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Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
David Shrayer-Petrov
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Description for Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)
Hardcover. A collection of translated richly constructed stories that beautifully illustrate the intersecting worlds of Russian, Jewish and American lives Editor(s): Shrayer, Maxim. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815610335
SKU
V9780815610335
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About David Shrayer-Petrov
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 ... Read more
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