When Sonia met Boris : an oral history of Jewish life under Stalin /
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| Author / Creator: | Shternshis, Anna, author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] ©2017 |
| Description: | xii, 247 pages ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10968501 |
Table of 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
