When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home

A Memoir

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvElisa Brodinsky Miller,Elisa Brodinsky Miller

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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 written in Russian and Yiddish among his belongings, which she quickly resolves to translate. Dated from 1914 to 1922 and addressed to her grandfather, Eli, in Wilmington, Delaware, the letters capture the eight long years that Eli spent apart from his wife and their six children who remained behind in the Pale of Settlement. With each translation, Brodinsky Miller learns more about this time spent apart, the family she knew so little about, and the country they came to leave behind, connecting her own experiences with those who came before her. This captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn about her grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist Russia, her immigrant parents' hopes for their marriage in America, and now her turn to reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation of aspirations—first theirs, now hers.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-05-28
Mått155 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt470 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
FörlagAcademic Studies Press
ISBN9781644692790

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Elisa Brodinsky 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.

1. A Cache of Letters2. Gone to America3. War Disrupts4. Inflation Spirals5. Scythe against Stone6. Wrapping Tefillin7. Eli Sends Money8. Making Ends Meet9. My Parents Separate, Reconcile, Divorce10. Meer Joins the Red Army11. My Marriage and My Divorce12. Reindeer in the Arctic Circle13. Taiga, Tundra, Gulag14. Papa, Come Home!15. Jewish Passion, Jewish Suffering16. A Terrible Night17. It Is My Turn Now to Try18. The Soul Suffers19. Ragamuffins, Barefoot, and Hungry20. When the River Ice Flows21. Waiting to Leave22. The "Moloch" of Ambition23. In Riga, at Last24. Olga25. Al Anon26. A Plot in the Jewish SectionAfterwordAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorEndnotesSourcesAppendix 1. My Father's Travel NotesAppendix 2. Understanding the Russian PaleMapsSouthwestern (Ukrainian) Provinces of the Russian Empire, 1914Kiev Province and the Pale of Jewish Settlement within the Russian Empire, 1914Gulag Territory (Yakutiia)Working in the Tundra Siziman Bay Gulag CampCivil War 1912-1921, with Railroad LinesAfter the Pogrom of 1920, Manya's Family Disperses Amur and Ussuri Rivers Ice BreakupRailroad Lines 1918Getting to the Ship at Liepeija, Latvia