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Doctor Levitin (Paperback)
David Shrayer-Petrov; Edited by Maxim D. Shrayer; Translated by Arna B. Bronstein, Aleksandra I. Fleszar
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R734
Discovery Miles 7 340
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The story of a doctor's family torn apart by Soviet politics,
persecution, and the Jewish struggle for freedom during the Cold
War. Available now for the first time in English, Doctor Levitin is
a modern classic in Jewish literature. A major work of late
twentieth-century Russian and Jewish literature since its first
publication in Israel in 1986, it has also seen three subsequent
Russian editions. It is the first in David Shrayer-Petrov's trilogy
of novels about the struggle of Soviet Jews and the destinies of
refuseniks. In addition to being the first novel available in
English that depicts the experience of the Jewish exodus from the
former USSR, Doctor Levitin is presented in an excellent
translation that has been overseen and edited by the author's son,
the bilingual scholar Maxim D. Shrayer. Doctor Levitin is a
panoramic novel that portrays the Soviet Union during the late
1970s and early 1980s, when the USSR invaded Afghanistan and Soviet
Jews fought for their right to emigrate. Doctor Herbert Levitin,
the novel's protagonist, is a professor of medicine in Moscow whose
non-Jewish wife, Tatyana, comes from the Russian peasantry.
Shrayer-Petrov documents with anatomical precision the mutually
unbreachable contradictions of the Levitins' mixed marriage, which
becomes an allegory of Jewish-Russian history. Doctor Levitin's
Jewishness evolves over the course of the novel, becoming a
spiritual mission. The antisemitism of the Soviet regime forces the
quiet intellectual and his family to seek emigration. Denied
permission to leave, the family of Doctor Levitin is forced into
the existence of refuseniks and outcasts, which inexorably leads to
their destruction and a final act of defiance and revenge on the
Soviet system. A significant contribution to the works of
translated literature available in English, David Shrayer-Petrov's
Doctor Levitin is ideal for any reader of fiction and literature.
It will hold particular interest for those who study Jewish or
Russian literature, culture, and history and Cold War politics.
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Doctor Levitin (Hardcover)
David Shrayer-Petrov; Edited by Maxim D. Shrayer; Translated by Arna B. Bronstein, Aleksandra I. Fleszar
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R1,326
R1,219
Discovery Miles 12 190
Save R107 (8%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The story of a doctor's family torn apart by Soviet politics,
persecution, and the Jewish struggle for freedom during the Cold
War. Available now for the first time in English, Doctor Levitin is
a modern classic in Jewish literature. A major work of late
twentieth-century Russian and Jewish literature since its first
publication in Israel in 1986, it has also seen three subsequent
Russian editions. It is the first in David Shrayer-Petrov's trilogy
of novels about the struggle of Soviet Jews and the destinies of
refuseniks. In addition to being the first novel available in
English that depicts the experience of the Jewish exodus from the
former USSR, Doctor Levitin is presented in an excellent
translation that has been overseen and edited by the author's son,
the bilingual scholar Maxim D. Shrayer. Doctor Levitin is a
panoramic novel that portrays the Soviet Union during the late
1970s and early 1980s, when the USSR invaded Afghanistan and Soviet
Jews fought for their right to emigrate. Doctor Herbert Levitin,
the novel's protagonist, is a professor of medicine in Moscow whose
non-Jewish wife, Tatyana, comes from the Russian peasantry.
Shrayer-Petrov documents with anatomical precision the mutually
unbreachable contradictions of the Levitins' mixed marriage, which
becomes an allegory of Jewish-Russian history. Doctor Levitin's
Jewishness evolves over the course of the novel, becoming a
spiritual mission. The antisemitism of the Soviet regime forces the
quiet intellectual and his family to seek emigration. Denied
permission to leave, the family of Doctor Levitin is forced into
the existence of refuseniks and outcasts, which inexorably leads to
their destruction and a final act of defiance and revenge on the
Soviet system. A significant contribution to the works of
translated literature available in English, David Shrayer-Petrov's
Doctor Levitin is ideal for any reader of fiction and literature.
It will hold particular interest for those who study Jewish or
Russian literature, culture, and history and Cold War politics.
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