03336nam 2200625 450 991046428070332120200520144314.00-520-94225-610.1525/9780520942257(CKB)3710000000129931(EBL)1826809(SSID)ssj0001234992(PQKBManifestationID)12473562(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001234992(PQKBWorkID)11222685(PQKB)10925412(MiAaPQ)EBC1826809(DE-B1597)518691(OCoLC)1100830262(DE-B1597)9780520942257(Au-PeEL)EBL1826809(CaPaEBR)ebr10882873(CaONFJC)MIL617977(OCoLC)894227564(EXLCZ)99371000000012993120080129h20082008 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShush! growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir /Emil DraitserBerkeley :University of California Press,[2008]©20081 online resource (337 p.)The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-25446-5 How I failed my motherland -- Fathers at war -- Path to paradise -- What's in a name! -- Black shawl -- Us against them -- I don't want to have relatives! -- Friends and enemies -- The girl of my dreams -- How they laugh in Odessa -- Papa and the Soviets -- A dependent -- Without declarations -- Who's who -- A strange orange -- Who are you? -- One Passover in Odessa -- On commissars, cosmopolites, and lightbulb inventors -- Them! -- No kith, no kin -- Grandpa Uri -- Missing Mikhoels -- Black on white -- Time like glass -- The death of Stalin.Many years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word "Jewish"-even in casual conversation-he lowered his voice. This behavior was a natural by-product, he realized, of growing up in the anti-Semitic, post-Holocaust Soviet Union, when "Shush!" was the most frequent word he heard: "Don't use your Jewish name in public. Don't speak a word of Yiddish. And don't cry over your murdered relatives." This compelling memoir conveys the reader back to Draitser's childhood and provides a unique account of midtwentieth-century life in Russia as the young Draitser struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Lively, evocative, and rich with humor, this unforgettable story ends with the death of Stalin and, through life stories of the author's ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia.S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.JewsUkraineOdesaBiographyOdesa (Ukraine)BiographyElectronic books.Jews305.892/404772092BDraitser Emil1937-1030462MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464280703321Shush2480790UNINA