- SKU: 9781963475920
- BARCODE: 9781963475920
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
The Penny is Gone: A Soviet Jew's Meditations on the Jewish Question - Paperback
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by Emil Bezverkhny (Author), Emil Pitkin (Translator)
Not to dream, not to be able, not to be. This is the reality of Jewish life in 20th-century Russia. The Penny is Gone is a lyrical and brutal account of Jewish life under the institutionalized antisemitism of the Soviet Union.
In the middle of an illustrious career at a classified military research institute, Emil is callously dismissed without cause. Insinuation, family ties, and whispers of Israel may have been just what the authorities needed to exercise their intolerance of Russian Jews in a personal, merciless way.
Emil stares down the Kafkaesque labyrinth of the Soviet machine. The Penny is Gone draws the reader in as Emil resolutely persists in his pursuit of justice-because he fights in the name of dignity. In the end, contemplating his battle scars, he at last understands the refrain from his youth: "What is permitted to everyone else is forbidden to the Jew." And yet, he preserves his human dignity and never surrenders the eternal optimism of the Jews.
In language that is alternately lush and stark, in a story where heartbreak and hope join hands and love of country is unrequited, The Penny Is Gone sheds light on why a million and a half Jews uprooted themselves from the Soviet Union. It is both story and history, and a warning for our day.
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