When Sonia met Boris : an oral history of Jewish life under Stalin / Anna Shternshis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shternshis, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Soviet Union--Interviews.

Jews.

Jews--Soviet Union--Social conditions.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Discrimination in employment.

Jews--Employment.

Economic conditions.

Soviet Union.

Social conditions.

Jews--Soviet Union--Economic conditions.

Jews--Employment--Soviet Union.

Discrimination in employment--Soviet Union.

Jews--Soviet Union--Identity.

Jews--Economic conditions.

Jews--Identity.

Jews--Social conditions.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xii, 247 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Part I Oral History and the First Generation of Soviet Jews

1 When Only Memories Tell the Truth 3

2 Who Gets to Tell the Story: Oral Histories of the First Soviet Jewish Generation 9

Part II The Making of a Soviet Jewish Family

3 Boys are Like a Glass, Girls are Like Cloth: Raising Jewish Children in the 1930s 25

4 Weddings between Errands: Love and Family during the Soviet Jewish Golden Age 34

5 Lost, Found, and Guilty: The War and the Family 47

6 How not to Learn About Antisemitism at Home: Soviet Jewish Family Values after the War 75

Part III From Enthusiasm to More Enthusiasm: Jews in the Soviet Workplace

7 What My Country Needs and Where My Aunt Lives: Choosing a Profession in Stalin's Soviet Union 95

8 The Right Specialists with the Wrong Passports: The Search for Employment 111

9 "You Don't Seem Like a Jew at All": The Atmosphere at Work 122

10 Jewish Doctors and the Doctors' Plot 159

11 The Happiest Memories: Life in the World of Soviet Yiddish Culture 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190223106

0190223103

OCLC:

954038161