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QUERY: Informant needed re Russian immigrant culture and language
in Brooklyn and re Russian organized crime
in Brooklyn and re Russian organized crime
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[EDNOTE. The following request, which is only indirectly related to VN -- a Russian immigrant to New York City -- comes from a longtime NABOKV-L subscriber. Please send responses to the address below. SES]
I've got to learn something about the following subjects and if possible to meet an informant in connection with a novel I'm writing. (The book deals with these subjects only marginally.) I would be grateful if anyone here would be willing either to chat with me on the phone or to exchange emails or to meet with me in New York in early June. If you are at all knowledgeable about any of the following, or if you can refer me to someone who is, please let me know.
Russian immigrant culture in Brooklyn; Russian-English immigrant idioms; organized crime and its culture among Russian immigrants in the United States; organized crime and its culture in Russia; criminals and any precursors of organized crime in Russian literature.
Further, I will be in New York in early June and plan to explore Russian immigrant neighborhoods in Brooklyn. If you might be willing to either show me around or provide some orientation by phone or email, please let me know. I would also like to learn the names of reporters, criminologists, literati, and people in the criminal justice system who know this scene.
Walter M.
wm@greenworldcenter.org
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I've got to learn something about the following subjects and if possible to meet an informant in connection with a novel I'm writing. (The book deals with these subjects only marginally.) I would be grateful if anyone here would be willing either to chat with me on the phone or to exchange emails or to meet with me in New York in early June. If you are at all knowledgeable about any of the following, or if you can refer me to someone who is, please let me know.
Russian immigrant culture in Brooklyn; Russian-English immigrant idioms; organized crime and its culture among Russian immigrants in the United States; organized crime and its culture in Russia; criminals and any precursors of organized crime in Russian literature.
Further, I will be in New York in early June and plan to explore Russian immigrant neighborhoods in Brooklyn. If you might be willing to either show me around or provide some orientation by phone or email, please let me know. I would also like to learn the names of reporters, criminologists, literati, and people in the criminal justice system who know this scene.
Walter M.
wm@greenworldcenter.org
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
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