Thanksgiving All Year Round : : A Memoir / / Gavriel Shapiro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ASP eBook Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Shapiro, Gavriel,
• Author: Shapiro, Gavriel,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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