Love and Obsession at the Time of Exile

by Alexander Askanas

Overview

This is a historical fiction novel about the 1968 Jewish exile from Poland. In 1968, the Polish Communist government started an anti-Semitic action under the pretext that the Polish Jews were taking the Israeli side in 1967 Sixth-Day War. The Communists “encouraged” the Jews to leave the country. The encouragement came in the form of firing Jews from their job, expelling them from their universities, or generally humiliating them. Approximately two-thirds of the Polish Jews left for Israel, the USA, or Scandinavia. In 1968, there were only tiny remnants of the once largest European Jewish community. Out of approximately thirty thousand Jews, the twenty thousand left and their citizenship was renounced. Those were the survivors of the Holocaust or their children. This put a stain of shame, which is hard to erase, on the Polish Communist government. The story of this exile of 1968 is told by a doctor who left for the USA and is engrossed in an obsessive love for a young Polish-Jewish woman living in France.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781796083347
Publisher:	Xlibris US
Publication date:	01/15/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	106
File size:	314 KB

About the Author

The author is a Manhattan cardiologist recently retired. This is his third historical fiction novel in English. Black Swastika, Red Swastika was published in 2009. He Went to Hell, It Was on His Way was published in 2012, and in 2018, he had several short stories published in Polish in Midrasz, a Polish-Jewish cultural magazine. He emigrated from Poland in 1969 due to the anti-Semitic action of the Communist government. His early childhood was spent in the Warsaw ghetto.