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Keywords: "Daily Worker"; "Forverts"; "The Forward"; "The Jewish Daily Forward"; "The Yiddish Daily Forward"; 1940s; Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology; biomedical engineering; brother; career and professional life; childhood; Communist Party; extended family; father; immigration and migration; Massachusetts General Hospital; mother; newspapers; parents; physicians; professions; relatives; Russia; Second World War; teenage years; World War 2; World War II; WW2; WWII; Yiddish language; Yiddish speakers

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