
As I Am Presently Known
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Months after World War II officially ends, a 15-year-old boy still hides in a potato field. The horror of the Holocaust is followed by the horror of survival. The question "Why me?" haunts survivors for the rest of our lives. For some of us, life is only possible under the anesthesia of silence. After 63 years, Leon Rubinstein has broken his silence with this book. As I Am Presently Known is a remarkable story of life's victory over death and about one generation passing the torch to another. Marian Marzynski Holocaust survivor, documentary filmmaker, author of acclaimed film Shtetl The story of the Jewish people in the twentieth century is one of the great dramas of modern times. It has everything, from the searing tragedy of the Holocaust to the heroic creation of the State of Israel to the emergence of the Jewish community in the United States as the largest and most successful Jewish community in the world. Most people, when they search for the human dimension to these epochal events, come to know the Holocaust through the writings of Anne Frank or Elie Wiesel. They see Israel through the eyes of David Ben-Gurion or Golda Meir. When I look for the human story of what it must have felt like to be a Jew in the twentieth century, I think of my friend and congregant Leon Rubinstein. Leon experienced it all. Born into the comfortable security of a loving family in a small town in Poland, he would see his world fall apart when the Nazis invaded. He saw his parents led away to be murdered, he experienced the kindness of a Polish Christian and the cruelty of other Polish Christians. After the war, he made his way to Israel, served in the Israeli army and then found a new life and family in America. Harold Kushner Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel of Natick
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Foreword 5 Preface 9 Note to Readers 11 I. Childhood in Poland, 1930-1945 My Family Home 15 Meals and Holidays 21 My Parents and Grandparents 27 Raising the Children 29 Wolf's Work 33 The Community of Koretz 39 Education 43 The Russian Invasion 47 The German Invasion 53 The Ghetto 57 Hiding in Richk 61 Discovered by the Red Army 67 Novograd Volynsk 73 To the Orphanage 77 Displaced Persons Camp 81 II. Teenage Years in Palestine, 1946-1950 Smuggled into Palestine 89 Kibbutz Yagur 93 The Koretzor Society 97 Unrest in Palestine 101 War of Independence 105 Haifa 113 Bound for America 123 III. Young Man in America, 1951-1954 Transatlantic Crossing 131 Settling in Winthrop 137 The American Lifestyle 143 Overstaying My Welcome 149 Learning a Trade 157 Dating 159 Newlyweds 165 Back in Israel 167 Home 177 Looking Back: A Conversation with Leon Rubinstein 181 Epilogue 203 Glossary of Terms 205 About the Authors
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