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- Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Syracuse University Press
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
summary
Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiogÂraphy, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's remembrances ore set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse. His moving story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Part One: The End of Childhood
- pp. 1-28
- 1. Of Goat Milk and Marble Lions
- pp. 3-11
- 2. Different
- pp. 12-29
- 3. Becoming Refuseniks
- pp. 30-52
- Interlude: Dunes of Happiness
- pp. 53-75
- 4. Cavalier of the Gold Medal
- pp. 76-97
- Part Two: The Expedition
- pp. 99-126
- 5. Moscow State
- pp. 101-117
- Interlude: Summertime
- pp. 118-125
- 6. Poetry, Love, Persecution
- pp. 126-154
- Interlude: Facts and Arguments
- pp. 155-161
- 7. Across the Steppe and into the Black Sea
- pp. 163-214
- Part Three: The Short Goodbye
- pp. 215-242
- 8. Last Autumn
- pp. 217-237
- Interlude: Readers’ Reports
- pp. 238-247
- 9. Purim-shpil
- pp. 248-271
- Interlude: Family Tree
- pp. 272-283
- 10. Taking Leave
- pp. 284-311
- Epilogue: In America?
- pp. 312-314
- Index of Names and Places
- pp. 315-324
- Image Plates
- pp. 351-376
- Back Flap, Back Cover
- pp. 377-378
Additional Information
ISBN
9780815652434
Related ISBN(s)
9780815610243
MARC Record
OCLC
867742051
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2013-12-12
Language
English
Open Access
No