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No Smiling Allowed: growing up in Soviet Russia and other funny stories from a Jewish immigrant
By Julia BendisComedy
No Smiling Allowed: growing up in Soviet Russia and other funny stories from a Jewish immigrant episodes
- 4 min
- Soviet grocery stores
Do you want to know what it was like to live in the former USSR, what food we had or didn't have? Keep listening...
4 min - Grandma and medicinal urine
Every Soviet person used urine for medicinal purposes, and we continue to this day...
3 min - 10 min
- 4 min
- 2 min
About No Smiling Allowed: growing up in Soviet Russia and other funny stories from a Jewish immigrant
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Highly acclaimed comedic short stories book called 'No smiling allowed; growing up in Soviet Russia and other funny stories from a Jewish immigrant' - written and narrated by Julia Bendis. No Smiling…
Allowed is a comedic take on life in the former Soviet Ukraine and Latvia and as an immigrant in America. Julia Bendis has compiled many years of funny stories about her old-fashioned Jewish parents, their understanding of how life works in the United States, hilarious adventures, and her own younger generation's view of what it was like to blend in as a strange-looking kid from USSR.