He looked at me, with a smile on his face, and said in perfect Croatian: Vaša viza je odobrena [You have been approved].
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Alexandra BulatAlternate Histories: An Immigrant Story
Felix R. StetsenkoI’m writing this essay rather than hoisting a Kalashnikov for a simple reason: my parents’ determination to leave the Soviet Union.
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Veronica DavidovI think of immigration in my subsequent, adult life, not as a determinant but something akin to the zodiac sign if one believes in astrology.
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Felix R. StetsenkoSailing from Byzantium: An Immigrant Story
Ekaterina ChelpanovaMy field, Byzantine studies, became almost extinct, my advisor, the last professor in the field in my city, fell ill and lost interest in continuing her work in the field.
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Agnes SekowskiShe hid her university diploma, which she would need to start a new life, in a sealed stationary package.
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Elizabeth (Betty) BanksPeople ask me all the time where I will, or want to live when I finish my PhD, as if I am supposed to be able to answer that question.
Continue reading...Passover 1934: An American Jewish Immigrant Story
Joan NeubergerRunning from the Reds: An Immigrant Story
George KalboussThis was my heritage: cultured, formerly wealthy Russians trying to make it in New York.
Continue reading...December 1989: An Immigrant Story
Masha KiselOne could find bards at every immigrant gathering singing The Tales of What Could Go Wrong At the Interview.
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Mikhail LipyanskiyLost Diamonds, an Immigrant Story
Emma LieberThe Ballad of Sonya and Louie: An Immigrant Story
Eliot BorensteinI had thought my family was Russian, but then when I went to college, I found out we were just Jews.
Continue reading...Try a Little Tenderness: An Immigrant Story
Ani KokoboboAll I have left from the first 14 years of my life is an envelope of old photographs.
Continue reading...An Immigrant’s Daughter
Brigid O'KeeffeOf Course, We Didn’t Know: An Immigrant Story
Boris WolfsonImmigrant Stories: A New Rubric at All the Russias
Ani KokoboboIt seems like a good time to take pride in the diverse immigrant roots of our field by gathering immigrant stories.
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