Shush! : growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir / Emil Draitser.
Material type: TextSeries: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520942257
- 0520942256
- 1306867266
- 9781306867269
- Draitser, Emil, 1937- -- Childhood and youth
- Draitser, Emil, 1937-
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- Biography
- Odesa (Ukraine) -- Biography
- Juifs -- Ukraine -- Odessa -- Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- HISTORY -- Europe -- General
- Jews
- Ukraine -- Odesa
- Odessa
- Juden
- 305.892/404772092 22
- PG3549.D7 Z46 2008eb
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How I failed my motherland -- Fathers at war -- Path to paradise -- What's in a name! -- Black shawl -- Us against them -- I don't want to have relatives! -- Friends and enemies -- The girl of my dreams -- How they laugh in Odessa -- Papa and the Soviets -- A dependent -- Without declarations -- Who's who -- A strange orange -- Who are you? -- One Passover in Odessa -- On commissars, cosmopolites, and lightbulb inventors -- Them! -- No kith, no kin -- Grandpa Uri -- Missing Mikhoels -- Black on white -- Time like glass -- The death of Stalin.
"The old man wears a skullcap, and I m puzzled and secretly irritated: why declare to everybody that you re a Jew?" Growing up in Odessa in Soviet Ukraine in the post-Holocaust years, under Stalin, Draitser despises his Jewish identity. Mocked at school, he absorbs the virulent anti-Semitism. He hates Yiddish. Now a professor of Russian at Hunter College in New York, he looks back, blending historical overview with a present-tense narrative of how it feels to be a child taught to despise his culture. More than the commentary, the unforgettable drama--and the answer to the racism--is the celebration of Jewish family life and the richness of Yiddish, from the curse words to the endearments. Papa, a house-painter, is always looking for a famous Jew to celebrate. But the hero is Mama, labeled "dependent" on the official papers, but the true head of the family in their crammed one-roomed apartment, her cooking an expression of love, even when it seems excessive: "Take some more. It's good for you." Copyright 2008 Booklist Reviews
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