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 Russiaâ s dwindling yet still vibrant and influential Jewish community.Â

This is simultaneously an in-depth exploration of the texture of Jewish life in Putinâ s Russia and an émigréâ s moving elegy for Russiaâ s Jews, which forty years ago constituted one of the worldâ 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.