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Josy's Life in Our Words
Dr. Josephine (Josy) Rabinowitz (February 5, 1924 – September 5, 2015) approached life and all she did with passion, determination, deeply entrenched values, and certainty of her beliefs. She was a totally devoted wife to José and a loving and caring mother, grandmother, and friend.
She was a dedicated teacher always looking out for the wellbeing of her students in all aspects of their lives. Her talents included being a concert level pianist and a prolific writer of poetry and prose.
She was a life-long learner who believed that education is never wasted who earned her doctorate at age 69. She relished big projects requiring extensive personal research. This culminated in an extensive family contact directory and family trees for all four branches of José's and her ancestors.
Josy made deep and lasting connections with people of widely diverse backgrounds who considered her a dear friend. Those relationships were very important to her, and she worked hard to maintain them.
We have tried to tell Josy’s story as we understand and experienced it in the following sections:
Additional information and photographs can be found throughout
these memoirs as follows:
Volume 2 of José’s and Josy’s memoirs provides much more detail about her life through January 1946, when her beloved mother passed.
The Photography section includes over 15,000 slides and over 50 photo albums illustrating virtually all aspects of her life.
Her curriculum vita and a link to her paper, The Spirit of Music, are included in the Education and Professional Endeavors section.
Information about scholarships endowed by José and Josy is included in the Legacy of Giving section.
Josy’s poetry and prose are included in the Poetry and Prose sections, respectively.
Audio recordings of Josy playing the piano and singing are included in the Music section.
Pictures of her paintings are included in the Art section.
Many other stories are included in the Drafts of Additional Volumes.
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