When Sonia Met Boris

When Sonia Met Boris PDF Author: Anna Shternshis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190223103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Book Description
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.