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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 midtwentieth-century life in Russia as the young Draitser struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Lively, evocative, and rich with humor, this unforgettable story ends with the death of Stalin and, through life stories of the author's ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia.
Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Draitser, Emil, --- Дрейцер, Эмиль, --- Dreĭt︠s︡er, Ėmilʹ, --- Abramov, Ėmilʹ, --- Childhood and youth. --- Odesa (Ukraine) --- Odessa (Ukraine) --- Odessa --- Одеса (Ukraine) --- Одесса (Ukraine) --- Odesa (Ukraine). --- 20th century russian culture. --- 20th century russian society. --- american immigrant. --- anti semitism. --- autobiography. --- communism. --- communist party of ukraine. --- emotional. --- family. --- humor. --- humorous. --- jewish family. --- jewish history in russia. --- jewish immigrant. --- judaism. --- memoir. --- odessa. --- post holocaust soviet union. --- retrospective. --- soviet society. --- soviet ukraine. --- soviet union. --- stalin. --- ukraine. --- ukrainian soviet socialist republic. --- united states of america. --- working class.
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Satire, Russian --- History and criticism. --- Saltykov, Mikhail Evgrafovich, --- Салтыков, Михаил Евграфович, --- Sáltikov-Ščédrin, M. E., --- Saltuikof-Shchedrin, Mikhail, --- Saltõkov-Štšedrin, M., --- Saltykov-Chtchédrine, Mikhail Evgrafovitch, --- Chtchédrine, N. --- Saltykov-Stschedrin, M. J., --- Saltykow-Szczedrin, Michal, --- Saltykov-Shedrin, M. I., --- Saltykov-Ščedrin, M. J., --- Saltikov, Mihail Jevgrafovich, --- Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail Evgrafovich, --- Shchedrin, Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-, --- Szczedrin, Michał Sałtykow-, --- Ščédrin, M. E. Sáltikov-, --- Štšedrin, M. Saltõkov-, --- Saltykov-Shchedrin, M. E. --- Shchedrin, M. E. Saltykov --- -Saltykov, M. E. --- Shchedrin, Mikhail Saltuikof-, --- Ščedrin, M. J. Saltykov-, --- Chtchédrine, Mikhail Evgrafovitch Saltykov-, --- Stschedrin, M. J. Saltykov-, --- Saltykov, Mikhail Yevgrafovich, --- Shedrin, M. I̐. Saltykov-, --- Shchedrin, N. --- Shchedrin, Nikolaĭ Evgrafovich, --- Saltykow-Schtschedrin, Michail, --- Салтыков-Щедрин, Михаил Евграфович, --- סאלטיקאוו, מיכאל יבגרפוביץ, --- סאלטיקאוו, מ.י, --- סאלטיקאוו-שטשעדרין, מ. י. --- סאלטיקאװ, מ. יע --- Sāltīkūf Shichidrīn, --- سالتيکوف شچدرين --- Shichidrīn, Sāltīkūf, --- شچدرين، سالتيکوف --- Saltykov Schchedrin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Saltykov, Mikhail Evgrafovich --- Saltykov-Ščedrin, Michail Evgrafovič, --- HUMOUR --- ANALYSE LINGUISTIQUE
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It is New Year's Eve 1945 in a small Soviet town not long liberated from German occupation. Sashenka, a headstrong and self-centered teenage girl, resents her mother for taking a lover after her father's death in the war, and denounces her to the authorities for the petty theft that keeps them from going hungry. When she meets a Jewish lieutenant who has returned to bury his family, betrayed and murdered by their neighbors during the occupation, both must come to terms with the trauma that surrounds them as their relationship deepens.Redemption is a stark and powerful portrait of humanity caught up in Stalin's police state in the aftermath of the war and the Holocaust. In this short novel, written in 1967 but unpublished for many years, Friedrich Gorenstein effortlessly combines the concrete details of daily life in this devastated society with witness testimonies to the mass murder of Jews. He gives a realistic account of postwar Soviet suffering through nuanced psychological portraits of people confronted with harsh choices and a coming-of-age story underscored by the deep involvement of sexuality and violence. Interspersed are flights of philosophical consideration of the relationship between Christians and Jews, love and suffering, justice and forgiveness. A major addition to the canon of literature bearing witness to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Redemption is an important reckoning with anti-Semitism and Stalinist repression from a significant Soviet Jewish voice.
Russian language materials. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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