Anna Shternshis is Al and Malka Green Associate Professor in Yiddish Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 (2006) and more than twenty articles on the Soviet Jewish experience during World War II, Russian Jewish culture, and the post-Soviet Jewish diaspora.

...this is a very usable and useful book for teaching courses on not only Soviet-Jewish history and anthropology, but for broader insight into innovative approaches toward Soviet nationalities studies.

• Part I: Oral History and the First Generation of Soviet Jews Chapter 1 When Only Memories Tell the TruthChapter 2 Who Gets to Tell the Story: Oral Histories of the First Soviet Jewish Generation Part II: The Making of a Soviet Jewish Family Chapter 3 Boys are Like Glass, Girls are like Cloth: Raising Jewish Children in the 1930s Chapter 4 Weddings between Errands: Love and Family during the Soviet Jewish Golden Age Chapter 5 Lost, Found and Guilty: The War and the FamilyChapter 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 Chapter 7 What My Country Needs and Where My Aunt Lives: Choosing a Profession in Stalin's Soviet UnionChapter 8 The Right Specialists with the Wrong Passports: The Search for Employment Chapter 9 "You Do Not Seem like a Jew At All": The Atmosphere at WorkChapter 10 Jewish Doctors and the Doctors' PlotChapter 11 The Happiest Memories: Life in the World of Soviet Yiddish Culture Epilogue Soviet Jewish Oral Histories: Past and Future Appendix 1 MethodologyAppendix 2 Statistical Distribution of IntervieweesNotesBibliography

Anna Shternshis is Al and Malka Green Associate Professor in Yiddish Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 (2006) and more than twenty articles on the Soviet Jewish experience during World War II, Russian Jewish culture, and the post-Soviet Jewish diaspora.

...this is a very usable and useful book for teaching courses on not only Soviet-Jewish history and anthropology, but for broader insight into innovative approaches toward Soviet nationalities studies.

• Part I: Oral History and the First Generation of Soviet Jews Chapter 1 When Only Memories Tell the TruthChapter 2 Who Gets to Tell the Story: Oral Histories of the First Soviet Jewish Generation Part II: The Making of a Soviet Jewish Family Chapter 3 Boys are Like Glass, Girls are like Cloth: Raising Jewish Children in the 1930s Chapter 4 Weddings between Errands: Love and Family during the Soviet Jewish Golden Age Chapter 5 Lost, Found and Guilty: The War and the FamilyChapter 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 Chapter 7 What My Country Needs and Where My Aunt Lives: Choosing a Profession in Stalin's Soviet UnionChapter 8 The Right Specialists with the Wrong Passports: The Search for Employment Chapter 9 "You Do Not Seem like a Jew At All": The Atmosphere at WorkChapter 10 Jewish Doctors and the Doctors' PlotChapter 11 The Happiest Memories: Life in the World of Soviet Yiddish Culture Epilogue Soviet Jewish Oral Histories: Past and Future Appendix 1 MethodologyAppendix 2 Statistical Distribution of IntervieweesNotesBibliography

Anna Shternshis is Al and Malka Green Associate Professor in Yiddish Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 (2006) and more than twenty articles on the Soviet Jewish experience during World War II, Russian Jewish culture, and the post-Soviet Jewish diaspora.

...this is a very usable and useful book for teaching courses on not only Soviet-Jewish history and anthropology, but for broader insight into innovative approaches toward Soviet nationalities studies.

• Part I: Oral History and the First Generation of Soviet Jews Chapter 1 When Only Memories Tell the TruthChapter 2 Who Gets to Tell the Story: Oral Histories of the First Soviet Jewish Generation Part II: The Making of a Soviet Jewish Family Chapter 3 Boys are Like Glass, Girls are like Cloth: Raising Jewish Children in the 1930s Chapter 4 Weddings between Errands: Love and Family during the Soviet Jewish Golden Age Chapter 5 Lost, Found and Guilty: The War and the FamilyChapter 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 Chapter 7 What My Country Needs and Where My Aunt Lives: Choosing a Profession in Stalin's Soviet UnionChapter 8 The Right Specialists with the Wrong Passports: The Search for Employment Chapter 9 "You Do Not Seem like a Jew At All": The Atmosphere at WorkChapter 10 Jewish Doctors and the Doctors' PlotChapter 11 The Happiest Memories: Life in the World of Soviet Yiddish Culture Epilogue Soviet Jewish Oral Histories: Past and Future Appendix 1 MethodologyAppendix 2 Statistical Distribution of IntervieweesNotesBibliography