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The Viennese playwright, novelist, and short-story writer Veza Canetti was born in 1897 into a mixed Sephardic-Ashkenazi Jewish family and died in 1963 in London. Part of the avant garde in 1920s Vienna (where she met her future husband and Nobel Prize winner, Elias Canetti), from 1932 she wrote radical short stories drawn from everyday life for the Vienna 'Arbeiter-Zeitung.' After censorship under the so-called Corporate State reduced her opportunities for publication, she disguised her critique in irony and humor, but from then on published little. Until 1990, when her first novel, 'Yellow Street,' was finally published, Veza was known only as her husband's muse and literary assistant. As more of her writings appeared, critics became convinced that it was he who was responsible for her decline into obscurity, notwithstanding his protestations of support and admiration. This biography tells a more nuanced story, presenting Veza's literary career against the background of her troubled times, drawing on Elias's unpublished papers to assess their literary partnership, showing how their early writings constituted a private dialogue on topics as diverse as feminism and Jewish identity and how several key themes in his work are anticipated in hers. Julian Preece is Professor of German at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Authors, Austrian --- Canetti, Veza, --- Taubner-Calderon, Veza, --- Avant garde. --- Censorship. --- Everyday life. --- Humor. --- Irony. --- Jewish identity. --- Literary career. --- Mixed Sephardic-Ashkenazi Jewish family. --- Novelist. --- Short-story writer. --- Veza Canetti. --- Vienna Arbeiter-Zeitung. --- Viennese playwright.

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"After the death of her mother when she had just turned ten, Judith Friedland learned to be resilient and to persevere. She met the expectations for upper-middle-class women in Toronto in the 1940s and 50s, which included post-secondary education, marriage, and motherhood. While raising a family and supporting her husband's academic career, she continued her formal education through part-time study and gradually began a journey tailored to herself as an individual. In her 40s, she embarked on her own academic career, rising through the ranks to a tenured full professor and chairing the department of occupational therapy in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. In A Time for Everything, Friedland reflects on her life and the fact that over time she has managed to "have it all"--just not all at once. This memoir draws on conversations with family members, friends, work colleagues, and former classmates. It includes family histories that reflect her Jewish life, and it considers feminist issues within academic and health care settings. Personal photos illustrate and augment her life story throughout the text. A Time for Everything tells a story about the expectations many women faced in the mid-twentieth century, the evolution of relationships, and opportunities for living a full life."--

Women college teachers. --- Jewish women. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs --- Jewish women --- Women college teachers --- Friedland, Judith, --- Ontario --- Women as college teachers --- College teachers --- Women in higher education --- Women teachers --- Women, Jewish --- Women --- York --- Canadian women’s history. --- Faculty of Medicine. --- Jewish family life. --- University of Toronto. --- autobiography. --- life stories. --- memoir. --- mid-twentieth century Toronto. --- occupational therapy. --- women in academia. --- women.

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Many years after making his way to America from Odessa in Soviet Ukraine, Emil Draitser made a startling discovery: every time he uttered the word "Jewish"-even in casual conversation-he lowered his voice. This behavior was a natural by-product, he realized, of growing up in the anti-Semitic, post-Holocaust Soviet Union, when "Shush!" was the most frequent word he heard: "Don't use your Jewish name in public. Don't speak a word of Yiddish. And don't cry over your murdered relatives." This compelling memoir conveys the reader back to Draitser's childhood and provides a unique account of midtwentieth-century life in Russia as the young Draitser struggles to reconcile the harsh values of Soviet society with the values of his working-class Jewish family. Lively, evocative, and rich with humor, this unforgettable story ends with the death of Stalin and, through life stories of the author's ancestors, presents a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Jewish history in Russia.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Draitser, Emil, --- Дрейцер, Эмиль, --- Dreĭt︠s︡er, Ėmilʹ, --- Abramov, Ėmilʹ, --- Childhood and youth. --- Odesa (Ukraine) --- Odessa (Ukraine) --- Odessa --- Одеса (Ukraine) --- Одесса (Ukraine) --- Odesa (Ukraine). --- 20th century russian culture. --- 20th century russian society. --- american immigrant. --- anti semitism. --- autobiography. --- communism. --- communist party of ukraine. --- emotional. --- family. --- humor. --- humorous. --- jewish family. --- jewish history in russia. --- jewish immigrant. --- judaism. --- memoir. --- odessa. --- post holocaust soviet union. --- retrospective. --- soviet society. --- soviet ukraine. --- soviet union. --- stalin. --- ukraine. --- ukrainian soviet socialist republic. --- united states of america. --- working class.