{"product_id":"dinner-with-stalin-and-other-stories-9780815610335","title":"Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories","description":"These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. \u003ci\u003eDinner with Stalin\u003c\/i\u003e 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 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 Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in \u003ci\u003eDinner with Stalin and Other Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Shrayer-Petrov\u003c\/b\u003e, 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\u003ci\u003e The Story of My Beloved. \u003c\/i\u003eShrayer-Petrov's books of fiction in English include \u003ci\u003eJonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAutumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaxim D. Shrayer\u003c\/b\u003e, the author's son and translator, is a professor at Boston College and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. His books include \u003ci\u003eAn Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLeaving Russia: A Jewish Story.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328845648146,"sku":"9780815610335","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_06ae4f50-bbab-4dfa-81a9-69c63b53801a.jpg?v=1727753062","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dinner-with-stalin-and-other-stories-9780815610335","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}