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Interview with Galina
When I met her, Galina was working as a baby-sitter for K.C., a Russian-Israeli woman. K.C. acted as Galina's interpreter. We did the interview over a lemon cake filled with dulce de leche that I brought. Galina was 59 and living in Los Angeles. Her…
Interview with Medea B.
At the time of our interview, Medea was 45 and living in the U.S.. She is originally from Tbilisi and is a professor of anthropology. We met at my university's Russian tea event.
Interview with Regina S.
I met Regina through friends when I was studying at Göttingen, she introduced me to my other interviewee, Yevhen P.. At the time of our interview, Regina was 30 years old and a masters student in Germany. She is originally from Mirny.
Interview with Marita M.
At the time of my interview, Marita was 55 years old and teaching University in Berlin. She grew up in West Germany, in a village in the Eifel mountain range.
Interview with Elizabeth C.
Elizabeth C. was born in Kiev in the USSR but currently lives in Los Angeles. During our interview she called multiple family members, originating from both Ukraine and Russia, to pick their brains. The relatives she consulted were her mother (50s,…
Interview with Olga S.
An interview on Russian solyanka with Olga, a Ukrainian-Israeli nurse in Los Angeles. Olga was born in Vinnitsa and at the time of the interview she was 42 years old.
Interview with Alexej B.
I met Alexej in my class on Ethnic Germans in Russia in Göttingen. At the time he was 31 and had lived in Germany for 14 years. He was working for the German government with ethnic Germans who were trying to immigrate to Germany from the former…
Interview with Yevhen P.
Yevhen P. is a friend of Regina S., another one of my interviewees. At the time of the interview he was 26 years old and a university student in Germany. He was born in Berdyansk.
Interview with Robert W.
Robert was the only interviewee I found through the paper ads I posted. At the time of our interview he was 22. He was born in Germany to ethnic German parents from Kazakhstan.
Interview with Lyudmyla G.
My friend's grandma, Claudia, offered to call her friend Lucy for me to interview. Lucy, or Lyudmyla, was born in Volgograd and was 52 at the time of our interview. She was living in California.