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Book Title
Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag
EAN
9781644699041
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Contributor
Alex Lahav (Edited and translated by)
ISBN
9781644699041
Genre
Biography
Title
Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag
Release Date
10/13/2022
Release Year
2022
Topic
Philosophy & Spirituality

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
ISBN-10
1644699044
ISBN-13
9781644699041
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23057266181

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
244 Pages
Publication Name
Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag
Language
English
Subject
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Author
Zvi Preigerzon
Subject Area
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
0.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2022-017345
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20220625
Reviews
"This memoir, covering the author's years in and out of labor and prison camps up to his release in 1955, describes the oppressive network of the Gulag; its social hierarchies, whose prisoners ranged from hardened criminals to Party members; and his relationships with Jews of every stripe, from former student radicals to Lubavitcher Chassidim... [T]he author's heartfelt style shines through. His love of heritage is expressed in modern Hebrew language and literature, and his straightforward prose shows a certain innocence, as well as acceptance of the society around him. ... [A] fascinatingly human glimpse into a world perceived as soulless, as well as testament to a painful Russian legacy..." -- Hallie Cantor, AJL News & Reviews "Few of the millions of men and women who survived the Gulag were able to leave a record of what they had witnessed and endured. Such memoirs are a testament to the writer's courage as well as an invaluable source on one of the great horrors of the twentieth century. Arrested on a trumped-up charge in 1949, Zvi Preigerzon, a respected professor of mineralogy and a published Hebrew writer and poet, was tortured by the secret police and subsequently spent several years in some of the most terrible camps in the Soviet penal system until his release after the death of the dictator Stalin. Preigerzon's reminiscences, composed in spare but highly descriptive prose and beautifully translated by his grandson, contain moving descriptions of the author's struggle to retain his religious and professional identity under the most brutal of circumstances. Vivid portraits of the people, good, evil, and fair-to-middling, he met behind the barbed wire and stories of covert and overt acts of resistance by the author and his fellow prisoners round off this epic account of how one man's spirit triumphed over rampant, pervasive ideological evil." -- Richard Tempest, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, University of Illinois
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
365/.450947
Table Of Content
Introduction Author's Foreword Part 1. Arrest Part 2. Interrogation Citizen Lieutenant Colonel Lefortovo Prison My Hebrew Writing The MGB Informer The Interrogation The Initial Protocols Taraskin The Letter to Ben-Gurion The Concluding Protocol The Encounter with Baazov Form 206 Part 3. Butyrka Prison The Sentencing Church Cell The Jewish Theater Part 4. On the Way to Karaganda The Stolypin Carriage Part 5. Karaganda Sand Camp Camp Rules My Morning Prayer Meir Baazov The Invention Thieves and Bitches Part 6. The Eynikeyt Group Alik Hodorkovsky Eliyahu Mishpatman Sasha Sucher Misha Spivak Volodya Kerzman Meir Helfand Zhmerynka The Ghetto The Zionist Group Part 7. The People in Karaganda Camp Yechezkel Pulerevitch Aharon Kricheli Dr. Leon Lemenev Itzhak Kahanov (Kogan) Motl Grubian Kreinman Leib Pashtandiker Jabotinsky Michail Yankovsky Bokov Ermakov Other Characters in Karaganda Camp Part 8. In Karaganda Transfer Camp Abraham Shtukarevich Israel Avrovich Zinovy Shulman and Lublin Gymnasia in Odessa Gitterman Part 9. On the Way to Inta Michael Ibambletov Kononenko Alexey Ivanovich Ostrovsky Part 10. Inta Mineral Prison Camp Part 11. 4th Abez Prison Camp The Engineering Team Suchoruchko Lihachev Kalinin Kargin Boris Ivanovich Zeleny Isaak Hoffman Shmuel Halkin Leib Strongin Gregory Shitz Yakov Shternberg Weissman The Coachman Part 12. Vorkuta Barracks Number 18 Kuznetsov Stalinsky Kostia Amarnetov 1st River Camp Stein Shkolnik Reminiscence of Odessa Kaplinsky Capitalnaya Mine Technical Control Department Coal Sorting Getting Paid Part 13. The 9th Vorkuta Prison Camp The Beginning of Coal Enrichment Work The Laboratory of Professor Stadnikov Part 14. My Fellow Jewish Prisoners in the 9th Vorkuta Camp David Cohen Leonid Kantargy Yosef Kerler Rotenberg Hesin Solomon Fayman Shaya Bilik Mordechai Shenkar Leonid Aronov Shmuel Ferdman Menachem Levi Boris Dinaburg Michail Shulman Sasha Eisorovich George Grin Part 15. Work on Coal Enrichment: Fresh Winds The New Laboratory Fresh Winds The Rudnik Laboratory and Transfer to the 40th Prison Camp The Home of Haim and Nehama Solz Part 16. Release from Vorkuta Prison Camp Images
Synopsis
Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on this subject. It was one of the first eyewitness accounts of the harsh reality of Soviet Gulags. Even after the death of Stalin, when the whole Gulag system was largely disbanded, writing about them could be regarded as an act of heroism. Preigerzon attempted to document and analyze his own prison camp experience and portray the Jewish prisoners he encountered in forced labor camps. Among these people, we meet scientists, engineers, famous Jewish writers and poets, young Zionists, a devoted religious man, a horse wagon driver, a Jewish singer of folk songs, and many, many others. As Preigerzon put it, "Each one had his own story, his own soul, and his own tragedy."
LC Classification Number
HV8959.R9P6813 2023

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