When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-64469-280-6 (ISBN)
After years of leaving her husband and children behind in Seattle as she travelled 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.
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 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
SourcesAppendix 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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Brighton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64469-280-5 / 1644692805 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64469-280-6 / 9781644692806 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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