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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.
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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.
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Shrayer-Petrov's experience as a physician renders the similarity with Chekhov logical; as the Russian classic, Shrayer-Petrov doesn't need an ophthalmoscope to see what's in his subjects' eyes; he's one of them. <...> Shrayer shared with The Voice readers that being intimately involved in bringing the book to fruition "is very gratifying to me as a son and my father's friend and long-time collaborator." He hopes that the American readers like the book as much as he does. If early reviews are any indication of the coming success, he may get his wish.-- Irina Missiuro, The Jewish Voice
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- PublisherSyracuse University Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0815610335
- ISBN 13 9780815610335
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages274
- EditorShrayer Maxim D.
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