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Doctor Levitin : a novel by David P Šraer-Petrov; Maxim D Shrayer; Arna B Bronstein; Aleksandra I Fleszar is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 histo

Who reads Doctor Levitin : a novel?

Author

David P Šraer-Petrov; Maxim D Shrayer; Arna B Bronstein; Aleksandra I Fleszar

Publisher

Wayne State University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814345733

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14