CUNY Prof. Emil Draitser book reading

[Diana Howansky]

The Bowery is located in New York City.


luba khramtsova wrote:

> I,m sorry,where in Us is it-what city?
> Luba Khramtsova
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> Max Pyziur <pyz at BRAMA.COM> wrote:
> fyi,
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> MP
> pyz at brama.com
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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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Diana Howansky
Staff Associate
Ukrainian Studies Program
Columbia University
Room 1209, MC3345
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY  10027
(212) 854-4697
ukrainianstudies at columbia.edu
http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/ukrainianstudies/

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