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PublisherAcademic Studies Press

ISBN-101644692805

ISBN-139781644692806

eBay Product ID (ePID)10038530122

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Book TitleWhen the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home : a Memoir

Number of Pages200 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Women, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Women's Studies, Business

Publication Year2020

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorElisa Brodinsky Miller

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-046140

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal929.20947

Table Of ContentTable of Contents 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 Acknowledgements About the Author Endnotes Sources Appendix 1. My Father's Travel Notes Appendix 2. Understanding the Russian Pale Maps Southwestern (Ukrainian) Provinces of the Russian Empire, 1914 Kiev Province and the Pale of Jewish Settlement within the Russian Empire, 1914 Gulag Territory (Yakutiia) Working in the Tundra Siziman Bay Gulag Camp Civil War 1912-1921, with Railroad Lines After the Pogrom of 1920, Manya's Family Disperses Amur and Ussuri Rivers Ice Breakup Railroad Lines 1918 Getting to the Ship at Liepeija, Latvia

SynopsisAfter 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., Leaving her family in Seattle traveling back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book of three generations-her grandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist Russia, her immigrant parents' hopes for their lives in America-and now her turn to reach for meaning and purpose., " When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home is a moving memoir that lovingly recreates the lives of Elisa Miller's father and his family as Jews in the dying years of the Romanov dynasty." --Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy Shortly after her father's death, Elisa Brodinsky Miller uncovered a cache of letters among his belongings. Written in Russian and Yiddish, with datelines in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia, the letters detail eight long years (1914-1922) during which Elisa's father, his five siblings, and their mother spend apart from Elisa's grandfather who had left for America, believing their separation would be short. Miller, a Russian affairs specialist, learns bit by bit with each translation about the family she knew so little about, and the eight years of history they lived through, enabling her for the first time to connect her own experiences with those who came before her. This captivating memoir bridges the past with the present, as we learn about her grandparents' struggles to escape Tsarist Russia, her parents' hopes for their marriage in America, and her own reach for meaning and purpose: each a generation with dreams--first theirs, now hers., Leaving her family in Seattle traveling back and forth to Russia pursuing a career, Miller discovers she's writing her own chapter in a book of three generations--hergrandparents' drives to escape the Jewish worlds of Tsarist Russia, herimmigrant parents' hopes for their lives in America--and now her turn toreach for meaning and purpose.

LC Classification NumberE184.37.M545A3 2020