Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories |
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| Author:
| Shrayer-Petrov, David |
| Editor:
| Shrayer, Maxim D. |
| Series title: | Library of Modern Jewish Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8156-1033-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | Syracuse University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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These fourteen stories by a 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.
These fourteen stories by a 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.