Maxim D. Shrayer
Russian-American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Maxim D. Shrayer is a bilingual Russian-American author, translator, and literary scholar, and a professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College. Biography Shrayer was born and grew up in Moscow, USSR, in the family of the writer David Shrayer-Petrov, and the translator Emilia Shrayer. Among his ancestors on the Shrayer side is the Russian-Israeli writer Batya Kahana . Together with his parents he spent almost nine years as a refusenik before immigrating to the US in the summer of 1987. Shrayer attended Moscow University, Brown University , Rutgers University , and Yale University . Since 1996 he has been teaching at Boston College, where he is presently a professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies and co-founded the Jewish Studies Program. Shrayer founded and moderates the Michael B. Kreps Readings in Russian Émigré Literature at Boston College. In 2017-2021 Shrayer directed the Project on Russian & Eurasian Jewry at Harvard's Davis Center. Shrayer lives in Brookline and South Chatham, Mass. with his wife Dr. Karen E. Lasser, a medical doctor and researcher, their two daughters, Mira and Tatiana, and their silver Jewdle, Stella. Shrayer's younger daughter, Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, won second prize in the 2019 Stone Soup book context, resulting in the publication of her poetry collection Searching for Bow and Arrows.
Maxim D. Shrayer's Published Works
Published Works
- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (2018) (240)
- The world of Nabokov's stories (1999) (24)
- Rethinking Romantic Irony: Puskin, Byron, Schlegel and The Queen of Spades (1992) (15)
- Why Are the Cranes Still Flying (1997) (9)
- Praise for I SAW IT: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah (2013) (7)
- Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story (2013) (6)
- The essence of marine and coastal space – an interdisciplinary perspective (2019) (4)
- After Rapture and Recapture: Transformations in the Drafts of Nabokov's Stories (1999) (4)
- Netting the Butterfly Man: The Significance of Vladimir Nabokov in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants (2005) (4)
- Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration (2007) (4)
- Dostoevskii, the Jewish Question, and The Brothers Karamazov (2002) (4)
- The poetics of Vladimir Nabokov's short stories : with reference to Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin (1995) (3)
- "Cloud, Castle, Lake" and the Problem of Entering the Otherworld in Nabokov's Short Fiction (2010) (3)
- Vladimir Nabokov and Ivan Bunin: A Reconstruction (1998) (2)
- The Life of Arseniev: Youth (1994) (2)
- Pilgrimage, Memory and Death in Vladimir Nabokov's Short Story "The Aurelian" (1996) (2)
- With or Without You: The Prospect for Jews in Today’s Russia (2017) (2)
- The Perfect Glory of Nabokov's Exploit (1999) (2)
- Yom Kippur in Amsterdam: Stories (2009) (2)
- Nabokov and his Fiction: Jewish questions in Nabokov's art and life (1999) (2)
- Russian poet, Soviet Jew : the legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (2002) (2)
- Metamorphoses of ‘Bezobrazie’ in Dostoevskij's The Brothers Karamazov: Maksimov—Von Sohn—Karamazov (1995) (1)
- Waiting for America (2012) (1)
- Nabokov's Sexography (2000) (1)
- The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov (2021) (1)
- Vladimir Nabokov's Unpublished Interview, 1958 (2016) (1)
- Nabokov's Textobiography (1999) (1)
- Editor’s Introduction Maxim D. Shrayer (2015) (1)
- Conflation of Christmas and Paschal Motifs in Čechov's ‘V roždestvenskuju noč'’ (1994) (1)
- Exile and the Unburdening of Guilt: Aizman, Melnyczuk, and the Jewish-Slavic Confrontation (2003) (1)
- Ilia Bokstein (1937–1999) From Glints of the Wave: Afánta-Utóma (“Fantasia-Judaica”) (2015) (0)
- Aleksandr Melikhov (b. 1947) (2015) (0)
- Slovar' russkikh zarubezhnykh pisatelei (1995) (0)
- Semyon Lipkin (1911–2003) (2015) (0)
- Grigory Kanovich (b. 1929) (2015) (0)
- Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories (2006) (0)
- Boris Khazanov (b. 1928) (2015) (0)
- Philip Isaac Berman (b. 1936) (2015) (0)
- The ... Jews of Russian Literature (2012) (0)
- Evgeny Gabrilovich (1899–1993) (2015) (0)
- From the Editor (2010) (0)
- Say, desert geometer, shaper (2016) (0)
- Lev Ozerov (1914–1996) (2015) (0)
- Evgeny Reyn (b. 1935) (2015) (0)
- Leyba Nevakhovich (1776–1831) (2015) (0)
- Boris Yampolsky (1912–1972) (2015) (0)
- Ilya Kutik (b. 1960) (2015) (0)
- Viktor Fink (1888–1973) (2015) (0)
- Naum Korzhavin (b. 1925) (2015) (0)
- Ben-Ami (1854–1932) (2015) (0)
- Lev Lunts (1901–1924) (2015) (0)
- Henri Volohonsky (b. 1936) (2015) (0)
- Plaisirs du translinguisme (2023) (0)
- Yury Libedinsky (1898–1959) (2015) (0)
- Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) (2015) (0)
- David Shrayer-Petrov: A Pictorial Biography (2021) (0)
- Bunin's Tambourine: Echoes of the Old Master in His Disciple's Fourth Novel (2020) (0)
- A Flautist in Flight (2014) (0)
- David Markish (b. 1938) (2015) (0)
- INDEX OF TRANSLATORS (2015) (0)
- Yuly Daniel (1925–1988) (2015) (0)
- Fall on Nantucket Island (2016) (0)
- Rodnaia rech'. S predisloviem Andreia Siniavskogo (1992) (0)
- Yulia Neyman (1907–1994) (2015) (0)
- War and Terror (2015) (0)
- Ruvim Kulisher (1828–1896) (2015) (0)
- Two Poems on the Death of Akhmatova: Dialogues, Private Codes, and the Myth of Akhmatova’s Orphans (1993) (0)
- THE ART AND CRAFT OF LITERARY TRANSLATION In Memoriam Albert S. Cook (1925-1998) (2013) (0)
- An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry : Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry (2015) (0)
- Yury Trifonov (1925–1981) (2015) (0)
- Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) From The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples: “The (2015) (0)
- Semyon Nadson (1862–1887) (2015) (0)
- The World of Nabokov's Stories@@@Russian Subtexts in Nabokov's Fiction: Four Essays (2001) (0)
- Ruth Zernova (1919–2004) (2015) (0)
- A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas (2019) (0)
- Pavel Antokolsky as a Witness to the Shoah in Ukraine and Poland: In Memoriam Anna Studnits (1914–2009) (2018) (0)
- Out of a maelstrom: a deferred history of Jewish‐Russian prose (2008) (0)
- Nikolay Minsky (1855–1937) (2015) (0)
- Tatyana Voltskaya (b. 1960) (2015) (0)
- Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) (2015) (0)
- Anna Prismanova (1892–1960) (2015) (0)
- Don-Aminado (1888–1957) (2015) (0)
- Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890–1969) (2015) (0)
- David Shrayer-Petrov (Давид Шраер-Петров): A Bibliography of Works (2021) (0)
- Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories (2014) (0)
- A Small Alpine Form: Studies in Nabokov's Short Fiction (review) (2010) (0)
- Waiting for Nabokov (2008) (0)
- Pavel Antokolsky (1896–1978) (2015) (0)
- Dovid Knut (1900–1955) (2015) (0)
- David Shrayer-Petrov’s Exilic Voices (2021) (0)
- I Saw It (2019) (0)
- General Introduction: The Legacy of Jewish-Russian Literature (2019) (0)
- Andrey Sobol (1888–1926) (2015) (0)
- Mark Tarlovsky (1902–1952) (2015) (0)
- THE TUTOR-FEMALE STUDENT STORY AND ITS ROMANTIC IRONIC DESIGN IN PUSHKIN'S DUBROVSKII (1995) (0)
- Semyon Kirsanov (1906–1972) (2015) (0)
- Last August in Biarritz (2016) (0)
- Sasha Cherny (1880–1932) (2015) (0)
- A Note on Eduard Bagritskii's "Origin" (2016) (0)
- Arkady Lvov (b. 1927) (2015) (0)
- A Russian Immigrant (2019) (0)
- Rashel Khin (1861–1928) (2015) (0)
- [no title] (2015) (0)
- Boris Slutsky (1919–1986) (2015) (0)
- Vassily Aksyonov (b.1932) (2015) (0)
- Bella Ulanovskaya (1943–2005) (2015) (0)
- Yuri Levitansky (1922–1996) (2015) (0)
- Andrey Sedykh (1902–1994) (2015) (0)
- Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939) (2015) (0)
- “Each writer has his or her own Jewish secret. . . .”: A Conversation in Three Parts* Conducted on the Occasion of the Publication of David Shrayer-Petrov’s Collection Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories (2014) (2021) (0)
- Yom Kippur in Amsterdam (2009) (0)
- Anatoly Rybakov (1911–1998) (2015) (0)
- Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) (2015) (0)
- Review Article (2012) (0)
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