Thanksgiving All Year Round

A Memoir

Gavriel Shapiro (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

294 Seiten

2017
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-517-1 (ISBN)

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Delves into the author's ancestry, providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history. The book also offers an individual perspective on what it meant to grow up in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WWII. It also gives a personal account of the rise and development of Jewish national awareness, and describes the struggle for the immigration to Israel in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.

This book first delves into the author's ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history. It then offers an individual perspective on what it meant to grow up in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WWII. It also gives a personal account of the rise and development of Jewish national awareness. It next describes a struggle for the immigration to Israel in the late 1960s and the early 1970s through job loss, persecution, arrests, imprisonment, and trial. It further 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.

Gavriel Shapiro is Professor of Comparative and Russian Literature at Cornell University, USA. His major publications include Nikolai Gogol and the Baroque Cultural Heritage (1993), Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" (1998), (ed.) Nabokov at Cornell (2003), The Sublime Artist's Studio: Nabokov and Painting (2009), and The Tender Friendship and the Charm of Perfect Accord: Nabokov and His Father (2014).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-61811-517-0 / 1618115170
ISBN-13	978-1-61811-517-1 / 9781618115171
Zustand	Neuware