When Sonia met Boris: an oral history of Jewish life under Stalin
Based on nearly 500 oral history interviews, When Sonia Met Boris is an innovative study of Jewish daily life in the Soviet Union, giving a long-suppressed voice to the Jewish men and women who survived the sustained violence and everyday hardship of Stalin's Russia. It reveals how postwar Sovi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford Oral History Series
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Soviet Union
/ Jews
/ Everyday life
/ History 1930-1953
B Soviet Union / Jews / Everyday life / Stalinism |
| Further subjects: | B
Jews--Soviet Union--Interviews
B Interview |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Based on nearly 500 oral history interviews, When Sonia Met Boris is an innovative study of Jewish daily life in the Soviet Union, giving a long-suppressed voice to the Jewish men and women who survived the sustained violence and everyday hardship of Stalin's Russia. It reveals how postwar Soviet Jews came to view their Jewish identity as an obstacle-a shift in attitude with ramifications for contemporary Russian Jewish culture and the broader Jewish diaspora Cover -- When Sonia Met Boris -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Oral History and the First Generation of Soviet Jews -- 1 When Only Memories Tell the Truth -- 2 Who Gets to Tell the Story: Oral Histories of the First Soviet Jewish Generation -- Part II The Making of a Soviet Jewish Family -- 3 Boys Are Like a Glass, Girls Are Like Cloth: Raising Jewish Children in the 1930s -- 4 Weddings between Errands: Love and Family during the Soviet Jewish Golden Age -- 5 Lost, Found, and Guilty: The War and the Family -- 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 -- 7 What My Country Needs and Where My Aunt Lives: Choosing a Profession in Stalin's Soviet Union -- 8 The Right Specialists with the Wrong Passports: The Search for Employment -- 9 "You Don't Seem Like a Jew at All": The Atmosphere at Work -- 10 Jewish Doctors and the Doctors' Plot -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (265 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-022311-3 |
