Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine:

What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holocaust memories play in solving and investigating the criminal cases? How does a detective's mind work? The answers to these and many other fascinati...

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Main Author: Goldis, Mikhail (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Academic Studies Press [2024]
Series:Immigrant Worlds Texts
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Summary:What was it like to work as a Jewish district attorney in provincial Soviet Ukraine in the post-Stalinist eras? What role did antisemitism and Holocaust memories play in solving and investigating the criminal cases? How does a detective's mind work? The answers to these and many other fascinating questions are found in this book. Mikhail Goldis (1926-2020) worked as a detective and district attorney for 30 years in Ukraine and wrote his memoirs after immigrating to the US in 1993. Translated by Marat Grinberg, a prolific scholar of Russian and Jewish literature and cinema, the memoirs tell the rich and poignant story of Goldis's life and what it took for a Jew to navigate and survive in the halls of Soviet power
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (182 Seiten)
DOI:10.1515/9798887195919

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