The Jews requested from the British either more protection or the right to arm themselves-and were refused. Feldenkrais’s cousin Fischel was among those killed. In the 1920s Arabs attacked Jewish villages and cities in British Mandate Palestine. In 1923 he began to attend high school and supported himself by tutoring children with whom other tutors had failed he displayed an early aptitude for helping people overcome blocks in the learning process.
He worked as a laborer and slept in a tent. Like many new arrivals, Feldenkrais was penniless. It arrived in Palestine in 1919, in late summer. Eventually adults joined his children’s march through central Europe to Italy and the Adriatic, where they boarded a boat.
By the time he reached Cracow, fifty children had joined the much-admired boy on his way to Palestine, then more, until over two hundred young people were following him. At one point, to survive, they joined a traveling circus, where the acrobats taught Moshe tumbling and how to fall safely-skills he would one day perfect with his judo. As he walked from village to village, other Jewish children, intrigued, joined him. A pistol in his boot, a math text in his sack, and with no official documents or papers, he crossed marshes and endured temperatures of 40 degrees below as he traversed the Russian frontier in the winter of 1918–19. When Moshe Feldenkrais was fourteen, after years of Jews being attacked in anti-Semitic Russian pogroms, he set out alone to walk from Belarus to Palestine. Excerpted from “The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries From the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity”
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