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Ilya and Irina Magid

ABOUT AUTHORS

Our family, a couple, Ilya and Irina Magid, emigrated from Leningrad (the Soviet Union) to our daughter in America in 1991.

In the former Soviet Union we worked in the scientific institutes. I, Ilya Magid, attained the job title of leading engineer, my wife Irina was a candidate of Technical Sciences (in America that is Ph.D.)

The Soviet Dictatorship tried to make us an insignificant part of the state machine just as a screw in a large piece of equipment. That especially concerned the Jews, who were deprived of their religion, culture and language. They lost their roots.

Right now we are retired and citizens of America. We live in a building of elderly people. In America we began to study English (English as a Second Language) in different colleges (1991-1995). We knew nothing about Jewish religion. In America we try to connect ourselves to Judaism. We try to attend many religious classes and we go to the synagogue each Shabbath and other religious holidays.

Our generation passes to eternity. We try to write stories about our generation in English. For many years we have had a nice volunteer, attorney and CPA Steven Siegel who comes to us each Sunday. He checks our written articles. Ilya thinks that he can not write anything without the help of Steven.

In America we are free people. We try to change our view on our own lives and life around us. We want to share with the American readers our thoughts and impressions about our life in the Soviet Union and our entering into a new American life. We hope, that our stories will help others to understand that period of time.

G’d bless America.