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050 00 DS134.72.T87|bA3 2016 
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100 1  Tuszyńska, Agata,|eauthor. 
240 10 Rodzinna historia lęku.|lEnglish 
245 10 Family history of fear :|ba memoir /|cAgata Tuszyńska ; 
       translated by Charles Ruas from the French of Jean-Yves 
       Erhel. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c[2016] 
300    xi, 381 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--
       Title page verso. 
500    "Originally published in Poland as Rodzinna Historia Leku 
       by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow, in 2005" -- copyright 
       page 
505 0  The secret -- Our home -- Perlowa Street -- Leczyca -- 
       Zamutek -- Dela -- Remembering -- Frania -- Marys -- March
       -- Addresses -- My family.  
520    Every family has its own history. Many families carry a 
       tragic past. Like the author's mother, many Poles did not 
       tell their children a complete story of their wartime 
       exploits--of the underground Home Army, the tragedy of the
       Warsaw Uprising, the civil war against the Communists. 
       Years had to pass before the stories of suffering and 
       heroism could be told. In Family History of Fear, Agata 
       Tuszyńska, one of Poland's most admired poets and cultural
       historians, writes of the stories she heard from her 
       mother about her secret past. Tuszyńska has written a 
       powerful memoir about growing up after the Second World 
       War in Communist Poland--blonde, blue-eyed, and Catholic. 
       The author was nineteen years old and living in Warsaw 
       when her mother told her the truth--that she was Jewish--
       and began to tell her stories of the family's secret past 
       in Poland. Tuszyńska, who grew up in a country beset by 
       anti-Semitism, rarely hearing the word "Jew" (only from 
       her Polish Catholic father, and then, always in derision),
       was unhinged, ashamed, and humiliated. The author writes 
       of how she skillfully erased the truth within herself, 
       refusing to admit the existence of her other half. In this
       profoundly moving and resonant book, Tuszyńska 
       investigates her past and writes of her journey to uncover
       her family's history during World War II--of her mother at
       age eight and her mother, entering the Warsaw Ghetto for 
       two years as conditions grew more desperate, and finally 
       escaping just before the uprising, and then living "hidden
       on the other side." She writes of her father, one of five 
       thousand Polish soldiers taken prisoner in 1939, becoming,
       later, the country's most famous radio sports announcer; 
       and of her relatives and their mysterious pasts, as she 
       tries to make sense of the hatred of Jews in her country. 
       She writes of her discoveries and of her willingness to 
       accept a radically different definition of self, reading 
       the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, opening up for her a 
       world of Polish Jewry as he became her guide, and then 
       writing about his life and work, circling her Jewish self 
       in Lost Landscapes: In Search of Isaac Bashevis Singer and
       the Jews of Poland. A beautiful and affecting book of 
       discovery and acceptance; a searing, insightful portrait 
       of Polish Jewish life, lived before and after Hitler's 
       Third Reich. 
546    In English, translated from the French version of a text 
       originally in Polish. 
600 10 Tuszyńska, Agata. 
600 17 Tuszyńska, Agata.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01503290 
600 30 Tuszyński family. 
600 37 Tuszyński family.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01670111 
650  0 Jews|zPoland|vBiography. 
650  7 Intellectual life.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00975769 
650  7 Jews.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00983135 
651  0 Warsaw (Poland)|xIntellectual life. 
651  7 Poland.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01206891 
651  7 Poland|zWarsaw.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204515 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
700 1  Ruas, Charles,|etranslator. 
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