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Yom Kippur in Amsterdam - Stories (Hardcover)
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Yom Kippur in Amsterdam - Stories (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
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Whether set in Maxim Shrayer's native Russia or in North America
and Western Europe, the eight stories in this collection explore
emotionally intricate relationships that cross traditional
boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and culture. Tracing the lives,
obsessions, and aspirations of Jewish-Russian immigrants, these
poignant, humorous, and tender stories create an expansive portrait
of individuals struggling to come to terms with ghosts of their
European pasts while simultaneously seeking to build new lives in
their American present. The title story follows Jake Glaz, a young
Jewish man apprehensive about intermarriage to a Catholic woman.
After realizing Erin will not convert, Jake leaves the United
States to spend Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, 'a beautiful place for a
Jew to atone'. In ""Sonetchka,"" a literary scholar and his former
Moscow girlfriend reunite in her suburban Connecticut apartment. As
they reminisce about their Soviet youth and quietly admire each
other's professional successes, both wrestle with the curious mix
of prosperity, loneliness, and insecurity that defines their lives
in the United States. Yom Kippur in Amsterdam takes the immigrant
narrative into the twenty-first century. Emerging from the
tradition of Isaac Babel, Vladimir Nabokov, and Isaac Bachevis
Singer, Shrayer's vibrant literary voice significantly contributes
to the evolution of Jewish writing in America.
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