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Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, the new memoir from Professor of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer, “poignantly captures [the] double life of [a] refusenik,” according to a review in the Jewish Journal. An excerpt was published by The Forward, … Continue reading
Leaving Russia
Maxim D. Shrayer, professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, has published a powerful new memoir: Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story. In the first English-language, autobiographical and nonfictional account of growing up Jewish in the former USSR—of refuseniks and the … Continue reading
A story of emigration
Author Maxim D. Shrayer, a Boston College professor of Russian and English, is the subject of a feature story in the Cape Cod Chronicle, which focuses on his emigration from Russia to America–the subject of his memoir Waiting for America.
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New book: Bearing witness to the Shoah
In his new book, I SAW IT: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah, Boston College Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer explores how Jewish-Russian poets became the earliest literary witnesses to … Continue reading
Waiting for America
Waiting for America, a memoir by Professor of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer about his emigration from Russia, has just been released in Moscow in a Russian translation. He discussed his work with Russian Journal, a portal and magazine with the … Continue reading
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