The Liberator's Daughter - Paperback

by Deborah J. Levine (Author)

The son of a shoe peddler immigrant, Aaron Levine graduated from Harvard, fell in love and married a nice Jewish girl from Bermuda and enlisted in the US Army in World War II. He was soon deployed to France and Germany as a military intelligence officer dedicated to helping fellow Jews who had stayed in Europe. The atrocities that he witnessed in the death camps and the Nazi prisoners of war that he interrogated deeply affected Aaron. His letters to his wife expressed the horrors he saw and the emotional scars they left. Their life-long dedication to Jewish advocacy and education was the result. Years later, Aaron's legacy of letters and family artifacts inspired their daughter to dedicate her life to the Jewish community, Holocaust education, interfaith collaboration, and cross-cultural understanding.The Liberator's Daughter is a history-rich story of Deborah Levine's family, with humble beginnings in Boston and the British island of Bermuda and stops along the way in Paris, Cincinnati, Chicago, Manhattan's lower East Side, and Tulsa. Today, Deborah is headquartered in Chattanooga, where she continues her work of tikkun olam, repair of the world, in the Southern tradition of storytelling.

Author Biography

Deborah Levine is an award-winning author and editor-in-chief of the American Diversity Report (ADR). Deborah published her first short story while in high school and began her editing career as a student at Harvard. Her writing spans decades with articles in professional and popular publications: The Huffington Post, The Bermudian Magazine, Journal of Public Management & Social Policy, LifeStyle Entrepreneur, and The Harvard Divinity School Bulletin. Recently, she served as Research Coordinator at the College of Engineering & Computer Science where she edited papers for professional journals and taught technical writing. Deborah earned a National Press Association Award for her book, Teaching Curious Christians about Judaism, which was taken to Vatican City as a gift for Pope Francis. Her book, Going Southern: The No-Mess Guide to Success in the South, is featured on C-SPAN. As editor and publisher of the ADR, Deborah received the Champion of Diversity Award from diversitybusiness.com.