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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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