CUNY Prof. Emil Draitser book reading

[luba khramtsova]

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Luba Khramtsova

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The Russian American Cultural Center Presents:

SEARCHING FOR JEWISH ROOTS:
AN EVENING OF RUSSIAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE

Tuesday, May 24th
6:00-7:30 pm
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery @ Bleecker
www.bowerypoetry.com

F train to Second Ave | 6 train to Bleecker

Emil Draitser, Professor of Russian at Hunter College, will present his
new book Kto ty takoi (Who Are You), a memoir of his childhood during the
most perilous time of post-WWII Soviet history, and of the pressure of
growing up
Jewish in an anti-Semitic and totalitarian society. He will also read
excerpts from his novel-in-progress on Jewish emigration from the Soviet
Union. The reading will be conducted in English and Russian.



About the book
Who Are You is not only an eyewitness account of the impact of the unfolding
historical events on the lives of ordinary members of the Jewish community
in Odessa, but also an attempt to unveil the deep psychological
ramifications of those events, and how they shaped personality traits,
value systems, and the sense of self. Chapters of this book have appeared
in Partisan Review, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review,
Midstream, Midrasz (Warsaw, Poland), as well as in Russian-language
publications, such as Slovo (The Word, New York), Evreiskoe slovo (The
Jewish Word, Moscow, Russia), Mishpokha (Vitebsk), Shalom (Chicago),
Seagull (Baltimore), and others.



A sweeping panorama of the Jewish history in Russia, this richly documented
work is a remarkable humanitarian contribution and a challenge to the
continued silence in Russia surrounding its persecution of Jews. The
volume touches a nerve and is written with a depth of feeling. The reader
will appreciate the skilled craftsmanship that elevates Draitser#1041;#9472;#8805;s
perfect gem of a memoir to fine literature. (Notes on Contemporary
Literature)



About the author
Emil Draitser has been publishing both fiction and nonfiction since 1965.
Under his pen name "Emil Abramov," his work appeared in leading Russian
journals (Crocodile, Youth, and The Literary Gazette). In 1974,
blacklisted by the Soviet literary establishment for a satirical attack on
one of its members, Draitser immigrated to the US where he continued his
writing career.

More than thirty of Draitser#1041;#9472;#8805;s short stories and essays have appeared in
Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and scores of other
literary journals, as well as on the Op-Ed pages of the Los Angeles Times,
San Francisco Chronicle, and other newspapers. His work has also appeared
in Canadian, Israeli, and Polish literary journals, and was included in
several anthologies and college textbooks. Draitser has published ten
books of artistic and scholarly prose and is considered a leading
specialist on the sociology of Russian humor and satire. Emil Draitser is
the Noah Webster or Linneaus of Russian humor, according to Dr. Frederick
Starr of John Hopkins University.

A two-time recipient of the New Jersey Council of the Arts Fellowship in
Fiction and several CUNY grants for Creative Writing, Draitser has been
featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
Jewish Week, and in many other newspapers and magazines across the nation.
His work has also been published in the British (Daily Telegraph, London)
and the New Zealand, and Australian press. Emil Draitser has appeared on
national radio and TV talk shows and programs such as NBC Nightly News
with Tom Brokaw, National Public Radio, the Merv Griffin Show, and others.

(For more info, go to http://www.EmilDraitser.com)

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