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...last summer Meyer Tobiansky went from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv to visit his brother. When he did not come back, his wife Lena went to the headquarters of the Haganah, in which her husband held a high post. "I asked everyone where Mischa was," she recalls. "Most of them wouldn't talk to me. They shut their doors in my face...
...Then Lena heard a report that Meyer had been executed as a spy by his own Haganah, the well-disciplined Jewish army; she could not believe that. Meyer was a Zionist pioneer who had come to Palestine from his native Lithuania when he was 19, was imprisoned by the British for his underground work. During World...
...Question of Sincerity. Lena Tobiansky sent her son to a children's camp, after changing their name to Bentov (son of goodness); but his identity leaked out and the other children called his father a traitor. Lena herself removed the shiny brass nameplate from her apartment door and moved to another part of the city...
...months, she wrote petitions to the authorities asking for an investigation-or at least for some word about where her husband was buried. Finally, she wrote a long letter to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. "No one will answer me," wrote Lena Tobiansky, "therefore I have turned to you . . . My husband and I were married 15 years . . . We Jived happily and closely together . . . There could have been no secrets between us . . . I am suffering, despised and ignored...
...when bored, but he can also be warmly demonstrative when something takes his fancy. He has been known to get emotional over an objet d'art or a piece of costume jewelry, and he has been moved to tears by revisiting his old Yale haunts and by hearing Lena Home sing...