LEADER 03834cam a2200601 i 4500001 268635 005 20240621232732.0 007 ta 007 cr ||||||||||a 008 160722t20172017nyu b 001 0deng 010 2016033941 015 GBB779879 |2bnb 020 9780190223106 |q(hardcover) 020 0190223103 |q(hardcover) 020 9780190223120 |q(ebook epub) 020 019022312X |q(ebook epub) 024 8 13125026 035 (OCoLC)ocn954038161 035 268635 042 pcc 043 e-ur--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBDX |dYDX |dBTCTA |dOCLCF |dVA@ |dNZAUC |dIGA |dOCLCO |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dW2U |dOCLCQ |dQGK |dUKMGB |dLHM 050 00 DS134.85 |b.S58 2017 100 1 Shternshis, Anna, |eauthor. 245 10 When Sonia met Boris : |ban oral history of Jewish life under Stalin / |cAnna Shternshis. 264 1 New York : |bOxford University Press, |c[2017] 264 4 |c©2017 300 xii, 247 pages ; |c23 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 340 |nregular print 490 1 The Oxford oral history series 504 Includes bibliographical references (225-238) and index. 520 "Soviet Jews lived through a record number of traumatic events: the Great Terror, World War II, the Holocaust, the Famine of 1947, the Doctors' Plot, the antisemitic policies of the postwar period, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. But like millions of other Soviet citizens, they married, raised children, and built careers, pursuing life as best as they could in a profoundly hostile environment. One of the first scholars to record and analyze oral testimonies of Soviet Jews, Anna Shternshis unearths their everyday life and the difficult choices that they were forced to make as a repressed minority living in a totalitarian regime. Drawing on nearly 500 interviews with Soviet citizens who were adults by the 1940s, When Sonia Met Boris describes both indirect Soviet control mechanisms?such as housing policies and unwritten quotas in educational institutions?and personal strategies to overcome, ignore, or even take advantage of those limitations. The interviews reveal how ethnicity was rapidly transformed into a negative characteristic, almost a disability, for Soviet Jewry in the postwar period. Ultimately, Shternshis shows, after decades living in a repressive, nominally atheistic state, these Jews did manage to retain a complex sense of Jewish identity, but one that fully disassociates Jewishness from Judaism and instead associates it with secular society, prioritizing chess over Talmud, classical music over Hasidic tunes. Gracefully weaving together poignant stories, intimate reflections, and witty anecdotes, When Sonia Met Boris traces the unusual contours of contemporary Russian Jewish identity back to its roots. 530 Electronic version(s) available online. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Jews |zSoviet Union |vInterviews. 650 0 Jews |zSoviet Union |xSocial conditions. 650 0 Jews |zSoviet Union |xEconomic conditions. 650 0 Jews |xEmployment |zSoviet Union. 650 0 Discrimination in employment |zSoviet Union. 650 0 Jews |zSoviet Union |xIdentity. 650 7 Alltag. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4001307-8 650 7 Juden. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4028808-0 650 7 Stalinismus. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4056883-0 651 7 Sowjetunion. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4077548-3 655 7 Interviews. |2lcgft 830 0 Oxford oral history series. 856 41 |3Electronic version(s) available. |zHosted by ProQuest |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ushmm/detail.action?docID=4777269 852 0 |bstacks |hDS134.85 |i.S58 2017 852 |bebook