{"product_id":"memoirs-of-a-jewish-prisoner-of-the-gulag-9781644699041","title":"Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eZvi 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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…”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Hallie Cantor, \u003ci\u003eAJL News \u0026amp; Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Richard Tempest, Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, University of Illinois\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor’s Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1. Arrest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2. Interrogation\u003cbr\u003eCitizen Lieutenant Colonel\u003cbr\u003eLefortovo Prison\u003cbr\u003eMy Hebrew Writing\u003cbr\u003eThe MGB Informer\u003cbr\u003eThe Interrogation\u003cbr\u003eThe Initial Protocols\u003cbr\u003eTaraskin\u003cbr\u003eThe Letter to Ben-Gurion\u003cbr\u003eThe Concluding Protocol\u003cbr\u003eThe Encounter with Baazov\u003cbr\u003eForm 206\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3. Butyrka Prison\u003cbr\u003eThe Sentencing\u003cbr\u003eChurch Cell\u003cbr\u003eThe Jewish Theater\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 4. On the Way to Karaganda\u003cbr\u003eThe Stolypin Carriage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 5. Karaganda\u003cbr\u003eSand Camp\u003cbr\u003eCamp Rules\u003cbr\u003eMy Morning Prayer\u003cbr\u003eMeir Baazov\u003cbr\u003eThe Invention\u003cbr\u003eThieves and Bitches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 6. The Eynikeyt Group\u003cbr\u003eAlik Hodorkovsky\u003cbr\u003eEliyahu Mishpatman\u003cbr\u003eSasha Sucher\u003cbr\u003eMisha Spivak\u003cbr\u003eVolodya Kerzman\u003cbr\u003eMeir Helfand\u003cbr\u003eZhmerynka\u003cbr\u003eThe Ghetto\u003cbr\u003eThe Zionist Group\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 7. The People in Karaganda Camp\u003cbr\u003eYechezkel Pulerevitch\u003cbr\u003eAharon Kricheli\u003cbr\u003eDr. Leon Lemenev\u003cbr\u003eItzhak Kahanov (Kogan)\u003cbr\u003eMotl Grubian\u003cbr\u003eKreinman\u003cbr\u003eLeib Pashtandiker\u003cbr\u003eJabotinsky\u003cbr\u003eMichail Yankovsky\u003cbr\u003eBokov\u003cbr\u003eErmakov\u003cbr\u003eOther Characters in Karaganda Camp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 8. In Karaganda Transfer Camp\u003cbr\u003eAbraham Shtukarevich\u003cbr\u003eIsrael Avrovich\u003cbr\u003eZinovy Shulman and Lublin Gymnasia in Odessa\u003cbr\u003eGitterman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 9. On the Way to Inta\u003cbr\u003eMichael Ibambletov\u003cbr\u003eKononenko\u003cbr\u003eAlexey Ivanovich\u003cbr\u003eOstrovsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 10. Inta Mineral Prison Camp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 11. 4th Abez Prison Camp\u003cbr\u003eThe Engineering Team\u003cbr\u003eSuchoruchko\u003cbr\u003eLihachev\u003cbr\u003eKalinin\u003cbr\u003eKargin\u003cbr\u003eBoris Ivanovich\u003cbr\u003eZeleny\u003cbr\u003eIsaak Hoffman\u003cbr\u003eShmuel Halkin\u003cbr\u003eLeib Strongin\u003cbr\u003eGregory Shitz\u003cbr\u003eYakov Shternberg\u003cbr\u003eWeissman\u003cbr\u003eThe Coachman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 12. Vorkuta\u003cbr\u003eBarracks Number 18\u003cbr\u003eKuznetsov\u003cbr\u003eStalinsky\u003cbr\u003eKostia Amarnetov\u003cbr\u003e1st River Camp\u003cbr\u003eStein\u003cbr\u003eShkolnik\u003cbr\u003eReminiscence of Odessa\u003cbr\u003eKaplinsky\u003cbr\u003eCapitalnaya Mine Technical Control Department\u003cbr\u003eCoal Sorting\u003cbr\u003eGetting Paid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 13. The 9th Vorkuta Prison Camp\u003cbr\u003eThe Beginning of Coal Enrichment Work\u003cbr\u003eThe Laboratory of Professor Stadnikov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 14. My Fellow Jewish Prisoners in the 9th Vorkuta Camp\u003cbr\u003eDavid Cohen\u003cbr\u003eLeonid Kantargy\u003cbr\u003eYosef Kerler\u003cbr\u003eRotenberg\u003cbr\u003eHesin\u003cbr\u003eSolomon Fayman\u003cbr\u003eShaya Bilik\u003cbr\u003eMordechai Shenkar\u003cbr\u003eLeonid Aronov\u003cbr\u003eShmuel Ferdman\u003cbr\u003eMenachem Levi\u003cbr\u003eBoris Dinaburg\u003cbr\u003eMichail Shulman\u003cbr\u003eSasha Eisorovich\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Grin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 15. Work on Coal Enrichment: Fresh Winds\u003cbr\u003eThe New Laboratory\u003cbr\u003eFresh Winds\u003cbr\u003eThe Rudnik Laboratory and Transfer to the 40th Prison Camp\u003cbr\u003eThe Home of Haim and Nehama Solz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 16. Release from Vorkuta Prison Camp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359916196183,"sku":"9781644699041","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644699041.jpg?v=1754126106","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/memoirs-of-a-jewish-prisoner-of-the-gulag-9781644699041","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}