Dinner With Stalin and Other Stories - Rilegato

Shrayer-petrov, David

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ISBN 10: 0815610335 ISBN 13: 9780815610335

Casa editrice: Syracuse Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

<p>These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. <i>Dinner with Stalin</i> features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation,<br> 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<br> Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in <i>Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.</i></p>

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Informazioni sull?autore

<b>David Shrayer-Petrov</b>, 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 <i>The Story of My Beloved.</i>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Syracuse Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0815610335
• ISBN 13: 9780815610335
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 262
• Redattore: Shrayer Maxim D.
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile