Maxim D. Shrayer is an author and a professor at Boston College. His recent books include “Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature” and “A Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas.” Shrayer’s newest book is “Of Politics and Pandemics.”
If the history of Jews in Eastern Europe is bound to repeat itself, yet again, this time it will be not only as tragedy, and not at all as farse, but as a dance macabre.
This was the land of both my grandfathers and my maternal grandmother, and our family history was rooted in this land and its past.
Which brings me back to “the new refuseniks” and the prospects for Jewish life in America. What were these young American Jews refused, and, by the same token, what have they refused?
