With your training at medical school, you are hired as a teacher of biology at the Kadoorie School in Shanghai. You enjoy working with the young Jewish students and even volunteer to help coach a soccer team. As the boys and girls get to know you better, they confide in you, telling you their secret hopes, fears, and doubts. You are glad to help them by listening sympathetically.
After the school day, you usually read a Shanghai Yiddish
newspaper called Unser Leben,
Our Life, and, occasionally, you
go to the Yiddish theater. You also do part-time volunteer work for
the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association on Kinchow Road, and it is
this experience which points you to a new career.
When the war ends, you emigrate to the United States where you find a job at the Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles. There you work as a youth leader until you retire. You are not a wealthy person, but you are content; you feel that contributing to the future generation of Jewish life has made your life worthwhile.
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