Mendek Rubin was a brilliant inventor who revolutionized the jewelry manufacturing industry, generating numerous patents in the 1960s and 1970s. After he retired from the jewelry business, he invented the equipment to wash and package baby greens for Earthbound Farm—the first company to successfully market ready-to-eat salads for retail sale. Mendek is the author of two books: Why Not Now, a book of poems and prose, and I Am Small, I Am Big: The Way We Choose to Live, a book about positive thinking written for children. A self-taught artist and nature photographer, Mendek died in September 2012 in Carmel Valley, California, at the age of eighty-seven.

Quest for Eternal Sunshine chronicles the triumphant true story of Mendek Rubin, a brilliant inventor who overcame both the trauma of the Holocaust and decades of unrelenting depression to live a life of deep peace and boundless joy.

Born into a Hassidic Jewish family in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with only an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while virtually his entire family was murdered in Auschwitz. After arriving in America in 1946,—despite having no money or professional skills— he created inventions that revolutionized both the jewelry and packaged-salad industries. Remarkably, Mendek also applied his ingenuity to his own psyche, developing innovative ways to heal his heart and end his emotional suffering.

After Mendek died in 2012, his daughter Myra Goodman found an unfinished manuscript in which he’d revealed the intimate details of his healing journey—an extraordinary work that shared his deep revelations and powerful self-healing techniques. The result of years of research and writing, Quest for Eternal Sunshine tells Mendek’s whole story—and shares his profound wisdom—with the hope that sharing his legacy of forgiveness and love can help cultivate a kinder and more harmonious world.