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An entire century of Jewish ex- periences in Russia is embodied in the reminiscences of the nearly 200 Russian Jews interviewed for the purpose of retaining factual historical data in the American Jewish Committee's project. The generations who are af- fected by the pioneering Soviet leadership, followed by Stalin and his associates, provide the record of events that affected the Jews under Communist domination. Included also are the earlier events, thus making Rothchild's A Special Legacy an historical literary gem. The compiled studies of the educational handicaps, the pro- fessional involvements and the religious and social factors in the life of the Russian Jews receive special emphasis in the many case histories thus recorded in the in- terviews of the scores utilized in this important volume. Notable are these excerpts from the case histories in A Special Le- gacy: Dr. Joseph Gutmann Art History • a 50-year-old artist/architect who discovered boxes of photo- graphs and documents depicting Hitler's annihilation of the Jews. "Nowhere, not in one Soviet newspaper, not in a single Soviet book, had anything been written about that." • Katya, an editor of scientific texts, who talks of her "dual per- sonality," "One is for yourself and the things you really think, and the other is an outer face for the public that conforms with policy. You have to comply with the rules and walk in step . . . It didn't enter my head that it could be any different." Dr. Zvi Gitelman Jewish History o Dr. Jacqueline Zeff Literature Dr. Sidney Bolkosky Jewish History • Lena, a Russian who had re- turned to Russia after the Revolu- tion. She recalled the Stalinist era: "I was cursing myself for com- ing back . . . You worried day and night, and there was agitation and propaganda against Jews all the time, and the KGB held people so tightly, knowing everything. God forbid you should say a word. We were afraid the walls would hear. There was a telephone in the corridor, and when we had to say something we covered the phone with a pillow. And each person would tell the government about the other." • Rita S., whose best friend was a naive 17-year-old who had formed a group of students to help Jewish children. "She thought Stalin didn't know the situation and wrote to tell him what was wrong. The answer she got was that her little group of university students were put in jail for nine years." • Leonid K., who arrived in America feeling lost and con- fused. While everyone had bumper stickers that said "Save Soviet Jewry," no one was there to "explain what a check is and how to cash it. No one took us into a supermarket and told us how to shop . . . we didn't know most or- dinary things and there was no one to ask." The testimony accumulated masterfully by Sylvia Rothchild, thanks to the valuable efforts of the AJC Wiener Library, reveals a defiance of restrictions and a re- vival of Jewish identifications as well as the miseries suffered under Soviet oppression. Out of the related experiences the reader learns about the Kt:8- sures that led to the massive de- mands for emigration from the USSR. Sylvia Rothchild, compiler of this oral history, has a marked re- cord of notable literary achieve. ments to her credit, qualifying her highly for the task she had under- taken in A Precious Legacy. She is the author of the acclaimed Voices from the Holocaust, a novel, Sun- shine and Salt and a biography of I.L. Peretz, Keys to a Magic Door. 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