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Jay Andrew Rabinowitz (February 25, 1927–June 16, 2001) was an American lawyer, best known for serving as an Alaska Supreme Court justice from February 1965 to February 1997. Rabinowitz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Jew-American family. His paternal grandfather had emigrated from Riga, Latvia to Woodbine, New Jersey at age fourteen, leaving his own family behind. Jay Rabinowitz grew up in Brooklyn, New York where his father, Milton, worked as a bookkeeper for a wholesale fish distributor during the Great Depression. Jay served in the U.S. Army Air Forces near the end of World War II. During his service overseas Rabinowitz happened to meet his great-uncle Chaim, whom he'd never before met, in a displaced persons camp in Germany. Chaim was the family's only relative in Europe who had survived the Holocaust. Following some careful forgery of paperwork, Chaim was able to join his relatives in Brooklyn after the war ended. After returning home, Jay Rabinowitz attended... full article at wikipedia

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