{"product_id":"9780815652786","title":"Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese   fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction\u003cbr\u003e     are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with\u003cbr\u003e     Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity,   acculturation,\u003cbr\u003e     and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and   persecution,\u003cbr\u003e     problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the\u003cbr\u003e     survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician,   Shrayer-Petrov\u003cbr\u003e     examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and   literature.\u003cbr\u003e     He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former   Soviet\u003cbr\u003e     Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even   as\u003cbr\u003e     they—and especially their children—assimilate and increasingly   resemble\u003cbr\u003e     American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov’s stories also bear witness to the ways   Jewish\u003cbr\u003e     immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other   identities\u003cbr\u003e     and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of\u003cbr\u003e     Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight   in\u003cbr\u003e     Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118668562672,"sku":"9780815652786","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780815652786_p0.jpg?v=1763748063","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780815652786","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}