David Shrayer-Petrov

David Shrayer-Petrov (z”l), writer, medical scientist, and former refusenik activist, was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1936, immigrated to the United States in 1987, and died in Boston on June 9th, 2024. He published twenty-six books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction in his native Russian. Shrayer-Petrov’s books of fiction in English include collections of stories such as Jonah and Sarah, Autumn in Yalta, Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories, and the novel Doctor Levitin.