| Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories Contributor(s): Shrayer-Petrov, David (Author), Shrayer, Maxim D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815610335 ISBN-13: 9780815610335 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Jewish - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2014004917 |
| Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.27" W x 9.38" (1.16 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |