Tears Over Russia

Author : Lisa Brahin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639361687

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Tears Over Russia by Lisa Brahin Pdf

A sweeping saga of a family and community fighting for survival against the ravages of history. Set between events depicted in Fiddler on the Roof and Schindler’s List, Lisa Brahin’s Tears over Russia brings to life a piece of Jewish history that has never before been told. Between 1917 and 1921, twenty years before the Holocaust began, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 Jews were murdered in anti-Jewish pogroms across the Ukraine. Lisa grew up transfixed by her grandmother Channa’s stories about her family being forced to flee their hometown of Stavishche, as armies and bandit groups raided village after village, killing Jewish residents. Channa described a perilous three-year journey through Russia and Romania, led at first by a gallant American who had snuck into the Ukraine to save his immediate family and ended up leading an exodus of nearly eighty to safety. With almost no published sources to validate her grandmother’s tales, Lisa embarked on her incredible journey to tell Channa’s story, forging connections with archivists around the world to find elusive documents to fill in the gaps of what happened in Stavishche. She also tapped into connections closer to home, gathering testimonies from her grandmother’s relatives, childhood friends and neighbors. The result is a moving historical family narrative that speaks to universal human themes—the resilience and hope of ordinary people surviving the ravages of history and human cruelty. With the growing passage of time, it is unlikely that we will see another family saga emerge so richly detailing this forgotten time period. Tears Over Russia eloquently proves that true life is sometimes more compelling than fiction.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of Lisa Brahin's Tears Over Russia by Milkyway Media Pdf

Get the Summary of Lisa Brahin's Tears Over Russia in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Tears Over Russia" is a historical narrative that traces the life of Fay Berkova, a Jewish woman from the Kiev Guberniya region, through the tumultuous times of early 20th-century Russia. The book begins with Fay's divorce from Samuel and subsequent marriage to Carl Cutler, a wheat merchant. The Cutlers raise seven children in Skibin amidst the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, pogroms, and World War I...

Author : Dara Horn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393531572

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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn Pdf

Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Prac­tice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.

Author : Barbara Armonas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0983233039

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Leave Your Tears in Moscow by Barbara Armonas Pdf

Exile in Siberia. The story of a 20-year fight to reunite a family across the Iron Curtain.

Author : Genadii Biegouloff
Publisher : Branden Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0828313210

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From Russia with Tears by Genadii Biegouloff Pdf

Author : Beverly Magid
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1478104570

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Sown in Tears by Beverly Magid Pdf

Russia, 1905 - After an attck on the village of Koritz, in the Settlement of the Pale, an area where Jews are restricted to live, Leah Peretz is left to protect and care for her young children. Her life is complicated by the attentions of the Russian officer Captain Vaselik, who is attracted to her despite his strong antipathy towards Jews. Can she trust him? Her journey is played out against the events happening in the country.Revolution is beginning to roil in Russia, everyone is frustrated and restless, the government inflames anti-semitism, pogroms occur against the Jews, while Leah must survive and defend her family and finally discover her path.

Author : Julie Fedor,Markku Kangaspuro,Jussi Lassila,Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319665238

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War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus by Julie Fedor,Markku Kangaspuro,Jussi Lassila,Tatiana Zhurzhenko Pdf

This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – the epicentre of Soviet war suffering, and the heartland of the Soviet war myth. The collection gives insight into the persistence of the Soviet commemorative culture and the myth of the Great Patriotic War in the post-Soviet space. It also demonstrates that for geopolitical, cultural, and historical reasons the political uses of World War II differ significantly across Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, with important ramifications for future developments in the region and beyond. The chapters 'Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus', ‘From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute over Volgograd’ and 'The “Partisan Republic”: Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus' are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. The chapter 'Memory, Kinship, and Mobilization of the Dead: The Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement' is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Walter Schubart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Civilization, Oriental
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010387889

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Russia and Western Man by Walter Schubart Pdf

Author : Arthur Kroeger
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0888644736

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Hard Passage by Arthur Kroeger Pdf

In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, and archival research, Hard Passage speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.

Author : Jeffrey Surovell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351731188

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Capitalist Russia and the West by Jeffrey Surovell Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: highly innovative work which challenges mainstream approaches to the study of Russian policy with its groundbreaking application of Marxism and dependency theories. Using class analysis, it examines, in a meticulously documented study, what is perhaps the most important issue in world politics today: Russia and the West. Unconventional yet powerful, it nevertheless comes up with highly persuasive conclusions. Whether one agrees with its challenging conclusions or not, they cannot be ignored.

Author : Stefan Hedlund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135433734

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Russia's Market Economy by Stefan Hedlund Pdf

Russia's Market Economy is a seminal account of Russia's transition to the market, its tortuous development as a fledgling market economy through the 1990s, right through to its spectacular collapse in August 1998. Rather than beginning with the economic collapse, the book traces the historical mismanagement of Russian wealth through to the Soviet command economy, and on to Gorbachev. Stefan Hedlund finally discusses what lessons should be learned from the damage inflicted on the Russian economy, as well as its social, legal and political infrastructure, by the race of reform.

Author : Elizabeth Kiem
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781616952648

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Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy by Elizabeth Kiem Pdf

A timely YA thriller—part John Le Carré and part The Americans—about a Bolshoi ballerina trapped by family secrets and a legacy of espionage. The Bolshoi Saga: Marina Marina is born into privilege. A talented young dancer with Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet at the height of the Cold War, she seems destined to follow in the footsteps of her mother Svetlana, a Soviet Artist of the People. But when Svetlana disappears without explanation, Marina and her father have to get out. Fast. They defect to America, hoping they’ve escaped Russia’s secret police, hoping they can make a fresh start in New York. Instead they discover the web of intrigue around Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach is as tangled as the one they left behind.

Author : Catherine A. Schuler
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587298479

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Theatre and Identity in Imperial Russia by Catherine A. Schuler Pdf

What role did the theatre—both institutionally and literally—play in Russia’s modernization? How did the comparatively harmonious relationship that developed among the state, the nobility, and the theatre in the eighteenth century transform into ideological warfare between the state and the intelligentsia in the nineteenth? How were the identities of the Russian people and the Russian soul configured and altered by actors in St. Petersburg and Moscow? Using the dramatic events of nineteenth-century Russian history as a backdrop, Catherine Schuler answers these questions by revealing the intricate links among national modernization, identity, and theatre. Schuler draws upon contemporary journals written and published by the educated nobility and the intelligentsia—who represented the intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural groups of the day—as well as upon the laws of the Russian empire and upon theatrical memoirs. With fascinating detail, she spotlights the ideologically charged binaries ascribed to prominent actors—authentic/performed, primitive/civilized, Russian/Western—that mirrored the volatility of national identity from the Napoleonic Wars through the reign of Alexander II. If the path traveled by Russian artists and audiences from the turn of the nineteenth century to the era of the Great Reforms reveals anything about Russian culture and society, it may be that there is nothing more difficult than being Russian in Russia. By exploring the ways in which theatrical administrators, playwrights, and actors responded to three tsars, two wars, and a major revolt, this carefully crafted book demonstrates the battle for the hearts and minds of the Russian people.

Author : Joseph Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134053933

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Japanese-Russian Relations, 1907-2007 by Joseph Ferguson Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian sources, it traces the development of relations from the tumultuous pre-war period, through the Second World War, Cold War and post-Cold War periods. Considering the wider international situation, domestic influences and ideological factors throughout, it shows how the hopeful period of the late 1990s - when Japanese-Russian relations briefly ceased to be acrimonious, and it seemed that normal relations might be established - was not unique. Joseph P. Ferguson argues there have been several previous occasions when rapprochement seemed possible, which in the end proved elusive: rapprochement frequently becoming the victim of domestic factors which frequently worked against and took precedence over good relations. The book concludes with an assessment of the present situation and of how relations are likely to develop in the immediate future.

Author : Svetlana Alexievich
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Oral history
ISBN : 9788193237243

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Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich Pdf

Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich invents a new genre of narrative non-fiction as she writes the life stories of housewives, artists, party workers, students, soldiers, traders, living through a time of political upheaval -- the fall of the Soviet Union and the two decades that followed it.