A house in Lahore : (Record no. 2201907)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789694026558
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 289.9 KAH 52097
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Author name Kahan, Hazel
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A house in Lahore :
Remainder of title growing up Jewish in Pakistan : a memoir/
Statement of responsibility, etc. growing up Jewish in Pakistan : a memoir.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United States:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Hazel Selzer Kahan,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2022.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
No. of Pages 244 Pages.
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!
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note In English.
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Binding note H.B
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Jewish families Pakistan Biography
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Physicians Pakistan Biography
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  Dewey Decimal Classification   Civil Services Academy Library Civil Services Academy Library History & Geography 10/15/2025   289.9 KAH CSA-52097 10/15/2025 10/15/2025 Book