Leaving Russia : a Jewish story /

A memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. The author 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...

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Main Author: Shrayer, Maxim, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2013
Edition:First edition.
Series:Library of modern Jewish literature.
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