Maxim D. Shrayer, a bilingual author, scholar and translator, is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College and Director of the Project on Russian & Eurasian Jewry at Harvard’s Davis Center. Born in Moscow in 1967 to a writer’s family, Shrayer emigrated to the United States in 1987. He has authored and edited fifteen books in English and Russian, among them the internationally acclaimed memoirs
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story and
Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration, the story collection
Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, and the Holocaust study
I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah, and the travelogue
With or Without You: The Prospect for Jews in Today’s Russia. Shrayer is the recipient of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. Visit Shrayer’s website at
www.shrayer.com.