The Door Slammed in Ladispoli Unknown Pages of the Soviet Immigration to America eBook Sol Tetelbaum
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The Door Slammed in Ladispoli tells about a dramatic but practically unknown events related to the Soviet immigration to America. The author describes how the political situation in the USSR led to hundreds of thousands of people running from the country, mainly to the USA. In 1988, the U.S. Government unexpectedly changing its immigration policy refused entry visas to thousands of Soviet refugees. The author participating in and witnessing those events, narrates about people's drama, their fight for fairness, and about numerous extreme situations, when humans' best and worst qualities become apparent. This book seemingly is the only account about the events that took place in the Italian refugee town Ladispoli.
The Door Slammed in Ladispoli Unknown Pages of the Soviet Immigration to America eBook Sol Tetelbaum
I was in Ladispoli at the same time as the author and the experience he describes is very similar to that of my family. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about a seldom told story of the struggle that Soviet Jews faced in coming to America.Product details
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The Door Slammed in Ladispoli Unknown Pages of the Soviet Immigration to America eBook Sol Tetelbaum Reviews
THE DOOR SLAMMED IN LADISPOLI, By Sol Tetelbaum
Review by Art Naftaly
Sol Tetelbaum's "The Door Slammed in Ladispoli" is a fascinating and fast read. It chronicles a Jewish family's departure from the Soviet Union and the trials and tribulations they encountered along the way. But it also gives a snapshot of what life was like for Jews growing up in the Soviet Union and how anti-Semitism was systemic and permeated their lives. Although Tetelbaum was better off than most he was a professional, a scientist, a teacher, he had to fight anti-Semitism every step of the way to gain what he had. And it did not end there; discrimination continued to rear its ugly head throughout his professional life. Well into his career and well into his life he made a decision to leave his native country.
Can you imagine what it would be like to do this? To start all over in a new place, with a new language, with a family to support and without the benefit of youth? Well that's what Tetelbaum did. Those things made the risks great, but there was more to it than that. Getting out of the Soviet Union was not easy; the window of opportunity was narrow. Typically, once you indicated a desire to emigrate from the Soviet Union your life there could become very difficult loss of job, further discrimination, etc... and if you were, finally, fortunate to leave you left with very little money and no documents or credentials to substantiate your work history or education or accomplishments.
Hence, overcoming these difficulties, leaving the Soviet Union was a triumph and a significant accomplishment. What followed about what happened in Ladispoli is also a hard won triumph and you will want to read it because it is a story so very interesting and probably not told anywhere else.
Reading this book a lot of us immigrating FSU can relate. My Grandparents were able to leave to Israel in 1974, but we waited 15 years permission from FSU to leave; took the same route as the author to Vienna, and then Ladispolli. I still remember(when living in FSU) my Geography teacher's favorite thing was to call me to the back board, so she can humiliate 13 year old girl for betraying the country. Pretending she cared (being naïve at 13 years old, & being told by my parents not to talk about our departure) she would ask a few times in front of the whole class, me standing by her desk (is a must); asking how my family was doing in Israel. What is the next step for my family? Such a hypocrite... I can absolutely relate. Anyone who is interested in real story about FSU, it's a must read. You won't be disappointed.
The Door Slammed in Ladispoli
Unknown Pages of the Soviet Immigration to America
By Sol Tetelbaum
The book is a brilliant one; it is informative and truthful. The author deserves much credit.
I lived in the former USSR until I was 42 years old and fled it at approximately the same time as the author, and I repeated every step of his uneasy way to freedom in the USA. I can confirm that the book is valuable for anybody who is interested in an honest account of different aspects of life in the "socialistic paradise." Some interesting information about emigration of the lucky ones who escaped from the USSR in the 70s and 80s is also mentioned in the book. Although it was many years ago, the accuracy of the author's recollections is amazing.
The strongest attraction of the book is its deep reflection of the emigrant's spiritual life fears, dreams, hopes, disappointments, despairs, and finally happiness after achieving "the goal of the life".
The author writes about the humiliating Soviet emigrational policy and how American government bureaucracy created additional difficulties. The huge difference between the corrupt, menacing, inhuman, and totalitarian Soviet government and democratic, benevolent, comparatively "small" American government is well known. But sometimes bureaucrats of any government behave in the same way, trying to divide a homogeneous mass of people into "ours" and "theirs", "good" and "bad", "refugees" and "parolees" without any reasonable justifications that inevitably brings dramas and even tragedies to many decent people.
America is a country of immigrants and everybody will find in this dramatic story a lot of interesting observations. The stories and people described in the book, its style and language made reading it so gripping that, reading well into the night, I could not put the book down until I had finished it completely.
I was in Ladispoli at the same time as the author and the experience he describes is very similar to that of my family. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about a seldom told story of the struggle that Soviet Jews faced in coming to America.
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