Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories

by David Shrayer-Petrov

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815610335
• ISBN13: 9780815610335
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"