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 (Syracuse University Press, 2013) are available for sale at the Harvard COOP.
Maxim D. 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, 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.