Leaving Russia : a Jewish story

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.
Subjects:
Shrayer, Maxim, > 1967- > Childhood and youth.
Shrayer, Maxim, > 1967-
Jews > Soviet Union > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
Political activists > Soviet Union > Biography.
Refuseniks > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
Childhood and youth of a person
Immigrants
Jews
Political activists
Refuseniks
Soviet Union > Biography.
Soviet Union
United States
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Of Goat Milk and Marble Lions
  • Different
  • Becoming Refuseniks
  • Dunes of Happiness
  • Cavalier of the Gold Medal
  • Moscow State
  • Summertime
  • Poetry, Love, Persecution
  • Facts and Arguments
  • Across the Steppe and into the Black Sea
  • Last Autumn
  • Readers' Reports
  • Purim-shpil
  • Family Tree
  • Taking Leave
  • In America?
  • Index of Names and Places.

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