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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.
About the author
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. Shrayer-Petrov's books of fiction in English include
Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America and
Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories. Maxim D. Shrayer, the author's son and translator, is a professor at Boston College and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. His books include
An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature and
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story.
