TY  - BOOK
AU  - Draitser,Emil
TI  - Shush!: growing up Jewish under Stalin : a memoir 
T2  - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
SN  - 9780520942257
AV  - PG3549 .S587 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Draitser, Emil,
KW  - Jews
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Odesa
KW  - Biography
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; How I failed my motherland --; Fathers at war --; Path to paradise --; What's in a name! --; Black shawl --; Us against them --; I don't want to have relatives! --; Friends and enemies --; The girl of my dreams --; How they laugh in Odessa --; Papa and the Soviets --; A dependent --; Without declarations --; Who's who --; A strange orange --; Who are you? --; One Passover in Odessa --; On commissars, cosmopolites, and lightbulb inventors --; Them! --; No kith, no kin --; Grandpa Uri --; Missing Mikhoels --; Black on white --; Time like glass --; The death of Stalin; 2; b
N2  - "The old man wears a skullcap, and I m puzzled and secretly irritated: why declare to everybody that you re a Jew?" Growing up in Odessa in Soviet Ukraine in the post-Holocaust years, under Stalin, Draitser despises his Jewish identity. Mocked at school, he absorbs the virulent anti-Semitism. He hates Yiddish. Now a professor of Russian at Hunter College in New York, he looks back, blending historical overview with a present-tense narrative of how it feels to be a child taught to despise his culture. More than the commentary, the unforgettable drama--and the answer to the racism--is the celebration of Jewish family life and the richness of Yiddish, from the curse words to the endearments. Papa, a house-painter, is always looking for a famous Jew to celebrate. But the hero is Mama, labeled "dependent" on the official papers, but the true head of the family in their crammed one-roomed apartment, her cooking an expression of love, even when it seems excessive: "Take some more. It's good for you." Copyright 2008 Booklist Reviews
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