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Interview with Maxim Shrayer on I saw it: Ilya Selvinsky and the legacy of bearing witness to the Shoah with translations of major works, by Maxim Shrayer
No full textIn this ground-breaking book, based on archival and field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D. Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust (Shoah) in the occupied Soviet territories. In January 1942, while serving as a military journalist, Selvinsky witnessed the immediate aftermath of the massacre of thousands of Jews outside the Crimean city of Kerch, and thereafter composed and published poems about it. Shrayer painstakingly reconstructs the details of the Nazi atrocities witnessed by Selvinsky, and shows that in 1943, as Stalin's regime increasingly refused to report the annihilation of Jews in the occupied territories, Selvinsky paid a high price for his writings and actions.Title supplied by cataloger
Interview with Maxim Shrayer on Leaving Russia: A Jewish story, by Maxim Shrayer
No full textA 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. 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. Shrayer's remembrances are set against a rich backdrop of politics and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse.Title supplied by cataloger
Interview with Maxim Shrayer on Waiting for America: A story of emigration, by Maxim D. Shrayer
No full textIn 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this captivating book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in opulent Vienna and spend two months in Rome and the coastal resort of Ladispoli. While waiting in Europe for a US refugee visa, the book's twenty-year-old poet quenches his thirst for sexual and cultural discovery. Through his colorful Austrian and Italian misadventures, he experiences the shock, thrill, and anonymity of encountering Western democracies, running into European roadblocks while shedding Soviet taboos. As he anticipates entering a new life in America, he movingly describes the baggage that exiles bring with them, from the inescapable family traps and ties to the sweet cargo of memory.Title supplied by cataloger
Interview with Maxim Shrayer on Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, by Maxim D. Shrayer
No full textThe eight stories in this collection explore emotionally intricate relationships that cross traditional boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and culture. Tracing the lives, obsessions, and aspirations of Jewish-Russian immigrants, these poignant, humorous, and tender stories create an expansive portrait of individuals struggling to come to terms with ghosts of their European pasts while simultaneously seeking to build new lives in their American present.Title supplied by cataloger
Interview with Maxim Shrayer on An anthology of Jewish-Russian literature: Two centuries of dual identity in prose and poetry, edited, selected, and cotranslated by Maxim D. Shrayer
No full textFor over two hundred years, a distinctive Jewish-Russian culture has been part of the ferment and flourishing of world culture. Edited by a leading authority on Jewish-Russian literature, this magnificent anthology introduces readers for the first time to the full range of the Jewish-Russian literary canon, with stories and excerpts from novels, essays, memoirs, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers who worked in the Russian language, both in Russia and in the great emigrations. The selections were chosen both for their literary quality and because they illuminate questions of Jewish history, status, and identity. Each author is extensively profiled.Title supplied by cataloger
Resenha de "I Saw it – Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah", de Maxim D. Shrayer
No full textResenha de "I Saw it – Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah", de Maxim D. Shrayer
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