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MAXIM D SHRAYER – Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story

May 24, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446

Join MAZIM D SHRAYER at Brookline Booksmith as he reads from Leaving Russia, his memoir of coming of age and struggling to leave the USSR. Shrayer chronicles the triumphs and humiliations of a Soviet childhood and expresses the dreams and fears of a Jewish family that never gave up its hopes for a better life. Narrated […]

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