Finding my father : his century-long journey from World War I Warsaw and my quest to follow
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Finding my father : his century-long journey from World War I Warsaw and my quest to follow
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- Finding my father : his century-long journey from World War I Warsaw and my quest to follow
- Title remainder
- his century-long journey from World War I Warsaw and my quest to follow
- Statement of responsibility
- Deborah Tannen
- Subject
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- Jews -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Jews, Polish -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Lawyers -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- Biographies
- Tannen, Eli Samuel, 1908-2006
- Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography
- Tannen, Deborah -- Family
- Fathers and daughters -- New York (State) | New York
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Tannen traces her father's life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to bustling New York City in a memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. Deborah Tannen was a little girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his love of language and gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew old, she spent untold hours with her father, recording their conversations and taking notes. Beginning with his memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw that he was born into in 1908, she traces his journey: arriving in New York City in 1920, he quit high school at fourteen to become sole support of his mother and sister, yet attended law school at night and eventually established the largest workmen's compensation practice in New York. As Deborah comes to better understand her father's--and her own--relationship to Judaism, she also uncovers aspects of her father's life she would never have imagined. When she discovers letters from another woman he might have married, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her parents' marriage
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 305.892/407470922
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E184.37.T37
- LC item number
- T36 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
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