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Leaving Russia : a Jewish story / Maxim D. Shrayer.
Van Pelt Library PG3487.R34 Z46 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shrayer, Maxim, 1967- author.
- Series:
- Library of modern Jewish literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shrayer, Maxim, 1967---Childhood and youth.
- Shrayer, Maxim.
- Shrayer, Maxim, 1967-.
- Refuseniks--Biography.
- Refuseniks.
- Political activists.
- Soviet Union.
- Political activists--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Immigrants--United States--Biography.
- Immigrants.
- United States.
- Jews--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Jews.
- Soviet Union--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 324 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Syracuse, New York] : Syracuse University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The End of Childhood
- 1 Of Goat Milk and Marble Lions 3
- 2 Different 12
- 3 Becoming Refuseniks 30
- Interlude: Dunes of Happiness 53
- 4 Cavalier of the Gold Medal 76
- Part 2 The Expedition
- 5 Moscow State 201
- Interlude: Summertime 118
- 6 Poetry, Love, Persecution 126
- Interlude: Facts and Arguments 155
- 7 Across the Steppe and into the Black Sea 163
- Part 3 The Short Goodbye
- 8 Last Autumn 217
- Interlude: Readers' Reports 238
- 9 Purim-shpil 248
- Interlude: Family Tree 272
- 10 Taking Leave 284.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815610243
- 0815610246
- 9780815652434
- 0815652437
- OCLC:
- 857288105
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