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Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930\u20131949<\/em> by\u00a0Toby Knobel Fluek<\/a>,\u00a0Rakhmiel Peltz (Foreword)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy special preorder discount code for 20% off orders via\u00a0Tertulia<\/a>.\u00a0The preorder discount will start on April 15 and go until May 15 with the code\u00a0MEMORIES\u00a0good for 20% off at checkout.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Available again for the first time in decades, this jewel of a memoir is the poignant story of a young Jewish girl growing up in a Polish farm village, from the peaceful early 1930s through the tragic war years and finding safe harbor at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her own words and with her own beautiful paintings and drawings, artist Toby Knobel Fluek (1926\u20132011) lovingly unfurls a unique view of Jewish life. She introduces us to her village, to her family, to the people among whom they lived; she shows us how customs and holidays were observed; and, with both feeling and restraint, she illustrates how this long-enduring way of life was shattered by World War II. She depicts her family\u2019s experiences through Russian occupation and the devastation wreaked by the Nazis\u2014and, finally, her new beginning in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New to this edition is a foreword by Rakhmiel Peltz, PhD, PhD, Founding Director of the Judaic Studies Program at Drexel University, which he led for twenty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With 94 black-and-white and color paintings and drawings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDeeply moving.\u201d\u2014 Elie Wiesel, author of <\/strong>Night<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToby Fluek\u2019s Memories of My Life in a Polish Village<\/em> is a beautiful book. Its luminous art and water-clear prose form a world of exquisite images that in the end create a tone poem evocative of a vanished world\u2014 a poem that is not a dirge but a gentle celebration of hardships overcome and the triumph of the spirit over unspeakable horror.\u201d\u2014 Chaim Potok, <\/strong>New York Times<\/em>\u2012bestselling author of The Chosen<\/em> and My Name Is Asher Lev<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToby Fluek\u2019s brightly remembering palette restores, for our marveling eyes, the nearly thousand-year-old life of the village Jews of Eastern Europe\u2014God-imbued, profound in its simplicity\u2014at the very hour of its murderous destruction by Nazi terror. Her living yet memory-wounded paintings are too vivid\u2014hence too tragically dyed in loss\u2014to be reduced to nostalgia: they are a plain record of the innocence that was annihilated forever by Europe\u2019s great storm of hatred.\u201d\u2014 Cynthia Ozick<\/strong>, New York Times<\/em>\u2012bestselling author of Heir to the Glimmering World<\/em> and The Shawl<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFluek\u2019s realistic, richly detailed paintings could be called \u2018folk Vermeer.\u2019\u201d\u2014 New York<\/strong><\/em> magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWrenchingly beautiful . . . a moving memoir . . . Fluek literally \u2018pictures\u2019 her childhood in both art and words\u2014a warm Jewish family life that included farm chores, holiday observance, and good relations with fellow villagers both Jewish and Catholic. She then describes with great restraint the devastation of her world by World War II. The individual vignettes, such as „Walking Between Bullets” and „German Prisoners of War,” are devastating in the use of spare prose and detailed art. She takes the remains of her family through the Russian occupation, the horrors left by the Nazis in Poland, to a happy ending in America.\u201d\u2014<\/strong>Library Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCharming yet unsentimental . . . Fluek’s quiet dignity as a chronicler is fortifying. . . . Her tranquility of palette and word, though never denying the sufferings of the past, is distinctly restorative.\u201d\u2014 Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA remarkable memoir . . . Fluek moves with powerful simplicity through the details of Jewish pre-war life, her struggle to survive the Nazi occupation, and her eventual emigration. . . . A powerful work.\u201d\u2014 Booklist<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFluek offers readers a window into her peaceful existence in Poland before it was shattered by World War II. Her village, family, neighbors, and friends are brought to life in her simple, yet moving, style. Her life is painstakingly depicted through images of Jewish customs and holidays, beginning in the early 1930s when she was a child, through the Nazi occupation, her escape, the loss of her family, and finally safety in the United States. The story’s appeal is its simplicity and straightforward, clear descriptions, told without a great deal of emotion. Yet readers will be moved by Fluek’s account of her life and the struggles of that time.\u201d\u2014 <\/strong>School Library Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toby Knobel Fluek <\/strong>(1926\u20132011) was born in the eastern Polish village of Czernica. In 1942, she and her family were forced by the Nazis into the nearby Brody ghetto. After her escape and years in hiding, she was married in 1949 and emigrated with her husband to New York, where she remained until her death. In 2018, The Florida Holocaust Museum added more than five hundred of Fluek\u2019s artworks and personal items to its collection, and it continues to share her work in exhibitions and outreach programs. Fluek\u2019s daughter, son-in-law, two grandsons and their wives, and four great-grandchildren also strive to ensure her extraordinary legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She introduces us to her village, to her family, to the people among whom they lived; she shows us how customs and holidays were observed; and, with both feeling and restraint, she illustrates how this long-enduring way of life was shattered by World War II. She depicts her family\u2019s experiences through Russian occupation and the devastation wreaked by the Nazis\u2014and, finally, her new beginning in America.\nNew to this edition is a foreword by Rakhmiel Peltz, PhD, PhD, Founding Director of the Judaic Studies Program at Drexel University, which he led for twenty years.\nWith 94 black-and-white and color paintings and drawings\n\u201cDeeply moving.\u201d\u2014 Elie Wiesel, author of Night\n\u201cToby Fluek\u2019s Memories of My Life in a Polish Village is a beautiful book. Its luminous art and water-clear prose form a world of exquisite images that in the end create a tone poem evocative of a vanished world\u2014 a poem that is not a dirge but a gentle celebration of hardships overcome and the triumph of the spirit over unspeakable horror.\u201d\u2014 Chaim Potok, New York Times\u2012bestselling author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev\n\u201cToby Fluek\u2019s brightly remembering palette restores, for our marveling eyes, the nearly thousand-year-old life of the village Jews of Eastern Europe\u2014God-imbued, profound in its simplicity\u2014at the very hour of its murderous destruction by Nazi terror. Her living yet memory-wounded paintings are too vivid\u2014hence too tragically dyed in loss\u2014to be reduced to nostalgia: they are a plain record of the innocence that was annihilated forever by Europe\u2019s great storm of hatred.\u201d\u2014 Cynthia Ozick, New York Times\u2012bestselling author of Heir to the Glimmering World and The Shawl\n\u201cFluek\u2019s realistic, richly detailed paintings could be called \u2018folk Vermeer.\u2019\u201d\u2014 New York magazine\n\u201cWrenchingly beautiful . . . a moving memoir . . . Fluek literally \u2018pictures\u2019 her childhood in both art and words\u2014a warm Jewish family life that included farm chores, holiday observance, and good relations with fellow villagers both Jewish and Catholic. She then describes with great restraint the devastation of her world by World War II. The individual vignettes, such as \"Walking Between Bullets\" and \"German Prisoners of War,\" are devastating in the use of spare prose and detailed art. She takes the remains of her family through the Russian occupation, the horrors left by the Nazis in Poland, to a happy ending in America.\u201d\u2014Library Journal\n\u201cCharming yet unsentimental . . . Fluek's quiet dignity as a chronicler is fortifying. . . . Her tranquility of palette and word, though never denying the sufferings of the past, is distinctly restorative.\u201d\u2014 Publishers Weekly\n\u201cA remarkable memoir . . . Fluek moves with powerful simplicity through the details of Jewish pre-war life, her struggle to survive the Nazi occupation, and her eventual emigration. . . . A powerful work.\u201d\u2014 Booklist\n\u201cFluek offers readers a window into her peaceful existence in Poland before it was shattered by World War II. Her village, family, neighbors, and friends are brought to life in her simple, yet moving, style. Her life is painstakingly depicted through images of Jewish customs and holidays, beginning in the early 1930s when she was a child, through the Nazi occupation, her escape, the loss of her family, and finally safety in the United States. The story's appeal is its simplicity and straightforward, clear descriptions, told without a great deal of emotion. Yet readers will be moved by Fluek's account of her life and the struggles of that time.\u201d\u2014 School Library Journal\nToby Knobel Fluek (1926\u20132011) was born in the eastern Polish village of Czernica. In 1942, she and her family were forced by the Nazis into the nearby Brody ghetto. After her escape and years in hiding, she was married in 1949 and emigrated with her husband to New York, where she remained until her death. In 2018, The Florida Holocaust Museum added more than five hundred of Fluek\u2019s artworks and personal items to its collection, and it continues to share her work in exhibitions and outreach programs. 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