… a deeply contextualized account of Menzel’s life, from her childhood as a thoroughly assimilated Austrian Jew, through her awakening commitment to Zionism, her training and early career as a scientist, and her career as an eminent dog trainer and breeder both in Europe and in Israel. It is a fascinating story–unusual from the perspective of Menzel’s expertise, although not from the perspective of her experience of the darkening political atmosphere of Austria and Germany and of the need to become a refugee.