Bio - Dr. Andrew Zalewski, MD


Andrew Zalewski is a cardiologist who lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife, Margaret. They have two children and four grandchildren. Despite a busy professional life, Andrew published two books on Galicia―a rewarding experience in which he learned about distant times and discovered amazing details about his family and the people of Galicia. He is a frequent speaker at genealogy conferences where he shares his experiences.

In his new book Galician Portraits, In Search of Jewish Roots (Thelzo Press 2014; see www.thelzopress.com —available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com), Andrew Zalewski returns to the story of Galicia to rediscover its Jewish history. As he writes: “Galician Portraits is much more than an attempt to see one family’s journey. Its goal has been much broader: to recover the story of all Jewish life there. Contrary to the simplifications that can color our thinking about the past, that community was richer and more diverse than one could ever imagine.”

 

 



In his first book Galician Trails, The Forgotten Story of One Family (Thelzo Press 2012; www.thelzopress.com —available on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com), Andrew Zalewski traced his mother’s family from the 18th century to the mid-20th. As Andrew writes: “What followed was an incredible journey through the Galicia of the Habsburg Empire, the land where my Austrian and Polish ancestors, both Christian and Jewish, had once lived. Against all the odds of passing time and intervening wars, an amazing window into the past had opened to me. Soon, I had the thrilling sense that an imaginary curtain was being lifted.”


                          
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