TY - BOOK AU - Goldis,Mikhail AU - Grinberg,Marat TI - Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine T2 - Immigrant Worlds Texts SN - 9798887195919 PY - 2024///] CY - Boston, MA PB - Academic Studies Press KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs KW - bisacsh KW - Holocaust KW - Post-Stalinist era KW - Soviet Ukraine KW - antisemitism KW - criminal investigations KW - detective KW - district attorney KW - immigrants KW - law KW - memoirs KW - memory KW - true crime KW - war KW - women N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part One Criminal Cases --; The Krasyliv Years --; 1. A Jewish Hullabaloo --; 2. Thou Shalt Not Kill --; 3. Meir and Khoma --; 4. Guilty without Guilt --; 5. On the Shores of the River Bug --; The Kamyanets-Podilskyi Years --; 6. The Forbidden Zone --; 7. “Seven Forty” --; 8. A Mistaken Object --; 9. Twenty Years Later --; 10. A Defendant’s Oral Argument --; Women --; 11. Valya-Valentina --; 12. Samara --; 13. Nadezhda Petrovna --; 14. Alla --; Part Two Other Memoirs --; 15. Serbiyanka --; 16. Above the Abyss --; 17. One Day in the Life of a Detective --; Notes; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887195919 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9798887195919 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9798887195919/original ER -