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Ester And Ruzya
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Author : Masha Gessen
language : en
Publisher: Dial Press
Release Date : 2008-12-30
Ester And Ruzya written by Masha Gessen and has been published by Dial Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this “extraordinary family memoir,”* the National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned. *The New York Times Book Review In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. Ester Goldberg was a rebel from Bialystok, Poland, where virtually the entire Jewish community would be sent to Hitler’s concentration camps. Ruzya Solodovnik was a Russian-born intellectual who would become a high-level censor under Stalin’s regime. At war’s end, both women found themselves in Moscow. Over the years each woman had to find her way in a country that aimed to make every citizen a cog in the wheel of murder and repression. One became a hero in her children’s and grandchildren’s eyes; the other became a collaborator. With grace, candor, and meticulous research, Masha Gessen, one of the most trenchant observers of Russia and its history today, peels back the layers of time to reveal her grandmothers’ lives—and to show that neither story is quite what it seems. Praise for Masha Gessen “One of the most important activists and journalists Russia has known in a generation.”—David Remnick, The New Yorker “Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
Ester Ruzya
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Author : Maša Gessen
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
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Schets van het bewogen leven van de joodse grootmoeders van de schrijfster in Rusland voor, tijdens en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Ester E Ruzya
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Author : Maša Gessen
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Ester E Ruzya written by Maša Gessen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
The Posen Library Of Jewish Culture And Civilization
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Author : Deborah Dash Moore
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-20
The Posen Library Of Jewish Culture And Civilization written by Deborah Dash Moore and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-20 with Social Science categories.
Presents an encyclopedia of Jewish culture from 1973 to 2005, including secular and religious examples from the visual arts, literature, and popular culture.
Ester And Ruzya
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Author : Masha Gessen
language : es
Publisher: Peninsular Publishing Company
Release Date : 2006-01
Ester And Ruzya written by Masha Gessen and has been published by Peninsular Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01 with Fiction categories.
En la década de 1930, cuando rompían contra Europa las olas de la guerra y la persecución, dos jóvenes judías iniciaron sus respectivos viajes hacia la supervivencia. Una de ellas, polaca y nacida en Bialystok, donde casi toda la comunidad judía sería enviada pronto al gueto, y de allí a los campos de concentración de Hitler, estaba decidida no sólo a vivir sino a hacerlo, además, con orgullo e intrepidez. La otra, nacida en Rusia, intelectual e introvertida, llegaría a ocupar un alto puesto de censora bajo el régimen de Stalin. Al acabar la guerra, ambas mujeres se encontraron en Moscú, donde imperaba el antisemitismo y los informantes acechaban por todas partes. Fue allí donde los caminos de Ester y Ruzya se cruzarían por primera vez, donde se convertirían en amigas íntimas y aprenderían a confiarse sus vidas mutuamente. En estas memorias familiares hondamente conmovedoras, Masha Gessen cuenta la historia de sus dos abuelas queridas. Ester, la rebelde impetuosa que luchó constantemente contra las fuerzas de la tiranía; y Ruzya, la madre sola, que ingresó a la fuerza en el Partido Comunista y aceptó los compromisos que el régimen imponía a sus ciudadanos. Ambas perdieron en la guerra a los hombres que habían sido su primer amor. Ambas fueron lingüistas muy dotadas que se ganaron la vida como traductoras. Y ambas tuvieron hijos (Ester, un niño; Ruzya, una niña) que crecerían, se enamorarían y tendrían a su vez dos más: Masha y su hermano menor. Ester y Ruzya es una narración fascinante, llena de intriga política y emoción apasionada, de actos de valor y de traición. Constituye al mismo tiempo una crónica familiar íntima y un relato histórico cautivador y entreteje las biografías de dos mujeres con una espléndida visión de la historia de Rusia. El resultado son unas memorias que se leen como una novela, además de un extraordinario testimonio de los lazos familiares y el poder de la esperanza, el amor y la entereza.Masha Gessen nació en Rusia en 1967, emigró a Estados Unidos con su familia en 1981 y, en 1991, regresó a Rusia como corresponsal extranjera. Colabora en The New Republic y en The New Statesman. Es la corresponsal en Rusia de US News & World Report y ha publicado también en Granta. Reside en Moscú.
Soviet Born
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Author : Karolina Krasuska
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2024-07-12
Soviet Born written by Karolina Krasuska and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 2010, when The New Yorker published a list of twenty writers under the age of forty who were “key to their generation,” it included five Jewish-identified writers, two of whom—American Gary Shteyngart and Canadian David Bezmozgis—were Soviet-born. This publicity came after nearly a decade of English-language literary output by Soviet-born writers of all genders in North America. Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction traces the impact of these now numerous authors—among others, David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, Keith Gessen, Sana Krasikov, Ellen Litman, Gary Shteyngart, Anya Ulinich, and Lara Vapnyar—on major coordinates of the Jewish American imaginary. Entering an immigrant, Soviet-born standpoint creates an alternative and sometimes complementary pattern of how the Eastern and Central European past and present resonate with American Jewishness. The novels, short stories, and graphic novels considered here often stage strikingly fresh variations on key older themes, including cultural geography, the memory of World War II and the Holocaust, communism, gender and sexuality, genealogy, and finally, migration. Soviet-Born demonstrates how these diasporic writers, with their critical stance toward identity categories, open up the field of what is canonically Jewish American to broader contemporary debates. This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.
Words Will Break Cement
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Author : Masha Gessen
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2014-02-06
Words Will Break Cement written by Masha Gessen and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Political Science categories.
On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Dressed in their trademark brightly coloured dresses and balaclavas, the women performed their song 'Punk Prayer - Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!' in front of the altar. The performance lasted only 40 seconds but it resulted in two-year prison sentences for three of the performers - and has turned Pussy Riot into one of the most well-known and important protest movements of the last five years. This necessary and timely book is an account of the Pussy Riot protest, the ensuing global support movement, and the tangled and controversial trial of the band members. It explores the status of dissent in Russia, the roots of the group and their adoption - or appropriation - by wider collectives, feminist groups and music icons. Masha Gessen has unique access to the band and those closest to them. Her unrivalled understanding of the Russian protest movement makes her the ideal writer to document and explain the rage, the beauty and the phenomenon that is Pussy Riot.
A Club Of Their Own
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Author : Eli Lederhendler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-05
A Club Of Their Own written by Eli Lederhendler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-05 with Religion categories.
Volume XXIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry takes its title from a joke by Groucho Marx: "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." The line encapsulates one of the most important characteristics of Jewish humor: the desire to buffer oneself from potentially unsafe or awkward situations, and thus to achieve social and emotional freedom. By studying the history and development of Jewish humor, the essays in this volume not only provide nuanced accounts of how Jewish humor can be described but also make a case for the importance of humor in studying any culture. A recent survey showed that about four in ten American Jews felt that "having a good sense of humor" was "an essential part of what being Jewish means to them," on a par with or exceeding caring for Israel, observing Jewish law, and eating traditional foods. As these essays show, Jewish humor has served many functions as a form of "insider" speech. It has been used to ridicule; to unite people in the face of their enemies; to challenge authority; to deride politics and politicians; in America, to ridicule conspicuous consumption; in Israel, to contrast expectations of political normalcy and bitter reality. However, much of contemporary Jewish humor is designed not only or even primarily as insider speech. Rather, it rewards all those who get the punch line. A Club of Their Own moves beyond general theorizing about the nature of Jewish humor by serving a smorgasbord of finely grained, historically situated, and contextualized interdisciplinary studies of humor and its consumption in Jewish life in the modern world.
When Sonia Met Boris
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Author : Anna Shternshis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-16
When Sonia Met Boris written by Anna Shternshis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-16 with History categories.
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.
The Brothers
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Author : Masha Gessen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-04-07
The Brothers written by Masha Gessen and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with History categories.
National Book Award winner Masha Gessen tells an important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and ultimately charged on thirty federal counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and debate, what we still haven’t learned is why. Why did the American Dream go so wrong for two immigrants? How did such a nightmare come to pass? Acclaimed Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen is uniquely endowed with the background, access, and talents to tell the full story. An immigrant herself, who came to the Boston area with her family as a teenager, she returned to the former Soviet Union in her early twenties and covered firsthand the transformations that were wracking her homeland and its neighboring regions. It is there that the history of the Tsarnaev brothers truly begins, as descendants of ethnic Chechens deported to Central Asia in the Stalin era. Gessen follows the family in their futile attempts to make a life for themselves in one war-torn locale after another and then, as new émigrés, in the looking-glass, utterly disorienting world of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Most crucially, she reconstructs the struggle between assimilation and alienation that ensued for each of the brothers, incubating a deadly sense of mission. And she traces how such a split in identity can fuel the metamorphosis into a new breed of homegrown terrorist, with feet on American soil but sense of self elsewhere.