#  Davis Center: Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 29, 2014** 

 04:15PM - 05:15PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354**  



 

 



 

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Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story (Library of Modern Jewish Literature/Syracuse University Press, 2013)  
Finalist, 2013 National Jewish Book Awards“The book…. explains why Jews felt forced to leave a country they loved, when it grew clear that country would never, could never, love them in return.”   
—Wyatt Andrews, CBS News National Correspondent

“An exquisite memoir…. An unforgettable first-person account of Jewish life and Jewish suffering during the final years of Russian Communism.”  
 —Jonathan D. Sarna, author of *When General Grant Expelled the Jews*

“*Leaving Russia* should be assigned reading for anyone interested in the Jewish experience of the twentieth century.”  
—Annette Gendler, Jewish Book World

Copies of *[Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story](http://syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-2013/leaving-russia.html)* (Syracuse University Press, 2013) are available for sale at the [Harvard COOP](http://store.thecoop.com/).

Speaker(s): **[Maxim D. Shrayer](http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about-us/people/maxim-shrayer)**, Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures, Boston College; Center Associate, Davis Center

Chair: [**Terry Martin**](http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about-us/people/terry-martin), George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies and Director, Davis Center, Harvard University

Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.



 

 

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