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Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant
Maxim D. Shrayer reflects on America s dark years in verse Writer and translator Maxim D. Shrayer Lee Pellegrini
Maxim D. Shrayer was born in Moscow in the family of a writer and medical scientist, David Shrayer-Petrov, and a translator, Emilia Shrayer. His family applied to emigrate, and after more than eight years as refuseniks, they left for the U.S. in 1987 when Shrayer was 20 years old. In the U.S. Shrayer attended Brown University and then received his Ph.D. from Yale. He is presently a Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies and co-founded the Jewish Studies Program at Boston College.