Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search



Finding my father : his century-long journey from WWI Warsaw and my quest to follow  Cover Image Book Book

Finding my father : his century-long journey from WWI Warsaw and my quest to follow

Tannen, Deborah (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1101885831 : HRD
  • ISBN: 9781101885833 : HRD
  • Physical Description: 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]
Subject: New York (N.Y.) Biography
Warsaw (Poland) Biography
Lawyers New York (State) New York Biography
Jews New York (State) New York Biography
Jews, Polish New York (State) New York Biography
 Fathers and daughters New York (State) New York
Tannen, Deborah Family
Tannen, Eli Samuel 1908-2006

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Hanover Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.

Holds

0 current holds with 1 total copy.

Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Etna Library 305.89 TAN 31257000284108 Adult collection Available -

LDR 00599nam a22001695i 4500
001274791
003
00520200918185524.0
008200504s2020 nyu e 000 0 eng
010 . ‡a2020012964
020 . ‡a9781101885833 : HRD ‡c28.00
020 . ‡a1101885831 : HRD ‡c28.00
037 . ‡bRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157
040 . ‡aNhHvHL
05000. ‡aE184.37.T37 ‡bT36 2020
08200. ‡a305.892/407470922 ‡223
1001 . ‡aTannen, Deborah, ‡eauthor.
24510. ‡aFinding my father : ‡bhis century-long journey from WWI Warsaw and my quest to follow / ‡cDeborah Tannen.
250 . ‡aFirst edition.
264 1. ‡aNew York : ‡bBallantine Books, ‡c[2020]
300 . ‡a251 pages : ‡billustrations ; ‡c25 cm
336 . ‡atext ‡btxt ‡2rdacontent
337 . ‡aunmediated ‡bn ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
520 . ‡a"A New York Times bestselling author traces her father's life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to bustling New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, and praised by Oliver Sacks as having "a novelist's ear for the way people speak," Deborah Tannen was a little girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, Deborah 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. He handed her a journal he kept when he was young--and showed her another he said she could have after his death, all for the account of his life she promised him she'd write. In this memoir, Deborah fulfills her promise to her father, embarking on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father's life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid 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. In the intervening years, he became active in the Communist Party, then New York's Liberal Party, running for Congress on its ticket. 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. Finding My Father is a memoir of Eli Tannen's life and the ways it reflects the near century that he lived. But even more than that, it's about a daughter's struggle to see her father clearly, to know him more deeply, and to tell a more truthful story about her family and herself."-- Provided by publisher
6001 . ‡aTannen, Eli Samuel, ‡d1908-2006.
6001 . ‡aTannen, Deborah ‡xFamily.
650 0. ‡a Fathers and daughters ‡zNew York (State) ‡zNew York.
650 0. ‡aJews, Polish ‡zNew York (State) ‡zNew York ‡vBiography.
650 0. ‡aJews ‡zNew York (State) ‡zNew York ‡vBiography.
650 0. ‡aLawyers ‡zNew York (State) ‡zNew York ‡vBiography.
651 0. ‡aWarsaw (Poland) ‡vBiography.
651 0. ‡aNew York (N.Y.) ‡vBiography.
905 . ‡uacqselector
901 . ‡aBK0025774751 ‡bSystem Local ‡c274791 ‡tbiblio

Additional Resources