Memoirs of a Jewish district attorney from Soviet Ukraine / Mikhail Goldis ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Marat Grinberg.

SeriesImmigrant worlds & texts
Contents A Jewish hullabaloo -- Thou shalt not kill -- Meir and Khoma -- Guilty without guilt -- On the shores of the river bug -- The Kamyanets-Podilskyi years -- The forbidden zone -- "Seven Forty" -- A mistaken object -- Twenty years later -- A defendant's oral argument women -- Valya-Valentina -- Samara -- Nadezhda Petrovna -- Alla -- Serbiyanka -- Above the abyss -- One day in the life of a detective.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Goldis, Mikhail. Memoirs of a Jewish district attorney from Soviet Ukraine Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2024 9798887195896
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