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Vale William Rubinstein
One of the more pleasant aspects of editing is getting to know contributors beyond the scope and focus of their submissions. Such was the case with William ‘Bill’ Rubinstein, whose mind and pen ranged over a wealth of topics in these pages, from religion’s role in society to the misrepresentation of indigenous ‘histories’ and the authorship of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. His was the fine mind of a thoroughly decent man, and now death has taken him from us.
He was born in Brooklyn on 12 August 1946, to a Warsaw-born father and an American mother whose maiden name was Rubenstein (spelled that way). His father’s parents came from Lodz, and his father’s grandfather was related to the great pianist Arthur. Rubinstein. Rubinstein had a younger brother who became a professor of anthropology. He was educated at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and did his postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He then worked as the London-based…
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