Anna Shternshis is the Al and Malka Green Professor in Yiddish Studies and the Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 .

This page-turning, concise volume makes excellent use of oral histories to add flesh to an otherwise linear narrative of the Jewish experience in the Soviet Union and goes beyond to show how those experiences shaped the trajectories of the people who lived through not just the major historical events but also less eventful and at times mundane individual histories of their own lives.

• 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 the Al and Malka Green Professor in Yiddish Studies and the Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 .

This page-turning, concise volume makes excellent use of oral histories to add flesh to an otherwise linear narrative of the Jewish experience in the Soviet Union and goes beyond to show how those experiences shaped the trajectories of the people who lived through not just the major historical events but also less eventful and at times mundane individual histories of their own lives.

• 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