Title: The Jew: Novel Based on a True Story
Author: Dominik Poleski
Publisher: Xlibris
ISBN: 9781524583088
Pages: 252
Genre: Historical Fiction

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Synopsis

The book is based on real-life events that took place in the historically pivotal years 1967–1969 amid widespread students’ protests in Europe and America, the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, the Vietnam War at its height, and sociopolitical turmoil in Poland, resulting in several thousand Jews fleeing the country. It’s a deeply personal and harrowing survival story of a Jewish teenager, Alek, and his mother, Zofia Brodski, in a small, isolated, and backward community in a communist totalitarian state amid discrimination, prejudice, and rampant poverty. Peoples’ lives are at the mercy of communist bureaucrats, the state police, the pervading presence of the Catholic Church, and the insane Marxist-Leninist ideology when lies became the truth and the prevailing doctrine. It all culminates in an incredible and most unusual conclusion. For some inexplicable reason, the author happened to be “in the right place at the right time” when many of the events took place.

About the Author

Dominik Poleski was born in Poland in 1956, in a small town, near the border with the Soviet Union, where the action of the book takes place, and had lived there for several years. He witnessed first-hand many events vividly described in the book, and many more as were related to him by family members and friends. Little did he know at the time, that it all had a lasting, life-long effect on him. At the age of 15 Poleski moved to provincial capital Lublin, to further his educational goals. Soon his parents left for Canada, for a temporary visit, which turned out to be permanent. The family was dispersed for the next few years, during which Dominik Poleski and his two brothers all lived in different parts of the country, faced with severe hardships, in a hostile world, where little made sense. The country was in the grips of totalitarian communist regime, deeply entrenched in the insane Marxist-Leninist ideology. The brothers eventually joined their parents in Canada. In the late eighties Poleski moved to metro Vancouver, British Columbia area, where he works and resides till this day. The author has a life-long interest in literature, arts, politics and social issues.

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