These chronicles of a Jewish musician in the postwar Soviet Union--sometimes awkwardly written, often amusing and affecting--are by the first violinist of therenowned Borodin Quartet. Concerned solely with the author's experiences as a Soviet artist from 1949 to 1975, the year he emigrated to the United States, the works make little mention of Dubinsky's childhood and family. Much is made of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, the realities of working for a Soviet cultural agency, and the omnipresence of vodka in the lives of the people. Lyrical when he writes of people he loves and biting when the subjects are less than lovable, Dubinsky offers funny stories that balance the acrimony. Memorable is the one about how the quartet got to the head of a restaurant line by posing as foreigners and speaking in Italian musical terminology.
- Bonnie Jo Dopp, District of Columbia P.L.
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