A time capsule from my father's youth - the secrets of a 62 year old Bar Mitzvah book on his 75th birthday

Today, July 3, 2017, is my father - Howard Jay Eisen's birthday. He would have been 75 today. I am sure we would have had a grand celebration of some kind. I will make a toast in his honor tonight.Sadly, he is no longer alive. He passed away in 1987, when I was a freshman in college. It was a painful ending of his life. I have written about this. As has my brother Michael. As have some other people here and there. If you want to know more about that, well, here are some links to read. A day to think, to pause, to ponder. Posted by me February 7, 2013. My quest to free my father's publicationsDavid Dobbs in Wired Free Science, One Paper at a TimeDavid Dobbs follow up "Jonathan Eisen frees (almost all) his father's papers."My page about thisMother Jones article about my brother Michael Eisen with a discussion of our father. My brother's post from February 8, 2013: My father, Aaron Swartz, and assigning blame for suicideMy brother on scientific witchhunts: Yoshiki Sasai and the deadly consequences of science misconduct witchhuntsBut that is not what I want to write about today. The pain of his suicide will be with me forever I am sure. But I want to focus on his life. And that I know remarkably little about. So it was with great interest that a few years ago his sister Arleen came to visit us in California. And as part of this visit she gave me my father's Bar Mitzvah Book. I glan...
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