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Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine

Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mikhail Goldis, Marat Grinberg (Editor), Marat Grinberg (Translator)Series:Immigrant Worlds & TextsPublish date:2024-10-15Pages:182
Language:EnglishPublisher:Academic Studies PressISBN-13:9798887195896UPC:9798887195896Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Europe, JewishBook Topic:UkraineSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCP85E2PWD

Mikhail Goldis (1926-2020) worked as a detective and district attorney for 30 years in Soviet Ukraine and wrote his memoirs after immigrating to the US in 1993. Translated by Marat Grinberg, the memoirs tell the fascinating story of what it took for a Jew to survive in the halls of Soviet power.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Academic Studies PressISBN-13:9798887195896UPC:9798887195896Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Europe, JewishBook Topic:UkraineSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCP85E2PWD

Mikhail Goldis (1926-2020) fought in the Red Army during World War II, graduated from the Law faculty of the Kyiv State University, and worked as a detective and district attorney for more than 30 years in Soviet Ukraine. He immigrated to the US in 1993.


Marat Grinberg is Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he also teaches in the Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies programs. A prolific author, among Grinberg's books are "I am to Be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: from Right to Left" The Poetics of Boris Slutsky (2011), Aleksandr Askoldov: The Commissar (2016), and The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines (2023). Grinberg's essays have appeared in Tablet Magazine, Mosaic, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Jewish Journal. He lectures widely on topics ranging from Shoah literature and film to Jewish-Russian poetry. Grinberg is currently working on a large study of Jewishness and the Holocaust in Russian, Ukrainian, and East European speculative fiction of the Soviet era.


Publisher: Academic Studies Press

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