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When Sonia Met Boris - An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Hardcover)
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When Sonia Met Boris - An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Oral History Series
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Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union are a
peculiarity in the Jewish world. After decades living in a
repressive, nominally atheistic state, these Jews did manage to
retain a strong sense of Jewish identity-but one that was almost
completely divorced from Judaism. Today, more than ten percent of
Jews speak or understand Russian, signaling the importance of an
ever-vexing question: why are Russian Jews the way they are? In
pursuit of an answer, Anna Shternshis's groundbreaking When Sonia
Met Boris draws on nearly 500 oral history interviews on the Soviet
Jewish experience with Soviet citizens who were adults by the
1940s. Soviet Jews lived through tumultuous times: the Great
Terror, World War II, the anti-Semitic 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, Shternshis unearths
heartbreaking, deeply poignant, and often funny stories of the
everyday choices Jews were forced to make as a repressed minority
living in a totalitarian regime. Shternshis reveals how ethnicity
rapidly transformed into a disability, as well as a negative
characteristic, for Soviet Jews in the postwar period. That sense
of Jewish identity has persisted well into the twenty-first
century, influencing the children and grandchildren of Shternshis's
subjects, the foundational generation of contemporary Russian
Jewish culture. An illuminating work of social and cultural
history, When Sonia Met Boris traces the fascinating contours of
contemporary Russian Jewish identity back to their very roots.
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