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



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Autore: Draitser Emil <1937-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir / / Emil Draitser Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2008]
©2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
Disciplina: 305.892/404772092
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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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-94225-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786527303321
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Serie: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.