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From the memoirs of a Soviet Jewish district attorney.
Mikhail Goldis’s Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine provides not only a window into the criminal-justice system of the post-Stalin USSR, but also, in the words of his grandson Marat Grinberg, an exposition of “what it took for a Jewish attorney to survive in the halls of Soviet power.” Herewith, an excerpt from Grinberg’s translation:
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The morals and metaphysics of eating meat.
From the memoirs of a Soviet Jewish district attorney.
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Subscribe NowMikhail Goldis’s Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet Ukraine provides not only a window into the criminal-justice system of the post-Stalin USSR, but also, in the words of his grandson Marat Grinberg, an exposition of “what it took for a Jewish attorney to survive in the halls of Soviet power.” Herewith, an excerpt from Grinberg’s translation: