When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home : a Memoir /

After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she traveled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa Brodinsky Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book of three generations. Shortly after her father's death, Elisa discovers a cache of letters...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Elisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2020]
Temas:
Miller, Elisa Brodinsky > Family.
Jewish women > United States > Biography.
Families.
Nuclear families.
Juives > États-Unis > Biographies.
Familles.
HISTORY > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Jewish women.
United States.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Foreword
  • 1. A Cache of Letters
  • 2. Gone to America
  • 3. War Disrupts
  • 4. Inflation Spirals
  • 5. Scythe against Stone
  • 6. Wrapping Tefillin
  • 7. Eli Sends Money
  • 8. Making Ends Meet
  • 9. My Parents Separate, Reconcile, Divorce
  • 10. Meer Joins the Red Army
  • 11. My Marriage and My Divorce
  • 12. Reindeer in the Arctic Circle
  • 13. Taiga, Tundra, Gulag
  • 14. Papa, Come Home!
  • 15. Jewish Passion, Jewish Suffering
  • 16. A Terrible Night
  • 17. It Is My Turn Now to Try
  • 18. The Soul Suffers
  • 19. Ragamuffins, Barefoot, and Hungry
  • 20. When the River Ice Flows
  • 21. Waiting to Leave
  • 22. The Moloch of Ambition
  • 23. In Riga, at Last
  • 24. Olga
  • 25. Al Anon
  • 26. A Plot in the Jewish Section
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Sources
  • Appendix 1. My Father's Travel Notes
  • Appendix 2. Understanding the Russian Pale

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