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If you want to reinforce the connections
ce the connections
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between Kaminsky’ s 2018 essay and the
between Kaminsky’s 2018 essay and the
2022 Russian invasion, you might show -
2022 Russian invasion, you might show
students images of the 2022 attacks on
students images of the 2022 attacks on
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy net. You could choose several to compare
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Odessa, which you could find on the inter
Odessa, which you could find on the inter-
ou could choose several to compar
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net. Y
Other Voices / Ilya Kaminsky
om 1941.
the visual rhetoric to this image from 1941.
the visual rhetoric to this image fr
Following a two-month siege, from August to October 1941, German and Romanian
soldiers captured Odessa, and immediately afterward massacred between 25,000
and 34,000 Jewish residents over the course of two days.
What repercussions of the siege and the massacre does Kaminsky address?
How does this photo, taken during the siege, set the scene for the ways he
characterizes Odessa in the essay?
I am a deaf boy who asks his father for a hat. Quickly, the boy’s father fills a bra with CLOSE READING
story. Only about half of spoken Russian is newspapers. The boy watches Shura and Nata-
Kaminsky’s tone shifts throughout the
visible on the lips. lia, all dressed up like two girls, waltz into the Kaminsky’ s tone shifts thr oughout the
essay, and he sometimes uses it to deflect
Two dozen years later, I am back in this city. 35 courtyard, past this soldier, past other soldiers, essay , and he sometimes uses it to deflect
the horror of the events during the war.
I have walked up and down boulevards, trying to into the street. the horr or of the events during the war .
The short section beginning at paragraph 37
remember my father’s stories. I open windows, There is no story to remember. Just a fragment The short section beginning at paragraph 37
might be a good place to have students
see dogs pee under the monument to a politi- in which Shura and Natalia, dressed like two girls, might be a good place to have students
discuss his tone while conveying his
cian, his arrogant chest leaning into history. are escaping into the street. A drunken Romanian discuss his tone while conveying his
father’
s story of cr
essing, mistaken
oss-dr
There are no stories, just every second word policeman wants to stop them. He is proposition- father’s story of cross-dressing, mistaken
genders, and a joyful kiss. Students could
on my father’s lips, just us. A runaway Russian ing Shura. He is complimenting Shura’s curves in genders, and a joyful kiss. Students could
e terrifying events
find other moments wher
soldier sneaks back into the occupied city to see a summer dress. The drunken Romanian is trying find other moments where terrifying events
ar
esented with a hint of levity
e pr
his son. All I have is this image of him opening to grab Shura by the hem of the dress, shoving are presented with a hint of levity. .
the door. . . . money into the dress pockets. Come with me,
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Beautiful!
What a sight it must have been. Kissing in
There are many versions of the story of the run- snow, they were, Natalia and her husband. The
away soldier. In one, the boy kisses his father snow falls into their hair, into their taffeta
and behind him sees the Romanian police blouses.
enter the building. Quickly, the boy’s mother •
takes out her largest dress and her big white
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