Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories by Shrayer-Petrov, David

Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815610335)

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Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories by Shrayer-Petrov, David

Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories

$29.95
Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories by Shrayer-Petrov, David

Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician, Shrayer-Petrov examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature. He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former Soviet Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even as they--and especially their children--assimilate and increasingly resemble American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov's stories also bear witness to the ways Jewish immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other identities and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.

Author: David Shrayer-Petrov
ISBN-10: 0815610335
ISBN-13: 9780815610335
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2014
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.27w x 0.97d
By David Shrayer-Petrov
By David Shrayer-Petrov
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David Shrayer-Petrov, a well-known contemporary Russian-American writer and medical scientist, was born in Leningrad in 1936 and immigrated to the United States in 1987. He has published twenty-five books in his native Russian, most recently the novel The Story of My Beloved. Shrayer-Petrov's books of fiction in English include Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America and Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories.

Maxim D. Shrayer, the author's son and translator, is a professor at Boston College and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. His books include An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature and Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story.

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