Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir

Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir /

"The old man wears a skullcap, and I m puzzled and secretly irritated: why declare to everybody that you re a Jew?" Growing up in Odessa in Soviet Ukraine in the post-Holocaust years, under Stalin, Draitser despises his Jewish identity. Mocked at school, he absorbs the virulent anti-Semiti...

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Main Author: Draitser, Emil, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008
Series:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Subjects:
Draitser, Emil, > 1937- > Childhood and youth.
Jews > Ukraine > Odesa > Biography.
Odesa (Ukraine) > Biography.
Autobiography
Biography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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