief description of an episode of the show This is Your Life, with Ralph Edwards, featuring my grandmother, Ilse Stanley. She is also author of the book, The Unforgotten (Beacon Press, 1957), and appears in the movie Metropolis. Here are some pictures of her in Berlin, and here is her New York Times Obituary, from 1970. And here is a short review of her book from the Psychiatric Quarterly, 31.1 (January, 1957):

The Unforgotten. By ILSE STANLEY. 375 pages. Cloth. Beacon. Boston.
1957. Price $4.95.
Ilse Stanley's story is another of those to make ordinary Americans, who have merely read about the Gestapo, wonder at the capacity for
tolerance and insight which seems to characterize some of the people whom the Nazis treated the worst. Mrs. Stanley tells of a pleasant girlhood in
Berlin and a promising career cut short when Hitler commenced rounding up the Jewish population for concentration camps. It would be unfair
to explain how she did it but, because she was not readily recognized as Jewish, she was able to snatch scores of victims away from death or imprisonment.
When Germany at length became too hot even for her, she managed to reach this country where she was still called upon for unusual
exercise of brains and courage. With the war over, she embarked on her own program to re-create good will and understanding among Germans
of both Christian and Jewish faith. Any student of human relations should enjoy and profit from this book.