Leaving Russia

A Jewish Story

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, this is a searing account of the KGB's persecution of refuseniks, a poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-01-30
Mått152 x 221 x 22 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of Modern Jewish Literature
Antal sidor346
FörlagSyracuse University Press
ISBN9780815610885

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“In his eloquently written memoir . . . Shrayer takes readers on a moving journey back to his Soviet childhood behind the Iron Curtain.”—Jewish Journal“Shrayer tarries over the landscapes he loves, the many attitudes toward Jews and being Jewish he experienced, the meaning of coming of ageas a refusenik during the waning days of the Soviet Union, and his own complex . . . emotions about being both Russian and Jewish.”—New Jersey Jewish News“An engaging story of growing up as the son of Jewish intellectuals in Moscow who applied for emigration when he was ten to give him a futureas a Jew. . . . Leaving Russia should be assigned reading for anyone interested in the Jewish experience of the twentieth century.”—Jewish Book Council Reviews