Kto Ty Takoi: Odessa 1945-1953 [Russian]

by Emil Draitser and Эмиль Дрейцер

Many years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word "Jewish"-even in casual conversation-he lowered his voice. This behavior was a natural by-product, he realized, of growing up in the anti-Semitic, post-Holocaust Soviet Union, when "Shush " was the most frequent word he heard: "Don't use your Jewish name in public. Don't speak a word of Yiddish. And don't...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Russian
• ISBN: 097149634X
• ISBN13: 9780971496347
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Seagull Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"