Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir / / Emil Draitser

• Autore: Draitser Emil <1937->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/404772092; B
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Ukraine - Odesa
• Soggetto geografico: Odesa (Ukraine) Biography
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th century russian culture; 20th century russian society; american immigrant; anti semitism; autobiography; communism; communist party of ukraine; emotional; family; humor; humorous; jewish family; jewish history in russia; jewish immigrant; judaism; memoir; odessa; post holocaust soviet union; retrospective; soviet society; soviet ukraine; soviet union; stalin; ukraine; ukrainian soviet socialist republic; united states of america; working class
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir
• Titolo autorizzato: Shush
• ISBN: 0-520-94225-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786527303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.