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Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"At the end of World War II, nearly three milion Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradox—unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue. Drawing on newly released Soviet government documents and hundreds of interviews, Beckerman shows how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989 and forced human rights into the...
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Language
English
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Description
"From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early, harsh, and enduring lessons. Unsparing and poignant, Mikhail Iossel's twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood,...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Living with her Babby after her parents' death, 10-year-old Dinah Ash is invited to train at Leningrad's legendary Vaganova Ballet School. In the world of elite dance, she works hard, falls in love, and weathers the Soviet Union's ubiquitous antisemitism, but despite an impressive talent, she quickly learns that dancers of her "profile" don't make prima ballerinas. Love of Leningrad, ballet, friends, family, and books sustain Dinah until history...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Moscow, February 1953. A week before Stalin's death, his final pogrom, "one that would forever rid the Motherland of the vermin," is in full swing. Three government goons arrive in the middle of the night to arrest Solomon Shimonovich Levinson, an actor from the defunct State Jewish Theater. But Levinson, though an old man, is a veteran of past wars, and his shocking response to the intruders sets in motion a series of events both zany and deadly...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost world"--
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"On January 13, 1953, a vast conspiracy among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders was revealed to the world. The Doctors' Plot, as it was called, was Stalin's last crime." "In the fifty years since Stalin's death, several theories have emerged about the Doctors' Plot. Did Stalin invent the conspiracy or was it engineered by his subordinates to eliminate Kremlin rivals? Did Stalin intend a purge of all Jews from Moscow, Leningrad,...
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This graphic novel biography is the story of Soviet Jewry refusenik and human rights activist Anatoly Natan Sharansky. From the awakening of his Jewish identity and the desire to live in Israel to his years of imprisonment, Sharansky paved the way for Soviet Jews who wished to leave"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement. His search takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal grandfather--most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin--to reckon with the ways in which decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped three generations...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel; he sits "in refusal" alongside his wife and their community of intellectuals, Jewish and not. But then the KGB spots Viktor leaving the murder scene. Plucked off the street, he's given a choice:...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The story of the mass exodus of Jews out of Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century and the titans of industry who made it possible"--
Over thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg. This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American narrative has...
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