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"In his captivating new book, based on new evidence and a series of interviews, author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer offers a richly journalistic portrait of Russia's dwindling yet still vibrant and influential Jewish community. This is simultaneously an in-depth exploration of the texture of Jewish life in Putin's Russia and an emigre's moving elegy for Russia's Jews, which forty years ago constituted one of the world's largest Jewish populations and which presently numbers only about 180,000. Why do Jews continue to live in Russia after the antisemitism and persecution they had endured there? What are the prospects of Jewish life in Russia? What awaits the children born to Jews who have not left? "With or Without You" asks and seeks to answer some of the central questions of modern Jewish history and culture"--

In this article, Maxim D. Shrayer offers a new perspective on Fedor Dostoevskii's writings about the Jews. Following a trajectory initiated by Vladimir Solov'ev and Leonid Grossman, Shrayer argues that for Dostoevskii the Jewish question is primarily religious, rather than social or ethnic. Through close textual analysis, but also by placing the controversial blood libel episode fromThe Brothers Karamazovin the larger context of Dostoevskii's fictional and discursive works, Shrayer links the anti-Semitic charges of ritual murder and host profanation with the story of Captain Snegirev and his son Iliusha. In the story of the Snegirevs, Shrayer identifies Dostoevskii's keen understanding of (religious) intolerance and scapegoating. Shrayer demonstrates that the conclusion ofThe Brothers Karamazov(Iliusha Snegirev's funeral) recalls "The Funeral of 'The Universal Man'" from the March 1877 issue ofThe Diary of a Writerand thus points to Dostoevskii's view of the Christian-Judaic reconciliation.