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March 6, 2025

The Nine Jewish Lives of the Most Literary of Refuseniks

Remembering David Shrayer-Petrov.

Last summer, the Soviet-Jewish physician, writer, and former refusenik David Shrayer-Petrov died in Boston at the age of eighty-eight. His son, Maxim Shrayer, describes his “nine Jewish lives.” Here’s one:

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