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Title: My Past Life: The Soviet Experience.
Description: Melbourne, Docklands JoJo Publishing, 2011. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, black & white text-photos centre spread, minimal edgewear. 267 pp. The autobiography of a young Jewish girl coming of age in the Soviet Union and her flight to a better life, via Italy to Australia in 1975. Written passionately in part as a letter to her son. She describes her childhood in communal flats in Odessa (Ukraine) before and after World War II. She describes in detail her family and neighbors, and the discrimination against Jews. The terrible living conditions in the communal flats are described as they struggle with health problems and the everyday chores, and having insufficient clothing, food and other conveniences we take for granted. (Stock photo may be incorrect.). ISBN: 9780980518597

Keywords: australian biography, russia, soviet union, europe, ukraine, ukrainian-australians, middle east, judaism, jewish-australians 9780980518597

Price: AUD 15.00 = appr. US$ 10.38 Seller: Bookhome Sydney
- Book number: 15808

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