November 17, 1979

Ruth V. Sharon, born in 1926, is a psychotherapist in New York City. She is the daughter of Immanuel Velikovsky ( June 10,  1895 to November 17, 1979) ) who included among his many areas of research, psychiatry. Velikovsky was the author of Worlds in Collision (1950) and other books which outlined his ideas that catastrophe defined the history of the universe and of man. In books like Ages in Chaos, (1952, for Volume 1) Velikovsky tried to explain the differences between the Egyptian chronology and the Hebrew chronology, which he felt should coincide more obviously.

His daughter wrote a biography of her father, Aba--The Glory and the Torment: The Life of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky (1995). She remembers family life in Palestine in the 1930s. It was there that she recalls her parents gave away her dog, a German Shepherd named Hushi. They did not tell her what they had done, and she only accidentally discovered his fate. She discovered her rabbits had been killed by dogs. Her cat was named Mitzi, and the cat disappeared while the family vacationed in Cyprus. The kitty was never found. "although for weeks I called "Mitzi" through the streets of Tel Aviv. "

It sounds like catastrophism was more than a scholarly framework; it was a life style. And in view of the historical background of the era, perhaps the Jewish Russian Velikovsky needed look no further than the newspaper headlines for confirmation for his theses.