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Available from Austin Macauley
Publishers, Amazon, and Barnes and
Noble, this book is about growing
up in Detroit enduring family
violence, poverty, and antisemitism.
Despite these sad themes, the
book is strongly positive. Its goal is
to show, through lived experience,
how a child can survive a very
difficult childhood to become a
productive and happy adult.

DEFIANCE

RESCUING THE SELF AFTER SOUL MURDER

Published by Austin Macauley Publishers

RESCUING THE SELF AFTER SOUL MURDER

In Defiance, witness how a Jewish child subjected to
profound distress can evolve and rise as a Woman of Valor.

Janet
Abramson

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www.hfldetroit.org • 248.723.8184

Hebrew Free Loan Detroit

6735 TELEGRAPH ROAD, SUITE 300 • BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN 48301

@HFLDetroit

Community donations help Hebrew Free Loan give
interest-free loans to local Jews for a variety of personal,
health, educational and small business needs.

STORY
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wo social meetings with friends brought Merle
and Ron Schwartz to focus on Hebrew Free
Loan as a place to establish a fund to honor the
memory of Merle’s parents. Over drinks and
again at a lunch, HFL came up in conversation.
Merle and Ron looked into it further, and found an
area of need that spoke to them.
“My father was the head of OB/GYN at Sinai
Hospital,” Merle said. “He trained many doctors
in the city, was very pro women’s health, and did
a great deal to advance surrogacy, infertility and
in-vitro fertilization. My mother also worked at
Sinai, and was active in prenatal care and diabetic
education. They both would have loved to know
that we established the Sandra and Alfred Sherman
Family IVF/Fertility/Adoption Loan Fund at Hebrew Free
Loan to help grow Jewish families. The cost of
testing, treatments and adoption fees can some-
times be a barrier for many Jewish couples.
“What a satisfying thing, knowing that we
could offer help in a real and substantive way,
make a difference in people’s lives, and give
them the happiness of family, just as we’ve had,”
Merle said.

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