Thanksgiving All Year Round: A Memoir
Autor Gavriel Shapiroen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2017
This book first delves into Shapiro's ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history and offers an individual perspective on what it meant to grow up in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WWII. Thanksgiving All Year Round also gives a personal account of the rise and development of Jewish national awareness and describes a struggle for the immigration to Israel in the late 1960s and the early 1970s through job loss, persecution, arrests, imprisonment, and trial. further, it relates the author’s life in Israel, including his work at the Voice of Israel, study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and service in the Israel Defense Forces. Finally, it explores the author’s academic career in the United States, from the graduate school at the University of Illinois to professorship at Cornell University.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781618115171
ISBN-10: 1618115170
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Academic Studies Press
Colecția Academic Studies Press
Locul publicării:Boston, MA, United States
ISBN-10: 1618115170
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Academic Studies Press
Colecția Academic Studies Press
Locul publicării:Boston, MA, United States
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Cuprins
Note on Transliteration
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. Ancestry
2. Immediate Family
3. Growing Up in Postwar Soviet Russia
4. Emergence of National Awareness and the Struggle for Immigration to Israel
5. Arrest, Imprisonment, Trial, and Aftermath
6. Life in Israel
7. Graduate Studies in the United States
8. Living, Teaching, and Writing in America
Afterword
Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. Ancestry
2. Immediate Family
3. Growing Up in Postwar Soviet Russia
4. Emergence of National Awareness and the Struggle for Immigration to Israel
5. Arrest, Imprisonment, Trial, and Aftermath
6. Life in Israel
7. Graduate Studies in the United States
8. Living, Teaching, and Writing in America
Afterword
Index
Recenzii
“The story of the struggle of Soviet Jews for self-determination and freedom of emigration is an account of global forces in collision. However, it is also the story of individuals with hopes and dreams and a willingness to risk all they have for the chance for self-fulfillment. Therefore, together with learned analyses of politics and policies, it is important to keep focus on the individual—and there is nothing like an autobiography to do this. Gavriel Shapiro’s Thanksgiving All Year Round is precisely such an account. It is full of fascinating detail, well based self-analysis, and also a fair degree of drama. It is a great read and a valuable introduction to a world that is thankfully gone. The fall of the Soviet Union was far from predictable in the seventies—and this book reminds us of the power of humanity to overcome obstacles that appeared to be insurmountable." —Shaul Stampfer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Gavriel Shapiro’s academic reputation is enhanced by an impressive memoir of his life. It is fascinating to follow Shapiro’s account of his life trajectory from the rise of his Jewish identity in the assimilated family, to his struggle with the Soviet authorities for the right to emigrate, to his career as a nationally and internationally recognized literary scholar. Had these events been merely recorded, the book would already be gripping and compelling reading. In actuality, what makes the book even more meaningful is that the events are depicted, together with reflective interludes, allusions to contemporary political affairs, and bits of Jewish folklore, in the context of the history of Russian Jewry." —Tatyana Novikov, University of Nebraska-Omaha, The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (Vol. 70, No. 2)
“There's no question in my mind that future historians will find themselves Thanksgiving the author of All Year Round. By meticulously recreating, with scholarly depth and comprehensiveness, his own fight for freedom and his further fate as a scholar and human being that took him to three continents, Professor Shapiro has produced an invaluable document of the epoch. So far, the Soviet Jewry struggle of breaking the bondage and for regaining human dignity hasn't found a better chronicler.” —Emil Draitser, Professor of Russian, Hunter College, author of Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin
“Written by one of the most notable representatives of the 'third wave' of Russian emigration, the memoirs cover the destinies of several generations of a remarkable Russian Jewish family. It will become a classic of memoir literature to be studied by all students of this burgeoning genre." —Henrietta Mondry, Professor and Director of the Russian Program at University of Canterbury, New Zealand
"Thanksgiving All Year Round is most appropriately named. It is the buoyant saga of an incorrigible optimist. Nothing daunted, Shapiro first flings himself against the all-powerful Soviet regime by which he is made to feel a misfit and then against the red-tape and apparent idiosyncrasies of the free societies to which he has escaped and where he is determined to make good. Written by a person with an obvious literary flair, Shapiro's book provides manifestly authentic details of everyday life in the intellectual milieu of Moscow after Stalin and will be read avidly by students of Soviet society and of the Soviet Jewish movement." —Yaacov Ro'i, Professor of Russian history emeritus, Tel Aviv University
"Gavriel Shapiro’s academic reputation is enhanced by an impressive memoir of his life. It is fascinating to follow Shapiro’s account of his life trajectory from the rise of his Jewish identity in the assimilated family, to his struggle with the Soviet authorities for the right to emigrate, to his career as a nationally and internationally recognized literary scholar. Had these events been merely recorded, the book would already be gripping and compelling reading. In actuality, what makes the book even more meaningful is that the events are depicted, together with reflective interludes, allusions to contemporary political affairs, and bits of Jewish folklore, in the context of the history of Russian Jewry." —Tatyana Novikov, University of Nebraska-Omaha, The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (Vol. 70, No. 2)
“There's no question in my mind that future historians will find themselves Thanksgiving the author of All Year Round. By meticulously recreating, with scholarly depth and comprehensiveness, his own fight for freedom and his further fate as a scholar and human being that took him to three continents, Professor Shapiro has produced an invaluable document of the epoch. So far, the Soviet Jewry struggle of breaking the bondage and for regaining human dignity hasn't found a better chronicler.” —Emil Draitser, Professor of Russian, Hunter College, author of Shush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin
“Written by one of the most notable representatives of the 'third wave' of Russian emigration, the memoirs cover the destinies of several generations of a remarkable Russian Jewish family. It will become a classic of memoir literature to be studied by all students of this burgeoning genre." —Henrietta Mondry, Professor and Director of the Russian Program at University of Canterbury, New Zealand
"Thanksgiving All Year Round is most appropriately named. It is the buoyant saga of an incorrigible optimist. Nothing daunted, Shapiro first flings himself against the all-powerful Soviet regime by which he is made to feel a misfit and then against the red-tape and apparent idiosyncrasies of the free societies to which he has escaped and where he is determined to make good. Written by a person with an obvious literary flair, Shapiro's book provides manifestly authentic details of everyday life in the intellectual milieu of Moscow after Stalin and will be read avidly by students of Soviet society and of the Soviet Jewish movement." —Yaacov Ro'i, Professor of Russian history emeritus, Tel Aviv University