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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 his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature.
He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in...

Whether set in Maxim Shrayer s native Russia or in North America and
Western Europe, the eight stories in this collection explore emotionally
intricate relationships that cross traditional boundaries of ethnicity, religion,
and culture. Tracing the lives, obsessions, and aspirations of Jewish-Russian
immigrants, these poignant, humorous, and tender stories create an
expansive portrait of individuals struggling to come to terms with ghosts of
their European pasts while simultaneously seeking to build new lives in their
American present.
The title story follows Jake...

In 1987 a young Jewish man, the central figure in this captivating book, leaves Moscow for good with his parents. They celebrate their freedom in opulent Vienna and spend two months in Rome and the coastal resort of Ladispoli. While waiting in Europe for a U.S. refugee visa, the book s twenty-year-old poet quenches his thirst for sexual and cultural discovery. Through his colorful Austrian and Italian misadventures, he experiences the shock, thrill, and anonymity of encountering Western democracies, running into European roadblocks while shedding Soviet social taboos. As he anticipates...