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Autore: | Draitser Emil <1937-> |
Titolo: | Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir / / Emil Draitser |
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 |
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