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One Jump Ahead  

JL;DR SUMMARY In "One Jump Ahead," Cindy Scarr recounts the remarkable life story of Boaz Abramoff, a cadet at the US Air Force Academy, who survived a life-threatening parachute accident. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish IdentityResilienceMilitary ServiceDivine InterventionLegacyUs Air ForceBoaz AbramoffParachute AccidentAbramoff Family

Places mentioned

United States
"I'd known since I was a kid that I would serve in the US Armed Forces, as did my grandfather and brothers."
Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
"My grandfather and his siblings survived the war as children hiding in Dordrecht, Netherlands, while the vast majority of the local Jewish community was murdered."
Berditchiv, Zhytomyrshchyna, Ukraine
"My paternal grandfathers family fled their hometown of Berditchiv in the early 1900s, forced out by persistent anti-Jewish pogroms and Bolshevik violence."
Iowa, United States
"My parents lived in the Netherlands until 2003, when my father, an ophthalmologist, accepted a position at the University of Iowa."

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