Maxim D. Shrayer

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The Prospect for Jews in Today's Russia

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In his captivating new book, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer offers a richly journalistic portrait of Russia's dwindling yet still vibrant Jewish community. This is simultaneously an in-depth exploration of the texture of Jewish life in Putin's Russia and an émigré's moving elegy for Russia's Jews. Maxim D. Shrayer, a bilingual author and translator, is a professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College. Born in Moscow in 1967 to a writer's family, Shrayer emigrated to the United States in 1987. He has authored over ten books in English and Russian, among them the internationally acclaimed memoirs 'Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story' and 'Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration,' the story collection 'Yom Kippur in Amsterdam,' and the Holocaust study 'I SAW IT.' Shrayer's 'Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature' won a 2007 National Jewish Book Award, and in 2012 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Visit Shrayer's website at www.shrayer.com

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Maxim D. Shrayer, bilingual author and scholar, was born in Moscow in 1967 to a Jewish-Russian family with Ukrainian and Lithuanian roots and spent over eight years as a refusenik. He and his parents, the writer David Shrayer-Petrov and the translator Emilia Shrayer, left the USSR and immigrated to the United States in 1987. Shrayer received a PhD from Yale University in 1995. He is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College. Shrayer has authored and edited over twenty books of nonfiction, criticism, fiction, poetry, and translations. Among his books are the literary memoirs Waiting for America and Leaving Russia and the collection A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas. He is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including a 2007 National Jewish Book Award and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. Shrayer’s publications have been translated into thirteen languages. He also edits the "Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy" and the "Immigrant Worlds & Texts" series. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Dr. Karen E. Lasser, a medical researcher and physician, and their daughters Mira and Tatiana.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618116604
• Artikelnr.: 51114036