title: Gypsy Tears: Loving a Holocaust Survivor
author: Cora Schwartz
description: This racy tale of love, sex, and cross-cultural mysteries is reminiscent of the enigmatic relationships in Goethe's 1809 novel Elective Affinities. Autobiography and biography are mixed in often luridly gripping encounters between our Bronx-raised Jewish author and her Ukraine-raised Jewish lover, the hard-drinking, gambling, erratic but strangely steady, Nazi camp survivor, Rudy. Their "elective affinity" for each other [happens] against all the odds of differences in background and outlook . . . Even without Ms. Schwartz's breathless story telling, her Gypsy Tears would be a cliff-hanger --H. David Kirk, Author of Shared Fate and Adoptive Kinship<br /><br />Cora Schwartz has written a provocative novel of unforgettable faces and locales that will deeply move even the most diehard cynic. She lures her compelling characters to crawl under the reader's skin and settle in for a long winter's nap. I will be remembering Rudy for a long time to come. --Linda Bergman, Bergman Entertainment<br /><br />Do read it. It will be a powerful experience and at the same time a great treat! Maurice Friedman, Author of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Elie Wiesel: You Are My Witnesses --Maurice Friedman, Author of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Elie Wiesel: You Are My Witnesses
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  The Heart of a Gypsy
  
  
  Copyright©2012 by Roberta Kagan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
  manner whatsoever without written permission from the author.
  
  
  The characters and events in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real
  persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the
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  I would like to dedicate this book to my family, whose undying love and
  patience keep me going. Also to my wonderful friend and the best editor on the
  planet, a woman who never lets me get away with anything, but I love her for
  it: Karman Moore.
  
  
  
  
  
  And…
  
  
  
  
  
  …to a people whose blood runs through my veins and whose spirit lives within
  my soul: The Romany.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Heart of a Gypsy
  
  
  By: Roberta Kagan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  A SMALL VILLAGE IN NAZI-OCCUPIED POLAND
  
  
  
  
  
  A man lay unconscious, buried in the bowels of a Nazi jail, his blood pooling
  on the cool cement f