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refugee
in
The First Seven Years
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But just at the moment of his darkest despair, this Polish refugee, Sobel, appeared one night from the street and begged for work.†
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refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Thinking that with, after all, a landsman, he would have less to fear than from a complete stranger, Feld took him on, and within six weeks the refugee rebuilt as good a shoe as he and not long thereafter expertly ran the business for the thoroughly relieved shoemaker.†
— he finally answered it that the man, no doubt because of his terrible experiences as a refugee, was afraid of the world.†
But this time, after Feld had plodded through the snow to Sobel's house — he had thought of sending Miriam but the idea became repugnant to him — the burly landlady at the door informed him in a nasal voice that Sobel was not at home, and though Feld knew this was a nasty lie, for where had the refugee to go?†
How strange and sad that a refugee, a grown man, bald and old with his miseries, who had by the skin of his teeth escaped Hitler's incinerators, should fall in love, when he got to America, with a girl less than half his age.†

Definitions:

(1) (refugee)
someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)