TY - BOOK ID - 138317876 TI - When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home : A Memoir PY - 2020 SN - 1644692813 PB - Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, DB - UniCat KW - Jewish women KW - Families. KW - Miller, Elisa Brodinsky KW - Family. KW - Biography. KW - Eastern Europe. KW - Family/career conflict. KW - Generational legacies. KW - Jewish identity. KW - Jewish women. KW - Judaism. KW - Memoir. KW - Modern Russia. KW - Russian Far East. KW - Russian Ukraine. KW - Seattle. KW - Shtetl life. KW - Tillie Olsen. KW - Ukrainian Jews. KW - Washington. KW - Yiddish. KW - career. KW - family history. KW - genealogy. KW - gulag. KW - history. KW - introspection. KW - investigative journalism. KW - journalism. KW - marriage. KW - motherhood. KW - personal narrative. KW - research. KW - travel. KW - womanhood. KW - writing. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138317876 AB - After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she traveled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa Brodinsky Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book of three generations. Shortly after her father's death, Elisa discovers a cache of letters written in Russian and Yiddish among his belongings, which she quickly resolves to translate. Dated from 1914 to 1922 and addressed to her grandfather, Eli, in Wilmington, Delaware, the letters capture the eight long years that Eli spent apart from his wife and their six children who remained behind in the Pale of Settlement. With each translation, Brodinsky Miller learns more about this time spent apart, the family she knew so little about, and the country they came to leave behind, connecting her own experiences with those who came before her. This captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn about her grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist Russia, her immigrant parents' hopes for their marriage in America, and now her turn to reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation of aspirations-first theirs, now hers. ER -