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Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace

Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Masha GessenPublish date:2005-10-25Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780385336055ISBN-10:385336055UPC:9780385336055Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, Jewish, RussiaAward:2005 National Jewish Book Award Winner - Biography/Memoir AwardSize:8.34 x 5.30 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC920CCME4
In this "extraordinary family memoir,"* the National Book Award-winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned.

*The New York Times Book Review

In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. Ester Goldberg was a rebel from Bialystok, Poland, where virtually the entire Jewish community would be sent to Hitler's concentration camps. Ruzya Solodovnik was a Russian-born intellectual who would become a high-level censor under Stalin's regime. At war's end, both women found themselves in Moscow. Over the years each woman had to find her way in a country that aimed to make every citizen a cog in the wheel of murder and repression. One became a hero in her children's and grandchildren's eyes; the other became a collaborator. With grace, candor, and meticulous research, Masha Gessen, one of the most trenchant observers of Russia and its history today, peels back the layers of time to reveal her grandmothers' lives--and to show that neither story is quite what it seems.

Praise for Masha Gessen

"One of the most important activists and journalists Russia has known in a generation."--David Remnick, The New Yorker

"Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest."--Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780385336055ISBN-10:385336055UPC:9780385336055Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, Jewish, RussiaAward:2005 National Jewish Book Award Winner - Biography/Memoir AwardSize:8.34 x 5.30 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC920CCME4
Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of several books, among them The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. The recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen teaches at Amherst College and lives in New York City.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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🏆 2005 National Jewish Book Award Winner - Biography/Memoir Award

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Masha Gessen

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