Anna Shternshis

When Sonia Met Boris

An Oral History of Jewish Life Under Stalin

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9780190223106
• ISBN-10: 0190223103
• Artikelnr.: 47863441

Autorenporträt

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