Anna Shternshis

When Sonia Met Boris

An Oral History of Jewish Life Under Stalin

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Produktbeschreibung

When Sonia Met Boris, an innovative study of Jewish daily life in the Soviet Union based on nearly 500 oral history interviews, gives a long-suppressed voice to the men and women who survived the sustained violence and everyday hardship of Stalin's Russia. It reveals how postwar Soviet Jews came to view their Jewish identity as an obstacle--a shift in attitude with ramifications for contemporary Russian Jewish culture and the broader Jewish diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780197601082
• ISBN-10: 0197601081
• Artikelnr.: 61860876

Autorenporträt

Anna Shternshis is the Al and Malka Green Professor in Yiddish Studies and the Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 .

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