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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anna Shternshis (Al and Malka Green Associate Professor of Yiddish Language and Literature, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 17.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.478kg ISBN: 9780190223106ISBN 10: 0190223103 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 18 June 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart 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 BibliographyReviews[T]he overall contribution of the book [is]...significant....[S]uch a study sits well alongside existing literature on everyday Stalinism, and with its focus on both Jewish domestic and work life offers a substantial contribution to this area....[T]he book will be a valuable resource for those who research and teach in the area of modern Russian, eastern European and Jewish studies. --Cai Parry-Jones, Oral History Review Author InformationAnna Shternshis is the Al and Malka Green Associate Professor in Yiddish Language and Literature and the Director of 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 (2006) and more than twenty articles on the Soviet Jewish experience during World War II, Russian Jewish culture, and the post-Soviet Jewish diaspora. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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