A House in Lahore: Growing up Jewish in Pakistan (Record no. 66375)
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| fixed length control field | 01843nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789694026558 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 920 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Hazel Selzer Kahan |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A House in Lahore: Growing up Jewish in Pakistan |
| Statement of responsibility | Hazel Selzer Kahan |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Lahore |
| Name of publisher | Vanguard Books |
| Year of publication | 2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 244 pages |
| Other physical details | 24x17 cm |
| -- | HB |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include illustrations |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Fleeing Germany in 1933 and then Italy in1937 after Mussolini joined the Berlin-Rome Axis, two 27-year-old Jewish physicians follow the advice of a Vatican monsignor to seek a new future in British India. They settle in Lahore, becoming parents of first a daughter and then her brother, three months old in1940 when the family is arrested by the British as "enemy aliens" and interned for almost six years in British internment camps near Bombay. Following the family's release to Lahore in 1946, the children are educated in Lahore's convents and then boarding schools in Kashmir, India and England. After Partition in 1947, Lahore becomes part of Pakistan. In 1971, a new political regime declares Jews are no longer welcome and the family leaves Lahore forever. This memoir describes the contradictions and dilemmas of growing up Jewish in internment and post-British Raj Muslim Pakistan, shuffling identities while learning the futility of belonging and the negotiable meaning of home. Drawing on extensive boarding school correspondence, the book unflinchingly examines the power of letter writing to bind a scattered family yet its inability to prevent schisms. Her father's death releases in the author a compulsion to discover whether her beloved childhood house still stands. Forty years after leaving "forever", she returns to the town of her birth, unsure whether welcome or rejection await but unprepared for what she finds! |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Memior |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2024-04-30 | CRV/221/GT/GPLM | 1795.50 | 920 H428H 2023 | 68802 | Books |