In 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
In 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
The author, a prolific author and professor of Russian, English, and Jewish studies at Boston College, celebrates nostalgia and poignancy in this memoir of struggle, fraught with contradictions. Essen
In his captivating new book, based on new evidence and a series of interviews, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer offers a richly journalistic portrait of Russia’s dwindling yet still vibrant and inf
This memoir recounts the story of Shrayer, who immigrated to the US from Moscow in 1987, focusing on the period he and his family spent in Vienna and Italy on the way to the US, as well as his romanti
Based in part on archival materials, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew examines the short and brilliant career of Eduard Bagritskii (1895-1934), a major Russian poet of Jewish origin. Shrayer provides a short b
