Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin A Memoir

Name: Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780520254466

ISBN-10: 0520254465

ISBN-13: 9780520254466

Edition: 2008

Authors: Emil Draitser

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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…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.21" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



acknowledgments


notes on languages and translation


prologue






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


Epilogue


My Genealogical Tree