Dinner with Stalin and other stories

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Dinner with Stalin and other stories

David Shrayer-Petrov ; edited by Maxim D. Shrayer

(The library of modern Jewish literature)

Syracuse University Press, 2014

  • : cloth

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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 Muslims. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB20315435
  • ISBN
    • 9780815610335
  • LCCN
    2014004917
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    rus
  • Place of Publication
    Syracuse, N.Y.
  • Pages/Volumes
    262 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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