Elisa Brodinsky Miller

When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shortly after her father's death, Elisa Brodinsky Miller uncovered a cache of letters among his belongings. Written in Russian and Yiddish, with datelines in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia, the letters detail eight long years (1914-1922) during which Elisa's father, his five siblings, and their mother spend apart from Elisa's grandfather who had left for America, believing their separation would be short.

Miller, a Russian affairs specialist, learns bit by bit with each translation about the family she knew so little about, and the eight years of history they lived through, enabling her for the first time to connect her own experiences with those who came before her. This captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn about her grandparents' struggles to escape Tsarist Russia, her parents' hopes for their marriage in America, and her own reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation with dreams-first theirs, now hers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644693537
• Artikelnr.: 58981005

Autorenporträt

Elisa Miller, PhD, has a long career in Russian Far East business and trade: both in academia (University of Washington) and in the business community. Based in Seattle, her monthly publication, Russian Far East Update (1991-1999) provided commercial intelligence on the Russian Far East for a global readership. Alongside her newsletter, she published four editions of The Russian Far East: A Business Reference Guide. She presently works in graphic narrative and lives on Whidbey Island in the State of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents 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 Acknowledgements About the Author Endnotes Sources Appendix 1. My Father
s Travel Notes Appendix 2. Understanding the Russian Pale Maps Southwestern (Ukrainian) Provinces of the Russian Empire, 1914 Kiev Province and the Pale of Jewish Settlement within the Russian Empire, 1914 Gulag Territory (Yakutiia) Working in the Tundra Siziman Bay Gulag Camp Civil War 1912-1921, with Railroad Lines After the Pogrom of 1920, Manyäs Family Disperses Amur and Ussuri Rivers Ice Breakup Railroad Lines 1918 Getting to the Ship at Liepeija, Latvia

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