| Description |
1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies |
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S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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| 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 |
| 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 m |
| Analysis |
20th century russian culture |
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20th century russian society |
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american immigrant |
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anti semitism |
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autobiography |
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communism |
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communist party of ukraine |
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emotional |
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family |
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humor |
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humorous |
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jewish family |
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jewish history in russia |
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jewish immigrant |
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judaism |
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memoir |
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odessa |
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post holocaust soviet union |
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retrospective |
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soviet society |
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soviet ukraine |
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soviet union |
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stalin |
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ukraine |
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ukrainian soviet socialist republic |
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united states of america |
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working class |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Draitser, Emil, 1937- -- Childhood and youth
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Draitser, Emil, 1937- |
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Jews -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Jews
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Odesa (Ukraine) -- Biography
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Ukraine -- Odesa
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520942257 |
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0520942256 |
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