Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine

Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine - Immigrant Worlds & Texts

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9798887195902
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
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Language: English
Number of pages: 180
Weight: -1g
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm