Maxim D. Shrayer

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Tablet A Jewish-Ukrainian Marriage 11 May 2022
This text is a personal narrative about a Jewish-Ukrainian friendship that develops between two families on a crowded beach in Ladispoli, Italy. The narrator...
11 May 2022
Tablet Punishing All Things Russian for Putin’s Crimes 4 Apr 2022
The author reflects on the negative treatment of Russian identity in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Putin's regime. He discusses instances of anti...
4 Apr 2022
Tablet A Brief History of the Jewdle 17 Mar 2022
The jewdle, also known as the der Speyerer Judenhund, was originally bred in Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley in the 12th century. They were created as...
17 Mar 2022
Tablet Yelets Women’s High School 1 Mar 2022
The text is a personal narrative recounting the author's experience at the Yelets Women's High School in Moscow in the late 1980s. The author's family had be...
1 Mar 2022
Tablet Only One Day in Venice 23 Dec 2021
The author shares two stories about visiting Venice, one from 35 years ago and one more recent, both involving misadventures and delays. Despite the challeng...
23 Dec 2021
Tablet Romance with a Mortician 14 Sep 2021
The author reflects on his experiences with Russian-language periodicals in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s, specifically noting the ...
14 Sep 2021
Tablet A Return to Kafka 26 Apr 2021
This text is a personal account of the author's experience navigating the bureaucratic process of collecting royalties from their Russian publishers during t...
26 Apr 2021
Tablet My Ski Vacation 16 Feb 2021
The author, a Jewish Russian immigrant, reflects on his family's ski vacation in the Dolomites in 2017. They enjoyed the beauty and culture of Italy but had ...
16 Feb 2021
Tablet A Portrait of the Philanthropist as a Young Man 7 Aug 2020
This article is a personal tribute to Ilia Salita, the president and CEO of Genesis Philanthropy Group, who recently passed away. The author shares their mem...
7 Aug 2020
Tablet A Public Hanging and the Trial of a Holocaust Poem 14 Jul 2020
The author discusses their experiences conducting research in Moscow for a book on Jewish-Russian poets as witnesses to the Holocaust. While at the Russian S...
14 Jul 2020