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Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir / Emil Draitser.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Draitser, Emil, 1937- author.
- Series:
- S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
- The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Draitser, Emil, 1937---Childhood and youth.
- Draitser, Emil.
- Jews--Ukraine--Odesa--Biography.
- Jews.
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Biography.
- Odesa (Ukraine).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520942257
- 0520942256
- OCLC:
- 1100830262
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