A Need to Belong

About the Book

From birth, David Rozinsky fought to belong, first within his dysfunctional family—a mother who hated him and favored his twin brother, and a milquetoast father who obediently kept his distance—then, as he matured, for acceptance in the land of his birth, only to find that he must pay for its undeniable freedoms and creature comforts with barbs of intolerance and a threatened loss of identity. When he and his wife finally say "enough" and emigrate to Israel, the struggle for a place to belong takes on a different reality, as they try to adjust to a foreign mentality and David fights to pierce the bond between ex-army cronies, who feel threatened by his talents and special skills. At the end comes the question: "Which world will he choose?"

About the Author

Although this book is not autobiographical, it is an outgrowth of the author's experiences. In his youth, he did spend time on a Baron de Hirsch farm in Connecticut; he did serve on the Italian front during World War Two; he was an engineer in the American aerospace industry, which included testing the huge Atlas engines used on the Saturn moon program; he did eventually emigrate to Israel in 1968 with his wife and four children, where he worked as a reliability engineer for a company similar to the one depicted in the book.