When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home : : A Memoir /

When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home : : A Memoir / / Elisa Miller.

After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she traveled back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Elisa Brodinsky Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book of three generations. Shortly after her father's death, Elisa discovers a cache of letters...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ASP eBook Package 2020
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Miller, Elisa,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Foreword
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Sources
  • Appendix 1. My Father's Travel Notes
  • Appendix 2. Understanding the Russian Pale

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