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• Background; Tsarist Russia; The Pale of Settlement; The Napoleonic Wars; Initiation of Pogroms; Jewish Emigration; The Bolshevik Revolution; Immigration to the United States; A New Century; Roots in Belarus; Emigration to Chicago; Retail Store to Drugstores; Elementary Lessons Growing Up in Chicago; Boy Scouts and High School; Undergraduate School Years (1929-1933); On to Medical School and Beyond (1933-1937); University of Illinois (1937-1940); Marriage to Rhoda Gerard; Basic Training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1940-1946); Life in St Louis and Chicago (1943-1955); Practice of Plastic Surgery (1946-1956); Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery (1946-1956); The Move to California (1955); Personal Life in Beverly Hills; Foreign Travel; A Very Close Brush with Death (1961); Private Practice in Beverly Hills (1956-1991); Academia and Research; A Day in the Life of a Plastic Surgeon; A Day in the Life of a Biological Scientist; A Career as Plastic Surgeon and Researcher; Chapter Notes; Chronology; Conferred Honors.

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• Background; Tsarist Russia; The Pale of Settlement; The Napoleonic Wars; Initiation of Pogroms; Jewish Emigration; The Bolshevik Revolution; Immigration to the United States; A New Century; Roots in Belarus; Emigration to Chicago; Retail Store to Drugstores; Elementary Lessons Growing Up in Chicago; Boy Scouts and High School; Undergraduate School Years (1929-1933); On to Medical School and Beyond (1933-1937); University of Illinois (1937-1940); Marriage to Rhoda Gerard; Basic Training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (1940-1946); Life in St Louis and Chicago (1943-1955); Practice of Plastic Surgery (1946-1956); Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery (1946-1956); The Move to California (1955); Personal Life in Beverly Hills; Foreign Travel; A Very Close Brush with Death (1961); Private Practice in Beverly Hills (1956-1991); Academia and Research; A Day in the Life of a Plastic Surgeon; A Day in the Life of a Biological Scientist; A Career as Plastic Surgeon and Researcher; Chapter Notes; Chronology; Conferred Honors.