Miller When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home

A Memoir
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64469-353-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Elisa

Miller, Elisa Brodinsky

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents1. 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 SectionAfterword
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Endnotes
SourcesAppendix 1. My Father’s Travel Notes
Appendix 2. Understanding the Russian PaleMapsSouthwestern (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

Über Autor(innen)

Miller Elisa:
Elisa 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.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.