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Accolades for ‘Kantika’
Professor of English Elizabeth Graver’s critically acclaimed novel, Kantika, is winner of a National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture. Kantika was inspired by Graver’s grandmother, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul and … Continue reading
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Tagged English Department, historical fiction, Jewish history, novel, novelist
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Selvinsky’s “The Trial in Krasnodar”
Seventy-seven years ago this month, a landmark court case on Nazi war crimes began in the Russian city of Krasnodar. Author and Boston College Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim Shrayer digs into the story of Ilya Selvinsky—a … Continue reading