{"product_id":"thanksgiving-all-year-round-a-memoir-9781618115058","title":"Thanksgiving All Year Round: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book first delves into the author's ancestry, thereby providing a partial slice of Russian Jewish history. It then offers an individual perspective on what it meant to grow up in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of WWII. It also gives a personal account of the rise and development of Jewish national awareness. It next describes a struggle for the immigration to Israel in the late 1960s and the early 1970s through job loss, persecution, arrests, imprisonment, and trial. It further relates the author's life in Israel, including his work at the Voice of Israel, study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and service in the Israel Defense Forces. Finally, it explores the author's academic career in the United States, from the graduate school at the University of Illinois to professorship at Cornell University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The story of the struggle of Soviet Jews for self-determination and freedom of emigration is an account of global forces in collision. However, it is also the story of individuals with hopes and dreams and a willingness to risk all they have for the chance for self-fulfillment. Therefore, together with learned analyses of politics and policies, it is important to keep focus on the individual—and there is nothing like an autobiography to do this. Gavriel Shapiro’s \u003ci\u003eThanksgiving All Year Round\u003c\/i\u003e is precisely such an account. It is full of fascinating detail, well based self-analysis, and also a fair degree of drama. It is a great read and a valuable introduction to a world that is thankfully gone. The fall of the Soviet Union was far from predictable in the seventies—and this book reminds us of the power of humanity to overcome obstacles that appeared to be insurmountable.\" -- Shaul Stampfer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e“There's no question in my mind that future historians will find themselves \u003ci\u003eThanksgiving\u003c\/i\u003e the author of \u003ci\u003eAll Year Round\u003c\/i\u003e. By meticulously recreating, with scholarly depth and comprehensiveness, his own fight for freedom and his further fate as a scholar and human being that took him to three continents, Professor Shapiro has produced an invaluable document of the epoch. So far, the Soviet Jewry struggle of breaking the bondage and for regaining human dignity hasn't found a better chronicler.” -- Emil Draitser, Professor of Russian, Hunter College, author of \u003ci\u003eShush! Growing up Jewish under Stalin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThanksgiving All Year Round\u003c\/i\u003e is most appropriately named. It is the buoyant saga of an incorrigible optimist. Nothing daunted, Shapiro first flings himself against the all-powerful Soviet regime by which he is made to feel a misfit and then against the red-tape and apparent idiosyncrasies of the free societies to which he has escaped and where he is determined to make good. Written by a person with an obvious literary flair, Shapiro's book provides manifestly authentic details of everyday life in the intellectual milieu of Moscow after Stalin and will be read avidly by students of Soviet society and of the Soviet Jewish movement.\" -- Yaacov Ro'i, Professor of Russian history emeritus, Tel Aviv University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Transliteration\u003cp\u003e List of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1. Ancestry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2. Immediate Family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3. Growing Up in Postwar Soviet Russia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4. Emergence of National Awareness and the Struggle for Immigration to Israel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5. Arrest, Imprisonment, Trial, and Aftermath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 6. Life in Israel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 7. Graduate Studies in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 8. Living, Teaching, and Writing in America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Afterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359751045463,"sku":"9781618115058","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618115058.jpg?v=1754125601","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thanksgiving-all-year-round-a-memoir-9781618115058","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}