Maxim D. Shrayer is a professor at Boston College and the author, most recently, of With or Without You: The Prospect for Russia’s Jews. Shrayer’s anthology Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature is forthcoming in October 2018.

‘Awakening,’ a Short Story by Isaac Babel

A new English translation for May Day

By Maxim D. Shrayer · May 1, 2018

Fiction and Essays

Fantasmas Soviéticos Veranean en Santiago

Tablet en Español: Un emigrante Ruso viaja por Chile con su esposa e hijas

By Maxim D. Shrayer · November 1, 2017

Fiction and Essays

Soviet Ghosts Vacation in Santiago

An émigré travels in Chile with his wife and daughters

By Maxim D. Shrayer · October 26, 2017

The Scroll

Is it Time to Compose an Elegy for Russia’s Jewry?

A trip to the ‘old’ circus with imaginary Jewish clowns

By Maxim D. Shrayer · March 7, 2017

The Scroll

A Former Soviet Jew’s Political Journey

How I went from a Reagan supporter to feeling despondent over Trump and my children’s future

By Maxim D. Shrayer · November 9, 2016

Food

Picking Mushrooms in America: A Jewish Immigrant Tradition

Every fall, Russian Jewish families go foraging for culinary treasure on Cape Cod

By Maxim D. Shrayer · November 9, 2016

Book Reviews

Memories of Our Lost Soviet Youth

This May Day, a Jewish Refusenik looks back on the Spring of 1985

By Maxim D. Shrayer · April 28, 2016

Theater & Dance

Arthur Miller’s Forgotten Masterpiece

‘Incident at Vichy,’ a play about rounding up Jews and Roma, held lessons for Soviet Refuseniks

By Maxim D. Shrayer · May 27, 2015

Fiction and Essays

A Genius in the Attic: Secrets of a Cape Cod Dacha

Tablet original fiction, on Vladimir Nabokov’s 116th birthday

By Maxim D. Shrayer · April 22, 2015

Fiction and Essays

Ahlabustin, or Russians in Punta Cana

Tablet Original Fiction set in the all-inclusive resorts of the Dominican Republic

By Maxim D. Shrayer · February 13, 2015