An annotated translation of the extraordinary autobiography of Dr. Moisey Wolf (1922-2007), " Therefore, Choose Life... " is an important addition to the literature of Jewish experience and deepens our understanding of the human condition in the twentieth century.
Wolf describes his Jewish childhood and youth in pre-war Poland, his escape from the Holocaust and subsequent medical service in the Soviet Army during World War II and the following decade, his distinguished career in psychiatry in post-Stalinist Soviet Russia, and his final years in Portland, Oregon, after his departure from...