Based on nearly 500 oral history interviews, When Sonia Met Boris is an innovative study of Jewish daily life in the Soviet Union, giving a long-suppressed voice to the Jewish men and women who survived the sustained violence and everyday hardship of Stalin's Russia.
Based on nearly 500 oral history interviews, When Sonia Met Boris is an innovative study of Jewish daily life in the Soviet Union, giving a long-suppressed voice to the Jewish men and women who survived the sustained violence and everyday hardship of Stalin's Russia.
Anna Shternshis is Al and Malka Green Associate Professor in Yiddish Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 (2006) and more than twenty articles on the Soviet Jewish experience during World War II, Russian Jewish culture, and the post-Soviet Jewish diaspora.
Inhaltsangabe
* Part I: Oral History and the First Generation of Soviet Jews * Chapter 1 When Only Memories Tell the Truth * Chapter 2 Who Gets to Tell the Story: Oral Histories of the First Soviet Jewish Generation * Part II: The Making of a Soviet Jewish Family * Chapter 3 Boys are Like Glass, Girls are like Cloth: Raising Jewish Children in the 1930s * Chapter 4 Weddings between Errands: Love and Family during the Soviet Jewish Golden Age * Chapter 5 Lost, Found and Guilty: The War and the Family * Chapter 6 How not to Learn about Antisemitism at Home: Soviet Jewish Family Values after the War * Part III: From Enthusiasm to More Enthusiasm: Jews in the Soviet Workplace * Chapter 7 What My Country Needs and Where My Aunt Lives: Choosing a Profession in Stalin's Soviet Union * Chapter 8 The Right Specialists with the Wrong Passports: The Search for Employment * Chapter 9 "You Do Not Seem like a Jew At All": The Atmosphere at Work * Chapter 10 Jewish Doctors and the Doctors' Plot * Chapter 11 The Happiest Memories: Life in the World of Soviet Yiddish Culture * Epilogue Soviet Jewish Oral Histories: Past and Future * Appendix 1 Methodology * Appendix 2 Statistical Distribution of Interviewees * Notes * Bibliography
* Part I: Oral History and the First Generation of Soviet Jews * Chapter 1 When Only Memories Tell the Truth * Chapter 2 Who Gets to Tell the Story: Oral Histories of the First Soviet Jewish Generation * Part II: The Making of a Soviet Jewish Family * Chapter 3 Boys are Like Glass, Girls are like Cloth: Raising Jewish Children in the 1930s * Chapter 4 Weddings between Errands: Love and Family during the Soviet Jewish Golden Age * Chapter 5 Lost, Found and Guilty: The War and the Family * Chapter 6 How not to Learn about Antisemitism at Home: Soviet Jewish Family Values after the War * Part III: From Enthusiasm to More Enthusiasm: Jews in the Soviet Workplace * Chapter 7 What My Country Needs and Where My Aunt Lives: Choosing a Profession in Stalin's Soviet Union * Chapter 8 The Right Specialists with the Wrong Passports: The Search for Employment * Chapter 9 "You Do Not Seem like a Jew At All": The Atmosphere at Work * Chapter 10 Jewish Doctors and the Doctors' Plot * Chapter 11 The Happiest Memories: Life in the World of Soviet Yiddish Culture * Epilogue Soviet Jewish Oral Histories: Past and Future * Appendix 1 Methodology * Appendix 2 Statistical Distribution of Interviewees * Notes * Bibliography
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